Around the roads encircling Jella Memorial Square, the students who had only just left turned around one after another at the sudden change and looked toward the Open-Air Mega Screen.
Their bewildered gazes quickly turned solemn.
The entire square became noisy in an instant, with clamors rising and falling, while only the images on the screen continued to shift.
No one had expected the Shadow World's endgame to contain such a major turn of events!
Although Hughberlian had temporarily hidden herself,
the students watching the battle were all left trembling with fear by the bloody scene that had appeared in the Botanical Garden in the blink of an eye.
Anyone who attacked other challengers inside a Shadow World was invariably a deranged red-name criminal.
Ignoring the disasters that failure in a Shadow World could bring, these cruel and vicious outlaws often slipped through small Void Gates that temporarily appeared in the wilderness, entering lower-tier Shadow Worlds to carry out massacres.
They were exceptionally skilled at disguising their identities and manipulating people's minds. They could even engage challengers in fights to the death. Moreover, after years of hunting and plundering, neither their personal strength nor the Magic Cards they carried would be lacking!
Generally speaking, encountering a red-name criminal was a low-probability event—simply a matter of atrociously bad luck.
But the one Hughberlian had encountered had most likely come prepared—
Someone was probably watching this Duke Miss in secret. Once they discovered that Hughberlian had entered a building sealing a Void Gate, they would notify people elsewhere, even numerous assassins far away in foreign nations, and have them begin matching into the Shadow World. As long as there were enough of them, there was a high chance one would run into Hughberlian!
"Wait, that disgusting mercury..."
In front of the Open-Air