The Soldier's Unsurpassable Honor

"Honestly, I think there's something wrong with this guy's head. He's so crass with everyone! Does he think he's the king of the world? Since when have wandering warriors been so arrogant? He's even a wandering warrior that's an alchemist. I wouldn't have believed it if I wasn't here myself!" remarked a warrior from White Marsh Continent.

His lips twitched as he stared at Fane as though he was looking at an idiot.

Others chimed in, too.

"I knew something was wrong with this guy. He had been in front of Trevor just now, but he seemed even more confident than him. If I didn't know any better, I would've thought he was an expert that made him so confident in himself!" "It's probably confidence derived from ignorance. Alchemists usually put all their focus on alchemy. They don't know how strong warriors in the outside world are at all.

"This guy probably has a high level of alchemy, so he's now thinking he's not inferior whatsoever. That's why he said all of that. He thinks everyone is beneath him!"

Some of them evaluated the situation with what they knew and could be considered unbiased. However, there were more of them who looked at Fane through a different lens. The first reason was that Fane was from Hestia, and this was enough to make them look down on him.

On top of that, the things that Fane had said showed that he was not willing to back down from any of the nine of them in the waiting area, which sparked fury.

"Can all of you stop evaluating Fane so highly? You all say that he's confident because his alchemy is strong, but that's all nonsense! This guy is clearly just abnormal. What's the point of judging him through regular logic?

"If he was normal, how could he not know of the gap between him and regular warriors? The moment he said it all, he picked a fight with Chris. Who does he think he is?"

Everyone had conveniently forgotten that it was Chris who had pickedza fight with Fane, but everyone felt like Fane retaliating meant that he started it. The double standard was real, and it was deeply rooted.

All of them felt like Fane was just wrong to oppose him at all, because he was weak!

More people began to come up and mocked Fane, saying that he was mentally deficient or just absurdly arrogant No one had anything good to say about him at all. Some of them had deliberately raised their voices, causing the ten in the waiting area to hear everything.

Fane's lips twitched helplessly, having nothing to say to the warriors in the viewing area.

He would have accomplished

nothing, even if he tried to stand up to speak for himself against the crowd. They would not listen to him anyway, so Fane decided to ignore them. They could say whatever they wanted.

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Nheless, he remembered everything that was said. After the battle, he would do what he said, and repeat everything that was uttered.

"I wonder who'd even bet on Fane? I respect anyone who'd dare to!"

"Who'd even bet on him, anyway? Isn't that just madness? Do they just have too many spirit crystals and need somewhere to spend them? The chances of him winning are practically zero.This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

"Unless the other nine die of mysterious causes, this kid can't possibly win. Even if he fought against the weakest among the nine, he won't have any chance to win at all, let alone against Chris!"