'What the...'
Max was left wide-eyed by Lily's behavior.
"What about our permission??"
Max asked out loud, but he got in reply was the sound of a door being slammed.
Max could guess what Lily was going to do, it was not hard to tell since she was humming 'Time to pack my bag, time to pack my bag...', again and again.
*Giggle*
Grace giggled again when she saw Max's dumbfounded expression, but then Max turned toward her with a blank expression.
"What's funny?" He growled in frustration.
"Nothing."
Grace suppressed her giggle.
'This father and daughter pair really know how to make people laugh.'
Grace giggled inwardly.
Max wanted to say more but then he realized that he still had the phone in his hand and he was missing the main this that he wanted to do.
Grace also noticed that they got diverted from the main thing and her face turned serious again just like Max.
Both of them looked at the phone before Max spoke.
"Sorry about that."
Max apologized since he was the one who was wasting time.
"It's all right, hearing an old guy being made fun of sounds good enough to not mind the delay."
Alex just waved it off, and although Max had another vein pop up on his head, he took a deep breath and calmed down.
He needed to discuss something very serious.
"What do you think?"
Max asked.
"My guess is the same as yours, it is the first SSS-rank gate."
Max's face turned somber as he heard Alex's reply.
'This is not what I wanted to hear...'
Max wished that Alex would've said otherwise, he wished that Alex said that it was not something like that, and it was just a special gate. But he also knew that it was what it was, and no one could change that.
The file that Max had sent to Alex contained the photos of a gate in Violet Country.
Unlike any gates seen before, this gate was golden in color, and there was nothing around it that could tell us about the gate.
The gate in the picture was 10 meters in radius, which was the largest gate found to date.
'Ah...'
Then she realized.
'How strong is he....?'
Luna knew that Alex was very strong, but even SS rankers were very strong for S rankers.
So, was he just an SSS ranker who looked very strong to Luna, or was he stronger than that?
'Is there even a rank higher than the SSS rank?'
'If there is, then does that mean that there are gates with higher rank than SSS rank, as well?'
Luna got busy thinking about these kinds of stuff, she failed to notice Alex's smile when he saw her expression turn contemplating from that of shock, fear, and uncertainty.
"Hm, as I said before, come to my house, we'll talk about it here."
Alex replied to Max's question, but then Max curiously spoke.
"I'm not saying that I don't want to come to your place, but is there a reason for you to invite me there?"
"Yes, I need your help with something."
Alex didn't hide it and said that he needed Max's help with something.
'Oh?'
Max on the other side of the phone raised his brow and so did Grace.
"I will come to your place in 48 hours."
Max didn't ask what help Alex needed, it was the first time Alex asked for help, after all.
He was curious about what help Alex could want, but that's all, his main focus right now was the SSS-ranked gate.
Alex hung up the phone after that.
'Isn't it a bit too soon for the SSS-ranked gates to appear?'
Alex asked inwardly, and Sophia replied with a sarcastic question.
[And who do you think is responsible for that?]
'Ah, I see, I see...'
Alex nodded inwardly as he recalled what Sophia had said to him after he had cleared the SS-rank gate with Wyvern as the hidden boss.
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Then Alex turned toward the girls and went to discuss the file that Max had sent, as for Luna....
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