That meant… Parasite Queen had other tricks for winning.
“So, you’re Baron Milk?” Parasite Queen’s voice sounded clear and pleasant. Her tone carried an emotion as if she was disappointed at something.
Angor did not reply. The woman sounded like she knew his true identity, and Angor wondered how.
“What? You’d hide your face in front of my absolute beauty? Because your own face is miserable?” Parasite Queen spoke in a complete taunting and narcissistic way. “Only worms that struggle in dirty underground pits conceal their faces behind masks and do not show themselves in front of people.” Her voice contained a strange frequency. “So, are you a worm?”
It was natural for people to taunt in the waiting phase. Angor got a question though.
Why did everyone love this foul talker so much? Are they all masochists?
“Hey, worm. Why don’t you stay in your pit? That’s your best place to be.”
Under her constant provoking, even Angor could not help frowning.
He spoke in Baron Milk’s low and indifferent voice, “One of your admirers asked me to go easy on you. Looks like he’ll be disappointed.”
Parasite Queen sneered, “My good master asked me to fight you, and maybe avoid killing you while doing it. I thought you were someone good. Turns out… you’re just a worm, huh? I’ll still listen to my master, but you probably will say goodbye to your limbs.”
This was the first time when someone showed so much enmity to him before a match. Angor had no idea who Parasite Queen’s “master” was. Whoever that was, it had to be one of the reasons why Parasite Queen was being so hostile.
The match had begun.
Instead of taking his first move, Angor suddenly froze up in place.
In the eyes of audiences, Angor appeared just like another individual who fell for Parasite Queen’s charm.
Parasite Queen stepped toward Angor while wiggling her body. She held up a dagger high in the air.
Angor’s eyes were not focused at all. Parasite Queen’s dagger would soon land on his unmoving figure.
But Toby moved.
The bird left Angor’s shoulder, gained speed by diving down, and threw itself at Parasite Queen’s shoulder with the help of shifting gravity.
A huge explosion decorated with splattering blood shocked everyone into a dead silence.
What Toby displayed to them looked like a giant boulder which fell from hundreds of meters high. No level-2 apprentice could survive from something like that.
Toby’s attack came and ended in an instant. No one had the chance to register what just happened by the time Toby returned to Angor’s shoulder.
“What-what was that?”
“Just like Selena’s fight!”
“Oh no, my princess. My liege! Is she alright? Should she receive a tiny scratch on her skin, I WILL kill Baron Milk personally!”
“Chill off! Parasite Queen is the top in the ranks! How can a level-1 apprentice beat her?”
There were only two level-3 apprentices among the audience who saw the action just now; Prome and Prome’s partner. They did not really see what happened, but they still saw a small shadow lashing out from Angor, which fully explained their question.
The giant explosion is caused by that small bird?
Prome already saw Toby’s speed before. Now he also witnessed Toby’s burst power and tried to compare his own strength to it. As a level-3 apprentice, Prome could barely see Toby moving in the air. He probably had no chance of avoiding an attack like that if he was there.
Which meant… if he would ever oppose Toby, he would lose instantly.
“Alas… If I’ve known that Dave’s little friend brought such a powerful familiar, I’d not tell Parasite Queen to show mercy.” Prome shook his head and sighed.
When the dust cloud settled, everyone lifted their heads to see whether their “princess” was hurt.
They feared that what happened to Selena would happen again.
And their fear was right.
The situation on the stage slowly grew clearer. A bleeding puncture which shattered her entire clavicle and shoulder blade had appeared on Parasite Queen.
“Parasite Queen!”
“My Queen!!”
“It really happened again! Damn it all! Why didn’t Selena tell us anything about it? Or Parasite Queen can be more prepared!”
“Baron Milk, must, DIE!”
“He wounded my Parasite Queen! I’ll fu*king destroy him!”
The onlookers only expressed their grief at Parasite Queen’s situation for several seconds before they all turned to condemn Baron Milk.
It appeared that Parasite Queen had lost.
But later, they were surprised to realize that no one announced the end of the match even though Parasite Queen had lost consciousness.
“So Parasite Queen must surrender by herself? The judges are so cruel!”
“Baron Milk was charmed, he should’ve been the loser.”
“If so, how did Parasite Queen got injured?”
They were frenzied pursuers of Parasite Queen, but they were not stupid. When they saw Baron Milk still standing there with a blank expression while Parasite Queen was out cold on the floor, they quickly understood that there had to be something protecting Baron Milk.
It could be an active-defense alchemy item, or a familiar pet that lurked in the shadows… Wait, the bird on his shoulder!
They did not know which answer was correct. However, when Toby displayed a proud look which attracted a lot of hate, the scales in their minds tipped a little.
A minute later, even the other workers waiting outside the arena began to wonder.
Why isn’t the screen showing anything?
According to rules, Baron Milk should be declared as the winner now.
One of the workers came to Baroque and asked him what to do.
Baroque smiled. “Winner? Not yet. The battle is just approaching its climax. Somewhere we can’t see…”