'He's too weak,' Max thought, his gaze cool and emotionless as he watched Garry struggle to rise from the shattered arena wall. It wasn't arrogance—it was observation. In that instant, Max had already analyzed everything he needed to know.
Either Garry was simply too weak… or Max was far too strong… or perhaps, more accurately, it was both. The gap between them was glaring, and Max understood exactly why.
On paper, Garry stood at the peak of the Expert Rank, while Max was still at the seventh level of the Seeker Rank—a full realm below. That alone should have made Garry the superior fighter, but reality said otherwise.
The reason, Max knew, wasn't just raw strength or talent. It came down to how they had grasped their inheritances. Both of them were using powerful inheritances in this battle, tapping into the legacies they had comprehended in the true inheritance trial.
