Watching the creature, which looked like some kind of river-dwelling animal, mutter to himself, the bald man tilted his head.
"Um..." The bald man showed a hint of impatience. "What are you mumbling about over there? It's not too late to apologize."
"You bastard!" Cui roared. "You want Lord Cui to apologize to trash with a power level of five?" As he spoke, he had already risen into the air, gathering his energy. "This time, I won't miss... I'll blast you to pieces!"
"I see..." The bald man looked up at him and said calmly, "I don't know what you're trying to accomplish by doing this, but since you've put it that way... then I won't hold back... Genos, stand back."
The moment his words fell, the bald man's figure... vanished from Cui's sight.
"Huh? Wha... what happened?" Cui was once again dumbfounded. "Where did he go?"
Since he had not mastered the ability to sense the "energy" in others, Cui basically relied on his vision to track his opponent's movements in battle. Now that his opponent had abruptly disappeared from his field of view, his first instinct was naturally to turn to his scouter for help.
And in that very instant... he saw an inconceivable number on the device.
Beep beep~~
"F-Five hundred thousand?" The moment he saw that number, an expression as though he had seen a ghost appeared on Cui's face.
At that same second, the bald man appeared directly in front of Dodoria.
A straight punch... an utterly plain straight punch.
This was the bald man's first move in this duel, and also his last...
The bald man could not fly. He had merely jumped, leaping before his opponent and throwing an attack at his face that contained almost no technique at all.
Yet the very