A head suddenly emerged from the water. Naturally, no one had expected it. The twist left even the master commentating from the front of the stage stunned. For a moment, the three of them forgot to speak, staring wide-eyed at what happened next.
Beksas, watching from a distance, was stunned as well. He hurriedly ordered his teammates not to act rashly.
Meanwhile, Keith's group in the distance wore expressions of utter disbelief.
Actually, Keith and Ashe had been wondering where that fellow Pu Yunchuan had gone. He had swum up ahead of them, only to vanish without a trace. At first, they had assumed Matherly had instantly eliminated him.
But judging from what that Shandar team member had said earlier, that probably wasn't the case.
That teammate had said that Hao Dong had only barely managed to become the fourth seed. If he hadn't been talking nonsense because he had been hit so hard that he still wasn't thinking clearly, then that was terrifying.
Wang Haodong was clearly an unbelievably dark horse, yet he was only ranked fourth? Then what were the top three like?
At that moment, when he saw that familiar fat head emerging from the water, several thoughts immediately surfaced in Keith and Ashe's minds.
The first was: As expected, he wasn't eliminated.
The second was: Given the current situation, what will he do?
Hao Dong, suspended in midair, obviously couldn't stop his blade. That made sense. The Water Element's accumulation had made that greatsword weigh at least ten million star tons. With such tremendous inertia while he was in midair, stopping the blade would have been impossible.
Pu Yunchuan, who had just emerged from the water, was obviously completely bewildered. He had no idea what was happening above him, and in this split second, avoiding it