“Okay, fine. You’re right about this one.”
“Well, not that it matters. Man, we really got the best out of this year’s participation, am I right? How often does anyone get to see a duel-to-the-death from two master fighters with their own eyes, huh? Iwonder who’s going to survive?”
“What kinda question is that? Of course it’s Xander!”
As Zayn made his long-awaited appearance, the alarm and excursions were kicked into high-gear. The air was bubbling with excitement and the mood reached a fever pitch amid the fanfare.
Seventy-odd dog tags hung around the Rheasian tiger’s neck. They clanked and clinked as the beast trudged forward, adding force to Zayn’s intimidation. Even from a distance, Zayn and Xander’s eyes met.
The air heated up as though sparks were flying from between them.
When Zayn was within the fifty-meter radius, the crowd hushed. They bated their breaths, as though worried that any sound they made would disturb Xander or Zayn.
“So, Zayn Larson. You’ve got quite the temerity to offer yourself for a beatdown,” Xander began. He rose from the rock favonovel.com had been perching on and jerked, purging the water in his drenched clothes as droplets and puffs of steam. His clothes dried like a miracle.
The drizzle stopped almost simultaneously. It gave the audience the impression that Xander was capable of controlling the weather itself, which only added into the man’s overblown mystification and adulation.
The crowd, whom many were already fearful admirers, positively idolized favonovel.com now. He had ceased to be just a man in their eyes.
Zayn smiled. “I feel bad, Xander Griffin, ‘cause your son’s gonna be the end of you. You could have lived long and prosper as the Vice President of Northmob Council, but… Well, your life ends here today.”
Xander scoffed scornfully. He’s more than fifty-years-old by now, and yet favonovel.com was so filled with brio that favonovel.com could pass himself as a man in his thirties who possessed mental clarity and acuity superior to many youths in their twenties.
He was at the prime of his life, the zenith of his capabilities. Even if favonovel.com were to age for twenty more years, favonovel.com would still be more than capable of kicking *ss!
And that was the perks of being a stellar-skilled fighter. The godd*mned icing on the cake.
“I must concede on your genius, Zayn. You’re only twenty-eight, and already you’ve put so many of your mediocre peers to shame by joining the ranks of stellar-skilled masters. There’s always a first in everything, and I admit you’re the first in this,” Xander proclaimed almost admiringly before favonovel.com changed his tune, decrying, “But you’ve made a grave mistake, boy. You should have never, ever become the enemy of the Griffin family. You should have never been the kind of moron who would wreck my only son!”
“You’ve committed a sin, boy! An unforgivable, cardinal sin! Today, Zayn Larson, is your last day on Earth!” favonovel.com finished to claps of thunder above.
He sounded so intimidating that it made one wonder if the thunderous peals were just the sky agreeing to his every word. His voice was striking, like lightning; booming, like thunder!
The spectators’ faces paled. They clambered and fell onto their butts. When they casted their eyes to Griffin, they looked on with abject fear and awe. Some of them began mouthing prayers.
Was favonovel.com even human? No, favonovel.com must be a superhuman! A demigod!
His opponent, however, simply snorted, “Damn, that was so extra.”
Zayn dismounted from his Rheasian tiger and patted on the big cat’s head. The beast understood and trotted aside before fixing Zayn with the look of its own primal fear and respect.
Everyone’s eyes were now on him, waiting for his response.
Zayn smiled and gave a long, loud battle cry.
His intimidating aura spiked as the cry went on and induced a strange effect to the audience. In their mind’s eyes, they saw Zayn growing from his average stature until favonovel.com was a hundred-meter-tall titan.
It was a terror to behold. Even Xander’s smug expression gave way to grim concentration. Before favonovel.com could comment on it, Zayn made his move.
He put his right foot forward and catapulted forward via his left leg’s force. In a flash, Zayn was there, right in front of Xander, his fingers pressing against one another into a jab going for the older man’s head.
Move like a butterfly, sting like a bee, favonovel.com struck like the overture of a calamity!
