From Huang Ji knocking Kuchi down to riding his horse through the temple, defeating Bobo, and finally taking the Philosopher's Stone, thirty-five minutes had passed in total.
In those thirty-five minutes, the battle on the Supreme Platform had reached fever pitch.
The fighting had become a showdown between elites. Saxon and Carmen were evenly matched, one old and the other in his prime. Their battle on the Supreme Platform raged so fiercely that no one dared interfere.
The remaining S4 fighters paired off in deadly combat. Notably, the Sword-Keepers' side had gained the advantage, killing two S4 fighters from the Double Pupils Faction!
Both kills had been made by one man! His entire body was smooth and hairless, and an eagle was tattooed on the left side of his face. Its eye lay right over his own eye socket, but that socket was empty. His eyelid was sunken, with no eyeball beneath it, and the eagle's eye was inked onto that shriveled, tightly closed lid.
He was Saxon's Sword-Bearer, the strongest fighter on America's West Coast, and had been as renowned as Musa.
After Musa's death, he ranked first among the second tier of fighters, below only the three supreme fighters.
He had once sparred with Carmen, and their fight had turned deadly serious. In the end, Carmen had used his superpower to control a mass of iron sand and burst the man's left eye, finally forcing him to concede.
Clearly, although he had lost to Carmen, he was not much weaker—and that match had taken place several years ago.
To remember that defeat, he had refused an artificial eye and asked people not to call him by his real name, but only "One-Eyed Eagle."
He had trained relentlessly ever since, and had intended to challenge Carmen again today. Unfortunately,