<h4>Chapter 313 - I''ll Be Back!</h4>


    "What?!" The young man eximed with eyes almost bulging out.


    "I''m not interested. What''s so hard about understanding that?" Grey said with a wave of his hand.


    He rested his back on his seat before raising his leg and putting it on the empty seat by his side. After he got into afortable position, he started picking his nose.


    His nonchnt attitude about the challenge sent the young man hysteria, he almost pulled his hair out from frustration. Just when he thought he was about to have his revenge, Grey rejected the challenge without a second thought.


    "You… you… you coward!" He stuttered while pointing at Grey.


    Grey removed his finger from his nose, after looking at it, he flicked it repeatedly before looking at the young man on the tform.


    "I''m not interested, go y with someone else." He repeated.


    The young man looked at Grey speechless. The crowd was just as surprised as he was, not expecting Grey to ignore the young man so tantly.


    Sasha, the Earl sisters as well as Randel looked at him in shock. Of all the people here, they were the ones who could say they hade in contact with him, and he didn''t show such an attitude.


    Gerald chuckled seeing how Grey was handling the issue, "He''s doing better than I thought,"


    "He''s literally doing nothing," The youngdy who was previously apanying him at the pavilion said.


    "Well, what did you expect him to do? You see, I also feel his choice of not fighting is the correct one." Gerald stated calmly.


    "Huh! Why do you say so?" The youngdy asked, a little confused.


    "Do you think this will be the only battle he would fight if he agrees?" Gerald asked.


    The youngdy looked at the young man standing on the tform, then at the crowd. She could see there were a few who were eager to see the young man fight against Grey. If Grey were to ept this battle, it meant he was paving the way for the others to challenge him as well.


    "He is such an interesting and calctive individual, only a few people his age can match that," Gerald praised.


    The group who were apanying him all nodded in approval of his remark towards Grey.


    Grey on the other hand didn''t think of anything when he rejected the young man''s challenge, he just didn''t want to go through the hassle of fighting him. Even if he didn''t have any issues with the young man previously, he would''ve still rejected the challenge.


    "You''re not a man, how can a real man reject a challenge so easily?" The young man continued taunting, but this time, he was met with deaf ears.


    Grey didn''t even bother to spare him a nce anymore, rather, he changed his attention to the Earl sisters and started talking about something else. Elda felt a little awkward, but Aldreda immediately started speaking with him.


    One minute went by with Grey not responding to the young man who was standing on the tform. With nothing left to do, the young man left the tform with his head dropped low. For the second time in little over five minutes, Grey had disgraced him once again.


    The entire ce fell into an awkward silence due to Grey not fighting.


    The next challenger stepped onto the tform a few secondster after the young man left and challenged someone from one of the three big families. They were both in the Ninth stage of the Arcane ne.


    After they fought for almost ten minutes, the young man from one of the big families won by a small margin. Their battle managed to quell the awkwardness that Grey''s refusal to battle caused.


    The next battle started immediately right after, with two people in the Early stages of the Origin ne battling.


    Grey watched all the battles with little to no interest, he spoke with Aldreda almost during the entire time these battles were going on.


    Thirty minutester.


    "I challenge Zeke Hoover!" A youngdy announced as she stepped on the tform.


    Grey, who was in the middle of speaking with Aldreda totally forgot that was his name, so he continued speaking.


    "I challenge Zeke Hoover!" The youngdy said again, this time, heading in Grey''s direction.


    "Huh!" Grey eximed slightly when he saw someone standing in front of him.


    He looked at the face of the youngdy, she had wless skin, fiery amber eyes, ck hair that was tied in two ponytails. Looking at her, he felt she looked a little familiar, he just couldn''t figure out where he saw her.


    "Uhmm… can I help you?" He asked while looking around. He felt a little strange when he realized everyone was staring at him.


    ''Why are they staring?'' He asked internally.


    "I challenge Zeke Hoover," Thedy said while staring straight into his eyes.


    Grey thought after refusing the young man, no one else would challenge him, but to his surprise, he was challenged. The only thing he found good about it was that he wasn''t challenged by a man, at least this showed thedy truly wanted to battle him and not because of any grudges.


    "As much as I''d like to ept your challenge, I''ll have to decline." He refused her politely.


    "Fine, I challenge Aldreda Earl," The youngdy shifted her gaze to Aldreda.


    She was in the Early stages of the Origin ne, just like Aldreda, but she is two stages above her.


    Grey looked at her, before shifting his gaze to Aldreda. He had the intuition of not interfering, but he couldn''t bring himself to allow Aldreda to fight against the youngdy. The youngdy was clearly targeting her because he refused to fight against her.


    "I…" Aldreda tried speaking but was instantly cut short by the youngdy.


    "What? You want to refuse like this spineless guy right here?" The youngdy jested while pointing at Grey, looking at him in disgust.


    Grey shook his head wryly, if he were alone, he wouldn''t be bothered with being called spineless. But letting it affect Aldreda was something he couldn''t stand.


    "You know what, I ept your challenge. But I have to warn you, I don''t spar with people I don''t like, I fight." He said coldly.


    "What''s the difference?" The youngdy asked mockingly.


    "It means one of us will most likely die" Grey slowly, with a cold smile on his face.


    He was naturally unafraid of anyone here, except for those in the Overlord ne. There were only eight people in the Sixth stage of the Origin ne, and three in the Seventh stage; these were all people he was confident he would be able to defeat easily one on one.


    The youngdy didn''t back down when she heard, instead, she pushed on, "Just what I wanted,"


    "If I may ask, do you have anything against me?" Grey asked.


    Given the level of everyone here, they didn''t have any problems overhearing Grey and the youngdy''s conversation. Grey agreeing to fight came as a surprise to them, but they were taken aback when he said one of them would die.


    "She''s the sister of William," Aldreda said to Grey who was about to head to the tform.


    "William? Who''s William?" Grey asked with a questioning look.


    "The guy who challenged you,"


    "Oh! No wonder I thought she looked so familiar." Grey nodded before adding, "I''ll be back."