"Roderick, you actually dared to show yourself."
Su Ye curled his lips.
"Good. Saves me the trouble of hunting you down."
He was about to leap onto the Challenge Platform.
But...
Xia Zhiqiu grabbed him and glared at Roderick on the platform.
"Roderick, have you no shame? You know Brother Long hasn't slept a wink in ten days and just fought his way through a Secret Realm. Yet here you are, fresh and rested, waiting for him. You're not even trying to hide what you're up to."
As he spoke, Xia Zhiqiu winked at Su Ye.
Su Ye might not care, but that was because he was generous.
Xia Zhiqiu couldn't let him step onto the platform at such a disadvantage.
Roderick's face darkened as Xia Zhiqiu berated him to his face.
The bigger the stir Long Aotian caused, the worse Roderick felt.
Every time he stepped outside, it seemed countless people pointed at him and whispered that he had used his connections to steal someone else's Burial God Graveyard Entry.
Even Hypnos, his King ancestor, had shown signs of regret.
If he had known Su Ye would make such a spectacle of it, he might as well have left Su Ye's entry alone and taken someone else's.
Roderick took a deep breath.
"I, Roderick, never take advantage of an exhausted opponent. Take as long as you need to recover. I'll wait right here!"
With that, Roderick sat cross-legged, laid his long saber across his knees, and quietly waited for Su Ye to recover.
"Tsk. Now you're pretending to be honorable? Where was all that honor when you stole someone else's entry? You were shameless then."
Xia Zhiqiu had barely dared to speak when he faced Tedd himself, but now that he was standing up for Su Ye against Roderick,