"You're quite cocky for a mortal," Hermes laughed as both the competitors took their places, "don't worry about your family. I have heard your wife is beautiful. She would make a great concubine for me or maybe even for my father."
"I thought it was a battle to test out strength and not how fast you can run your useless mouth." Arnold was completely unprovoked by Hermes' remarks.
'This bast.ard is awfully calm... If he had been anything like he was in the past then saying those words should have made him lose his shi.t by now.' Hermes thought while waiting for Heimdall's signal to start the battle.
In the meantime, Arnold had heard what the pipsqueak was telling a bit Nina, and was infuriated beyond any limit. He had the visor on, thus Hermes couldn't see his angered face, but that was the moment Arnold had decided to end the bast.ard's life in the most humiliating, gruesome and painful way possible.
I think I already made an announcement about this, but I'll just mention it again. Earlier I mentioned the story would be coming to an end in December/January but I don't think I can end this creation of mine so soon. So, it'll probably end sometime after January next year.
That being said, I'm planning to start writing side stories about side characters that you people like. Thus I have decided that the top 10 fans from each month (I'll be calculating it myself so it's fair for everyone) would get a chance to decide what characters I'll write about. So keep voting, commenting and gifting if you'd like me to write about specific characters once the story is completed.
Thank you for reading!!!