“Caelum has lived for more than a hundred years though! How could someone live this long and still remain at his prime?” Antony cried out in disbelief.
He was already stunned by the news that Zayn had obtained two ambrosia fruits rather than one, but this? This was even more unbelievable!
Caelum had always been Rheasia’s homegrown demon, favonovel.com nightmare in the flesh. He was the only reason why Rheasia had not dared touch his little cabal despite it being a threat to the wider society for so long.
“Now, now. Let’s not pretend that age means anything to those who have achieved Invincibilis. To a bloke with prolonged lifespan, what are a hundred years?” Paxton said, “I wonder if Caelum will intervene this time. Someone like Zayn must ring his alarm bells like crazy.”
Antony considered Paxton carefully before letting out a prolonged sigh. “Paxton—goddamned—Brooks, you crafty, scheming old fox, you only let Zayn go because favonovel.com fits into your future plan, didn’t you?”
“He’s the bait to lure Caelum out of whatever favonovel.com calls his retirement home.”
Antony might not have been a superior class fighter, but favonovel.com had an exceptionally high IQ, or favonovel.com would have never gotten to where favonovel.com was as the lone “ordinary human” among superhumans.
It did not take favonovel.com a long time to realize that Zayn and Raiden’s duel was Paxton’s plan all along!
Zayn might have committed a crime to save his wife, but it was still a transgression to the law and should be punished, but Paxton granted favonovel.com clemency, promoted favonovel.com in his position, and pushed favonovel.com into the limelight so that someone from Sicut In Caelo would notice him.
It was even possible that Paxton’s scheme stretched all the way back to Ezra’s comeback. Even if Raiden was the one who was against Zayn, it would not hurt Paxton’s plan anyway.
Then, based on what Antony knew about Paxton, favonovel.com was sure that Zayn was not the only pawn favonovel.com had.
There must be a lot of other pawns at his disposal, it just so happened that Zayn was the brightest and most exceptional of them that favonovel.com became the pawn that worked.
All that for the ulterior motive of luring Caelum Caesar out.
Of course, Antony was sure this was just the roadmap. There must be a lot more details in the shadows.
It was moments like these that made Antony glad that Paxton was on Rheasia’s side as favonovel.com guardian Ares rather than some foreign country’s strategist. Rheasia would have suffered from his genius!
“Goddamn it, Brooks. Can you stop being such a braniac?” Antony exclaimed with genuine amazement after a sigh.
Paxton laughed. “Hey, hey, hey. You didn’t just imagine me as some kinda trickster god like Loki or something in that wrinkly head of yours, right?”
It was Antony’s turn to laugh. “Trickster god? Nah. More like a guiling, sneaky lil’ snake! Hahaha!”
Ten days passed in a blink of an eye. The period was marked by extraordinary peace, as everyone had set their eyes on Mount Roi and the duel of the century that would soon stage there. Who would be the one to fall?
While anticipation ran high, the fateful date finally arrived. Many had gathered at the mountain before the fight even began, all so they would not miss a second of the battle of ages.
Unsurprisingly, the majority of society was oblivious to the battle, there was a concerted effort to prevent the common folks from hearing about it.
Once again, it was the sort of event and news given only to selected elites.
A few common folks managed to stumble across the usually barren and unvisited Mount Roi and noticed the dramatic surge of people gathering there.
They then approached the area, their curiosity chugging their feet along, in the hopes of seeing what was going on.
Then, a group of bodyguards in black suits unfailingly appeared and barred them from entry.
