There was hardly any need to guess.
More than fifteen seconds had passed without any response from the contestant, so the tournament officials activated the life detection system.
Then, beneath the utterly stunned gazes of the audience...
The referee walked up to Ling Zhan and loudly announced into the nano-camera:
"Given that contestant Ulysses has completely lost all signs of life, I hereby announce..."
"The winner of the second elimination round is contestant Ling Zhan!"
"Let us congratulate him with applause!"
The moment those words fell.
Whoosh!!
The audience immediately erupted into earth-shaking uproar!
No one had expected this match to end with Ulysses suffering such a crushing defeat!
All the audience felt was incomparably shocked!
After all, this Jobless Freelancer's victory in the first match had been rather baffling.
Yet in this second match, right before the audience's eyes, he had claimed victory through all manner of contract spirit methods.
What left the audience even more astounded was...
This human was far too cunning!
Taking out that sniper rifle at the start had merely been a feint.
The final summoning of the staff contract spirit had been his true trump card!
And besides...
Everything he had summoned had been contract spirits!
This was simply too outrageous!
It was also incredibly hard to accept!
Were low-tier contract spirits really this absurdly powerful?!
"To be honest... I've never seen low-tier contract spirits like these."
"Did you notice? The low-tier contract spirits this guy summoned underwent tremendous changes in size, appearance, abilities, and attributes."
"I'm completely dumbfounded, anyway."
"Forget you. Even the god-tier powerhouses are probably dumbfounded."
The audience discussed animatedly.
Well...
Those god-tier powerhouses seated in the VIP section truly did find this human's methods unfamiliar and utterly bewildering at this moment!
Even now, they were still wondering what this human's