77 - Ashton Lancaster Price

"Well, Aatrox. My name is Robert Kraft, since you're also a grower we'll solve this in a civilized way. I'm here to pay a favor that I owe the patriarch of the family who owns this company. Return those papers and we can both forget what happened here today." The old man said trying to avoid a fight, since he knew that a fight with all his might could easily destroy this room.

"My grudge against the Price family is too big to be appeased just by a broken window, either you get out or the window won't be the only thing I'll break today." Aatrox said in a cold tone of voice. If the old man was on the side of the Price family, no matter what attitude he showed, Aatrox would have no mercy. 

"If you don't want to give me the face, don't blame me for being nasty." Robert said quickly as he began to release the aura of an intermediate level Baron.

Aatrox was a little surprised that the old man had achieved this strength, since he thought that only the patriarch would have such a force. But he didn't care, he as the God-King of War wouldn't have mediated from a weak Baron less than a hundred years old. 

Aatrox tightly squeezed the Spiritual Sword and positioned it in its usual battle posture while releasing a massive aura to hit head-on with that of the old man.

The old man was surprised for two reasons, first that even watching for a few seconds he could not find any opening in Aatrox's posture, even if he was holding a folder with documents in one hand. Second, he didn't expect this cultivator with a young body to have a Baron-level power. To reach this level at an age of less than 25 years, it could only be one of the prodigies of large families. But since he had promised the patriarch that he would protect his company for 5 years when he had saved his life, the old man could not back down. 

Aatrox saw the old man thinking too much about where to attack and became impatient. With the spiritual sword in one hand and the documents in the other, Aatrox ran towards the old man pointing the sword at his throat.

The old man reacted quickly and pulled the dagger from the waist and defended himself from the sword of Aatrox. He was an intermediate Baron-level Ladin. With a rapid reaction speed, the old man slipped the spiritual sword of Aatrox and pointed the dagger at the young man's heart.

When the dagger was close to hitting his heart, Aatrox activated Decay's eyes for a second and stared at the old man. When old Robert looked into those eyes, his hands stopped in the air and he started shaking. He's never been so terrified of something in his whole life. Those eyes were of pure evil, eyes that probably became red with so much blood that they had taken from their enemies.

Aatrox could have defended Robert's dagger, but he didn't want to take too long. His goal today was to get some evidence against the Price family and send a message. Looking at the state the old man had remained in, Aatrox knew that the message he wanted to pass on would be delivered.

Passing by the old man's side, Aatrox left in the darkness of the night without anyone noticing him.

...

Robert felt someone poking him, when he turned to the side, he saw the light on in the office and a guard looking at him worried. "Old man, are you all right? You look like you've even seen a ghost."

Hearing this Robert returned to reality, he discovered that he had been paralyzed by fear for a few minutes. Thinking about what might have happened to him if Aatrox wanted him dead, he can't help but swallow dry.

"Don't touch that office while I'm gone, I'm going to Principal Price's house now." Robert said as he ran out of his room. When the guard heard Robert's order, he saw the safe open and understood quickly.

Robert took the car and drove quickly to the Price house, on the way he had called Ashton Lancaster Price, the patriarch of the Price family warning that he was going and that something very important had happened. Ashton had been in a bad mood when he was woken up in the middle of the night, but when he saw the interlocutor he knew that something bad had happened in his company.

When Robert entered the room, he saw Ashton sitting on his armchair while drinking a cup of coffee. "Are you drinking coffee at this hour?" He asked as he sat on the couch.

"I know that for you to come here in person to tell me it will be a bomb, so I'm already getting ready not to go back to sleep and start solving the mess." Ashton said as he watched the bloodstained cut on his friend's shoulder.

Robert was one of the few people who could play with Ashton, as the two had been through a life-and-death situation together. This has developed a very close bond of friendship between them.

"Well, as you can see, I wasn't treated very well in the company today." Robert said with a self-deprecating laugh.

"That I don't need you to tell me, but for someone to be able to do that to you. What happened?" Ashton asked impatiently.

"The company has been invaded." Robert said seriously.

"Damn, by whom? What did they take?" Ashton stood up immediately. He suspected that something bad had happened to the company was totally different from something really happening to the company.

"A single man. I couldn't accurately measure his strength, since he was using some strange technique to mask the energy in his body. If I hadn't seen him using energy in front of me, I'd definitely think he was a mortal." Robert said sighing. "When he left, there was a briefcase in his hand with some documents. Do you know what was there?"

"Damn, he could take anything but that briefcase. Quickly, tell me what he looked like, I need to know what family he's from. If what's in that briefcase is disclosed, the amount of money my family will lose is not small. "Ashton said anxiously.

"I couldn't see anything of his appearance except that he was a little tall and his eyes..." Robert also said with a little bit of fear.

"What's wrong with his eyes?" Ashton asked.

"When he activated his eyes, the iris turned red and the sclera turned black. He looked like a demon if you looked at him quickly. But I wavered and looked deep into his eyes..." Robert sighed again.

"When you looked deep into his eyes, what happened?" Ashton was no longer able to stand this old dramatics rolling the story.

"I felt a fear that I never felt in my life. It looked like I was in front of the god of slaughter himself. I couldn't move so scared that I was. The only thing I know about him was his name, Aatrox." Robert finished.

"You said eyes... that... Stewart, bring Travis here, now!" Ashton remembered something he heard from his son this weekend.