Hollywood Zenith

" Sami!" Elise yelled out seeing the same scene replay between her eyes that's when Samuel patted her back and said in a calm voice," It's going to be fine.No one could hurt you when I am around."

He was about to subdue the defiant horse with his aura to make it submit but suddenly few people came out of shadows to surround Samuel and Elise.

He already knew about these people's existence as they were lurking since the time he finished his talk with Henri. He finally got to see who these people were.

" Protect the boss!" One of masked man yelled out in french ordering his men to shield the incoming beast with their bodies in a way to scare it off from the path.

It worked, the grey horse suddenly got up on its two hind legs to neigh loudly before taking a step back. Since it was already heading toward it's small pen, two men quickly went ahead and locked it inside again.

The horse was obviously upset being locked up again but all it could was thrash around which stimulated few other horses to yell out in protest. Seeing these unruly animals, Samuel was annoyed.

" Boss, you shouldn't act so hastily. You could have dodged but since miss Elise is with you, she could get hurt." The masked man unveiled his face and urged him to not act reckless. He didn't dare to doubt Samuel's prowess as he had witnessed it before but the little girl was an entirely different matter.

" Do you think that I will do anything that will hurt her?" Samuel let out some of his aura which made the man to kneel down immediately. He knew he shouldn't judge Samuel with conventional knowledge but he was only trying to help.

Seeing the dozen of men following suit, Samuel took a deep breath releasing the tension in the air and said," It's fine. I know you are only trying to help."

Samuel admitted his mistake which greatly shocked the man. He always thought that a great person like Samuel would never lower himself to say sorry but he seemed much more understanding than he expected.

" Get up, how was it? Did you safely make the transition?"

Everyone got up and stood beside the man looking at their new boss who was talking with their leader. Some of them had heard about their new job but honestly they were too caught up in their egos but facing the young man, everyone understood that the rumour were true.

Few of them did witness Samuel's frightening battle power but those that were not present at that time thought that their colleagues were exaggerating things because they wanted to cozy up to their new powerful boss.

Not to mention they had to leave their work behind and follow their leader to the new place, it even led to a heated discussion which ultimately led to seperation of few comrades that broke away from their small legion.

Everyone had friends and family, instead of venturing to an unknown place with unknown pay, they very much liked their previous job. This was the readon why only a dozen people decided to follow their leader most of them were young while the experienced veteran stayed behind.

" Everything went fine. I wasn't able to convince everyone to follow me but these people are young and ambitious, I am sure they would be ready to do-"

" Stop, I think you are misunderstanding something. I didn't call you here to fight for me, what I need is you to protect this place. I will provide the details of the job later. Your pay will be thirty percent higher than you previous job with a few conditions that I will inform you about later.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

For now, I think you have already assessed that the security of this place is barely passable." Samuel didn't want Elise to hear about these things so he kept it short and concise for now.

" Were you aware of us?" The man asked because he went through great lengths to mask their presence trying to test the security of this place.

They avoided all the cameras and were even proud to be able to infiltrate this place unnoticed. It was his way to show what his people were capable off but Samuel was talking like he already knew they were there.

" I may not be aware of it because you guys kept out of the main mansion but same couldn't be said about my people." Samuel said and proceeded to call out in void.

The scene changed with about ten people coming out from several locations converging in his direction, they knelt down showing their ultimate alligence to him.

" You don't have to be so suprised, Raphael. These people are master of hiding their presence hence named Ghost Soldiers. Since you will be working under me, I will tell you that they are set to protect me and my people from the shadows." Those that were aware of existence of such a group were suprised to say the least.

They were frolicking around this place thinking that they were untouchables but if they made one wrong move, they might have lost their life.

Raphael was reminded again, why he decided to take up Samuel's offer on the first place. Being a veteran from French Legion Division, he had intel on most of the shadowy groups in this world but he did hear the rumour about these ghost soldiers being at the top of thenfood chain.

His interest was peaked when he first encounter them while protecting Nathaniel, as a soldier he wanted to be the best that meant working with someone who was more powerful than him and his people.

He knew he made a right choice seeing that he couldn't even detect where these people were hiding. He nodded his head understanding the hidden meaning behind Samuel's words. Any disobedience or sneaky behaviour would result in them disappearing from the face of this earth!