Forging Momentum, Shadebloom Node

After receiving a clear answer, Phase Kill suddenly felt an intense sensation of weightlessness. The arena beneath his feet collapsed, and his body seemed to be hurled into an endless void.

After a brief blur and spin, his vision refocused.

He suddenly realized that he was already in a new environment.

Beneath his feet was a massive plaza paved with some kind of stone that gleamed like blue-green jade. It was smooth as a mirror, reflecting the sky above, which shifted like an aurora.

The plaza was vast and seemingly endless. At its center stood seventeen enormous stone pillars arranged in a fan shape.

Each pillar rose a hundred meters high. They were dark gold from top to bottom, their surfaces engraved with lifelike figures in different poses.

Without exception, those figures radiated a killing aura tempered through countless bloody battles.

Merely looking at them made a surging Battle Intent rush toward him.

Looking around, Phase Kill saw that he was not alone on the plaza.

Several dozen figures were scattered sparsely across it.

They were clearly fighters captured by the Ancient Gods from various regions of Monster World. Like him, they had completed the twenty-two-win challenge in the arena and had been brought here for special training.

The core purpose was to make each of the fighters' upcoming battles more exciting and produce more rules-derived energy.

Phase Kill looked up.

At the top of the tallest pillar in the center of the plaza, a figure stood with his arms folded across his chest.

His entire body was shrouded in a broad black robe. His exposed face looked carved by knives and axes, and his skin was bronze with a metallic sheen. His half-lidded eyes held swirling golden fragments as he looked down at their arrival.

Phase Kill decisively activated