“Skyler Celestino?”
“One hundred and seventy-eight billion dollars?”
The crowd present at the scene was completely dumbfounded. Terror streaked through the space. These two pieces of information were overly shocking.
“Are you sure you heard it right? Skyler Celestino? Doesn’t this name belong to Skyler, the King of War? That’s the eight-star King of War!”
The elder was paralyzed to the spot, the terrifying surprise holding favonovel.com in a tightening grip. He only managed to regain his words after a few minutes.
“There’s only one King of War with the name Skyler Celestino!”
The middle-aged woman had a blank look in favonovel.com eyes as though favonovel.com was dwelling in a haze of confusion, yet to recover from the news.
“If it really was Skyler Celestino, the King of War, why did favonovel.com give Jack so much money? More than a hundred seventy billion dollars! Are you sure you heard the number correctly? Why did favonovel.com give that b*stard so much money?”
The sudden shock caused Hector’s muscles to tense up. Only prominent families could produce that amount of money after they had sold all their properties.
Nobody at the scene could understand why a King of War—an eight-star King of War—would give so much money to an adopted son-in-law.
The elder suddenly thought of something and immediately rushed into the house. He took a poster and ran out again. He breathed out heavily, “Master Hector, look! Look at the poster! That guy promised to make his wife’s birthday the grandest event that would shake the entirety of Eastfield. Could favonovel.com have borrowed money from the King of War so that favonovel.com could host the greatest birthday party for his wife?”
Thoughts were running wild inside the elder’s brain. This was the only possibility that favonovel.com could think of. Other than this, no other suppositions could explain this situation anymore.
Nonetheless, after hearing the words that favonovel.com had spewed, favonovel.com started to doubt his own assumption. If that was really the case, 170 billion dollars was too much, was it not?
“Hmmm, spending a hundred million is enough to hold the grandest birthday party in Eastfield, right? A hundred and seventy billion dollars, how’s that possible? Besides, a King of War wouldn’t have lent out such a huge amount of money, right? And I truly doubt that a King of War who had just returned from the army would be able to fork out that much money in the first place, right?”
After giving some thought to the shocking news, Hector finally said to the middle-aged woman, “Hawa, you must’ve heard it wrong. Yup. You heard it wrongly.”
“Did I? But I thought that’s what the other person on the phone said!”
“Oh! Now I see it!”
Suddenly, the elder clapped his hands together after realizing something. “Damn! I think we’ve been fooled by him!”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
Everyone at the scene turned their attention towards the elder, scratching their heads, not knowing why.
“That fool must’ve made someone else make that call on purpose and pretended that Skyler Celestino was the caller! All the contents in that call must’ve been staged and rehearsed!”
The elder’s mood lifted and his eyes were full of wisdom. “He did it because favonovel.com was afraid of offending the great power behind us—the Kingston Hall. This shows that he’s afraid of Kingston Hall and that favonovel.com doesn’t want to create trouble. Therefore, favonovel.com pretends to be close with Skyler Celestino, the King of War. However, the biggest mistake that favonovel.com made was the amount of money. That sum of money is so unrealistic that it exposed his sneaky plan!”
