The Consortium's Heir

Chapter 168

“Those who snickered will be sent to prison, where they’ll pay for all their previous wrongdoings. As for those who didn’t snicker, I’ll let you off the hook by only taking your assets as punishment,” Darius declared.

All six members opposite him paled drastically.

Their legs wobbled like jelly as they lost all their willpower. Desperate, they wanted to grovel at Darius’ feet and plead for his forgiveness, but they did not do so.

Their pride stood in the way. They clung to the hope that Darius had likely made many enemies. They felt one of those enemies would try to take Darius down. An example was

Murray Hotel’s backer, Dream Investment Group, whom they figured could eventually get rid of Darius. Thus, they decided to wait for that to happen.

Little did they know how wrong they were.

Dream Investment Group would never do anything to Darius again as they knew they were no match for him. The company’s boss had also lost a competent bodyguard while trying to assassinate Darius. Although a new bodyguard was now in the picture, the company would have to postpone their attacks. until said bodyguard returned to their side.

The member who stood in front spat foul words at Darius, cursing without the slightest clue that his life was in the latter’s hands.

Darius raised his arm to look at his watch, then lowered it again. “It seems none of you bothered to investigate my background before standing here and yelling at me. If you had done a little research, you’d realize you have no authority to speak now.”

was still processing those words but suddenly felt cold flashes

his mouth anymore as he lay on the ground. Despite his silence, his eyes revealed how he felt

a word, the man noticed the incoming official and let out hysterical yells. “Darius, how dare you mess with me? Don’t you know doing so will put you in jail? You’ve already got the

official and hand them your illegally obtained wealth. Or, I could add a twist to what you’re accusing me of-|’|| beat you up

man’s face

the feasibility of Darius’ words. Everything he says makes sense, which means the chances of my survival are zero to none. Moreover, my company doesn’t have any

of invisible hands were suffocating him then. Even if it was just his imagination, he

muscle, and hoped he would eventually stop breathing. Thus he won’t need

clear that he would

before grabbing his collar and

gratitude with a firm voice. “I thank you greatly on behalf of every official. Without you, our measly salary would be

kept a blank expression throughout the

anything, but his faint smile seemed as though he was indeed responsible for the officials’ increased salary. In reality,

big deal. I was only doing my job as a civilian.” Darius

Darius felt that investing in officials and giving them money would bring him many unexpected benefits. However,

planned this earlier but did not expect things to come to fruition so

plans would work

to Darius, who felt it