Are You a Demon?

First update

The clamor of the arena seemed to fade away like an old, faded photograph. The hard-floored ring turned into boundless desolate black earth. Night shrouded the endless void, a ghostly blood moon hung high overhead, and a cold wind that sounded like the wails of ghosts and gods rushed toward them. It howled eerily, sending goosebumps crawling all over their skin.

"Where is this?"

"How did we get here?"

"Damn it, why am I tied up?"

"..."

The members of Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team panicked, staring in horror at the unfamiliar scene before them.

They had already discovered that they were tightly bound to wooden crosses, like Jesus nailed to a crucifix, awaiting the arrival of their final fate.

Of course, as contestants, none of them were incompetent fools.

The five burly members were the team's assault-type Spirit Masters. They immediately used Martial Soul Possession. Their Martial Souls were a lion, bear, tiger, leopard, and wolf. Once their Martial Souls possessed them, their muscles swelled, transforming them into beastmen and giving off a savage aura.

They even immediately activated their Millennium Soul Rings. As their strength, speed, and physique multiplied, beastly roars rumbled from deep within their throats, making everyone's legs tremble as they tried to break free of the crosses' Binding.

If these had been ordinary wooden crosses made from common building materials, they naturally would not have been able to restrain them.

But do not forget—this was the Tsukuyomi Space Yang Ming had created with his own hands. Yang Ming was the sole ruler here, and even every rule of this place had been set by him.

For that very reason, the five assault-type team members soon discovered in horror that no matter how desperately they struggled, the ropes binding them did not merely