Under the glow of Joy's own energy, those hourglass fragments were now shining with dazzling radiance.
Had Joy crushed it personally? But hadn't the Arbiter said before that the material of this thing could not be crushed directly with divine power?
Xie Antong stared blankly at the scene before her. Seeing that the Arbiter beside her showed no reaction whatsoever, her mind went completely blank for a moment.
The surrounding stands had long since erupted into an uproar. Ever since Joy had said that Joy had not finished playing Joy's cards, everyone had been astonished by Joy's shamelessness.
"What does that mean? Is this really part of the rules? The cards have clearly all been played already—how can there still be additions?"
"I used to think this game was especially fair. In a situation like this... all I can say is that the stakes in this round weren't too high, so it's not that big a problem."
"But why did Joy crush one of Joy's own stakes? Does that count as using up Joy's own stake?!"
"One stake can be crucial at the final moment, right?"
The All-Knowing Eye sent all the sounds from the venue back into Xie Antong's mind.
But at that moment, she did not need to sort through that information to know clearly that everyone had to be wrong!
A bolt of lightning suddenly flashed through her mind. She looked at Joy in disbelief, then at the hourglass before her.
If Joy had not crushed it, then did that mean Joy's thinking just now had directly consumed the sand from an hourglass?!
But hadn't it been said before that, because of the difference in the level of life, no matter how Joy thought, the stakes extracted from dead lives would not change at all?
"Hehe, little