The Pinnacle Of Life

With both Claire and Beatrice being as unhelpful as they could, it was just a disaster to Dorothy.

Claire pointed to Alex. “Go make us some dinner, we haven’t cooked anything yet!”

Dorothy said, “It’s quite late already, you don’t have to cook. Let’s just eat out, I’ll treat all of you to hotpot.”

Suddenly, Claire turned to Alex and said, “You may leave now, we don’t treat outsiders to dinner.”

Beatrice added. “Exactly, we’re no charity.”

Dorothy was losing her mind. ‘Alex came all the way here to help us out, spending 500 thousand just because of you. How could you still say that with a straight face? Have you no shame?’

Just as Dorothy was about to speak up, Alex said, “That’s alright, I have other things to tend to anyway. I’ll be off now. Dorothy… don’t push yourself too hard. If you don’t have enough money, I’ll come up with something.”

Claire huffed. “You’ll come up with something? And what would that be? Another fake check? All you will ever be is a loser. Get lost! I’m annoyed just from seeing your face.”

‘This woman

to waste any more energy arguing with them. Alex

as quickly

a flash, two days

their normal lives the next day and stopped talking about him. Only the stone gambling community

left his house as well. He had been researching on the alchemy stove with a missing

stove, he realized that the stove had a carving of

Book of Medicine had introduced sigils

their methods used sigils to utilize elements of the earth to heal the

was eating a bucket of ice cream in the villa’s basement. She was wearing her usual red dress outfit, sitting on

you’ve been looking at that shabby stove for two days. Did you manage to

don’t work well under pressure.” Alex was poking his head into the stove. His voice