The man wanted to dodge, but it was already too late. The only thing he could do was to hold his wolf-tooth club horizontally in front of his chest, attempting to block Ivy’s sword. After a crisp sound, the sword aura pierced through the middle of the wolf-tooth club, and then went straight into the man’s chest, causing blood to spurt out.
“Amazing… so strong…” He looked down at the hole in his chest, struggling to say three words before falling to the ground, his legs twitching before going still.
The jaws of the people around the arena dropped, collectively petrified. Wasn’t this fighter supposed to be stronger than the previous one? The previous guy fought for dozens of rounds, but this one was instantly killed?
“Anyone else wants to challenge?” Ivy then looked around the arena, scanning the crowd. After a while, seeing no one else stepping up, she turned around and exchanged a few words with the referee before leaving the stage.
Just as Ivy stepped off the stage, a muffled sound came from Arena 9.
A man from Occidenta who was fighting against Felicia was sent flying off the stage, crashing heavily to the ground and twitching a few times before going still. Felicia’s performance today was impressive. With this victory, she had already defeated five opponents on this stage. Adding to that the ones who surrendered directly, in just half an hour, she had earned several tens of points for Glavale.
At the same time she knocked the Occidenta man off the stage, a woman in her thirties, wielding a sword, rushed onto the stage with a murderous aura surrounding her.
“How dare you kill my compatriots? I’ll take your life!” she shouted. Without even greeting the referee, the woman charged directly at Felicia. Her aura surged as she stepped onto the stage, almost reaching the Fourth-rank Sovereign realm. But the referee by the side seemed to have not noticed at all and made no attempt to stop her.
“How arrogant!” Felicia shouted, raising her sword to meet her.
In the next moment, the two engaged in a fierce battle, with the arena filled with sword shadows and sword aura raging. Felicia was half a grade lower than her opponent, so she felt some pressure before unleashing her trump card.
“I’m actually surprised that you can fight me for so long!” the woman said, coldly addressing Felicia after a dozen rounds.
“You have seen only a fraction of my surprises. Do you want to experience more?” Felicia responded.
“Humph!” the woman snorted. “Do you really think that as someone who just broke through to the third rank, you can compete with me? I was just playing with you earlier. Now I’ll show you what true power looks like!” After saying that, she threw her sword onto the stage with a loud clang. At the same time, a chilling aura enveloped her, and the temperature of the surrounding air dropped several degrees. Before long, a faint black mist emerged from her body, and her eyes became as terrifying as a fierce beast.
Sensing the change in her opponent, Felicia’s eyebrows furrowed slightly. She knew that her opponent must have activated some kind of forbidden technique. Without much thought, Felicia immediately unleashed the Ether Mountain Sword Art and swiftly thrust towards the woman.
However, to her surprise, her thunderous strike, just a few dozen centimeters away from the woman, felt like it was hitting an impenetrable wall, unable to advance even a bit.
“So strong?” Felicia was slightly stunned, her face changing.
“Die!” the woman’s voice rang out, unusually hoarse. As soon as the words fell, the woman’s wrist flipped, and a violent palm strike crashed into Felicia’s shoulder blade.
After spitting out a mouthful of blood, Felicia was sent flying backwards, soaring a hundred meters through the air before crashing onto the arena, flipping several times before finally coming to a stop. Her face turned pale, her aura in disarray, and her internal organs shifted as if in an instant, blood pouring out of her mouth.
After activating the forbidden technique, her opponent’s combat power was comparable to that of a late-stage Fourth-rank Sovereign, which was beyond Felicia’s ability.
“How about that? Do you understand now how formidable I am?” The woman strolled towards Felicia, a dense killing intent surrounding her.
“Felicia, surrender!” At that moment, Harleen’s voice reached the arena.
Although Felicia was unwilling, and she had her own secret techniques as well, she knew very well that in the current situation, even if she used her secret technique, the most likely outcome would be mutual destruction. It was unrealistic to think she could kill her opponent. So, after a brief moment of thought, she didn’t persist, and shouted towards the referee, “I surrender!”
However, the referee acted as if he hadn’t heard and turned his head to the side.
“It’s too late to surrender now, die!” At the same time, the woman had already made her move, raising her hand and sweeping a palm strike towards Felicia’s head.
“Felicia!” Harleen’s voice rang out once again. As she shouted, she leaped onto the arena, like a giant eagle spreading its wings, and at the same time, she raised her hand and unleashed several sword auras to intercept the woman’s palm strike.
“Hmm?!” The woman furrowed her brows, looking at Harleen with anger in her voice, “Who are you?”
“Felicia, you go down first!” Harleen ignored her, looking at her sister and speaking.
“Harleen, be careful, she activated a forbidden technique!” Felicia reminded.
“It’s alright, go!” Harleen nodded.
Felicia nodded again and walked off the arena.
“You’re outrageous!” At this moment, the referee turned to Harleen and angrily shouted, “Who allowed you to come up here? For disrupting the order of the competition, according to the rules, you will be severely punished!”
However, Harleen didn’t even give him a glance, instead turning her head to look at the woman.
“Make your move, let me see how much power your secret technique holds!”
“I’m talking to you, didn’t you hear me?” the referee continued to shout. “Get down immediately, otherwise, it will be considered a serious disruption of the competition!”
Harleen still ignored him, her wrist wielding a sword, rushing towards the woman, using the Ether Mountain Sword Technique as well. She had already reached the level of a mid-stage Fourth-rank Sovereign, and her strike was several levels stronger than Felicia’s earlier strike.
“Disregarding the rules of the competition, disturbing the order of the competition, according to the rules of the competition, the punishment is death!” the referee also made his move.
The referees invited by the competition committee this time were all in the mid-stage Sovereign realm. As soon as the referee made his move, a strong aura of pressure enveloped the space, shrouding the entire area. Immediately after, he leaped into the air, quickly charging towards Harleen. Judging from his posture, he didn’t intend to spare Harleen’s life.
“Shameless scum, do you really think we’re still the same Glavale as a hundred years ago?”
Just then, a voice as terrifying as the god of death entered their ears. Immediately after, a monstrous wave of energy surged towards them like a hurricane, with the might of thunder and lightning.