The elemental energies of every attribute scattered in all directions. The efforts of Mana Mentor Heros and the others over more than three months vanished in an instant.
After the initial shock passed, Heros lowered his eyes. Although he knew killing Su Xiao here would be his chance to soar, he remained wary. His enemy was a spellbreaker. What if he had an ability that could kill someone instantly? If so, dying here would be far too unjust.
Heros now had two choices: have someone contact the Arcane Eternal Star and rush over for reinforcements, at which point the Arcane Eternal Star's forces would seal off the entire abandoned star.
If he did that, Heros would indeed be rewarded, but compared to personally killing a spellbreaker, the gains would be far inferior.
Should he play it safe and contact the Arcane Eternal Star, or temporarily conceal the news that a spellbreaker had appeared? That was the choice Heros faced. The final gains from the two options differed by a hundredfold.
After only a moment's thought, Heros decided to contact the Arcane Eternal Star. What one saw with one's eyes was not necessarily reality. If the spellbreaker had hidden some abilities during the Battle of the Strongest, resulting in an inaccurate assessment of his combat strength, Heros might lose his life.
Heros did not consider himself a genius. The reason he had reached his current strength—at the peak of the seventh rank, though not quite at the eighth—was that he knew his own limitations. He had willingly taken on the somewhat hectic position of Mana Mentor instead of first seeking to own his own magic tower. Although becoming a Mana Mentor was tiring, it allowed him to build an extensive network of connections.
The facts proved that Heros, whose strength was