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ake had invited death nine times to learn about Valdemar and hopefully find a path to victory. He had done everything with the goal of somehow winning and defeating Valdemar, and in all honesty, he could see a scenario where he would have accepted his loss.
That is, until he realized Valdemar had never truly taken him seriously. He had, through his own will, increased his fighting aura to a level far above anything he had done in the fight prior. Jake hadn’t forced him to, either… He had just done it to show Jake how truly powerful he was. It probably wasn’t to make Jake despair, but just because Valdemar liked to show off, but to Jake, it felt like all his struggles had been for naught.
Again and again, Jake had underestimated the power of Valdemar’s Transcendent skill. Till
