Alex smiled but remained silent.

***

It was eleven in the noon when a helicopter took off from California airport, heading straight to Moonlight Lake.

On the flight sat Soraya Melvis, Shaun Baker of the Four Great Guardians, and a grandmaster from the Melvis family named Lochlan, and two half-stepped Grandmasters.

The Melvis family spared no effort in looking for Tucker.

“Come on. There’s one hour left. Maybe we can still make it!” Soraya said.

She cared because it was her cousin that had