Journey Of A Legend

Chapter 63: Flip A Coin

*BOOOM!*

As the guy's body exploded into the transparent shield around the stage, Greg put his hand down and looked above him.

'Round 1, Winner: Duo 9.'

In an instant as the announcement appeared above on the hologram, silver light started to engulf Greg's body and a second later he found himself back where he got teleported from.

"Amazing!", thought Greg as he watched as the silver light on his body turn back into his card in his hand.

Looking at the card in his hand, Greg saw as small words started to form slowly on it.

'DUO: Qualified for Round 2'

"Hmm... I wonder how many rounds will be in the future.", thought Greg and looked at the stages in the middle of the Arena.

Watching so many people, who were cheering this spiritedly just because of the fights, made Greg heated up even more.

"We will win for sure!"

As he thought about that, suddenly Joe stepped next to him and smiled.

"Congrats on your victory."

"Thank you. By the way what do you think, can we go anywhere in the city until it's our turn?"

Hearing the question, Joe wanted to answer that he didn't know, but suddenly out of nowhere, Cloud appeared between the two and with a smile he said,"Of course you can. The card you possess will automatically teleport you onto the stage, when it's your turn to fight, so until then you can do whatever you want."

Mila, Emma, Joe and Greg after hearing this was pleasantly suprised. This was the very first time they heard about an object like the card, which can not only repel any other force except of it's owner, but it can also teleport anyone to far distances.

"Then let's go somewhere, I'm hungry as hell!", said Greg as he put his hand so on his stomach and turned around to walk away.

However, just as he wanted to step forward, Cloud's voice sounded in his ear, making his movements to stop.

"I'm sorry, but your meal needs to wait for a but."

"Huh? Why?", asked Greg with confused expression as he looked at Cloud.

However Cloud didn't give him an answer, but bowed and stepped closer to Greg, while looking at Joe and the two girls.

"Please forgive my rudness, but I need to borrow your friend for a while.", said Cloud and just like that, he dissapeared with Greg into a white mist.

Emma looked at Mila and asked in a worried expression,"Will he be alright? Isn't it too sudden that he got taken away at the first day like that?"

Mila looked deep in thought, but in the end she could only just shook her head helplessly.

"Don't know."

As the two girls were talking however, Joe was looking at the estrade in the distance with an expressionless face.

***

Greg felt as a strange force appeared around his body and everything around him turned white.

But this feeling was temporarily and a second later, the whiteness started to dissapear, however when everything around him turned clear, his eyes widened in utter shock.

He was standing on top of the estrade and before him, the world's legendary figures were sitting proudly, while all of them looked at him with a calm expression. But even that calm gazes put a lot of pressure on him, making his body tremble a bit all of a sudden.

"Welcome kid. How do you feel?"

Hearing the question, Greg looked at the around and after coming back to his senses, he bowed in an instant and thought, while small sweat drops started to roll down from his face,"Damn! These are all the big shots. What the hell is happening here? Why am I here?"

Seeing as Greg bowed at them like that, the old man smiled and said with a chuckle,"Oho, you don't need to be so formal with us. Just relax."

Hearing what the Saint said, Greg nodded and stood back up and looked at all the experts before him.

Seeing as Greg was looking at them, a woman stood up slowly and started to walk before Greg.

Greg saw this and looked at the woman before him and was instantly dumbstruck.

"Beautiful...", thought Greg as he looked at the approaching figure before him.

She looked just like a rose. Beautiful on the outside, but at the same time danger also. Her curves and slender body, with her night-dark hair, made her look the most seductive woman that Greg saw so far.

"She must be Mistress of Fortune. What does she want from me? Does she know that I'm the one with the mask.", thought Greg anxiously, but he made himself look very calm on the outside.

When the woman was a step away from Greg, she stopped and stared at him with a serious expression.

Seeing her charming brown eyes, made Greg feel more and more awkward, but just as he thought it won't end, suddenly the woman put her palm out and said to Greg,"Flip it."

"?"

Seeing Greg's confused expression, the woman looked as calm as before and said again,"Flip it."

Greg looked down and saw a golden coin was in the middle of the woman's palm.

Looking up, he saw as every expert behind the woman looked at him with sharp gazes, so without any hesitation he took the coin away and looked at it.

It was a normal coin that everyone could find on the street.

One side on it was the image of Mythbreak, while on the other one a mimic of a Soul Stone.

"I just need to flip it? Why do they want me to do this?", thought Greg, but in the end he decided to do as the warning said.

In an instant, he threw the coin high up into the air making it spin as it flew up.

As the experts watched the coins fly up into the air, the old man smiled slightly and and said quietly,"Let's see. Will he be the one or not? Heads is him, but if it's tails then not. "

As the coin flew up and finally reached the point where there was no more, it stopped for a moment and started to fell with a rapid pace.

Greg watched as the golden coin fell rapidly down toward the ground, but the moment the coin was before his eyes, suddenly he felt that something was off with that coin. 

As he was thinking what was happening, all of a sudden the mask in his consciousness started to tremble a bit, but the next second it stopped moving.

Not knowing what just happened, Greg looked confused, but when the coin landed on the ground, his confusion change into utter disbelief.

*Clang!*

Just like in a movie, the coin after touching the ground, it's edge stuck into a tiny little crack making the coin itself to stand still, without falling on neither of it's side.

"?!"

"What the hell is this?", thought Greg not believing in his eyes. The scene before him was almost impossible or if it had any chance then it's 1 in a billion if not 1 in a trillion.

All of the experts around looked shocked too, but the only one who wasn't was the woman. Her expression looked ice cold.

Just as Greg thought he made something very wrong, suddenly his body started to shine with silver light and less than a second it got teleported away down onto the middle stage.

The old man looked down and asked the woman,"What is the meaning of that Milady? Is he the one?"

The woman stood still, while lookimg at the coin and only just after a few seconds did she leaned down to pick up the coin and said,"I didn't think someone like that would appear here, how unfortunate."

"What do you mean under 'someone like him'?", asked the skinny guy with a serious expression, while the previous boring look this time couldn't be seen anywhere.

The woman looked at the coin and a bit later turned her gaze down toward Greg and said,"I didn't think that a kid this young would posses a Soul like that."

Hearing what the woman said the skinny guy frowned and asked,"A Soul like 'that'? Can't you just tell us what does that mean?"

The woman turned around and looked at the guy with an ice cold expression.

Seeing her chilling gaze, the guy instantly shrink back into his seat and said,"It was my fault, forgive my rudness."

Feeling that the air dropped down a few degrees, the man next to the Saint suddenly talked up.

"What did you see?"

Hearing the man's voice, the woman's expression softened a bit and said,"I didn't test whether he is the one behind the mask or not, but instead I was curious about his Soul. Head if he was weak, tails if he was strong. Each answer would have been enough to determine one's potential, but there is that one tiny possibility. A possibility, which shouldn't even exist that how tiny it was."

"And that means what?", asked the man, while he turned his gaze back down toward the middle stage, pretty much knowing what the answer will be.

The woman looked at the coin in his hand and said calmly,"It means that his potential is unknown."