Surprising

John clicked his tongue at how unlucky he was. Of all the people he could face he needed to face Xia the eternal as his first opponent. Among the six heroes present, she was the most troublesome of them all to deal with. No one aside from those close to the Emperor has ever seen the way she fights, most of the time she would just continuously meditate and the enemies who come close to her would die mysterious deaths. 

John knew all the stories and rumors about the famous warriors of the Empire, and he had imagined different ways on how to beat them. He was confident that he stood a chance against most warriors in the Capital, all except a few.