Wilde opened his eyes wide as he looked at Fane, gritting his teeth. "Insolence! How dare you? It seems you're looking forward to dying, so I'll grant your wish. Didn't you want to challenge me?! Come at me right now!"
Fane raised an eyebrow, not even looking at Wilde. "I don't have much time, and I don't want any surprises. As long as both sides are fine, then any kind of battle is okay. A one-on-one battle isn't interesting at all. If we're going to fight, both of you should come at me. I have no problems going one against two at all."
The moment he said that, everyone was shocked by Fane again.
As his lower jaw hung wide open, Wilde, thinking that he misheard things, said, "You want to fight against us, one-on-two? You, alone?"
This whole situation felt absurd to Wilde.
Fane nodded and said honestly, "Yes, I want to fight against the two of you on my own. You both should be happy and agree. After all, with how the Golden Continent acts, you don't seem to care about how absurd or dishonorable it is at all. You just care that you're happy."
Wilde and Lester were both infuriated. Lester looked at Fane speechlessly as though this man had lost his mind. "Who do you think you are? Even the top disciple from my clan won't dare to speak like that. You're just a warrior from Hestia, yet you're talking like you're a hotshot! A little baffling, don't you think?"
Lester felt like Fane's words were a joke. His arrogance was unwarranted!
Fane sighed, already expecting that reaction.
He pursed his lips and let out a calm smile, ignoring the
misunderstandings and mockery of others. "No one can change how you want to think, but you just have to remember one thing: I still want climb the Red Sun Monument, and I don't have time to waste on you both. If you want to fight then do it quickly. If you don't have the guts to, then shut up."
No one expected that Fane would go further with his words. He looked like he did not have a care in the world! It was like he truly did not regard the two chosen disciples from the White Phoenix Clan as worth his notice at all.
The Hestia Continent exploded at that.
With Fane asking to fight both of them at once, their discussions were suddenly split into two.
One half felt like Fane was too arrogant and that he had to be crazy to do something like that. It was one thing to insult their opponents, but he dared to face them both at once! They spoke as if Fane was completely reckless.
The other group supported Fane and heralded him as their flame of hope. From what they had heard from others, they knew that Fane was not reckless. Everything he did was always very logical, and he had
never miscalculated things before. This was no different.
A lot of them were like Rudy and believed in Fane somewhat blindly, regardless of what everyone else was saying. Even before the outcome was produced, they felt like Fane would win and would not do anything stupid. Darien was one of those people.
As a chosen disciple from the Scarlet Pavilion, he was the leader among the warriors from Hestia who were gathered there. At that moment, he was surprised at Fane's actions but did not doubt Fane. He still trusted Fane.
Darien had been greatly interested in Fane when he heard of Fane's accomplishments. He had his fellow disciples look into everything about Fane. When he found out everything Fane had done, his confidence in Fane became unwavering.Content is property of .
The disciples from the Unbreaking
Pavilion started to move again. One of them said loudly, "Fane is insane, I called it. Does he know what he's doing? Does he think he's the top. disciple of a holy-grade clan? He dared to challenge both Wilde and Lester alone... Does he think they're useless? He might not even have been able to win two against one, but he's offering to fight them both. He doesn't know his place at all. Just look at how everyone's laughing at him!"