Chapter 25: Todd Elliot (2/2)

He stepped back, successfully evading the stabbing attack.

”What is your name?” Jake asked.

”Why do you ask?”

”Nothing really….” Jake smiled, he was just being cordial. Truthfully, he didn't care for his enemy name. So, he went back into the fight.

”Hmph, I will tell you my name. My name is Gob,” crooked the enemy.

”My name is Bob”

”My name is Tob”

”My name is Lob”

”My name is Cob”

As soon as Gob introduced himself, Jake heard shouts from the other henchmen, who were also introducing themselves to their opponent.

”Gob, Bob, Tob, Lob, and Cob…..” Jake repeated as he gazed at Gob. A burst of laughter was leaking from his mouth.

”By any chance…...are your fellow comrades related to you?” Jake gingerly asked.

”No.” Gob thought and replied, ”Maybe? I don't think so. I can't remember my family members.”

”Why is that?”

”My father has forty children….”

”Ahh, that explains the lack of naming sense in your family. I could have sworn that you were related. Still, if you are named Gob, I wonder if all your sibling's names end with O and B.” chuckled Jake.

Furiously Gob asked, ”Why does it matter to you?”

Jake sweetly smiled, like a devil, ”Nothing at all. I'm just trying to chat you up, considering you are dead already.”

”What do you…..”

Jake dashed at Gob, catching him off guard as he stabbed his neck. All the while he was smiling widely, like an innocent boy in a field of flowers.

Blood spurted out of Gob's neck as he slowly died.

Jake coldly gazed at Gob's corpse and lightly laughed, ”I mean seriously, who names their child, Gob? Is he a goblin? And they expect him to be successful?”

He looked at the others and noticed that they were wrapping up their fights…..all of them except Nico.

He was struggling to face his opponent who was weaker than him. His opponent, Lob, was at Stage 8 Physique Modeling, while Nico was at Stage 9 Physique Modeling. Yet, he couldn't end the battle easily.

Analyzing the fight, Jake noticed that Nico was always hesitating to strike a killing blow, he would always opt for a weaker attack. The experienced Lob knew that and took advantage of it.

'What a total idiot,' Jake laughed in his mind.

He temporarily switched his focus on the other fights.

Jaya was fighting Cob, who was at Stage 8 Physique Modeling. Considering her inexperience, she was doing pretty good, attacking all the weak points of Cob. Jake estimated that in a minute or two, she would defeat her enemy.

Lola was engaged with a Stage 8 Physique Modeling cultivator, Tob. Due to their choice of weapon, she maintained her distance as she shot arrows at Tob. He, of course, dodged them, but that was not her goal. Her goal was to wear him down.

Jake watched as Tob got frustrated and ran at her. He smiled at Lola's cunningness. She purposefully baited him into closing the distance. As Tob got close to her, she surprised him by digging his skull with a hidden dagger.

Lola perfectly displayed why one shouldn't underestimate an archer.

'Still, she is quite brutal,' thought Jake as he noticed Lola was unbothered by the gory scene.

Jake moved on to the next one, Gavin.

After gaining knowledge of cultivation, Jake tried to guess Gavin's cultivation realm.

But now, looking at the blue glow encasing him, Jake discerned that Gavin was at the Morning Dew realm. He couldn't guess the stage as he didn't know about the Morning Dew realm. Still, Jake had to admit that Gavin was a genius even by Master Luca's standard. He reckoned that Gavin was 18 years old, but he was in the Morning Dew realm. The same as Ray, who looked close to their age, but was also in the Morning Dew realm. But that didn't deter Jake, instead, he felt more confident in himself.

Under one month, he rose from no cultivation to the Stage 6 Physique Modeling realm. If that isn't a genius, he wondered what was?

As he was thinking, Jake didn't notice when Gavin finished his fight. He had killed his opponent, Bob, who was also at the Morning Dew realm.

Jake came back to the physical realm and saw that only Nico was left.

Suddenly having an interesting thought, he entered a stance, as he threw his sword at an unfocused Lob. He had noticed that Ray's sword was very sharp, so he was not surprised when the thrown sword decapitated Lob.

For now, he wouldn't allow Nico to kill. He would allow him to carry on his naivety. And he would smile when he falls due to that. It would be even worse if he drags down his friends with him.

Thinking of this, Jake laughed out loudly.