Chapter 139 CHAPTER 139: AT THE GATES



A sleek Lykan Super dashed through the road, lights reflecting off its sleek body in the evening light. Just meters behind the Lykan was a black V-Wagon car that kept up with the Lykan's high speed and curvy movements.

Soon they left the crowded city roads and began to gradually leave the heavy evening traffic behind them, the speed at which they cruised gradually increasing, eating up the miles as they continued.

After a few more minutes of driving, they arrived at an intersection that led to huge and elaborately designed gates that were being manned by a scary-looking group of men and women holding both hot and cold weapons.

Their presence did nothing to dissuade Davies from turning the Lykan in the direction of the gates.

If anything, their presence assured him that he was on the right track to the estate of the Lecroy family as not many other people could have access to these many scary-looking guards.

Though there were also many other organizations that could have this level of security, Davies didn't think he was that bad at map reading to not be able to find his way around town, and even if he was, this was why he had Daniella as an assistant, and since he had not received a caution call from her as she had dutifully driven behind him, then it was right to say that he was where he should be currently... At least that was what he thought.

Davies stopped a little distance from the gates and slid down his window to speak with the tough-looking woman with a sharp-looking scar on her face which was probably caused by a knife during a battle.

'I mean, that is where that kind of scar could be picked up, otherwise, maybe she fancies BDSM or something like that... ' Davies thought playfully.

[I'm pretty sure it was not that kind of battle... Focus] Miya had to speak so he could focus his attention and not waste time playing around... Again.

'Alright, alright, stop bugging me,' Davies smiled wistfully.

"Here's my invitation," Davies handed over a gold-colored envelope to the tough-looking woman, not bothering to make small talk as there was no need for him to gather information, and also, he didn't want Miya shouting in his ears, admonishing him for wasting time flirting with every woman he met.

He had heard enough of such remarks and didn't need another earful from someone that he couldn't slap into oblivion to silence them.

The tough-looking woman took the envelope from his hand without delay, not trying to act overbearing or anything of the sort as almost everybody that would be coming to the birthday banquet was way above her paygrade and would have enough power, or money to make her life difficult if she did so to them.

She slowly opened the envelope that wasn't sealed to look at the name on the card and to crosscheck it with the list of invitees that they had been giving to use to determine who could be let in for the banquet.

Immediately after opening the gold envelope that had several beautiful motifs elaborately designed on its body, she pulled out the invitation that was carefully placed inside.

An explosion immediately went off in her head as soon as she saw the name that was written on the envelope in an obviously more elaborate font than the rest of the words on the invitation card.

"P-Please come in," she quickly turned to the other guys that were on security duty today along with her and gestured for them to open the gates. 

Her movements seemed a little frantic as if she couldn't bare to keep the guest who had just arrived waiting a second further.

Her frantic movements came off as quite strange to her fellow comrades but since she was their leader, the gates were quickly opened automatically by whoever was operating the gates.

[Another person shocked by your identity] 

[Maybe you should change professions and simply use your identity to shock people back to life, there'd be no need for a defibrillator] Miya's chuckling voice echoed inside of Davies's mind.

'Did they really have to be so old school as to use a paper invitation?' Davies wondered to himself as if he hadn't heard Miya.

After all, he had long since been used to people being shocked by his identity, especially after living as a villain in his previous lives, he had more often than not been someone with a high social standing, so fame wasn't a foreign term to him.

Davies collected the invitation that had been slotted back into the gold envelope from the firm hands of the female head of security... That was of course the name that he had used to register her identity in his mind and not her real name or even or title.

"Oh yeah, the V-Wagon is with me," Davies remembered to say before he wound up his window and drove through the gates, not wanting Daniella to be delayed by some stupid protocols.

Normally there had to be an extra invitation from the Lecroy family for Daniella to be permitted entry, but no member of the security team would tell Davies that in order to avoid offending him. Davies knew this and that was why he was able to simply state that he had brought someone along without expecting any repercussions to his normally unacceptable actions. 

Davies and Daniella drove their respective vehicles through the gateway and after they passed through, the gates quickly shut behind them before the next car that had arrived after Davies, could enter the gates.

The female head of security had her eyes fixed on the taillights of the two vehicles that were gradually disappearing into the darkness of the evening when she heard someone ask,

"Who was the albino head?"

"..." The tough-looking woman turned her head slowly to look at her cheeky-looking subordinate that had just spoken thoughtlessly.

"That albino head... Is Davies Lake,"

"I think you should have heard that name at least once," she spoke slowly and gasps from the other security personnel as soon as they heard the name.

"Just in case you haven't, let me refresh your memory,"

"Extremely rich, genius, S-ranked blessing, and a few other things... None of which you have,"

"Sometimes you need to shut the fuck up and stop saying things that can get you erased from existence," she spoke sternly to her thoughtless subordinate who had said something so stupid and was lucky that Davies had already left so he didn't hear what the idiot had said.

She sighed as she noticed the cheeky guy look shocked and remorseful for what he had just said. 

As Megas, they were usually above normal humans, but even then, they had to take orders from the rich, even if the rich person wasn't a mega, so they usually didn't have many good feelings about rich people.

Unfortunately, the rich people were the only ones who could afford their services as no matter how powerful you were, killing monsters wouldn't guarantee you a meal unless you sold the useful parts of the monster you had killed to a rich organization or buyer as only those with great amounts of money could afford monster parts... Or you could simply eat the monster you killed and live like a caveman.

Thus, it was understandable that the cheeky-looking subordinate did not feel good about seeing an excessively handsome and fragile-looking guy behind the wheels of a car that was impossible to be acquired by the general public and even by most of the people that had the money to buy it.

He felt like he should be the one that should be enjoying those kinds of things and that kind of treatment, after all, he had real power, which he somehow thought Davies didn't have, but after hearing the identity of who was behind the wheel, his thoughts changed.

Apart from the immediate fear that had gripped him and the relief he had felt that he had waited for Davies to leave before speaking his mind, he also felt respect for Davies as everyone who knew the story behind Davies Lake, knew that everything he had, he had acquired by himself.

From an orphan, he had begun to read until he was buried in books and began to ask questions that for some reason the dumb adults around him hadn't asked.

"If mana is a source of power for humans, why can't it be used as a source of power for other things?"

Davies's innovations had begun from here, and from then he had simply gone crazy while at the same time driving the world crazy with the feats he had achieved.

From finding a method with which to use mana to power technology, to inventing the first mana engine at just the age of 9 had thrown humanity as well as a few other races into shock.

He had then gone on to establish a company that would sell this technology, but when the world had been waiting for even more shocking feats, he had simply disappeared after shocking them with his inborn talent for the evolution of the human race.