Crownspire Arena was ablaze.
In the main stage, two youngsters, one with short brown hair and the other with spiky blue, faced and glared daggers at each other.
Lucas initially viewed Cody as a prancing clown.
The bastard might have a sharp tongue, but in combat prowess, the Petrov Family's oldest son was confident he was miles ahead.
He was ranked 1st among the A-rankers, after all, while the consistent loser from Ashton High was originally nineteenth.
Plus, he was a Sword Prince of a top-five high school; the other was not.
Their swords might be of the same rank, but Lucas believed the two of them could not be mentioned in the same sentence.
This was why he would seethe whenever the bastard dared even stand in front of him as though they were equals.
The most infuriating part, however, was that Cody had actually managed to spoil his plans in the past, and just recently, his "brilliant" victory over Elune Tseradze added to his accumulated misfortunes.
