Another World Mall

"You…!"

Everyone couldn't help but drop their jaw the moment they saw who it was. After all, there was no way this person would show up here. There was simply no reason, or it wasn't really like her personality.

Kayne felt chills down his spine, his instinct telling him that everything had gone according to someone's plan.

"Why are you here, Mara Leverstrike?"

That was right. The one coming to stop him was none other than the youngest Tier 9 human in history, Mara Leverstrike.

Even Khain couldn't help but reconsider their situation. He asked himself, 'Why? Why is Mara Leverstrike here? What she's doing right now is unlike her title, 'Wandering Disaster.' Why would someone whose movement is unpredictable suddenly come here?

'Is she going to protect him? Am I missing something? There's something going on that I don't even understand.'

Gerald's expression turned grim. His father once told him that everything would be alright. He was confused, but after seeing Mara, he finally understood what Michael meant.

The real reason he wasn't that bothered was due to Mara's existence. No one would have predicted that the Wandering Disaster would suddenly come out of nowhere.

Clovis was also confused. He never expected Mara to come. He knew that he had made a promise that he would study under Mara after becoming a Tier 5 human, but he thought it would be him taking care of the problems here before searching for her.

But he was wrong. He didn't know what was going on, but Mara must have come as their reinforcement.

Mara shifted her gaze down, staring at Kayne. She took the last bite of her burger and just ate it casually, as though she didn't want to answer with a mouth full of food.

Once she was done, she took a sip of her cola before saying, "I can't afford to have you take him away."

"…" Kayne was completely speechless. He had been waiting for an answer, but that was the only thing she got from Mara after waiting for her to finish her food. It was something he could see just from her appearing here. "Are you messing with me?"

"I'm merely answering your question." Mara answered without a change of expression. She wasn't trying to provoke him. She just answered. That was all.

"If I insist on taking him away today?" Kayne's expression darkened.

"I can only stop you."

Khain was bewildered. Things had spiraled out of control. 'Mara really comes to protect him? Why? Or does she already have her eyes set on him?'

"You…" Kayne gritted his teeth. "If you dare to stop me, then stop me! I will let you know what it means to challenge me!"

Kayne punched Mara's glaive.

Mara, surprisingly, shifted her feet so that she pulled out the glaive from the ground and used the force from that punch to launch her away.

But what was even more shocking was the fact that she acrobatically lifted up the glaive so that her hand could catch it while shifting the trajectory to the front of a half-broken trash can.

She just put the bag for the burger and the cup into the trash can.

"With this, it's good now. We should put trash in the trash can." Mara nodded, satisfied.

Mara was merely doing everything correctly, like a good person, but the way she did it was infuriating for Kayne. She did it when she was supposed to fight him.

"You bitch!" Kayne roared as he leaped toward Mara, closing their distance in just a split second.

"Watch out!"

Mara glanced to the side, seeing the incoming fist. She swiftly swung her glaive and struck that fist.

The ordinary-looking clash between the two produced a massive shock wave.

The force coming from the fist traveled past Mara, causing the ground behind her to crack.

However, what was even more shocking was the fact that Kayne was the one gritting his teeth.

"Khhh…" Kayne groaned as a slash wound suddenly appeared on his chest.

"!!!" Khain and the others widened their eyes. They never thought that the first one to get injured was actually Kayne.

Mara, after all, was the youngest Tier 9 human in history. While she was talented, Kayne had been on this level for at least two decades. Yet she actually won against him in the first clash.

No. Mara's strike wasn't that simple.

It looked simple and slow, but it was actually even more terrifying than Kayne's punch.

After all, the building on the left side that was in the trajectory of the blade before getting stopped by the fist was suddenly cut down.

Boom!

The building slid down and collapsed, stunning everyone. Kayne could be considered an immortal because he had the unique ability to get as strong as he wanted while having Heart Affinity, which boosted his regeneration. These two combinations allowed him to become one of the top ten strongest people in the world.

However, there was another reason why Mara could reach this stage at such a young age. Because she boasted about her attack being the strongest in the world.

Most people heard about her cutting the ceiling of the underworld, but there was another rumor, rarely spoken due to how absurd it was. It was the rumor about her cutting a hill with a single swing.

It appeared the rumor wasn't exaggerated.

Kayne's eyes turned bloodshot. He punched Mara several times, while the latter struck his fist every single time.

Each time they clashed, it would produce an impact on the surroundings. The ground cracked, windows shattered, and buildings were sliced.

Just several attacks from both of them turned the area upside down.

"Why are you trying to stop me? We have never crossed paths before!" Kayne shouted while punching Mara from above.

Mara blocked it by putting the glaive above her head, but the punch had become so powerful that it turned the ground underneath her feet into a crater.

Mara pushed him back and lifted up her glaive. It was at this moment she did something unexpected. Her glaive felt like it was alive, suddenly producing a thunderous round, as though it were a tiger.

She then swung it down as all that force traveled toward Kayne, blasting him away and creating a massive hole in multiple tall buildings behind him.

"I have promised him. That's all."