Lu Ce:...
As his words fell, the aura around the Sun opposite him began to surge wildly. Yet this surge did not signify strength; instead, it represented a certain degree of weakness.
Like burning coal, the moment it rapidly burned to its peak and turned red-hot was also the moment it was about to become ashes completely.
Having absorbed a portion of the energy belonging to Death, Lu Ce could clearly sense that his opponent's life had now reached the level of "ashes."
He took out the long-unused Hourglass of Life from his inventory. After dripping in a drop of the other man's blood, he found that the sand within was almost completely depleted.
—This was a final, desperate strike.
Above the endless void, War suddenly felt a pleasant surprise as he watched the abrupt change below.
Excellent!
There was actually such an unexpected delight. This "Sun" was truly going all out!
He was burning his life and abandoning his flesh to merge with the powers War had given him before. After this blow, regardless of the outcome, there would be only one word left for him: death.
In other words, if the best possible situation occurred, those two below might actually perish together!
Did you see that, Death? Wasn't it a good thing that I stuffed my wager into him ahead of time?
Death:...
The other gods all glanced sideways as well. They had not expected humanity to truly be capable of such utterly reckless life-and-death struggles among themselves.
This had completely become internal attrition for humanity. Watching it, the gods felt nothing but disdain.
What they did not understand was that Sun's direct use of War's wager should, by all rights, count as cheating.
Yet from beginning to end, the Arbiter showed no reaction, as though he