Zero to Hero (Prequel/prototype)

Chapter 17. Tournament Finale

"Ken. Time to get up so we can go get some breakfast." Lovetta called out while waiting outside of his dorm with Genesis.

After 10 minutes and not hearing a thing, the girls started to get worried and started banging on his dorm door while calling out for a response.

"Sorry, I had some business to take care of, so I got up early and went to the staffing room." Ken answered startling the girls as he showed up behind them.

"Who woke you up? What did you do and why didn't you tell me?" Lovetta demanded while looking at Ken suspiciously.

"You know, I am capable of waking myself up if I really wanted to. After talking to the staff yesterday, I had to go take care of some business." Ken answered casually.

As the three walked to the stadium to grab some breakfast, Lovetta and Genesis grilled Ken until he explained the full story.

"You should have told me; I would have woken you up earlier and went with you." Lovetta said bitterly.

"Come on Lovetta, I can't be bothering you for every little thing. You already do more than enough! Waking me up every morning, be by my side every day and buying food for us this whole week as well."

"I don't mind if you depend on me more." Lovetta replied feeling down when Ken didn't let her know about his plan this morning.

To cheer Lovetta up, Ken promised that he would let her know from now on if he had any change of plans and let her decide what she will do knowing full well that she would always cater to his needs.

As the three got to their seats, Ken was more than ready to see what the best in the world is capable of doing and just how much of a gap there really is between him and them.

To ensure that the final match of the tournament is of the highest quality, the matches on the final day are based on the current ranking as it had been for many centuries.

After getting the crowd and those watching at home excited, the first match of the final day started with the 4th ranked hero Sylvester Gilliam serving the kingdom of Sraederham and 5th ranked hero Yvette Aster serving the kingdom of Feirvenn, the kingdom Genesis is from.

Sylvester Gilliam, the 4th ranked hero is the oldest of the current top 10 and had maintained his top 4 position for over 150 years and he is the corner stone for the kingdom of Sraederham, the largest and most influential of the lizardman.

Pale white skin, severely underweight that one can make out his rib cage, long shaggy gray hair, red eyes with vertical slit pupils that tracked movements like a snake and a long albino snake like tail, Sylvester is one eerie looking man.

While the average commoner's life expectancy is no more than 80 years, it's not hard for someone with wealth to afford regular enchantments and live well past 100. For nobles and royals of any significant kingdom and wealth, the average life expectancy is no less than 250 years. Even though no one had figured out a way to achieve immortality yet, certainly not due to lack of trying. Many of the richest regularly live past 400.

With his holy level mastery in the science of human biology, anatomy, healing magic and time magic, Sylvester is over 200 years old but still well within his prime even with his unusual look. As strong and recognizable as Sylvester is, his fighting style is something Ken never liked in all of the years he had watched the tournament.

Yvette on the other hand, is the complete opposite in terms of looks to Sylvester. Tall, slim, well endowed with silky flowing black hair and deep dark brown eyes. Athletic, beautiful and graceful, Yvette captures the stage and hearts of men easily and effortlessly.