Zhuri shouted up at the Star Sea's night sky, "I request that the audience be muted. They're affecting our match."
Mistblade also shouted in her current childish voice, "Seconded!"
A lively chorus of objections rose from the stands, all from spectators caught in the crossfire.
So Mistblade added, "If that won't work, muting Zai Jiu Xunge will be enough."
Zhuri said, "Add Isolated Island Huang Jin too."
[The contestants' request has been approved. For this match, Zai Jiu Xunge and Isolated Island Huang Jin will be muted.]
The world finally fell quiet. Though there were now two more pairs of eyes glaring at them from the stands, those looks only left Zhuri and Mistblade feeling refreshed in body and mind.
Mistblade had already quickly adjusted her mindset as well. A snowflake lit up between her brows, and she said, "You'll regret your arrogance. You shouldn't have changed only my physique without changing my combat power."
During Mistblade's earlier match against Maple Sugar, Zhuri had seen the Soul Fire between Mistblade's brows. At the time, she had only found it strange: why did someone as complex as Mistblade have Soul Fire with such a simple form, just a single snowflake?
It was not until Moon Fox and Oak Owl both comprehended their own Deity Talent Words after the battle, and enormous Soul Fire phantoms appeared behind them, that her apprentice stared at that snowflake for a long time before showing an expression of realization and sorrow.
Thinking of the games she had played aboard the War Cruise Ship, the stories of the past she had heard, and the World Dock she had passed through, she could not help asking her apprentice.
Her apprentice was unwilling to discuss too much of Mistblade's private affairs. She only shared one fact about