“The matter is already set in stone, and it cannot be overturned,” spoke Mr. Zayne, the helplessness evident in his voice. He stared at Jack seemingly sympathetically as he added, “In a while, the other two will come over. I’ll introduce everyone.”

Jack said nothing as he stood quietly, but Rudy struggled to remain calm. He pulled at Jack’s arm and whispered, “If that’s the case, then you can’t go. We both know this is a trap. We should avoid Elder Rick. He’s so despicable, and we can’t let him get what he wants!”

Jack raised an eyebrow before nodding as he whispered to Rudy, “You’re right, but he probably anticipated me rejecting to participate in this tournament, however. You’d be doing exactly what he wants.”

do you mean? If we reject it, we’ll still

be rejecting the higher-ups. Those people won’t have a good impression of

but to no avail. It seemed like Elder Rick truly had trapped them with no room for escape, and whether they

overthink it. No matter what, this warrants try. Have a bit more faith in me. There are

Jack

conversation ended, Mr. Zayne cleared his throat before he piped in, “It hasn’t even been that long and you’ve already offended Elder

I’ve laid out for myself. I won’t trouble anyone who doesn’t trouble me. If Elder Rick hadn’t tried to do

know what’s happened. Everything about you has started to spread, and everyone knows you’re talented in every way. However, an elder is still an elder. He can’t do anything to you publicly, but it won’t trouble him whatsoever to bait and trap you behind the scenes, just like what happened today. If he hadn’t recommended you so much, you wouldn’t have

not said that, Jack understood the logic behind everything

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