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    While the geezer was surprised that he would think that Frank was an Ascendant-ranked elite, he soon shook his head.


    Frank had to be joking-after all, the geezer had never heard of such a young martial elite in Riverton or Zamri.


    Still, even as the geezer''s thoughts wandered, Kat finally moved against the two thugs who were nking her on the floating tform.


    With a subtle grunt, she suddenlyunched forward, dashing to the side of the pudgy martial artist before he could react.


    "Eh?"


    Even as the pudgy martial artist turned and realized where Kat had moved, he tried to change the path of his attack when he felt the agony in his belly.


    He looked down to find Kat''s foot striking into his stomach before sending him flying.


    The pudgy martial artist screamed as he crashed into the other martial artist. Then, both of them iled for just a moment before rolling together off the edge, crashing into theke with a loud ssh.


    "Pfft..."


    And seeing those two sleazebags knocked out in such punishing fashion, the crowdughed and cheered.


    However, Kat did not move and instead turned and red murderously across theke, straight at Frank.


    "Oh..."


    Sensing Kat''s re, Frank could not help feeling guilty and averted his eyes.


    Despite the clear distance between them and knowing that the brat could not have heard him, he somehow still felt that he was to be med. Fortunately, Kat could not re at him for too long as other martial artists started to attack her, and she needed to respond.


    Nheless, after an intense melee, five participants remained on the floating tform, with the others either knocked out or falling into theke. Kat was naturally one of the five, and when she returned, she demanded to know if Frank had been mocking her earlier.


    While Frank denied it immediately, the girl behind the geezer was rolling her eyes at him.


    Nheless, after Kat cleared the qualifiers, Mona Fairfax and Kat seeded as well. The only surprise they had was when Scarface encountered anky youth in the free-for-all. His face was sickly pale, and he mostly used w techniques.


    Scarface could tell right away that thenky youth was no pushover And despite going all out, he only managed to secure a draw, and there were hints that he was actually losing the whole time.


    For his part, thenky youth could tell that Scarface was not going to make this easy for him either and quickly switched targets so as to not waste time.


    Soon, he proved that he was not just adept at w techniques-he also utilized hidden gadgets while easily escaping encirclement amid the free-for- all.


    Frank''s expression turned solemn, as he was surprised there was such a martial elite in Riverton.


    Nheless, he also cleared the qualifiers, taking one of the five berths in the third group of participants.


    With that, the free-for-all was over, and the singles ring match would soon follow.


    During the break in between, a tall man approached Mr. Zoran. "It seems that despite Zamri being the bigger city, the martial artists there are no match for Riverton''s martial artists."


    And though he was smiling, there was a look of contempt in his eyes.


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    Mr. Quaker snorted in turn. "Hmph. Defiant to thest, huh? But it''s clear to me that you''re not keeping your job either way, Mr. Zoran. Hahaha!!!"