Silence spread across the Nexus Field.
It wasn't exactly the quiet kind that came after a fight ended in a bewildering way. It was the heavy kind. The kind that pressed down on everyone at once as thousands of eyes stared at the arena with only one fighter in it.
"Where did he go?" someone from the audience shouted.
"Did he chicken out?" another voice followed. Then another.
Inside the arena, Axel stood frozen, his grip tight around his sword. His eyes moved left and right, then behind him. But there was nothing. Drax Tan was gone. He had left without a trace.
'Where the hell did he vanish to?' Axel thought.
For the first time since stepping into the Nexus Field, panic crept inside him. His heart rate picked up speed. His breath came a little faster. He hated that feeling. He hated having no idea where the danger was.
"Stop panicking!" Aurora snapped inside his head. "You are a demon, for infernal's sake. Act like one."
