Chapter 461: Returning to Earth
Jack decided not to kill every Emberheart. However, he had promised to erase that name off the galaxy, so he forced them to change their last names. The Emberheart family renamed itself to Openchest, completely humiliating themselves in the process. It was a choice for survival—those who refused to accept the change, almost a quarter of the adult population, were honorably executed by the family themselves.
It was not an easy period for the former Emberheart family. Those proud leonines had never had to bow their heads before. However, for their children to survive, they steeled their hearts and did it.
On that day, the name Emberheart finally disappeared from the Milky Way galaxy. Jack also instated an order that anyone found using that last name was to be captured, leonine or otherwise. And so, his oath to Eric was fulfilled, through not in the way anyone expected.
Jack had basically conquered the Animal Kingdom. He fell onto the surface of Animal Planet, spreading his aura with no one daring to match him. Children gazed at him with awe—adults felt terror through their closed shutters. He didn’t plan to mistreat the Kingdom—didn’t plan to become like them. He would simply distance himself from the matters of the Milky Way, letting things progress as they would.
After conquering the Kingdom and destroying his pursuers in the Hand of God, Jack still had six days remaining before the Heavenly Spoon Sovereign was set to arrive. He planned to publicize his location and wait for someone with the teleporter frequency of Earth to come to him. Thankfully, that wasn’t necessary. He found Shol in the dungeons of Animal Planet. The monk was safe, if a bit famished. He’d been here all along, captured by the Kingdom a little before Jack’s return to the galaxy.
“It’s been a while, brother,” Jack said with a smile, walking through a jail door. A skinny man awaited him, rubbing his wrists. His poor health did nothing to affect his good mood.
“Jack!” he exclaimed, rushing forward to hug his savior. “Is it true?” he asked. “Did you really defeat the Animal Kingdom?”
“Every Elder, Ancestor, and Supreme Ancestor,” Jack replied. “Along with some Envoys from the Hand of God.”
“But that’s… That’s amazing!” Shol shook his head, still stuck in disbelief. “I can’t believe that my little F-Grade disciple made it this far.”