Where some missed their mark by accident, others naturally landed a hit without meaning to.
When the Sixth and Eighth Highnesses faced off, neither actually had any interest in fighting.
They both thought: What was the point? Neither of us can beat Eldest Brother anyway.
But they could hardly explain themselves to their royal father if they refused to fight, so they went through the motions.
Who knew the Sixth Highness would slip up? A Bead meant to skim past the Eighth Highness's armpit struck him square in the chest instead.
It punched straight through him on the spot... leaving a great hole in his chest.
The Eighth Highness died instantly. The Dragon King flew into a rage, and the spell duels were suspended again.
Many of the Dragon Princes who had hoped to contend for the Dragon King's throne now began thinking of backing out.
It was not that they no longer wanted the throne. Rather, they were gradually noticing how strange and wrong this whole affair was.
Their royal father... had only announced a suspension, not an outright end!
The spell duels had originally been announced to keep the Dragon Princes from killing one another. Now a Dragon Prince had died in a match, yet he still had not declared them over.
Among those remaining, no one could possibly defeat their eldest brother, Ao Lie.
Even if Ao Han and Ao Ming returned, the two of them would probably be hard-pressed to match Ao Lie.
No one knew just what spell the Eldest Highness had learned from the Sea Eye Spell Canon, but he could replenish his own depleted dragon qi by drawing it out of his opponent...
His cultivation had already been the highest. With such an unfair supernatural ability on top of that, who could possibly