"Should we join now? They are clearly going to beat the Ravencrest stupid," Sophia said as she calmly watched the battle, her gaze steady despite the flashes of steel and bursts of energy."I suggest we don’t. They already have two Level Sevens. Who knows if they have more? Instead, let’s just separate the fight and let them tag along. Someone clearly gave them the map, so they could have found this place themselves anyway," Diana suggested."You are right," Mobius agreed. "But I’m still curious to know, who are they? I have never seen them before, and I suppose they are not from our region, or even from the Divine Beast Continent.""Let’s forget that question for now and separate the fight before it escalates further," Diana urged.Without hesitation, they rushed forward and inserted themselves between the Ravencrest family and the opposing group, their sudden presence forcing both sides to pull back mid-strike. The clash broke apart naturally, the momentum of the battle cut short."

Daguni’s side had been torn open. Blood soaked his clothes, and his breathing came in ragged, uneven gasps. He looked completely broken.“You brought this upon yourself,” Samuel said coldly. “You and your sister.”“Shut... up...” Daguni coughed, blood spilling from between his lips.“If you were in our place, you’d do the same. It’s the law of the jungle. Don’t pretend you’re some saint.”Samuel paused, then slowly shook his head.“I’m no saint. I don’t pretend to be. But if it were me, I’d honor the agreement and divide things fairly. Unlike you, I may not be a saint, but I still have morals.”He raised his sword.“Now go and join your sister.”With a single clean motion, he swung.The blade flashed through the air.Daguni’s head separated from his body and flew several feet before crashing onto the ground. His corpse collapsed a heartbeat later with a heavy thud.Silence fell.Samuel exhaled slowly and walked over to a rock, lowering himself onto it as the last of the tension draine

Amelia woke with a groggy headache, blinking as she took in her surroundings.For a moment, she wondered if she was imagining things because something about what she was seeing felt horribly wrong.She rubbed her eyes and looked again. This time, she knew she was not imagining it.As she looked around, she saw her teammates along with those from the Divine Beast Continent. There was one thing they all had in common. Their legs were bound by strange-looking chains attached to the ceiling, leaving them hanging upside down with their heads toward the ground."Where are we?"The others had started waking up as well, and one by one, they realized the situation they were in.But no one came to answer their cries. Worse, they quickly realized they could not use their powers either, probably because of the chains wrapped around their legs.The chains seemed to possess some sort of restraining power."Does anybody have any idea what we're going to do?" Mobius cried after all their attempts fai

Her unbelievably long blonde hair lashed through the air on its own and slammed into Bruce hard enough to snap his head to the side."Ah! Damn it, you two-faced ugly bitch! Just remove me from this chain, and I'll teach you a good lesson!" Bruce shouted at the top of his lungs, utterly fearless."Calm down, big guy. Please don't do this now," Amber pleaded, panic flickering across her face.But Bruce no longer cared. Rage burned through him."You. I will use you as an example," Rapunzel said. Her entire body trembled violently, and her face twisted with fury. The ugly half looked even more horrifying now, every feature warped by rage, while the beautiful half, when seen from the side, still carried a strange, unsettling charm.But if anyone looked at her head-on, terror was all they would feel."Cover your face, ugly. You'll scare the children," he continued with a sneer.To Bruce, there was no reason to hold back. They were going to die anyway. If he had not been bound by those stran

Krato stood obediently beside Samuel. Samuel had already used the master-and-servant bind on him under the pretense of a spiritual imprint.Through it, Sheena could faintly sense a fragment of Samuel's consciousness within Krato. The sensation immediately reminded her of the group Samuel had encountered earlier."I don't know what you did to this Crow to place part of your consciousness inside it, but I met a group on my way here, and one of them also had part of your consciousness." She frowned slightly.Samuel turned sharply."Did you say you saw someone with part of my consciousness? Was it a man or a woman?" he asked, worry flashing across his face."A man," she replied."If you don't mind, can you describe the group?" he asked.Sheena thought back carefully and described everything she remembered. After listening patiently, Samuel immediately concluded that they were his fellow participants from the Open Meet Tournament."I know them. We all participated in the Open Meet Tourname