Chapter 205 - Humiliation 2

The weight of the shame pressing on Khan's chest was unlike anything he had ever endured in his life. He was the heir of Lechia, the only son of the empress, raised with the knowledge that his word was law and his power unmatched among his peers. Yet before the eyes of his people, nobles and commoners alike, he had unleashed everything he had...his flames, his mastery of the elements, his cultivated skills...and not once had he managed to so much as graze Lucas. The realization twisted like a knife in his pride. If Lucas had chosen to go on the offensive, to strike with the same ferocity with which he had defended, Khan dared not imagine how humiliating his defeat would have been. His face burned hot, his heart pounded, and he could feel the stares of his countrymen boring into him, some filled with pity, others with mockery thinly veiled behind whispers.