Listening to Joy's voice, the Arbiter continued backing away. Xie Antong also lowered her head in silence, her expression grave.
Death was starting to find it a little dull. Although they still had no idea how this gamble was supposed to be played, the scales of victory had clearly seemed to be tipping in their favor all along...
As they gathered the chips before them once more, they said:
"Little girl, it looks like this game still can't give us any fun. So now..."
"Wait, what's going on?!"
Xie Antong suddenly cried out, cutting off Joy's voice as she grabbed the leftmost hourglass!
The hourglass she had been suppressing with her thoughts all this time, trying to slow the flow of sand, suddenly began draining at high speed!
The sand seemed to form a thin, continuous stream inside the hourglass, flowing without pause.
Given the mental capacity Xie Antong had displayed, this could only be the result of her mind operating at an absolute high speed.
Staring at the hourglass in her hand, she seemed incredibly anxious. Sweat seeped from her forehead as she gripped it tightly.
Divine light flared around her straining arm. In a desperate attempt at anything, she had even begun using divine power, as though she wanted to stop the sand from leaking out through sheer force.
"What's going on?!"
Xie Antong abruptly turned her head and looked at the Arbiter beside her as she asked.
But the Arbiter's expression remained indifferent. Ever since saying that they would no longer interfere with the game, they had become completely dead-eyed, revealing nothing through their expression.
It was the same now. They showed no reaction, as if everything were perfectly normal.
Everyone present was stunned. No one knew what had suddenly happened when everything had been fine just