The three of them walked toward one of these tables and sat down.

" And now what? " Axel asked.

" We have to wait until someone decides to challenge us," Adam replied.

" We need to wait until the end of any of those fights and see if anyone is still in condition to fight or wait until someone new arrives," William explained.

As he was saying this, someone approached their table.

"Hey William, you still owe me a fight from the other day," said the man who was nearing the table.

" You're right, James, I do," William said while laughing before looking at Axel. Last week, James waited for more than a half-hour for me to finish a battle before challenging me, but I didn't have enough time, so I had to leave before fighting him. I promised to fight him the next day we would meet, and it appears that day has come today.

After saying that, William invited James to sit in front of him.

" When we start to fight, wait a minute more or less and then put your hand on my shoulder and you should be able to see the battle, "William explained to Aiden.

"That's great. I will do it then. " Axel answered while sitting by William's side.

Just before the battle started, someone else neared their table and challenged Adam, so he left to sit at another table to have his fight.

At the same time, a little girl suddenly approached the table.

" Can I watch the battle too?" She asked with sparkling eyes.

The girl was Mark's daughter and was called Emma. She spent some afternoons in his father's store reading comics and books or playing games with his father or other customers.

Because of this, every customer was familiar with her.

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She was seven years old and had her blond hair gathered in a ponytail. The most important detail about her was that she always carried with her a stuffed squid called Gu.

" I want to watch it too! " She spoke in a deeper tone while putting Gu in front of her face.

" Of course, you can. Come sit with us. " William said, smiling.

" Thank you very much. " Emma said while smiling widely.

Then she sat by the side of James and waited patiently until they started fighting.

Soon, they began to look at each other intensely, a sign that the battle was beginning. As William had told him to wait for at least a minute, he decided to talk with Emma for a bit to pass the time.

"So you are building your world too? How is it going? " Aiden asked curiously.

"My world is amazing. Well, the truth is that it's not only mine, I share it with Gu. " She answered happily. "We combine our ideas to create cool things. If you want, we can have a friendly match so I can show you. "

As she said that, Axel could see on her face that fighting him made her very excited.

" I would love to, but I can't. I haven't reached rank 1 yet. " Axel said while scratching his neck.

At that moment, Emma's face changes into one of sadness.

"No one ever wants to fight me. " She said as her eyes began to water.

" I can't fight you right now, but I'm not far away from breaking through to rank 1. So if you want, next time I come, we can fight each other. " Axel said while trying to cheer her up.

" Really? You are the best. " She said this while a wide smile appeared on her face and she began to hug Gu.

" Yeah, sure. Now, let's see the battle. It should be about to start. " Axel said.

After saying that, he put his hand on William's shoulder, who continued looking into James' eyes without paying attention to anything happening in his surroundings.

When he did this, a mental image began to appear in his mind, and to focus easier on it, he decided to close his eyes.

Suddenly, a large wasteland appeared in his mind, and soon after, four robots appeared on the scene.

The robots looked like they came from a low-budget kid show, and every single one of them looked like the costume of a futuristic robot, but each of them had a different color and had numbers from one to four on their chests.

Not very far from then, a blue portal big enough for them to fit appeared, and the robots began to advance toward it.

When they were in front, they waited for a second before jumping inside. The inside of the portal looked like a tunnel made of blue energy, and it ended not very far from the entrance, but before they could advance even a step, something began to appear on the other side of the portal.

Suddenly, a reptilian head crossed the other entrance, and soon after, a whole tyrannosaurus rex appeared in front of the robots. But this tyrannosaurus wasn't normal. It was black and, instead of its characteristic short arms, it had the arms of a giant mantis.

When it saw the robots, it began to roar, and soon after, other kinds of modified dinosaurs began to appear behind it.