“Corsair Sedrid.”
Lieutenant Maximus Verschelden stared towards the arena from the stables, peering through a gap between houses that gave him enough of a window to see the prince standing beside the i***t Axel Auryon.
He had won the first fight.
Then the next.
And then the next.
He was on a winning streak. Every single opponent he faced failed to bring him down. There were close calls and moments where Lieutenant Maximus was sure he’d be defeated, but he always came through to victory at the last moment.
“So… you decided to stay on for a month and still make it into the Krosguard, huh? I thought of you as a coward who would give up the moment something hard got in your way.”
Corsair was talking with Axel, watching the fight rage in front of them.
“But you stayed on. Maybe in some
