Chapter 16: And you are?
It didn’t take long after that for them to come and pack the children back to the arena. Of all the over two hundred, those that remained were not up to thirty.
Those who were injured were treated, and they were given food. Normally, Drenvar would turn the rest of it into a party, but the man had been cloaked with a strange silence since the children returned.
The big projection that dominated half of the arena sky showed the rankings of the children. The rankings were based on their overall performance.
Vacuse was put at number one, and the next rank began at number five with Harkon, followed by Kagerou and then Lyra. The rest remained unranked.
"I guess I didn’t do too badly," Vacuse said. Before, he wasn’t even ranked, and it was the first time in his life he would be number one on a list.
It made him feel something he had never felt before.
Satisfaction.
Combined with his earlier revenge, he was feeling absolute satisfaction.
Vacuse sat there in the chair arranged for them, facing the guests who stared at them.
All of them waiting for what Drenvar would say.
Eyes drilled into Vacuse from all angles; after all, it was safe to say that he would be the heir of Vorrakyn now.