An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

“Well, thank you,” Dustin replied, annoyed.

He had initially come to cure Alicia, but now he had to fight as well. After an exhausting day of hard work with no reward, he felt completely shortchanged.

“Don’t be so grumpy. Show off your heroic side in front of these two beauties. Who knows, you might win their hearts,” Grace teased in a low voice.

“Yeah, right. These two are nothing but trouble. I want no part of it.” He rolled his eyes.

“Hey! What are you two whispering about?” Shadowcloak couldn’t stay silent anymore and declared, “I’m giving you two options: surrender now, or I’ll kill you.”

“Kill me? You sure talk big.” Dustin stepped forward and stared at him.

He continued, “You might be fast, but your strength is laughable. The guy lying there could defeat you easily if he were a bit smarter.”

“Arrogant brat! What the heck are you talking about?” Shadowcloak snarled.

“Drop the act. You may fool others, but I can see right through you,” Dustin said with a straight face.

mastered it to a level that surpasses many grandmaster martial artists. But unfortunately, you

artists with ease. However, when facing grandmaster level opponent, you’d resort to underhanded

ga grandmaster and hadn’t broken through

his remarkable agility, which made him practically

into his opponent’s hearts and

that he couldn’t defeat the man. So, he relied on his cunning tactic to drive Brian into madness and

Dustin’s words seemed to hit

my strength? You must have

crush you

to see what you’ve got. “Dustin scoffed. He was unfazed by the threat as he approached

earlier skill demonstration, which was on par with a grandmaster, others would have

had planned to seize that moment to showcase his abilities. But he never

was simply fearless or had something up his sleeve. Shadowcloak frowned, and he began

single strike? Well, here I am. I’ll stand right here and let you do it.” Dustin stood with his hands

rage. He lunged forward

materialized from thin air and