Felix didn't say a word and just hung up.

When he returned to the underground fighting ring, not only was the old man still there, but Yakov had also shown up. The fury in Yakov's eyes was unmistakable as he glared at Felix.

Yakov found his sheer audacity of hanging up his call utterly disrespectful.

"Felix! Think about others before you act! Do you know how hard Xena worked to climb to the rank of war goddess? Are you really going to drag her back down to nothing because of your recklessness?"

Felix strode up to Yakov and sent him sprawling with a slap.

"You're destined to be nothing more than a lapdog in this lifetime," he sneered.

The old man beside them didn't dare make a sound. The difference in strength was too vast. Yakov was an idiot for provoking Felix like this and had brought this humiliation on himself.

Moments after Felix stepped inside, a series of deafening explosions erupted. The entire underground fighting ring had been reduced to rubble.

Having received his p