After a brief, deathly silence, Heavenly Will's voice once again resounded across the Epoch Battlefield.
"Round fourteen of the melee, begin!"
The instant those words fell, the body of the Ghost Realm's first-epoch Ghost King shuddered violently.
He had not wanted to come.
He truly had not wanted to come.
After Ghost Princess fell, the Ghost Realm no longer had anyone capable of contending with the hooded man. Every powerhouse from the Ghost Realm knew that full well.
But Heavenly Will's rules were there for all to see. Someone had to enter the fourteenth round, even if only to go through the motions.
And so he had come.
As a disposable pawn.
A disposable pawn destined to be crushed!
The hooded man did not even spare him a proper glance.
He merely stood at the center of the battlefield, and the mere aftershocks of his aura had already forced that Ghost King's knees to buckle.
Crack!
With a crisp sound of splintering bone, the Ghost King's kneecaps shattered.
This time, he did not have the good fortune of the Demon Realm's first-epoch Demon Beast King in the previous round, who had Xiao Yan protecting him.
Three powers stood in a three-legged balance, none daring to move first. That was an equilibrium!
And so his fate was bound to be tragic.
That cannon fodder from the Ghost Realm... who would care about an ant's mournful cries?
Boom!
A strand of the hooded man's aura descended.
It was only his aura. He had not used even a trace of power.
The first-epoch Ghost King's body exploded without a sound.
There was no agonized scream. He simply had no time to scream.
His body dissolved straight into nothingness, leaving not even a wisp of his soul behind. He was utterly annihilated within the