Though they looked aged and frail, the power Wolong, Hidden Dragon, and Xuan Lan displayed was nothing short of divine.
Even Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun were shaken.
"Who would've thought these three old men from Dragon Country actually possessed such strength!"
As Kwon Ji-Hyun's words fell, Elfa said, "With them holding back the Three Main Gods, perfect, we can take this chance to bring down the Hell Familiar."
In the end, only by killing the Hell Familiar could they clear the Hell Gladiator Arena.
And only then could they obtain the reward of the Mythical-class profession scroll.
Elfa had never once forgotten this goal.
So, while Wolong and the others were locked in battle with the Three Main Gods, Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun led their men straight for the Hell Familiar at the rear.
After the earlier battle, the Hell Familiar, Golia, had only 30% HP left.
Seeing humans closing in, the Hell Familiar spread its wings and soared into the sky.
Using its aerial advantage, it continuously hurled magma grenades at Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun below.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Countless grenades crashed down, massive explosions erupting, waves of searing shock spreading in every direction.
But when the shockwaves swept forward, they were pierced by the Frost Mage King's icy aura, frozen solid and then shattered.
WHOOSH!
With a blink, Elfa entered attack range.
CRASH!
Kwon Ji-Hyun raised his staff and cast, unleashing the power of the Mythical-class Frost Mage King. In an instant, the air around froze.
At the same time, the Hell Familiar was heavily slowed.
Seeing Elfa charging from behind, Kwon Ji-Hyun switched to support, casting from the ground upward, condensing an icy stairway.
The next moment, Elfa surged forward, stepping upward on the ice ladder, climbing into the sky step by step.
WHOOSH!
He sidestepped the Hell Familiar's attack.
A second later, his whole body leapt high into the air.
"Die!"
Slash!
Channeling the Ghostsword's power, he swung a mighty cleave down upon the slowed Hell Familiar.
The force of the strike hacked the Hell Familiar from the air, slamming it into the ground.
Elfa descended with it, his longsword piercing through the Hell Familiar's body, bursting forth with sword aura that blasted away all the surrounding Hell Servants the demon had summoned.
Crash!
The Frost Mage King once again unleashed his icy might, freezing the entire field.
From all directions, every Hell Servant attempting to rush in was sealed in ice.
Even the Hell Familiar's movements were heavily hindered by Kwon Ji-Hyun.
Against the Frost Mage King, a Mythical-class who combined damage and control, even as a king-class BOSS, the Hell Familiar found it troublesome.
Especially after the earlier war had drained much of its strength—
At this point, it no longer had the energy to handle Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun, these two Mythical-class professionals.
The two titans combined forces, and at last the Hell Familiar was left grievously wounded.
SLASH!
With Elfa's sword striking down, he claimed the final blow.
As the last sliver of the Hell Familiar's HP bar was erased, and its body fell kneeling to the ground, the whole world erupted in celebration.
["The Hell Familiar is finally dead! Lord Elfa has finally slain the Hell Familiar!"]
["As the ultimate boss of the Hell Gladiator Arena, doesn't this mean once it's dead, the dungeon is cleared?"]
["Yes! The Hell Gladiator Arena has been cleared, now the rewards can be calculated by ranking! The fourth Mythical-class profession in the world, it belongs to our Beacon Country!"]
["The best part is, once the Hell Gladiator Arena is cleared, all the professionals trapped in the final stage can be freed! Outside the arena, Lord Elfa can easily crush the Three Main Gods!"]
["Yoshi! The era belonging to our Eight Great Nations is finally here!"]
But those from Dragon Country's allied nations were far from convinced.
["What's the point of that championship? If not for Dragon Country's three powerhouses restraining the Three Main Gods, could Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun have killed the Hell Familiar?"]
["Exactly. At a time when humanity's survival is on the line, Dragon Country stands to defend the world's peace, while you in Beacon and Cold Country only think of your own profit!"]
["You just used Dragon Country as a stepping stone, picking up the scraps. What's there to brag about?"]
———
On the field, Elfa thrust his sword into the ground, and facing the nations voicing dissent in the livestream, said coldly, "The process doesn't matter, only the result."
"Whoever clears the Hell Gladiator Arena, that person is the hero."
"And I, Elfa, will be the one to clear the Hell Gladiator Arena, and personally slay the Three Main Gods!"
"You should call me the Savior!"
Already, Elfa was imagining it: once the system distributed the rewards, he would exit the Hell Gladiator Arena, restored to his full power as a level 500 Tier 9 professional.
Then, before the eyes of the world, he would annihilate the Three Main Gods, a hero's scene to be remembered forever.
However, just as Elfa was lost in this fantasy, he suddenly realized something.
When the Hell Familiar had been slain, there was no system notification.
"Why isn't there a system reward notice?", Kwon Ji-Hyun too noticed the issue.
So did the other competitors.
After hearing the final boss was dead, none of them received any prompt about clearing the Hell Gladiator Arena or reward settlement.
As doubt spread on the battlefield—
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Suddenly, endless streams of dark red light seeped out from beneath the ground, converging into the Hell Familiar's corpse.
Moments later, Right before Elfa's eyes, the clearly slain Hell Familiar, Golia, its corpse suddenly stood up again.
The emptied health bar instantly restored to full 100%.
"What?"
Elfa's eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief.
"It actually… revived!"
"How can this be?"
Inside and outside the field, countless people were stunned.
And at that instant, they understood.
The reason the system hadn't distributed rewards was because, the final boss wasn't truly dead.
"Could it be a resurrection skill?", Kwon Ji-Hyun steadied himself, analyzing, "But according to the results shown by the Detection Spell, its skill bar doesn't have any resurrection ability. Just how did it revive?"
Beside him, Elfa gripped his Ghostsword tightly, his gaze burning with murderous intent.
"Then we'll just kill it again!", With that, Elfa raised his Ghostsword and once more charged at the revived Hell Familiar, Golia.
The Frost Mage King, Kwon Ji-Hyun, followed right behind, joining Elfa in the renewed assault.
———
Meanwhile, elsewhere—
Wolong, Hidden Dragon, and Xuan Lan were locked in a fierce battle with their master: "Asura".
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