Of the thirty-two Fallen, only four remained.
The four were Dark and another Fallen named McGinnis from the Winners Bracket, and Diyuer and Jax from the Losers Bracket.
The ritual had finally reached its critical stage.
This ritual was clearly a microcosm of the World Cup format, reenacting the legend of the three becoming one.
The so-called union of the three meant that the Hero, the Sage, and the Emperor merged into one and were resurrected as "Saint."
Thus, the format of the "three-in-one" was especially crucial. Among them, the Emperor stood at the highest point and had to be the first place of the Winners Bracket. The Hero feared no defeat and only grew braver with every battle, climbing all the way up from the Losers Bracket. He did not necessarily have to fall into the Losers Bracket from the very beginning, but he definitely could not be the last to fall from the Winners Bracket.
Therefore, the one who fell from the Winners Bracket last was the "Sage."
The battle between Dark and McGinnis was the battle between the "Emperor" and the "Sage."
The Winners Bracket went from two to one.
And so it began!
McGinnis was a professor.
But he was merely a professor at a city Magic Guidance Academy.
He had studied under an aged magus and had once dreamed of becoming a great magus himself.
But in the end, limited by his own talent and lacking both resources and luck, he could only become an ordinary professor at a city Magic Guidance Academy to make a living.
Yet the emergence of the Magic Guidance Alliance and the holding of the World Cup stirred his heart, bringing him to Duel City, where he encountered the "God Lord."
And then he stood here.
Dark stepped onto the