After the first elimination match ended, the battles that followed continued in full, fiery swing.
Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy versus Ultron Academy.
Star Luo Imperial Soul Master Academy versus Heavenly Star Academy.
Heaven Soul Academy versus Earth Dragon Academy.
After that first, utterly brilliant clash, the later matches did little to stir anyone's interest. The spectators watched with heavy eyelids.
Of course, aside from watching geniuses, the only other reason to attend the tournament was to see beautiful female Soul Masters.
The Undead Holy Magic Cult's upcoming match immediately drew everyone's attention.
For one thing, its captain and vice-captain were both beauties who could topple cities and kingdoms, making them particularly eye-catching. For another, as the Star Luo Empire's newly established State Religion, the Undead Holy Magic Cult already had far too many legendary exploits to its name.
The key to the Undead Holy Magic Cult's official recognition as an evil cult was that it had suffered countless casualties during the Beast Tide, selflessly saving a million civilians from its ravages.
That had won it an enormous base of popular support. Furthermore, the Undead Holy Magic Cult genuinely possessed the means to restrain its Evil Soul Masters from committing evil.
Of course, the most crucial-and most ironic-point was that Evil Soul Masters wearing Heart-Questioning Jade had actually become the continent's model for punishing villains and rooting out evil.
With the Undead Holy Magic Cult enforcing the law, cases of Evil Soul Masters murdering people and slaughtering villages in the Star Luo Empire had dwindled to almost zero. That alone had lifted the cult onto a divine pedestal.
Of course, the leader of the Undead Holy Magic Cult was a supreme being who could hold the entire continent beneath their might. That was the true foundation of the cult's