One second before, countless people were still marveling that Zhang Yue, setting aside past grudges, would risk himself to save the two great hostile nation champions Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun.
One second later, Zhang Yue's move left everyone utterly dumbfounded.
It turned out that rescuing Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun was a lie. Seeing through the Flowing Gold Warrior's plot was the real reason.
The Flowing Gold Warrior shifting his target to Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun was obviously because he didn't have enough force to confront Zhang Yue, so he planned, before this moment, to kill Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun and devour the power of the Ghost Sword wielder and the Ice Mage King, two myth-level professionals.
If he could devour those bodies, absorb the two human supreme champions and transform them into his own power, he might then have a chance to fight Zhang Yue.
Unfortunately for him, his plot had already been seen through by Zhang Yue.
Of course, Zhang Yue admitted: he wasn't exactly a good person.
Even with the great enemy before him, he hadn't forgotten how Elfa, Kwon Ji-Hyun, and the people of the Eight Great Empires had treated him and targeted the Dragon Nation back then.
Preventing the Flowing Gold Warrior from devouring them did not stop Zhang Yue from personally finishing them off.
In the Ultimate Arena, participating professionals who die have three chances to revive.
Before this, Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun, who hadn't used even one revival chance yet, after being killed by Zhang Yue, were not immediately eliminated.
Instead, after waiting ten seconds, they would revive on the spot.
Their plan was exposed, and their action was foiled.
The Flowing Gold Warrior flew into a rage.
"What in humanity is worth you protecting?"
Facing the Flowing Gold Warrior's question, Zhang Yue shouldered his staff and said, "Very simple."
"Because I'm a human too."
When faced with an enemy you can't defeat, choosing to win them over is always the best tactic.
The Flowing Gold Warrior threw out a temptation to Zhang Yue, "With your strength, why not join forces with me, form a powerful alliance, and we will jointly rule the world. Once we seize this world, I'll give you half the territory."
"You will become the strongest of the human race and the highest leader."
"Not only will all humans obey you, but in my demon realm, anyone who stands against you I will kill for you!"
"Stand in the way of gods, kill gods; stand in the way of Buddhas, kill Buddhas!"
"If the Eight Great Empires block you, I'll sweep them away for you!"
The Flowing Gold Warrior's bait tempted countless people.
Undeniably, facing such an offer, at least nine out of ten people would be unable to refuse.
So at this moment, countless people were extremely worried about what decision Zhang Yue would make.
Because right now, Zhang Yue was humanity's greatest hope.
If Zhang Yue defected and joined the rulers of the Otherworld, under the demon race's banner, that would directly announce humanity's extinction.
Of course, the most fearful at this time were the people of the Eight Great Empires.
From the terms the Flowing Gold Warrior offered, it could be seen that the Otherworld's structure would largely remain; even if Zhang Yue defected, humans could still coexist with demons, only Zhang Yue would act as humanity's leader.
But because the Eight Great Empires had offended Zhang Yue before, he would surely be the first to destroy them.
Thus, the peoples of the Beacon Nation, Cold Nation, Eastern Nation, Oil Empire, Skariff Empire, Sun Nation, Batan, Okaman Empire, all eight great empires, were steeped in fear.
Fortunately, Zhang Yue did not defect to the demon race.
Facing the Flowing Gold Warrior's temptation, he showed absolutely no emotion, "Even without cooperating with you, I can obtain everything you mentioned."
"You might want to come up with some conditions that tempt me more; perhaps then I'll consider it?"
The Flowing Gold Warrior froze for a moment.
He obviously hadn't expected Zhang Yue to refuse so unorthodoxly.
"You can't kill the two myth-level supreme champions of the Eight Great Empires without my help."
No sooner had the Flowing Gold Warrior finished speaking—
BOOM! BOOM!
Without even turning his head, Zhang Yue swung a [Thunderfire Wilds] + [Oblivion · Lightning's Might] at the resurrected Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun, who had just revived after the ten-second delay, sending them flying into the sky again.
Swish!
The newly revived Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun didn't even get a chance to catch their breath before they turned into white light again.
Zhang Yue looked at the Flowing Gold Warrior, "Sorry, what did you say just now? I didn't hear clearly, mind repeating that?"
The Flowing Gold Warrior fell into silence: —_—#
Soon after, Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun's third revival occurred.
Zhang Yue, without mercy, cast his spell and sent them spiraling upward.
After three consecutive kills, not a single one of the numerous participants around, including people from the Eight Great Empires, dared to stop Zhang Yue.
After all, someone who could single-handedly challenge the Three Main Gods was someone even "ghosts" would revere.
If they dared to act, they would face the same fate as Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun: spiraling into the sky on the spot.
After the third death, the two did not turn into white light again but instead dissolved into points of light and vanished from the spot.
At the same time, a system notification descended from the heavens —
[[Announcement]: "Ding~ Regrettably, Beacon Nation participant Ghost Swordsman · Elfa, currently ranked #1, has been eliminated!"]
[[Announcement]: "Ding~ Regrettably, Cold Nation participant Ice Mage King · Kwon Ji-Hyun, currently ranked #3, has been eliminated!"]
With those two eyesores removed, Zhang Yue turned his gaze back to the Flowing Gold Warrior, "Next, it's your turn."
No sooner had he finished speaking, another system notification thundered down —
[[Announcement]: "Ding~ Congratulations to Dragon Nation participant Shadow Dancer · Cappuccino for killing the Hell Arena ultimate boss Hell Familiar · Golia!"]
"What?"
When this announcement appeared, it shocked everyone inside and outside the arena.
Within the arena, all the participants wore expressions of astonishment.
["The Hell Familiar was killed? How did they do it? Didn't it revive five times before? Why was it killed this time?"]
["Could it be that the Hell Familiar only had five revivals exactly? It can't be that coincidental…"]
["The Hell Familiar's immortality was actually broken!"]
Everyone was stunned.
In fact, it was Chen Zijin who helped deliver the killing blow to the Hell Familiar by relying on the power of an item.
Using her superb operation and strong power, together with other major nation participants, after slaying the Hell Familiar Golia, the Hell Familiar's corpse did not, as before, collapse and then revive seconds later.
Instead, it simply fell and did not get back up.
At that moment, a silver-white streak of light drifted from the Hell Familiar and fell into Chen Zijin's body.
Chen Zijin seemed to realize something.
She opened her storage space and took out the gold-quality [Arena Token] she carried.
The moment she took out the token, it suddenly turned into specks of starlight and drifted upward…
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