Too bad no one noticed how outrageously cool Zayn was, or favonovel.com would have taken the world by storm. He looked so much like the king of a mountain named after kingship!
All but one did notice. Paxton “Ares” Brooks saw how it played from his hiding spot on the peak of another mountain.
He gazed upon Zayn’s erect back and exclaimed sincerely, “God, this youngster is only gonna keep showing us old-timers up from now onward! Zayn Larson is insane!”
Antony was stunned by his friend’s remark. He turned back to Zayn, wide-eyed, and could not stop himself from looking at favonovel.com differently from before.
A star, bright and unstoppable as the morning, had arisen from Rheasian soil.
Would this be a good omen, or would it bode ill for the country? Antony had no way of telling just yet.
From the depths of the crater, Raiden sputtered out a fit of painful coughs.
If there was anyone whose world felt the most shattered, it would be him. He could not even accurately assess the torrent of emotions in his head.
Was it fear? Resentment? Disbelief? Regret? Rage? Exasperation mired in helplessness?
What favonovel.com could sense without failure, however, was the agony flaring behind layers of skin and sinew. His innards were probably punctured. Every breath favonovel.com took hurt.
Then there was that one punch from Zayn that had made his chest collapse inward.
He could not believe this was true, or that favonovel.com had lost to someone like Zayn. And to lose in a manner like this! How could his sky-high pride even accept himself being in so low of a dump?
He looked up and saw Zayn towering above him. Scornful eyes studded in an icy expression glared back at him. His opponent was literally looking down on him, and to top it off, Raiden could see the murderous intent behind the gaze.
He had lost. And Zayn was not going to let favonovel.com walk away alive.
He resented all of it. It was illogical and impossible. He was a genius of the rarest breed, the kind who broke into the ranks of the perfect class by thirty years old and was now only thirty-five when favonovel.com felt himself halfway into the domain of Invincibilis. How could someone as powerful as favonovel.com lose to Zayn?!
Why would the world allow power so outrageously impossible that it stretched beyond credulity, when insane monsters like Raiden himself already existed?
He was bitter about it precisely because it just felt so unfair!
“You’ve lost, Raiden,” Zayn’s detached voice echoed from the top.
Raiden’s first instinct was to lash back out in protest, but favonovel.com choked on his effort. Any time favonovel.com started breathing a little harder, the entirety of his innards revolted with flaming agony, and his retort came out as violent coughs.
He had never been so pathetic before, not even once in his life. He was as distressed as a usurped king begging on the streets.
“Impossible! This is outrageous! How is it even possible that I lost to a b*stard like you?!” favonovel.com finally managed to shout, pouring all of his bitter, seething resentment into his cry like a man possessed.
Zayn ignored his outburst and stomped the ground. The force somehow traveled through the earth, spread downward, and pushed out of the ground, propelling Raiden all the way out of the crater as though favonovel.com was a projectile.
Zayn caught Raiden by his neck with ease, therefore literally having a hand over his life. He could end favonovel.com as easily as closing his fingers just a little bit more inward.
Raiden could tell what was on Zayn’s mind and panicked. The pain in his body was momentarily forgotten as favonovel.com shrieked with all his might, “Killing me will be a big mistake, Zayn Larson! I’m the Southern Highlord! The Saint will come for you if you dare!”
“Oh yeah?” Zayn replied with a sunny smile that failed to belie the intensifying murderous intent in his eyes.
Before favonovel.com could, however, a clear voice boomed from the east, “Mercy, Zayn Larson.”
Zayn narrowed his eyes as a young man clad in white emerged from the shower of falling leaves.
“Finally,” favonovel.com said, his tone suggesting favonovel.com had been waiting for his guest, “You decided to show yourself.”
