Under the crowd's gaze, two men with strikingly similar faces stepped forward together. Their eyes, sharp as knives, locked onto Cliff the instant they appeared.
Both were broad-shouldered and thick-necked, their temples visibly bulging, and their knuckles wrapped in calluses thick enough to see from ten feet away.
One look was enough to know these two were serious fighters.
The moment the crowd recognized them, gasps rippled through the onlookers.
"That's Grant Gallagher, head of Vermilion Sparrow Hall, and Garrett Gallagher, head of Black Tortoise Hall!"
"Everyone knows the Imperial Bar belongs to the Black Tiger Sect, but I never thought I'd actually see the Gallagher brothers in person. They're the hottest names in the whole organization!"
"The Gallagher brothers made the rules c
