The music played by "Musical Note" gradually grew more impassioned.
Yet the audience, utterly absorbed in the thrilling duel, did not have their attention drawn away.
Background music was background music precisely because it existed to enhance the main content rather than steal the spotlight.
Driven by the music, the audience's emotions continued to rise, allowing them to immerse themselves even more deeply in the excitement of the duel.
At this point, the tactical systems of the Rhinoceros Orc and the Prairie Elf had begun to diverge.
The "Totem Beasts" continuously summoned by the Rhinoceros Orc granted him greater strength and more versatility. The Fusion of the Third Tier "Totem Beast" with his own totem had transformed him completely into an incomparably berserk beast.
The Prairie Elf, meanwhile, could no longer keep up in terms of her own combat power. She adjusted her tactics, returning fully to magic itself and making Magic Spirits the core of her strategy, continuously strengthening her core Magic Spirits through a support system as she battled the Rhinoceros Orc.
Humans... including Demi-Humans such as Orcs and Elves, all possessed inherent limits to their personal strength. Transcendent magic capable of breaking those limits and maximizing an individual's power required lengthy chants and enormous amounts of magical energy.
If racial limits could be broken so easily, the war between humans and the Demon Race would not have taken so long to reach its end.
The Demon Race was the race that pushed its own strength to the utmost extreme.
Thus, once the intensity of a duel rose beyond a certain level, tactical systems centered on one's own combat ability would approach their limits. Just like the Prairie Elf, they would ultimately return to magic itself.
Orc totems likewise had limits and could not endlessly Fuse the power