Chapter 500 – Greed VS Greed [Part 3]
Lux didn't answer.
He just exhaled slowly.
The air shifted. His twin daggers dissolved into smoke, fading back into whatever invisible inventory he kept them in. No flourish. No smug line.
Just silence.
The kind that filled auditoriums after the final verdict.
Zavros stood there, panting. Not because he was tired—but because he felt it.
The shift.
Lux wasn't just fighting.
He was interrogating the world.
Probing.
Measuring.
Like a predator wondering not if he could win—but what it would cost to break the system itself.
Zavros's eyes narrowed.
The chain around his arm unwound slightly, loosened by doubt.
It wasn't hesitation—Zavros Vaelthorn didn't hesitate. He calculated, predicted, projected, then executed.
"What happened to you?" Zavros finally asked. "I don't get it. You fought me for real."
