An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

“Who the heck is this kid?” Oron glanced at his trembling hands and felt a chill run down his spine. He failed to gain the upper hand in the earlier clash with Dustin and suffered an unexpected setback.

He was already an ultimate grandmaster, with a cultivation and mastery of the Glow Incantation that surpassed Caleb’s. By all accounts, subduing a younger opponent should have been a piece of cake.

But that exchange just now had brought him to a stark realization- Dustin had been holding back this whole time and hadn’t used his full strength. Otherwise, Caleb wouldn’t have lasted this long.

The realization unsettled Oron. There were always extraordinary talents out there, but the potential Dustin had displayed was genuinely terrifying. To

put it plainly, he was a beast on the same level as Glenn.

“What happened? Why did the judge step in?”

“Can’t you see? Caleb has already lost. If the judge hadn’t stepped in, that sword would have killed him or left him severely injured.”

“Exactly! It would be a pity to see the most talented disciple of Sacred Wyrm Summit die here.”

“I thought Caleb would win, but Dustin changed the outcome with just one sword strike. It’s terrifying.”

The unexpected turn of events sent the spectators buzzing with chatter.

Whether it was Caleb’s Eight Trigrams of Divine Talisman being countered or Oron intervening to stop the match, everything had unfolded in the blink of an eye. The fight was already over when

spectators grasped what had just

smug a moment ago.”

come up with a retort. He never expected that Dustin would still be able to draw his sword even

a single strike, which decisively

on Alloy why Seth had chosen Dustin as his

just now,” Dustin

delivering a lethal strike. However, he had to unleash his full strength when it was time to

and conceded at the right moment. Otherwise, considering Caleb’s earlier state, he might not have been

until now. I lost, and

he claimed to be indifferent to

challenge- cultivation, self-discipline, or resilience-without breaking a sweat. Plus, he outperformed every

guild spent three years making small strides and a decade to master the Glow Incantation, Caleb managed to perfect it in just six months

equivalent to what those so-called gifted disciples would achieve after ten years

Wrym Summit,

his training or worked hard. He approached everything half- heartedly, yet his

rapid pace of his progress had its drawbacks. Without

drink, sleep, and breakthroughs would follow. With that mindset,

wasn’t the only genius in the world and that others were

long-dormant fire of passion and ambition reignited within him. From this moment on, he would take his training