Divine Emperor of Death

The crowd saw the changes made to the battle stage as the spatial formation took over. However, their eyes narrowed as they saw that it was different from the last time, still being able to see the genius and remarkable young cultivators stand upon the battle stage.

Moreover, there were walls of distorted space appearing in mid-air, seemingly creating blocks of individual rooms. They could all see that each individual room possessed four doors, two on the vertical side, upper and lower, and two on the horizontal side, forward and backward.

There came to be a total of thirty rooms, five rooms aligned side-by-side in each of the six columns.

"Some time ago, the general rules were stated," Honorable Elder Julian Kruse's solemn voice sounded, "But I'll restate them again just so the seventeen of you do not make a mistake after coming this far. In this final round, you cannot team up nor stay your hand from attacking, and if you do so, there may be penalties issued by us arbitrators that may weaken you or even eliminate you."

"Now, let's get to the specifics. You'll all be transported to a random room of the thirty when my explanation ends. Within a minute, you may have to make a decision to enter the next room by choosing and opening one of the four doors in the room."

"If you meet an opponent in one of these rooms, you're going to have to eliminate them within a certain time limit. If you cannot defeat the opponent within an hour in that room, both of you will be eliminated unless it is the last battle ongoing within these spatial rooms. However, while you encounter an opponent, one of the four doors will always be ready to be opened, which you can use to escape."

The finalists listened attentively, and even the lucky ones who got in as they merely had Supreme Domains wondered in what way they could take advantage of the rules. They glanced at the spatial rooms with interest when a melodious voice suddenly echoed.

"Question."

Everyone saw that it was Clara Alstreim.

"What would happen if I step out of the edge door from all the rooms that are in the edges? Wouldn't I step out of the spatial formation this way?"

"Indeed." Honorable Elder Mihangel Evans satisfactorily nodded at Clara, "You won't die, but you'll be eliminated."

*Woah~~~*

The crowd couldn't help but gasp. Wouldn't this mean that the people who were summoned into the room in the edges have to choose the correct door or seek death from the competition as they would essentially eliminate themselves?

The finalists on the battle stage's expression scrunched up, hoping that they didn't end up in rooms situated in the edges. Chances are that they would not be able to see past their own rooms, which would make it hard to predict where they had exactly landed.

This meant that if they traveled in a single direction two times the very least, the chances that they could eliminate themselves by stepping out of the spatial formation were very high. However, this was considering that they do not meet with an overwhelming opponent like Clara, which they felt was equally stepping into the door of elimination.

Subsequently, most of them started wishing Clara could eliminate herself like this so they wouldn't have to face her while they would have more chances to become victorious in the end!

"There are some hidden rules like this that may never come to light. Now off you go."

Honorable Elder Julian Kruse used the formation core underneath his sleeves and the seventeen youths all simultaneously disappeared, appearing in the thirty rooms of the spatial formation.

Davis instantly caught sight of Clara in the fourth row, fifth column room before he located the others while on the other hand, Clara looked around and saw nothing but opaque purple-colored walls surrounding her with four doors to her front, back, above, and below in their centers.

It was like she was trapped in a cube as she could not see what was behind those walls and doors. However, all four doors possessed green lights, which indicated that they could be opened anytime.

"The battle room is so spacious. The block of room, when viewed from outside, was no more than five kilometers extending to each side, but inside here, it appears to be thirty kilometers."

Clara mused as she spoke loudly and flew towards a door, knowing that she would have to open one within a minute and enter as she could not stay.

What she spoke was certainly audible to everyone in the New Era Battle Arena. It was as though she spoke to someone else, and Davis could tell that she was speaking to none other than them to let them know the situation inside.

After all, Clara wasn't a woman who would wonder out loud when she was alone.

"If what Clara is saying is true, then this spatial formation has many spatial concepts embedded in it. What seems like one step to us requires many steps for her. Whoever made this formation is certainly a remarkable master in Formations and Spatial Laws."

Davis commented.

"If that's the case, then wouldn't Clara's steps appear awkward as she moves?"

By the size, Mo Mingzhi couldn't help but ask to which Davis answered.

"No."

"Why?" Fiora also piped in, causing Davis to contemplate before he answered.

"That's because of spatial distortion. Her one step doesn't even register in our eyes properly because the layer of wall covering the room shrinks the expansion in terms of the outside view, but the space inside is still elongated because of the concept of spatial expansion. So when she takes one step in our view, she might've taken multiple steps inside."

Mo Mingzhi and Fiora appeared utterly confused before, but with Davis's words, they could see what was going on inside the spatial formation as they began to understand a bit. Clara's words had also sparked a debate in the crowd, but Mo Mingzhi continued.

"I see… however, the people here are only going to fly and not going to walk on the purple walls other than if they have to rush, but I presume this spatial formation also belongs to the Vast Sky Palace?"

"Indeed. I am keeping an eye on him."

Davis uttered without looking at the Vast Sky Emperor while Mo Mingzhi couldn't help add.

"He didn't make any move in the first round. Besides, the formation core is in the two arbitrators' hands. So, I don't think-"

"Just in case. If I focus enough, I can concentrate on the millions of conversations from the crowd gathered here, much less monitoring a single being without alerting it."

Mo Mingzhi's mouth went agape as she heard him.

"Wah, tell me you're bragging..."

"Unfortunately, I'm a supercomputer with creativity, but unlike a supercomputer that mostly wouldn't make a mistake, I would many times with my creativity, interpretation, and understanding skills."

Mo Mingzhi appeared to look at Davis with an admiring gaze, wanting to reach the same state he was at, the Emperor Soul Stage with the prowess of few levels higher.

"What's a supercomputer?" However, Fiora suddenly asked, looking confused.

"That is…"

Mo Mingzhi began giving Fiora a long explanation with technical and scientific terms that made the latter close the former's mouth as she couldn't understand anything but felt more like that there was a callus growing on her ears.

While they were having fun like two innocent women, Davis couldn't help but place his hand on his lips, wanting to suppress the surging feeling of tremor as he saw Clara approaching the door to her back. She didn't move forward but went backward, which people usually wouldn't dare to do when they have no insight of what exactly is on the other side.

The one-minute time limit to choose the first door was nearing for everybody. Even though they stayed before the door, they didn't dare to open using the energy, but before the time could be up, Clara reached out with her hand, using her formless might to push open the door.

*Bzzz!~*

The door electrifyingly shook open and what appeared in Clara's gaze was a white-robed youth with a Supreme Domain who stood just before the door, not so far, not so near.

"Ah… fuck…"

The two words leaked out of his mouth as his expression appeared blank in shock.

Out of all the rooms he could pick, he just had to pick one with Clara Alstreim in it, didn't he? People couldn't begin to fathom the level of his luck at this moment because in the opposite direction to him turned out to be a way to the outside!

He avoided that kind of humiliating elimination but encountered Clara Alstreim instead!

"Pfft! Ahahaha!"

The crowd burst out laughing crazily as they held their stomachs, except for the power that young man belonged to looked stumped and helpless.