Invincible: The Underdog Stuns the World

Nobody in the sect thought anything of Lance Falconer. He was a soldier without a name, the one people pointed at as an example of someone who would never amount to anything, and he let them keep saying it. An elder had taken an interest in him and had been teaching him in private for a long time, methods that put him well past what an ordinary body can do. He kept training and kept his mouth shut, and the mockery went on because there was nothing anyone could see to contradict it. Then the sect competition is called, with everyone watching, and he has to put his hands up in front of them.