Reactions and the Orator

This guy seemed to have changed somehow!

Looking at the already battered swordsman blocking the gate, the very few people sharp enough to sense that tiny "difference" suddenly came to this realization.

It wasn't that kind of threatening feeling, but something elusive—something that nevertheless made people search for it desperately!

A sign of an almost qualitative transformation!

Amid the crowd, some people leaned together and whispered, while invisible mental fluctuations began exchanging information more frequently.

"We can't keep fighting. This man may really have touched that threshold."

"There's something wrong with his enhancement system—I suspect he's deliberately seeking to force a breakthrough between life and death, exchanging for that kind of thing. You know, like that ridiculously expensive manga bloodline from the island nation, the cosmic battle race known as Saiyans? The kind where near-death experiences awaken one's potential!"

"It's not easy to find suitable opponents at the same third tier. This guy probably took the opportunity to forcibly train his abilities by blocking the way here alone. That's why the people behind him haven't intervened—"

Others might not have noticed, but these few third-tier experts—especially those who already possessed a complete enhancement system yet remained firmly stuck before the threshold leading to the Fourth Tier—were often the most sensitive to this!

Breaking through from the third tier to the Fourth Tier was fundamentally different from the process before it! It was essentially like a seed sprouting or a butterfly emerging from its cocoon!

Seeing a person before them who seemed to have already shown signs of "ascension," they almost immediately sensed that something was wrong!

They couldn't push him any further. If they kept applying pressure, this guy might actually hone himself into a breakthrough!

The deeper one's accumulation and the closer one was to that threshold, the more