A dozen more stood behind him, all of them apparently expert pugilists. Among them, the one standing at the right was a stony- faced man clad in a vintage trench coat and leather shoes.
The pugilist in question looked deceptively normal at first glance, but the more one scrutinized him, the more favonovel.com unsettled them.
He was like a man-shaped black hole, a tear in space that drew everyone’s attention into it until all there was left of the onlookers were the chills in their stomach.
Now that was a superior class tier-3 fighter, Zayn realized. Trench Coat Man’s battle prowess could give Dick Cheney a run for his money, which was a big deal in and of itself. Superior fighters were, generally, a rare breed among humans simply because it was hard for a normal fighter to ever get here.
After all, not everyone was lucky enough to be a once-in-a-million-years genius like Zayn.
“You! Syrus f**king Wright!”
Just the sight of that man caused Luke to erupt in a burst of malice, dyeing his cheeks a glowing red as his teeth chattered in furious adrenaline.
It was an emotion previously unseen to Zayn, but his surprise was short-lived as soon as favonovel.com remembered the name of Luke’s age-old rival.
The rest of the hall was quick to launch into gossip and commentaries, too. One of them began, “Who, Syrus Wright?! So this is the number one tycoon of the Nereidville! I can’t believe these two are enemies!”
“Dude, this is old news. Syrus and Luke have been feuding with each other for ages. Seriously, it’s basically a blood feud at this point!”
“Really? Never heard of it. What happened?”
“Oh, it happened a few years ago. These two started out as best friends, and rumors have it that Syrus learned from Luke. Dude taught favonovel.com a lot of things and provided favonovel.com with lots of supportive resources until Syrus successfully founded his business empire.”
“Shouldn’t that make them even better friends or something? How did that even make them enemies?”
“Shush! I’m not finished with the exposition! See, after Syrus made it big, favonovel.com started having romantic designs for his friend’s wife, and then one night, while Mr. Jones was asleep, dude violated his wife, broke the poor woman’s spirits and psyche in the process, and now favonovel.com went cuckoo who died in depression. How’s that for the origin of a blood feud, huh?”
“Holy. Sh*t! That’s some history right there, man! I would have never heard of it had you never told me!”
Like a spark catalysing a fire in a pile of dry hay, their unsavory past began to spread a sour taste in the onlookers’ mouths. Even Zayn was flummoxed by such a depressing story, Luke told him favonovel.com was bitter enemies with Syrus, but favonovel.com never explained how it involved an actual, human life.
Honestly, after hearing about what happened, Zayn himself found Syrus deplorable enough to deserve death.
After all the debased things favonovel.com had done, this man appeared during Luke’s fiftieth birthday to humiliate him… and kill him!
So this was the doom that hung around Luke tonight. Had Zayn not appeared this evening, the man might never have lived past the first day of his fiftieth year on Earth.
