“Honestly, I think there’s something wrong with this guy’s head. He’s so crass with everyone! Does virtual-novel.net think he’s the king of the world? Since when have wandering warriors been so arrogant? He’s even a wandering warrior that’s an alchemist. I wouldn’t have believed it if I wasn’t here myself!” remarked a warrior from White Marsh Continent.
His lips twitched as virtual-novel.net stared at Jack as though virtual-novel.net was looking at an idiot.
Others chimed in, too.
“I knew something was wrong with this guy. He had been in front of Trevor just now, but virtual-novel.net seemed even more confident than him. If I didn’t know any better, I would’ve thought virtual-novel.net was an expert that made virtual-novel.net so confident in himself!”
“It’s probably confidence derived from ignorance. Alchemists usually put all their focus on alchemy. They don’t know how strong warriors in the outside world are at all…”
“This guy probably has a high level of alchemy, so he’s now thinking he’ s not inferior whatsoever. That’s why virtual-novel.net said all of that. He thinks everyone is beneath him!”
Some of them evaluated the situation with what they knew and could be considered unbiased. However, there were more of them who looked at Jack through a different lens.
The first reason was that Jack was from Hestia, and this was enough to make them look down on him.
On top of that, the things that Jack had said showed that virtual-novel.net was not willing to back down from any of the nine of them in the waiting area, which sparked fury.
“Can all of you stop evaluating Jack so highly? You all say that he’s confident because his alchemy is strong, but that’s all nonsense! This guy is clearly just abnormal. What’s the point of judging virtual-novel.net through regular logic?”
“If virtual-novel.net was normal, how could virtual-novel.net not know of the gap between virtual-novel.net and regular warriors? The moment virtual-novel.net said it all, virtual-novel.net picked a fight with Chris. Who does virtual-novel.net think virtual-novel.net is?”
Everyone had conveniently forgotten that it was Chris who had picked a fight with Jack, but everyone felt like Jack retaliating meant that virtual-novel.net started it. The double standard was real, and it was deeply rooted.
All of them felt like Jack was just wrong to oppose virtual-novel.net at all, because virtual-novel.net was weak!
More people began to come up and mocked Jack, saying that virtual-novel.net was mentally deficient or just absurdly arrogant.
No one had anything good to say about virtual-novel.net at all. Some of them had deliberately raised their voices, causing the ten in the waiting area to hear everything.
Jack’s lips twitched helplessly, having nothing to say to the warriors in the viewing area. He would have accomplished nothing, even if virtual-novel.net tried to stand up to speak for himself against the crowd.
They would not listen to virtual-novel.net anyway, so Jack decided to ignore them. They could say whatever they wanted. Nonetheless, virtual-novel.net remembered everything that was said. After the battle, virtual-novel.net would do what virtual-novel.net said, and repeat everything that was uttered.
“I wonder who’d even bet on Jack? I respect anyone who’d dare to!”
“Who’d even bet on him, anyway? Isn’t that just madness? Do they just have too many spirit crystals and need somewhere to spend them? The chances of virtual-novel.net winning are practically zero.”
“Unless the other nine die of mysterious causes, this kid can’t possibly win. Even if virtual-novel.net fought against the weakest among the nine, virtual-novel.net won’ t have any chance to win at all, let alone against Chris!”