Chapter 57: Betrayer
"Since you are the strongest in your village, then you must know one or two things about fighting. Surely that’s why you said my fight earlier wasn’t that bad. Right?"
Riven was struck dumb for a moment, and he turned his head to look at Kivara, who was doing her best to ignore him. She had thrown him to the wolves!
In her mind, Kivara smiled. ".....Good... Have a fresh view of what type of people the practitioners are...."
Everyone was waiting for his reaction. Riven could practically see the sneers and mockery oozing out from them. How dare a village barbarian just say that to their most esteemed senior, Tong?
Riven looked towards Kivara’s master and the other instructors nearby, but none of them seemed ready to interfere. As long as the students did not go overboard, they usually let them do their thing unless they needed to give them pointers.
Riven swallowed, and then with a sigh, he lifted his head high. "....This must be a test from Kivara... and I do want to enter this sect, at least for now... I should not be known as a weakling...."
"What I meant was that with your power, you should have finished Gavrex off immediately instead of waiting for him to fight at all." Riven quickly thought of something to say. And it was actually part of his own philosophy too. After an enemy has been sighted, then it’s better not to play with them.
"What he said is true. You waste too much time trying to look dignified. It should have been spent on directly fighting!" one of the instructors shouted. Several of the other instructors nodded as well.
The students were surprised. The village barbarian actually said something that made the instructors agree with him? Was it a fluke? Yes! It must be because he’s hunted animals in the forest that he knew a bit about fighting, or how else would he want to compare with Green Clouds Sect students?
This was exactly what played out in most of the surrounding students’ minds, and Riven read it in their faces. His gut tightened with mild anger. When would people stop looking at him with that kind of eyes?