758 Escape (Part 4)

"Do you think you can escape now that I am here?" Lucian said in an arrogant voice after stopping Evan and Cedar from running away.

When Arden and the others heard Lucian's arrogant voice, their mouths couldn't help but twitch.

'This guy is speaking as if he wasn't present when they escaped from the auction house earlier,' All of them thought at the same time but didn't say it out loud.

"Damn you bastard, this is all your fault. If you had let me kill you without any resistance, we wouldn't have been caught by them," Cedar roared at Evan in an enraged voice when he was pressed to the ground by Lucian.

"Shut up you moron, do you think I'm stupid enough to let you kill me? If you hadn't tried to kill me, we would have already gotten away from here," Evan shouted with a sneer on his face and looked at Cedar as if he was an idiot.

When Solara and the others heard the argument between Evan and Cedar, they just shook their heads and weren't surprised at all. It was all too common in Utopia for two friends to turn against each other because of their greed.

Although Lucian and the others were grateful to Evan and Cedar for turning against each other and enabling them to catch them without any problem, they were not in the mood to hear their argument.

"Shut your mouths," Lucian said in a cold voice and increased the pressure around Evan and Cedar.

Evan and Cedar gritted their teeth and felt as if all the bones in their bodies were being crushed by a formidable force when Lucian increased the pressure around them. Under the powerful pressure, most of the skeletons summoned by Nihilus turned into bone powder and scattered into the air.

"Give back the Enlightenment Stone," Lucian said in a cold voice and flew down from the sky along with Solara and the others. All of them landed some distance away from Cedar and looked at him with sharp eyes because he was the one who took away the Enlightenment Stone.

"I don't have the Enlightenment Stone. That bastard took the Enlightenment Stone from me to take a look and was planning to flee away with it, which is why I attacked him earlier," Cedar said while gritting his teeth and trying his best to endure the pressure.

Hearing Cedar, Lucian and others looked at Evan with piercing eyes, increasing the pressure around him even more.

"Don't lie, you bastard! I asked you to show me the Enlightenment Stone, but instead of showing it to me, you outrightly attacked me..." Evan shouted in a hate-filled voice and looked at Lucian and the others. "This bastard is lying. I don't have the Enlightenment Stone. He is hiding it in his storage ring."

Hearing Evan, the eyes of Lucian and the others narrowed, and they looked at Cedar with cold gazes.

Cedar wanted to say something after hearing Evan, but before he could speak, Lucian waved his hand, and a string of blood brought the storage ring that Cedar was wearing to him.

"No..." Cedar roared in despair when Lucian took away his storage ring, and his eyes turned red.

Seeing Cedar's reaction, Lucian smirked and looked inside the ring to take out the Enlightenment Stone.

But when he looked inside the storage ring, Lucian's face became dazed, and he couldn't believe his eyes.

"What's wrong?" Seeing the dazed look on Lucian's face, Arden asked with a frown on his metallic face.

Hearing Arden's voice, Lucian came back to his senses and took out the only thing that was inside the storage ring.

When others looked at the thing that Lucian took out, they were also stunned.

It was actually a magazine.

Top Fifty Beauties of the Star City! (Latest Edition)

Arden read the name of the magazine and saw Solara's image on the cover. She was wearing a long sleeveless black dress with a long slit in the front, left to mid-thigh area.

When Thomas and the others saw the book and Solara's image on it, they couldn't help but look at her with weird eyes.

Seeing how Arden and the others were looking at her, Solara's mouth twitched uncontrollably, and the atmosphere turned awkward.

"What are you looking at? They asked me if they could feature me in their monthly issue, and I agreed because I found it interesting," Solara said in a cold voice when she saw how Arden and the others were looking at her.

"Oh!" Thomas and the others nodded their heads hearing Solara and did not believe her words at all.

'She must have agreed not because it was interesting, but because they offered a large amount of money...' All of them thought at the same time and looked back at Cedar.

Remembering the despair-filled look Cedar showed when Lucian took away his storage ring, they were completely speechless.

'Just how important was this book to him that he showed such a despair-filled look when Lucian took it away?' All of them thought at the same time and didn't know what to say.

"Where is the Enlightenment Stone?" After a minute, Lucian finally came back to his senses and asked Cedar while trying his best not to crush him to death. He was so angry that he was about to rip apart the magazine, but just as he was about to do so, he suddenly felt a cold stare from the side.

