Reverend Insanity: I Have an Equipment Slot
Chapter 25

The Power of Authority

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Still, their will ultimately lost to strength.

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When Aier felt that fighting these nine men could no longer help improve his combat experience, he simply knocked each of them off the arena with a single palm strike.

After today's battle, Aier's name had finally spread throughout Liang'an Prefecture.

What people talked about most was naturally Aier's plan to challenge the Prefect of Liang'an Prefecture.

He had become a hundred-win champion, which gave him the right to challenge the Prefect directly.

Next was Aier's "taking on ten at once"!

For countless years, the heroes who fought in the Arena Battle had always faced their opponents one-on-one.

Then Aier appeared as a "one-against-ten" catfish, setting off a frenzy around the Arena Battle in Liang'an Prefecture.

Not only were there far more participants, but the number of spectators had doubled as well.

On the third day, Aier completed thirty consecutive victories.

On the fourth day, Aier became a forty-win champion.

On the fifth day, one of Aier's ten opponents was a Five-Star Fiend.

In Aier's eyes, the man wasn't even qualified to be a speed bump.

If the Inkstone in that man's Space Ring hadn't been several times greater than what the others carried, Aier might not have realized that the enemies he faced had grown a whole level stronger.

There was no helping it. Aier had only been a god for a little over a hundred thousand years.

But his growth had been far too rapid!

His comprehension of Laws and Profound Mysteries had reached the Asura Prefect level, and his body was as strong as a Godhead. That alone had made Aier one of the strongest below the Paragons.

Only a Prefect with a Material Defense Overgod Artifact and an Offensive Overgod Artifact could possibly gain the upper hand against Aier.

On the sixth day, all of Aier's opponents had reached the level of Five-Star Fiends, and none of them were weak for their rank.

They brought Aier several times more wealth than his previous opponents had, and earned him sixty consecutive victories.

After all the talk over the past few days, it was no longer a secret that a powerful expert had come to Liang'an Prefecture to challenge the Prefect.

In fact, people were far more receptive to Aier than to the Prefect of Liang'an Prefecture, who had barely been heard from in hundreds of millions of years.

For one thing, there was Aier's "domineering presence"!

Admittedly, those who could watch the Arena Battle in Liang'an Prefecture were no weaklings.

Most of them were regulars at the Arena Battle.

Each had a rough idea of their own strength.

Thus, they didn't think too little of themselves, but they also understood how vast the world was and how insignificant they were.

Under such circumstances, it was nearly impossible for anyone to feel "domineering."

Following the strong was in the nature of all living things.

This was especially true of those who had reached a standstill. Knowing their own limits, they could only entrust their dreams of the future and the pinnacle of the Laws to someone else.

Without a doubt, in their eyes, Aier was exactly that kind of powerhouse!

Aier's commanding presence had earned him a following in Liang'an Prefecture.

Another reason was Aier's "promise-keeping"!

Across sixty battles, every fighter who handed over their Space Ring survived their fight with Aier, with the exception of the one who had tried to be clever. They had even made some progress.

Their experiences showed everyone that Aier loved money, but always kept his word!

Once Aier took the money, he did what he promised. Many who had fought him felt they had improved, at least a little.

Some of those sixty even broke through a major bottleneck, stepping onto the path of fusing Laws and Profound Mysteries and gaining greater potential.

On the seventh day, Aier racked up another ten consecutive victories.

On the eighth day, Aier didn't fight.

It wasn't because he was tired.

After seventy consecutive victories, anyone qualified to face Aier had to be at least a Six-Star Fiend who had fused three kinds of Laws and Profound Mysteries.

Since there weren't ten opponents ready for the eighth day's battle, Aier was willing to wait until there were.

When people learned that Aier was still willing to take on ten opponents at once after seventy consecutive victories, all of Liang'an Prefecture was set ablaze with excitement!

No—it was more accurate to say that everyone who heard the news felt Aier's near-invincible confidence.

However, those with the means to learn of this news couldn't possibly reach Liang'an Prefecture in time to watch Aier fight.

But they used every means at their disposal to get their people—or anyone who could contact someone in Liang'an Prefecture—to prepare Projection Stones. They wanted the stones to record Aier's battles and be sent to them by the fastest means possible.

And so, when Aier arrived at the arena on the ninth day, not only were the ten opponents for his fight after seventy consecutive victories ready, but the opponents for the following day had gathered too.

"Everyone, next, please welcome Lord Aier!"

At the referee's impassioned announcement, Aier slowly flew above the arena.

"Lord Aier!"

"Lord Aier!"

The spectators around the arena raised their hands and called out Aier's name.

By now, more than three hundred thousand spectators had gathered around the arena, packed together like a swarm of bees.

Aier raised both hands and pressed them down slightly. At his signal, the deafening cheers stopped at once.

Then Aier turned to the referee and nodded. "Please continue."

"Of course, Lord Aier."

The referee bowed slightly to Aier.

In his heart, it seemed he already regarded Aier as the future Prefect of Liang'an Prefecture.

It was hardly surprising.

In the first seventy battles, Aier's strongest opponents had been High Gods with the strength of Six-Star Fiends.

But one thing was easy to forget: Aier had faced ten opponents at once in every battle!

And every time, he had fought brilliantly, winning by an overwhelming margin.

Even Seven-Star Fiends rarely managed such a feat.

That didn't mean a Seven-Star Fiend couldn't kill ten Six-Star Fiends.

With a tenfold difference in strength, a Seven-Star Fiend could kill a powerhouse with the strength of a Six-Star Fiend in just a few moves.

But each additional Six-Star Fiend made the fight last longer.

If ten Six-Star Fiends fought a Seven-Star Fiend to the death, they could hold out for at least half a day before being killed.

And if they focused on escaping, at least seven of them could get away from the Seven-Star Fiend.

Judging from the strength Aier had shown so far, he was unquestionably at the Asura level.

In the Fiend Castle's ranking, an Asura was a supreme powerhouse above the Seven-Star Fiends, at the same level of strength as the Prefects.

However, since there were only one hundred and eight Prefects in Hell, while the number of Asuras might be several times greater, people generally believed that Prefects were somewhat stronger than Asuras.

After all, once an Asura successfully challenged a Prefect, he became a Prefect himself.

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