Chapter 650: A Wounded Pride

Thirteen supported Shana's body and helped her drink a Rejuvenation Potion.
A minute later, the young lady finally regained some color on her face.NoÌv(el)B\\jnn
"Thank you, Zion," Shana said softly.
"Mmm," Thirteen hummed. "Can you stand?"
"I think so," Shana replied as she propped herself up and stood on her own two feet.
She then summoned her silver banner and used it as support to hold herself steady.
After taking a deep breath, Shana channeled her aether on her artifact and cast an area-of- effect healing spell.
Thirteen nodded and walked toward his sister, Shasha, to help her drink a Rejuvenation Potion as well.
He did the same for Mikhail, Erica, and Rianna before proceeding to Cristopher, Colbert, and Alcapone.
The three Squad Captains then helped their comrades, who had also suffered serious injuries during the previous battle.
Erica helped Mildred drink a potion, while Diana helped Derek.
Derek in turn helped Roland and Joshua drink their potions.
A few minutes later, everyone had recovered enough to stand up properly.
Thirteen then clapped his hands to get their attention, forcing everyone to look at him.
"I'm sure that all of you are wondering why I made you fight the Centipede King on your first day of training," Thirteen said in a serious tone.
The young men and the young ladies all nodded their heads. It was indeed something that had been bugging them right from the start.
Seeing that he had their full and undivided attention, Thirteen smirked and told them the reason for letting them experience a battle that seemed impossible to win.
"In less than two years, we will be facing a Jinn Invasion in the Cygni Continent," Thirteen replied. "In fact, the real reason why the Antares Continent and the Rigel Continent fell is not because there were too many Jinns that invaded their lands.
Of course, the main reason why they weren't able to deal a decisive blow to Zed was due to the fact that the Bird Man moves very fast, almost making it impossible to land a blow on his
body.
If not for the fact that Zed had lowered his guard when he tried to approach Zion, the teenage boy wouldn't have been able to capture him with his Capture Sphere.
But Thirteen had no intention of telling these to the teenagers because he wanted to make them understand that killing a Rank 8 Monster wasn't a simple thing to accomplish.
Even so, seeing their unyielding determination, Thirteen could only nod his head in admiration because those whom he had brought to train in the Rigel Continent were seeds whom he planned to sow in the lands of Pangea.
These seeds would then bloom to become trees, which would shelter the people from the wind and the rain, protecting them from harm.
"I will kill it," Roland declared. "Before the Dragon and Phoenix Tournament starts, I will kill that Rank 8 Sovereign."
"I will kill it too!" Derek stated. "I will not be able to sit still until I win!"
The others also said similar things, which made Thirteen wonder if the Centipede King had hit them too much, making them go crazy.
But in order to not rain on their parade, he decided to just give them some encouragement.
"Very well, how about this?" Thirteen raised a finger. "If all of you worked together and managed to kill the Centipede King, I will grant one of your requests. Of course, the request must be limited to something that I can do. So, do your best to kill the Centipede King."
Roland narrowed his eyes as he looked at the teenage boy in front of him.
He only had one wish, and that was to fight Thirteen in the Dragon and Phoenix Tournament.
The Hero of the Hero Party felt relieved when he heard that Zion wouldn't be joining the
tournament.
However, a minute later, he felt disgusted with himself because he thought of such a thing. Right now, he wanted to defeat the person whom he had considered his rival.
Since Zion promised to grant his request if he and the others were able to kill the Centipede King, the request that he would ask for him was to join the Dragon and Phoenix Tournament.
That way, Roland could fight him seriously with everything he had.
Regardless of the results, he would accept it!
Although there were many powerful individuals who would be joining the tournament, Roland was confident that after his training, only a handful of people could threaten him. With this thought in his mind, he decided to take his training under Zion seriously. Even if the teenage boy sent him to hell, he would do his best to crawl back up, all for the sake of recovering his pride that had been wounded many times as of late.