The Medallion

"Oh, I know who he is! He is the useless prince! Why does he come here?"

"I don't know either. He doesn't even reach the third grade of the Mortal Stage. Why would it be him who goes up for the last round? Did the Holy Dragon Empire make a mistake?"

"Yeah, maybe you are right. How could he possibly compare with the phoenix spirit manipulators from the Magic Phoenix Empire? They can probably defeat him in the blink of an eye! Holy moly! He is just going to make this situation way uglier!"

"Look! He doesn't even bring his war beast! Does that mean he's trying to surrender right from the start? Or maybe he doesn't even have a war beast of his own? That's just embarrassing!"

People began murmuring among themselves.

Even the emperor of the Holy Dragon Empire was surprised to see Rocky coming up in the last round.

"Priest Dean, what happened? What's the reason behind this?" the emperor looked at Priest Dean and asked him with worry.

"Your Majesty, I shall explain everything later," Priest Dean whispered. Because Felicia was present at the area, Priest Dean didn't tell the emperor beforehand that Marcia requested for Rocky to join the contest. As he expected, the emperor was caught by surprise the moment he saw that Rocky was present.

The emperor could tell Priest Dean was caught in an awkward situation. To add to that, Felicia sat right next to him so the emperor decided to put a stop to the topic and merely nodded at Priest Dean instead.

"What is this piece of crap doing here? Does the whole Holy Dragon Empire run out of other spirit manipulators?" Alston whispered furiously.

But when Lena saw Rocky, she immediately had stars in her eyes. Of course, she didn't know that Rocky's presence in the contest was made possible by Marcia so she thought it was because Rocky fought for himself. It made her feel really happy for Rocky.

"Oh! Is he the royal spirit manipulator who acquired the dragon spiritual power from the Holy Dragon Bead? The players from the Holy Dragon Empire who came before don't seem to be the one who has fused with the Holy Dragon Bead. Could he be the one? But he looks so weak. The other players look way stronger than him," Erica questioned with a face full of doubt.

"Well..." The emperor of the Holy Dragon Empire was tongue-tied and embarrassed after hearing Erica.

Priest Dean explained at once to save

a spirit manipulator at the second grade of the Mortal Stage, it would be regarded as a laughing matter that would soon get spread around the Magic Phoenix Empire.

yeah? Then the game shouldn't be any interesting," Erica said

Don't be so

The last player isn't any better than the ones from earlier," the emperor confessed.

seems," Felicia said. She felt something strange about the emperor's attitude. The Holy Dragon Empire knew very well that the Magic Phoenix Empire was way stronger than them. Why

what could the Holy Dragon Empire be planning?' Felicia wondered to

themselves, Rocky had reached the venue and calmly stood

probably isn't qualified to join this contest. Ha-ha! How could you be so silly? And you didn't even take your war beast with you!? Are you planning to forfeit

I lose to you today then you can just walk all over

manipulator glared at

Can we just start the game already? If I had to see your face for one

words ignited the fire of rage in his opponent's chest. The two-star war beast beside the phoenix spirit manipulator let out a raspy roar.

phoenix spirit manipulator raised up his hands. The second he clapped his hands, a streak of faint silvery aura fluttered in the breeze that was targeted at Rocky without him

a single inch. He stood

around them was getting anxious and nervous

frozen in fear already? Why isn't he making any

and timid asshole! It shouldn't be a big deal! It's only a little

would just kill

sarcastic voices echoed among the audiences.

Lena was getting nervous as well. She didn't understand why Rocky

he wants to go?" Erica sneered. She thought that Rocky had given up.

around his left arm began to sparkle. What used to be a weak trace of his dragon spiritual power began to rise within a