Semen

The meeting with Lionel Hencus marked the end of the troublesome task. Those warnings were Khan's last attempt to retain peace. Everything else would be up to his allies' families, and eventual problems would force him to unleash more than words.

Nevertheless, only time would tell what the future had in store. Khan could only wait for now, and the additional free time made room for the usual preparations. He resumed focusing on his training while his relatives handled the tournament's effects, allowing him to finalize one peculiar trend.

'Still eighty percent,' Khan read on the report beside his bed. 'It truly stabilized.'

The report obviously was about the latest training session with the toxic pool. Khan had stuffed three more of those in the past two weeks, leading to an additional downfall in his attunement level. However, as his scientists had predicted, the trend seemed to have stopped at eighty points.