A dozen or so minutes later.
His Highness the Prince raced back to the palace in his car.
As soon as his arrival was announced, the king nodded and granted him an audience in the arena's rest room.
"Greetings, Father."
Norton knelt on one knee in salute.
"Rise, my son. Everyone else, leave." Shen Ye waved a hand.
Everyone withdrew.
Norton abruptly raised his head and studied the king with wide eyes.
Without even looking up, Shen Ye opened the Blood-Origin Spell Seal Bottle. A wisp of aura emerged, circled faintly around his body, and settled in place.
An aura belonging solely to Nine Forms radiated from him.
-It worked a little like perfume.
But in all seriousness, that aura was vast and ferocious, yet imperceptible to ordinary people. Only experts above a certain level could sense it.
At that moment, he was like Nine Forms disguised as the human king.
"Peppa?"
Norton ventured.
"Did you bring Battle Armor?" Shen Ye asked as he sprayed "perfume" under his arms.
"It really is you!" Norton sprang to his feet.
"It's a long story. Listen carefully. There's a man-eating monster of unimaginable strength..."
Shen Ye explained the whole story.
Norton sighed. "My father is gone, isn't he?"
"I'm sorry, but honestly, everyone that thing ate was transformed into his class," Shen Ye said.
"How can I kill that thing and avenge my father?" Norton asked through gritted teeth.
"Help me," Shen Ye said.
"You-your strength-"
Before he could finish, Shen Ye directly released the fifth-stage power node of his emperor species.
In an instant.
Black cracks flashed through the void where Shen Ye stood. Long fissures split the ground inch by inch, and a hurricane of surging power blew away everything around him.
Then Shen Ye withdrew his power.
Everything that had