"I just want to kill him."
The sentence hung in the air for a heartbeat, stark and violent. The ballroom went dead silent, as if the audio had been cut from a movie.
Then, chaos erupted.
It wasn't a scream of terror, but a roar of laughter. It started as a few giggles and swelled into a tidal wave of mockery that shook the crystal chandeliers.
The elites of Northriver didn't even bother to explain to Jack Brooks just how terrifying Tiger Ray was. They looked at him with eyes full of pity and amusement, treating him like a mental patient who had wandered out of the asylum.
"Kill Tiger Ray?" a young heir gasped, wiping tears of mirth from his eyes. "Does he know what a Grandmaster is? A Grandmaster can project Qi! They can kill a man from ten paces away without lifting a finger! They ar
