"What a fucking idiot. What the hell is he doing? How dare he pretend all high and mighty with that mask on? I'll beat him to death later!"
Seeing Darren's appearance, the disciples from Ancient Families couldn't help but run their mouths and laugh.
Darren didn't care, though. He ignored all their side comments and focused on the matter at hand. He stood quietly on one side, together with all the other disciples from the Holy Land. 'I'll let you guys know who is an idiot later, ' he thought, sneering internally.
At this moment, one of the three disciples, who stayed calm the whole time, stepped forward.
Wearing a light blue robe, he looked handsome and gentle. "Hello, everyone. I'm Jack Yu. Since the Holy Maiden also came to see the competition, why don't we have a small pre-competition match to entertain her?"
"What do you want to do, exactly?" Colin asked, doubting Jack Yu's intentions.
"Well," Jack Yu put another foot forward and continued, "It's very easy. We can just have a small force test. What do you think? I believe that the Holy Land has some magic treasure that can test the force."
After hearing Jack Yu's proposal, Darren released a touch of his spiritual sense and tried to probe which stage and realm Jack Yu was at. To his great surprise, an overwhelming strength cut the connection he was trying to forge with the said man. He wasn't able to find out anything about him.
'He's not just a nobody, ' he thought as his eyes gave Jack Yu a once over.
Darren then observed the other two disciples who were as calm as Jack Yu and found them very strong, too.
There was one thing Darren had to admit: Jack Yu was not only excellent in strength, but he was also good at ploys. He realized Jack Yu suggested the pre-competition match so he could measure all the others' strength and come up with strategies before the actual competition took place. Jack Yu was so talented and cautious that Darren regarded him as a strong opponent.
"I'm in."
"I'm in, too."
The other two disciples who were as strong as Jack Yu also stepped forward to support it. They seemed to have the same idea.
Colin wasn't making any comment yet. He heard the request loud and clear, but he found himself looking at Darren. He wanted to know what the young man was going to do.
"I'm in," Darren finally said, stepping forward as well.
"Pardon? Idiot! How can you be so silly? Who cares about whether you are in or not?"
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