It took the man Alex challenged a few seconds to recover from the shock and realize that he had been targeted. He quickly shook his head, bringing out a star to give to Alex before any challenge could take place. They had all seen how easily one of their strongest members had been tossed away like a ragdoll by a single attack.
It took him a bit to sift through his thoughts, but he managed to get to his answer a few seconds later.
"I concede," the man said and brought out a star to hand over to Alex.
Alex sighed and lazily took the star. He made a show of looking at it, as if to check whether it was real, before putting it away. "You do know you could have just challenged me to something simple that was in your favor, right? These other people chose to flip stars and guess what side it landed on. Two of them even won."
The man looked toward the others, but it was too late for regret.
