I've already become a god, and only now you're telling me there are monsters in this world?

In a secluded section of the stands.

Chen Yun, who had lost to Gu Qing in yesterday's first round and had a [Clone Messenger] tag above his head, stared fixedly at Gu Qing in the arena.

First he was shocked, then he found it unbelievable, and finally his whole face took on a look of questioning his life, while lingering fear swept through him.

So Gu Qing was this terrifyingly powerful, yet yesterday he had recklessly tried to cripple him.

Thinking back now, the fact that Gu Qing hadn't beaten him half-paralyzed yesterday really was an act of kindness.

"Are you kidding me?"

"He put Zhang Zhibei down in just one hit?"

"This Gu Qing was hiding that much strength?"

In the emergency treatment area beside the arena.

Gao Jianying, who had been humiliated under Li Zhan's foot just ten minutes earlier and had an [Elementalist] tag above her head, was sitting in front of [Daddy] Guan Qi with her face swollen and red as a pig's head, receiving facial treatment.

Seeing Gu Qing send Zhang Zhibei flying with a single elbow strike, leaving him sprawled on the ground and unable to get up, her eyes suddenly widened beyond the size of billiard balls, and towering waves surged through her heart.

Before this, she had always believed that if Li Zhan hadn't returned from the Origin Land to participate in this deputy captain selection, she would definitely have become a deputy captain.

But now, it seemed she had simply been dreaming.

Even without Li Zhan, there was Gu Qing. The deputy captain position would never fall to her.

Unless she got outrageously lucky and Gu Qing faced Zhang Zhibei early on one side of the bracket, letting her happily beat up weaklings on the other side and coast into