The First Heir

Caleb was by nature smug and intolerably haughty.

All his life, he never once feared anyone. He was quite the classic spoiled rich kid.

Unfortunately, however, in his twenty-odd years of life, there was only one person who ever scared him. Just one!

That man!

The man who had become his nightmare!

Proud?

Haughty?

No one in this world could be prouder or haughtier than that man, Philip Clarke!

Caleb still remembered how, so many years ago, that man had come to the capital city with an entourage of special clearance vehicles clearing the traffic for him!

Crazy, right?

Yet it was true!

It was all because Philip had waved his hand and casually said that he would gift the special forces with some cutting-edge military equipment and techniques from abroad. Just like that, those high-ranking officials flooded the hotel Philip was staying in.

Back then, Caleb was still young. His family was rich and powerful, so he did not think twice about offending Philip.

Where did that land him?

Old Master Zach did not even dare to protest. He simply paid Philip a visit with Caleb in tow to beg for forgiveness.

He even broke one of Caleb’s legs!

It was all because Philip casually wondered aloud if the Zachs should be allowed to keep existing. As a result, Old Master Zach led his entire family to apologize to Philip!

That incident caused an 8.0 scale earthquake in the capital city back then!

Almost a hundred people knelt in front of the hotel Philip was staying in, lined up according to their seniority.

Zachs, practically royalty in these parts, all knelt in front of the hotel

It was shocking!

It was unbelievable!

ordered to cover

dare report

enough to shut any media outlets or

was panicking. He was truly afraid, from the bottom of

butler, “Hurry, book me a damn flight ticket! For today, I want to go back to the capital! Right now, damn it! I can’t stay here a

one thought in mind

He must be

he was going to get something worse than

however, his phone rang again, sounding like the tolling of his death

Caleb dare to pick

Not at all!

call, cold sweat covering his brow. “Hello, M-Master Clarke. Are you back

Philip said very calmly, “Not yet, but Nino Gil ticked me off. How should

guy’s just a waste of brain space anyway! A huge idiot! You gotta kill him, Master Clarke! Finish him

emanated from the phone on

calmly. As for Nino, his entire body had gone cold the moment

patron, that invincible Master Zach, betrayed him just

was that Master Zach, whose influence was like a bottomless abyss, was actually terrified of

It was all over!

fell onto his butt on the floor, his

The call ended.

bar was

men were

Master Nino had fallen

dare to stay on their feet. They

same time, Philip gave the cue and Theo gave the order accordingly. In an instant, several dozen institutions of all sizes all across Riverdale were immediately taken down

a

to clean everything up, uprooting all of Nino’s

It was all over.

up coolly and walked past the destroyed Nino. He left just like that,

and

Julian Thane and the lady secretary left the bar