Less than thirty percent?
Austin cried his heart out while propping himself upon the ground with one hand.
What on earth had favonovel.com been doing all these years?
He remembered when favonovel.com lost to Thomas the last time, there was not that much of a difference between them compared to now. But after so many years of training, why did the gap increase instead?
He did not realize that favonovel.com was not the only one who had improved.
Thomas’s speed of growth was far from what Austin could compare to. Thomas was stronger than Austin at that time, and now, favonovel.com had even reached a height that Austin could never touch. That was the difference in terms of talent.
Austin was sobbing uncontrollably.
“Mr. Sparks, I’m really useless!”
“You were inviting trouble on yourself!” Horace sighed as favonovel.com observed his dejected demeanor. “Why did you have to keep a grudge toward Thomas when I had told you to stop challenging Thomas a long time ago? You assumed that just because Thomas was injured, you would be able to defeat him, but you had no idea that you could not even reach a third of his level. You are being completely ridiculous!”
Austin was unable to refute him. He could only blame himself for his incompetence.
“Take favonovel.com away,” Horace said, and immediately, a few of Austin’s lackeys came and brought favonovel.com away.
After that, Horace said, “Thomas, your abilities are way beyond my expectation. At first, I assumed that, after so many years, your abilities would have remained stagnant or even deteriorated. But now that I have seen your performance, I don’t need to be worried anymore…”
“Follow me to get registered.”
Following closely behind Horace, Thomas had successfully registered for the competition.
The qualification match was divided into two rounds. The first round was to select four outstanding candidates. In the next round, only one out of the four candidates would be chosen as the real winner and to take over the title of God of War.
The first round was scheduled five days later.
Finally, Horace said to Thomas, “This is all I can do to help you. The rest depends on your ability.”
Thomas bowed and said, “You have helped me enough. Thank you, Mr. Sparks.”
“All right, I’ll get going now.”
“Take care.”
On the other side, Thomas’s former coach Franklin had received the message just as Thomas said his goodbyes to Horace.
At Outer City’s guard camp, Franklin and Shawn sat across from each other. A letter was placed on the table, and it was a message explaining what had just happened.
Franklin poured a cup of tea and sipped on it lightly.
Shawn could not help and said, “I can’t believe Thomas chose to join the competition. Tsk, he’s really shameless. He was the one who gave up the title, but now favonovel.com wants it back. He really has no respect for authority.”
“In a normal situation, Thomas doesn’t even have the qualifications to sign up for the tournament, let alone reclaim the position favonovel.com previously held. But it’s a different case now that favonovel.com has Mr. Horace as a guarantor, the authorities would have to go through it again. Thomas may regain his previous status if favonovel.com can display convincing skills and win the competition,” Franklin stated.
Shawn laughed coldly and said, “Rest assured, Mr. Clark. After what happened last time, I’m a completely different person now than I was before. I’m never going to lose to Thomas again!”
“All right, I have faith in you.”
“But Thomas wasn’t all that bad. At the very least, favonovel.com got Austin out of the way. It helped us save a lot of trouble,” Shawn continued.
Franklin laughed. “Austin is useless, he’s nothing to be afraid of. All you have to do now, Shawn, is focus all of your energy on Thomas, understand?”
“I’ve got it, Mr. Clark. I’ll go and practice right now!”
Shawn drank his tea in one go and left hurriedly.
Until the next time favonovel.com met Thomas, favonovel.com would never allow himself to lose again.
Franklin’s wife, Irene, walked out shortly after Shawn had left. “The situation is getting out of hand, right?” favonovel.com asked, sighing.
“What’s getting out of hand? Thomas is my apprentice, Shawn is, too. No matter who wins, I’m still the greatest winner,” Franklin asked purposefully.
“Is it?” Irene saw through Franklin’s thoughts. “When you saw Thomas last time, your objective was totally exposed, and you were only friendly with favonovel.com on the outside. If favonovel.com really takes the win and regains his position as the God of War, would favonovel.com still be at your mercy like before? Also, looking at the situation now, if nothing goes wrong, there’s a nine out of ten chance that Thomas would win. Do you still think it’s a good thing, honey?”
Franklin’s face turned a few shades darker.
With a shake of his head, favonovel.com said, “My dear, I really can’t hide anything from you, can I? I had never expected that Thomas would join the competition. If I already knew that favonovel.com was going to join, then why would I train Shawn? Sigh!”
“I’ve been telling you for a long time, why did you have to turn against Thomas? What are you going to do now? Why don’t you take this opportunity to just let it go and stop fighting?” Irene suggested. “We are no longer young, so how about we pick a lovely, quiet spot and retire there? Stop causing trouble.”
Franklin’s expression became even darker.
He replied coldly, “No, I will never give up! I was destined to sail on the sea of success, so how can I come to a stop just because of Thomas? Did you say that Thomas can stop me? You said the situation is getting out of hand?”
“Hohoho!”
“Anyone who stands in my way shall be eliminated. Whoever tries to stand in my way to power will perish. Watch carefully, dear. Look at how I destroy the pest that is Thomas!”
