"Who! Are! You!"
Director Luo's terrified shout rang out from the office.
A calm voice followed, yet it sent a chill through everyone's hearts. "Lin Shuguang, Division Chief of the Seventh Section."
"Lin Shuguang, how dare you! Do you know where you are?" Luo Hansheng shouted in shock and fury.
But Lin Shuguang cut him off with a kick that sent him flying.
"You think you can bully the Seventh Department's people?"
More and more people gathered at the door, wanting to intervene, but when they saw Lin Shuguang's ferocious expression and recalled how Luo Hansheng usually threw his weight around, they swallowed whatever they had been about to say.
Luo Hansheng wanted to say more, but Lin Shuguang laid his saber across his neck, his voice utterly indifferent. "Every benefit the Seventh Department receives was earned by my brothers risking their lives. Jealous? Who do you think you are?"
Sweat covered Luo Hansheng's head, and the saber at his neck softened his tone considerably. "Director Lin, let's talk this through. Withholding their benefits wasn't something I could control. Your section's people had their benefits deducted because they failed to complete their assignments. Director Lin, we have to be reasonable..."
"Reasonable?"
Looking down at him, Lin Shuguang curled one corner of his mouth.
With a thunderous boom, his aura suddenly surged. Like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky, a wild, overbearing bolt of lightning extended from his saber, twisting and winding like a serpent of thunder.
It struck inside the room with a sharp crack. Director Luo screamed as he slammed into the wall, the Earth Elemental Armor he had summoned shattering under the lightning and scattering fragments everywhere.
Powerful currents of air swept through the spacious room. The onlookers outside the door felt a biting blast of gale