With the rules and participants settled, everyone began signing the contract. They were all old foxes, so none of them tried to tamper with it... yeah, right.
In fact, everyone except the Crimson Demon God tampered with the contract, forcing it to be redrafted many times.
Half a day later, they finally produced a perfect contract with virtually no loopholes—well, on the surface.
"You people are more despicable than the next. As an upstanding man, I, Andrew Wang, am ashamed to associate with you."
Andrew signed his name and spoke with a look of disgust. Everyone scoffed at once. You scheming bastard, you tampered with it every bit as much as we did!
Once the contract was signed, the Crimson Chains binding everyone vanished simultaneously, but their connections to the Ability Universe remained intact.
"Enough talk. Let's begin. To win, you must kill the others or make them concede. Until then, the duel will continue."
As the Crimson Demon God spoke, he excitedly split off a strand of origin essence and sent it into the Ability Universe.
Seeing this, the others inspected that strand of origin essence with their minds to make sure the Crimson Demon God had not cheated.
Once they confirmed there was nothing wrong with it, everyone except Andrew sent their origin essence into the Ability Universe as well, lest the Crimson Demon God gain a head start.
Of course, mutual inspections were a must. At this point, it came down to everyone's abilities. As the saying went, cheating that went undetected was not cheating.
Excellent. No one discovered the Hell Solidification Array. Here, let me give you a little surprise first.
Andrew smiled and snapped his fingers. Intricate magical light lit up the Ability Universe's crystal wall, then swiftly swept over everyone's Origin Essence Clones.
"Mechanical