Chapter 3

Ari already understood her father's intentions.

She can't remain unguarded while her siblings, her mother's family, her uncles, and cousins were all waiting to eat from her father's small shares of the Soo family.

And while she was doing her best to make this branch soar higher in a different market she, of course, would be the focus of their eyes.

No one was stupid enough to believe it was only about a small ramen product.

it was the beginning of a bigger expansion.

The Soo family was well renowned for dominating the food industry for so long in Korea.

And Ari here was making the first step towards a whole new market.

Of course, the family's eyes were all on her.

The first attempt her father tried ended with a big loss, making him fall even more in the eyes of her grandfather and in front of her uncles.

That was why she decided to start small. Only by a small product of everyday life rather than her father's approach with a restaurant.

She wanted to start by introducing this product before aiming for the upper echelons with higher-end food.

And everyone could see her intentions.

Many eyes from this day will follow her every move.

The Soo family was a big industry.

And of course like many other powerful families around the world it had its army.

But its strength fell short compared to the others.

What rose its rank was its connections, made from dominating the food industry and the high-end restaurants.

And the Soo family's fame rose, to the point where now, if the strongest families ever wish to discuss matters without waging war on each other, would be over Soo's food and territory.

That is why they were protected by the strongest.

But, for internal matters, that was another case.

These families didn't care who, as long as it was someone who carried the surname Soo.

Ari knew of all of this.

If she could establish a way to enter the European market and gain even more recognition.

This branch of the Soo family could raise even more, at least to detach from the main family.

And Ari was dead set on making her father rise to make his family regret throwing him away.

And in this world where those who eye her could make her disappear and take everything she owned with little bribes, she couldn't stay still alone.

She had to get ready from the beginning.

She knew the character of both her family's sides.

They were all cruel and would stop at nothing to gain what they want.

Even if it meant bloodying their hands.

She merely couldn't say yes to her father as she was hesitating at first.

This was the beginning of such a big step.

But now that the last meeting concluded and the project would see the light of day, she had nowhere to hide anymore.

Now thinking about this, having only one bodyguard may seem a bit little.

But if he can be as strong as one of the two her father got that would be good enough for now.

Martial artists around the world had ranks for each stage they reached, while some were born or awakened into their rank.

Ari still doesn't know much about the details but from her father, she knows of humans surpassing common sense.

That the strongest were about ten in each country.

Only about half of them follow if not were the heads of their own families.

And the rest were living in seclusion or doing their own thing.

The reason martial artists follow families was because of the huge expanses the families provide of elixirs and herbs for them in exchange for their strength and protection.

And some were able to be both, like Ari's family, a martial family even if they are ranked low.

Ari's mother was a 3rd rank(C-rank). Even that was far beyond what normal humans could perceive.

And because back then Soo jin ran into troubles he had to rely on her and her small family's martial artists.

But they could merely be called martial masters.

The two bodyguards around Soo jin were around 5th rank(B-rank).

Every one of the Soo direct descendants has two bodyguards of this level following them around.

Soo jin's best friend reached the 7th rank(A-rank). His own bodyguard was of the 8th rank(S-rank).

Soo jin has known him ever since they were little.

This friend of his was the only son of the Han family, one of the two strongest families in Korea, and the only reason why the Soo family still hasn't fully thrown away Soo Jin.

If Ari's bodyguard would be a 5th rank she won't have to worry about much from her mother or her siblings. That is if they don't have hidden cards on their sleeves like her acquaintance with her uncle.

She was happy her father cared for her so much as to ask her uncle Han for a favor.

Providing a strong martial master was by no means an easy thing, especially 5th rank or above.

She could only hope for the best from her uncle.

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In space.

The young man was standing still on top of a satellite, staring at the planet earth with his deep gray eyes.

He slowly made his way to the continent where the light was shining.

He kept flying over Korea.

His eyes stared at the light, coming from a room in a tall building about a few kilometers away.

Soo's was the slogan.

His eyes then fell on what was below him.

A big building that looked like a factory.

Or that was what it looked like to ordinary people.

In this huge place were men and women training to achieve the impossible.

A line of black cars piled up on the road.

A tall and well-built bodyguard went and opened the car door for a middle-aged man.

The two walked into the training center while everyone else standing guard bowed down to them.

The young man finally placed his feet on the ground gracefully.

But no one noticed him even when he was flying, as if he wasn't there to begin with.

He placed his right hand in his pocket and walked in, and again he didn't catch the eyes of the guards, who were unknowing of his presence like the rest.