The Return Of The War God

“Mother, your son is back.” Justin stood quietly in front of the grave while staring at the name on the tombstone for a very long time. There was no expression on his face, but the hatred hidden inside his eyes was enough to make anyone afraid of looking at him directly. For ten years, he had been searching for the people who destroyed his family and killed his mother without mercy. During those years, not a single day passed without him remembering the scene from that night, and every time he thought about it, the hatred inside his heart only became stronger. “And now, I finally found them,” he said slowly before bending down and placing the flowers carefully in front of the grave. “Don’t worry, Mother. This time, nobody will be able to protect them from me no matter how powerful they are, and I will also bring Christy back home even if I have to turn the entire Boron City upside down.” The moment Christy’s name came out from his mouth, Justin’s eyes became even colder because for the past ten years, he had never stopped searching for his little sister after she disappeared that night. Dead or alive, he needed to find her. Because she was the only family he had left in this world. Ten years ago, the Ben family was returning from a simple trip together. At that time, Justin was only fifteen years old while his little sister Christy was just ten. Since their father abandoned them many years ago, their mother had been the only one raising them alone. Justin could barely even remember what his father looked like anymore because the man disappeared from their lives when he was still very young. From that moment, Justin always felt like he needed to protect his mother and little sister no matter what happened. Even though life was not easy at the beginning, Elara Quinn was a very strong woman who never allowed her children to suffer. Together with her closest friend Anita Lawson, she built a real estate company from nothing until it slowly became one of the biggest companies in the entire Boron City. Many people admired them. Many people envied them. But nobody understood better than Elara that money could easily change people, and sometimes the people closest to you were the most dangerous. That night was the night everything changed forever. The car was moving quietly along the road when it suddenly jerked violently before stopping in the middle of the highway with a loud screeching sound. Christy screamed immediately from fear while Justin almost slammed forward from the impact. Elara quickly grabbed the seat beside her before raising her head sharply. “What’s going on?” she asked immediately. The driver’s face had already turned pale while sweat slowly rolled down from his forehead. “M-Ma’am…” he stammered nervously while staring ahead. “It looks like we’ve been ambushed.” “What?” Elara’s expression changed instantly. Justin quickly looked outside the window and his heart immediately became uneasy after seeing several black vehicles blocking the road completely. The doors of the vehicles opened one after another before many rough-looking men slowly stepped out while holding weapons in their hands openly. Some carried steel rods while others held machetes and guns without trying to hide them at all. “Mom, I’m scared…” Christy’s small voice trembled badly as she grabbed her seatbelt tightly with both hands. Her face had already turned pale from fear. Although Justin himself was terrified, he still forced himself to stay calm because he did not want his little sister to panic even more. Elara immediately turned toward him, and the serious expression on her face made Justin’s heart sink instantly. Without saying anything, she reached into her bag and brought out a sharp silver dagger before pressing it firmly into Justin’s palm. “Justin,” she said in a low but serious voice, “stay inside the car with your sister. If anything goes wrong later, take this knife and protect yourself.” “Mom, where are you going?” Justin asked immediately, his voice shaking because he already felt something was terribly wrong. But Elara did not answer him. Instead, she gave a calm smile, then slowly opened the car door and stepped out without hesitation. She walked straight into the space between her children and the armed men, standing there alone while nearly twenty thugs surrounded her from every direction. They were all dressed in dark suits, holding weapons openly in their hands. Behind Elara stood her four security guards, all trained men who looked strong and alert, but even they did not move forward because they clearly understood that they were heavily outnumbered and one wrong move could end everything instantly. Still, Elara raised both hands slowly above her head as a sign that she was not here to fight. “Please,” she said in a calm voice that carried both fear and control at the same time. “Tell me what you want, and I will cooperate. Just don’t hurt my children, they are still inside that car.” For a moment, there was only silence. No one responded. None of the men even blinked, as though her words were completely meaningless to them. Then suddenly, one of the black vehicles behind them opened. A woman stepped out. She wore a long white coat that made her stand out clearly against the dark figures around her, she walked forward with complete confidence. Every step she took looked elegant. When the headlights from the cars fell on her face, Elara froze completely. “A… Anita?” Elara whispered in shock, her voice breaking slightly as she struggled to believe what she was seeing. “Why… what is this? What are you doing here?” Anita Black stopped a few steps away and smiled faintly with no warmth in her expression at all. “Don’t act surprised, Elara,” she said casually, as if they were talking about something normal. “I want Ben Corporation. All of it.” Elara shook her head immediately, refusing to accept what she just heard, because it sounded too insane to be real. “No… you are joking,” she said firmly, her voice rising slightly. “We built that company together, Anita. You and I started from nothing. We were friends.” At those words, Anita’s smile faded slightly, and her eyes turned colder. “Friends?” she repeated slowly, as if the word tasted bitter in her mouth. “Friends don’t get praised while the other is treated like a shadow. Friends don’t build something together only for one name to shine while the other is completely forgotten.” Her voice dropped lower, filled with resentment that had clearly been buried for a long time. “While you were called the genius behind Ben Corporation,” she continued, “I was standing right beside you like I did not exist. So tell me, Elara, was that friendship to you?” “This is madness,” Elara said, her voice shaking badly now as she struggled to understand what had gone so wrong so quickly. “If you need money, power, or anything at all, there are other ways to get it without doing something like this.” Anita did not even blink. She simply raised one hand slowly, and that small movement was enough to change everything in an instant. Two men immediately opened the car door and dragged Justin and Christy out forcefully before Elara could even react. Christy screamed loudly, her tiny hands reaching helplessly into the air as tears poured down her face without control. One of the men quickly pressed a gun close to her head, making her freeze in fear as her body shook violently. Inside the car, Justin struggled wildly, slamming his fists against the men holding him while shouting for them to let go, but his strength meant nothing against them. “Let her go!” Justin shouted, his voice breaking with fear and anger at the same time, but no one listened to him. Elara’s breath stopped in her chest as she watched everything happen in front of her, her mind refusing to accept that this was real. “Please…” she whispered helplessly, her voice almost disappearing as tears finally filled her eyes. “They are just children…” Anita calmly reached into the folder in her hand and pulled out a stack of documents before tossing them directly at Elara’s feet without a single trace of emotion on her face. “Sign it,” she said in a calm and controlled voice that carried no sympathy at all. “Transfer everything. Ben Corporation, your shares, your authority… all of it. Or your children die right here in front of you.” Elara stared at the papers on the ground for a long moment as her entire body trembled uncontrollably. Her hands shook so badly that she could barely bend down, but the moment she looked at Christy crying and Justin struggling, something inside her broke completely. With trembling fingers and blurred vision, she slowly picked up the pen. Each letter she wrote felt like a piece of her life being torn away. Her signature was rushed, uneven, and full of desperation. When she finished, she dropped the pen and whispered weakly, “There… you have everything now. Just let them go.” For a brief moment, Anita looked at the documents silently, flipping through them as if confirming something she had waited years to achieve. Then she smiled. It was not a warm smile. It was the smile of someone who had already decided the ending long ago. “Good,” Anita said softly. Then she slowly raised her hand again. And without even looking at Elara, she gave the order. “Kill them.”