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    In fact, the geezer turned away, afraid to nce Frank''s way, saying nothing even as his apprentice Lebon fled pathetically behind him. Gong!


    A giant gong resounded from the center of the floating tform, cutting short the crowd''sughter and chattering.


    Standing beside the gong, Mr. Zoran was frowning a little since the crowd had been getting a little rowdy. He barked, "All participants of Group One shall now proceed onto the stage!"


    The crowd finally moved at his order, and almost every martial artist decided to take a boat, while just three used airwalk techniques like Lebon did. However, they managed to cross theke without any further idents, which was harsher on Lebon in hindsight.


    Soon, over forty martial artists were gathered on the floating tform, all of theming from all walks of life. Most were vigor wielders, while only a select few had recently reached the Birthright rank.


    "Master Lawrence, I''m going now," Kat said, since she was in the first group too.


    Her martial training did not start that long ago, but she had improved by leaps and bounds because she was immensely talented-or indeed, because she has a spiritron vein inside her.


    As such, with Frank going all out with her training, she had improved from vigor wielder to Birthright-ranked elite three days ago. Still, since that was still quite recent, she was grouped with the weaker participants.


    Meanwhile, Kat walked up to Scarface, grinning. "Yo, big man. Help me out here."


    Scarface did a double take. "Help you? How?"


    Before he realized what was happening, she had already vaulted agilely up on his arm. "By throwing me across theke, of course! I don''t want to waste my pure vigor on airwalking like those idiots."


    The geezer beside Frank heard her and cleared his throat awkwardly.


    On the other hand, Scarface was grinning. "I see! Good idea!"


    He would certainly not say no to Kat, though no one in Lanecorp''s health and safety department could ever turn her down.


    She was young and pretty, not to mention that she was basically a starlet after she started working with Noel York everyday.


    And unlike Vicky Turnbull or Helen


    Lane, she was a princess in the eyes of the brutes working in Lanecorp''s health and safety department. Only a bratas crazy as her would be willing to hang out with the likes of them.


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    Moreover, whenever she got too thrilled, she would start singing the bar so she had long since be notorious in Zamri''s night entertainment circles.


    Nash Yego was certainly left at a loss about that. However, since the thugs both pampered and protected his daughter, he could not fault them, even though it did not it well with him.


    Either way, she was now so famous that when Scarface threw her on the floating tform, someone managed to recognize her. "Hey, isn''t that the princess?"


    "What? What princess?"


    "Oh, that girl who''s always singing at the bars! She''s always hanging out with the boys from Lanecorp''s health and safety department too!"


    "That''s her? And she''s a martial artist too?"


    "Tut, tut. I''m surprised she''s taking part in the Martial Tournament."


    Meanwhile, as everyone looked on, the muscr Scarface threw the dainty Kat onto the floating tform.


    She stumbled a few times as shended before turning and rolling her eyes at Scarface. "Hey! You threw me too hard, bozo!"


    "Oh... Haha."


    Scarface chuckled and scratched his head, embarrassed.