Chapter 662: Ten Hands of Lightning God again!
Max went on, unfazed by Travis’s killing intent. "Didn’t you see it was my fist that sent that trash flying? I mean, I saw it. Everyone else saw it." He turned to the crowd and waved his hand as if asking for confirmation. "Right? You all saw it too, yes?"
Max looked back at Travis with a shake of his head, his expression filled with pity, not hostility. "Clearly, something’s wrong with your eyes. Maybe too much arrogance damaged your brain. Tsk, how sad..." His words weren’t shouted. They weren’t angry. But their weight was far more devastating than any roar of fury could ever be.
The spectators didn’t know whether to be shocked, laugh, or sit in silence. It was too much. Too direct. Too brutal. The arrogance of Thunder Monarch Hall had been shattered not just physically, but verbally.
Max hadn’t just defeated a genius in one move—he was tearing their pride to pieces with a smile on his face.
And Travis... stood frozen. His fury seethed just beneath the surface, eyes burning with rage, but no words came out. Deep down, he knew Max hadn’t used any treasure or underhanded method.
He was a Legend Rank 3-star genius, and with his perception, any foreign energy, artifact activation, or external interference would have been instantly detected.
There had been nothing—no flicker of runes, no sudden fluctuation in aura apart from the explosion of raw physical power. It had all come from Max.
And that was what twisted Travis’s gut. Because even though he couldn’t deny what his senses told him, his pride simply refused to accept that a mere 8th level Expert Rank genius could defeat one of their peak Master Rank recruits in a single fist.
It was preposterous. Ridiculous. Unacceptable.
"Don’t be so happy this early," Travis finally spat, trying to cover his shaken pride with a glare as sharp as a blade.
Max, still in the center of the arena, laughed carelessly—hands resting on his hips, body relaxed, his grin wide and completely unaffected by the tension around him. It was the laugh of someone either too foolish to fear consequence or too confident to care.