He looked beside him and saw Solara looking at him with narrowed eyes. Seeing how Solara was looking at him, Lucian immediately erased the thought of ripping apart the magazine and gave it to her.

Solara quietly put away the magazine and didn't say anything else.

"That magazine..." Cedar did not care about how Lucian and the others were looking at him, and he looked at Evan with a shocked expression on his face. "You bastard, were not you the one who bought this magazine? How did it end up in my ring? When did you exchange your storage ring with mine?"

Lucian and the others were dazed when they heard Cedar and looked at Evan.

When Evan saw Lucian and the others looking at him, he looked away in embarrassment. Seeing the embarrassed look on Evan's face, Arden and the others were speechless.

"These two motherf*kers," Lucian took some deep breaths to calm down his emotions and once again asked after a moment. "Where is the Enlightenment Stone?"

"He is lying, I don't have th—"

"Enough of your bullsh*t..." Before Evan could finish speaking, Lucian roared in anger, and a red bloody aura appeared around him.

"I am asking you one last time. Where is the Enlightenment Stone?" Lucian asked, his killing intent filling the surroundings.

Both Evan and Cedar felt suffocated because of the killing intent and it became hard for them to breathe.

"If I give you the Enlightenment Stone, will you let me go?" Evan suddenly asked while trying his best to resist the killing intent.

"What do you think?" Lucian asked with a sneer on his face when he heard Evan and the pressure around Evan increased even more.

Evan's eyes turned cold when he heard Lucian's reply, and a storage ring appeared in his hand.

"The Enlightenment Stone is inside this ring," Evan said as he showed the storage ring to Lucian and the others.

The eyes of Arden and the others flashed when they saw the storage ring in Evan's hand, and Lucian sent a string of blood toward Evan to take the storage ring.

"Stop...."

Crack!

The moment Lucian sent the blood string to take away the storage ring, Evan shouted and pressed the storage ring using his strength, cracking it a bit.

Lucian's heart turned cold when he heard the sound of cracking, and he immediately stopped the bloodstring.

"Don't try anything stupid, or you can forget about getting the Enlightenment Stone back..." Evan said with a cold smile on his face.

The space inside the storage ring was completely separate from the outside space. If Evan destroyed the storage ring, the objects inside the ring would be lost inside the void, and it would be nearly impossible to find them again.

Lucian and the others knew about this as well, which is why they were shocked when Evan decided to destroy the storage ring.

"Since you are going to kill me even if I return the Enlightenment Stone, then I might as well destroy it and commit suicide," Evan said and pressed the storage ring.

Crack...

The crack that appeared on the storage ring earlier enlarged due to the pressure, and the ring started to shake.

"Stop, you bastard..." Lucian roared in a terrified voice because he knew that if Evan destroyed the storage ring, he would not be able to get back the Enlightenment Stone.

Arden and Solara were also nervous seeing Evan was planning to destroy the storage ring. The reason they decided to help Lucian find Cedar and Evan was because they were thinking that if Lucian got back the Enlightenment Stone, he would have to auction it again and they would have another chance to get their hands on it.

Now that Evan wanted to destroy the storage ring in which the Enlightenment Stone was placed, both of them were obviously worried.

"If you don't want me to destroy the storage ring, then withdraw your pressure," Evan said in a cold voice.

When Lucian heard Evan, he immediately withdrew the pressure from around him, afraid that Evan would destroy the storage ring if he didn't.

Evan stood up from the ground once Lucian withdrew his pressure and grinned while looking at Cedar, who was staring at him with a shocked expression.

"If you are thinking about doing a sudden attack, then you should erase that thought from your mind because my control over my strength is pretty bad..." Evan said and pinched the storage ring a little, enlarging the crack on its surface even more.

Lucian looked at Evan with a hateful look and asked in a cold voice. "What do you want in order to give back the Enlightenment Stone?"

Evan smirked when he heard Lucian and showed a mocking smile. "Didn't you say you would kill me even if I returned the Enlightenment Stone to you?"

Lucian remained silent hearing Evan's mocking words, and just looked at him with cold eyes.

Seeing Lucian wasn't saying anything, Evan shook his head and said in an indifferent voice, "There are three things that I need from you guys in order to return the Enlightenment Stone...

"First, you will have to promise me you will let me go after I give you the storage ring. Second..." Evan said and looked at Cedar, who was on the ground with a cold look on his face.

"I want to kill this guy with my own hands. And the third..." At this point, Evan smiled like a thug and stretched out his hand.

"All four of you give me your storage rings."