He looked at the unconscious girl, his gaze turning incomparably complex.
"Solonsen..."
"You bastard, just how many schemes... did you lay out?"
He slowly withdrew his martial soul behind him, and the three world-shaking Soul Rings vanished back into his body.
The arena fell silent once more.
All that remained... was devastation.
And a stadium full of stunned spectators, frozen like statues.
As well as the young man standing at the center of the arena with his hands in his pockets, as though nothing had happened...
Silence.
Deathly silence.
The entire Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena, from the spectator stands to the VIP seats, seemed to have been struck by a mass immobilization spell, everyone transformed into lifeless statues.
Their minds had completely crashed.
Everything that had happened before their eyes had utterly exceeded the limits of their understanding.
A Soul Sage-level powerhouse had been... slapped unconscious?
Was that reasonable?!
Was that fucking reasonable?!
No one knew how long passed.
Only then did the referee's trembling, dreamlike voice stammer out.
"Star... Star Luo Royal Academy, all members have lost their ability to fight..."
"This match..."
"Shrek Academy... wins!"
The instant the words "wins" echoed throughout the stadium through Soul Power amplification—
Boom—!!!
The entire Soul Fighting Arena erupted like a volcano with a nuclear bomb thrown into its crater!
But this time...
There were no cheers, no shouts.
Only... sharp intakes of breath!
One after another, unceasing, wave-like gasps!
"Hiss—!"
"Hiss—!"
Everyone stared at the young man standing in the center of the arena—his hands still in his pockets, as if he had merely gone out to take out the trash—not as if they were looking at a god, but at a devil.
Shrek Academy.
Han Yuchen.
Today, this name was destined to be carved into the history of the