However, their willpower ultimately succumbed to raw strength.
When Aier felt that fighting these nine people could no longer help him gain combat experience, he simply struck each of them once, knocking all nine off the arena.
After today's battle, Aier's reputation had finally been established in Liang'an Prefecture.
Among the rumors, the most prevalent was naturally that Aier intended to challenge the Prefect of Liang'an Prefecture.
Becoming a victor of one hundred consecutive matches was also because such a victor earned the right to directly challenge the Prefect.
Secondly, there was the matter of Aier "taking on ten at once"!
For countless years, many heroes in the arena battles had always fought one-on-one.
The sudden appearance of a "catfish" like Aier, who fought ten at a time, directly ignited the arena battles in Liang'an Prefecture.
Not only did the number of participants increase significantly, but the number of spectators also doubled.
On the third day, Aier completed thirty consecutive victories.
On the fourth day, Aier became a warrior with forty consecutive victories.
On the fifth day, among the ten opponents Aier encountered, one was a Five-Star Fiend.
In Aier's eyes, this guy didn't even qualify to be a speed bump.
If it weren't for the fact that the Inkstone in this guy's Space Ring was several times more than the others, Aier wouldn't have even realized that the enemies he was facing had increased in strength by a level compared to before.
There was no helping it; Aier had only been a god for a little over a hundred thousand years.
Yet his growth was too rapid!
His comprehension of Laws and Profound Mysteries at the level of an Asura Prefect, combined with a physical body comparable to a Godhead, directly made Aier one of the strongest existences below a Paragon.
Only an Asura Prefect possessing a Material Defense Overgod Artifact and an offensive Overgod Artifact could possibly put Aier at a disadvantage.
On the sixth day, all of Aier's opponents reached the level of Five-Star Fiends, and they were not weaklings among Five-Star Fiends, either.
They brought Aier several times more wealth than before and allowed him to achieve sixty consecutive victories.
After these days of fermentation, the news that a powerhouse had arrived in Liang'an Prefecture to challenge the Prefect was no longer a secret.
In fact, compared to the Prefect of Liang'an Prefecture, who had been a non-entity for hundreds of millions of years, the public's acceptance of Aier was quite high.
On one hand, it was Aier's "dominance"!
Admittedly, those who could watch the arena battles in Liang'an Prefecture were no weaklings.
Most of them were even regulars at the arena battles.
Everyone had a rough estimation of their own strength.
Therefore, they did not belittle themselves, but they also knew the vastness of the world and their own insignificance.
Under such circumstances, it was almost impossible for anyone to act "dominant."
Submitting to the strong was a characteristic of all living beings.
Especially those who had stagnated; because they knew their own limits, they could only pin their dreams for the future and the end of the Laws onto others.
Undoubtedly, in their eyes, Aier was such a powerhouse!
Aier's dominance earned him a group of followers in Liang'an Prefecture.
On the other hand, it was Aier's "integrity"!
In sixty battles, except for that one guy who tried to be clever, everyone who handed over their Space Ring survived their fight with Aier and gained some improvement.
The experiences of these people also let everyone know that while Aier loved money, he kept his word!
Once he took the money, Aier truly delivered; many who had fought Aier felt that they had improved to some degree.
Among these sixty people, some even broke through a major bottleneck, stepped into the threshold of fusing Laws and Profound Mysteries, and possessed greater potential.
On the seventh day, Aier once again triumphantly secured ten consecutive victories.
On the eighth day, Aier did not fight.
It was not because Aier was tired.
Rather, after seventy consecutive victories, those qualified to be Aier's opponents were at least Six-Star Fiends who had fused three Laws and Profound Mysteries.
The battles on the eighth day did not start because ten people had not yet been gathered, so Aier was willing to wait until ten people were assembled before beginning.
And upon learning that Aier was still willing to take on ten at once after seventy consecutive victories, the entire Liang'an Prefecture instantly boiled over!
No, it should be said that everyone who heard this news felt Aier's near-invincible self-confidence.
However, those with the ability to learn this news could not possibly arrive in Liang'an Prefecture in a short time to watch Aier's battle.
But they used a series of methods to have their people, or those who could contact people in Liang'an Prefecture, prepare Projection Stones to record Aier's battle, and then immediately use the fastest methods to send the Projection Stones to them.
Thus, when Aier arrived at the arena on the ninth day, not only were the ten opponents for his seventy-plus victory streak in place, but even his opponents for the next day were ready.
"Everyone, next, please welcome Lord Aier to the stage!"
Amidst the referee's impassioned voice, Aier's figure slowly flew into the sky above the arena.
"Lord Aier!"
"Lord Aier!"
Suddenly, the spectators surrounding the arena raised their hands high, chanting Aier's name.
At this moment, the number of spectators around Aier's arena exceeded three hundred thousand, packed as densely as a swarm of bees.
Aier raised his hands and pressed them slightly downward; immediately, the thunderous cheering ceased at his gesture.
Seeing this, Aier turned to look at the referee and nodded slightly, saying, "Your Excellency, please continue."
"Very well, Lord Aier."
The arena referee bowed slightly toward Aier.
In his heart, he seemed to have already regarded Aier as the future Prefect of Liang'an Prefecture.
This was not strange.
Although in the previous seventy battles, the strongest of Aier's opponents had only been High-Gods with the strength of a Six-Star Fiend.
But do not forget, in these battles, Aier had been fighting ten opponents at once!
Furthermore, in every single battle, Aier had fought beautifully, achieving victory with an overwhelming advantage.
Such a record was something even a Seven-Star Fiend would rarely be able to achieve.
It was not to say that a Seven-Star Fiend could not kill ten Six-Star Fiends.
A tenfold gap in strength allowed a Seven-Star Fiend to kill a powerhouse with the strength of a Six-Star Fiend within a few moves.
However, each additional Six-Star Fiend would cause the duration of the battle to increase.
If ten Six-Star Fiends fought a Seven-Star Fiend to the death, they could at least hold him off for the better part of a day before being killed.
And if they were determined to flee, at least seven of them would be able to escape the pursuit of a Seven-Star Fiend.
Judging by the strength Aier had displayed so far, he definitely possessed the strength of an Asura level.
An Asura, in the evaluations of the Fiend Castle, was a super powerhouse who stood above the Seven-Star Fiends and was on the same level of strength as the Prefects.
However, because there were only one hundred and eight Prefects in Hell, while the number of Asuras was perhaps several times that of the Prefects, it was generally understood that Prefects were typically stronger than Asuras.
After all, once an Asura successfully challenged a Prefect, they would become a Prefect themselves.
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