962 Chapter 962 — Sches
A woman with whitish—grey hair stepped out of the portal. She wore the typical purple robes of the Lightning Manor, and her deanor seed quite similar to the Starlight Queen.
She seed to be filled with pride but didn't seem too distant.
However, the Emperors could feel through her deception.
The woman was shocked, infuriated, and scared.
She knew how powerful her opponents would be, and she knew that she wasn't ready to participate in the tournant yet. Even more, due to Shang participating, she also knew that this would be a death tournant!
If the Emperors were in agreent, they could agree to let everyone fight to the death.
Usually, fights erred on the side of life, which ant that if two opponents were not in agreent, killing soone was prohibited and would result in the execution of the killer.
But if the Emperors agreed to a death tournant, that would shift.
It would an that if two opponents were not in agreent, the fight would be to the death.
So, the loser would only be able to survive if both teams decided to make this a benign fight.
Naturally, the woman was not happy at all that she was here.
She would have beco a Mage King in the future!
But now, she would die because the Lightning Emperor sacrificed her just to get a tiny chance at getting his favorite young master to beco a Warrior King or whatever!
Of course, the majority of her hate was focused on Shang, but as soon as she saw him, her hatred vanished, replaced by fear.
What even was this?!
The Mage had been incredibly prideful. After all, she was the only Mage Lord with a fivefold Spirit Sense in the Lightning Manor currently!
She was the most talented Mage in an entire Empire!
Yet, when she felt Shang's Aura, she just felt inadequate and inferior.
It was like a Mage King was floating near her.
In the end, she could only accept her destiny.
"Hello, I am Cynthia Steelbright," she transmitted to Shang, "and I am a Peak Mage Lord with a fivefold Spirit Sense. I have a Dual Affinity for tal and Lightning."
"Attack, defense, speed, versatility," Shang transmitted back. "Which is your best?" Shang's voice felt extrely dark and threatening to Cynthia, but she could still handle it.
"Attack and speed," she answered. "You?"
"Perfect," Shang answered but didn't elaborate.
"Perfect? What do you an?" Cynthia asked.
Shang didn't answer.
Cynthia beca frustrated, but she didn't dare to annoy Shang, which was why she remained quiet.
At the sa ti, the Emperors were giving their teams instructions on how to proceed in this tournant. After all, the goal wasn't to win but to kill Shang.
"Benign or malicious tournant?" Kali asked.
"Malicious," Amon Gus answered first.
"Malicious," Brutus Cesare continued.
"Malicious."
"Malicious."
"Malicious."
"Benign," Jenny Greenhouse said with a helpless smile.
"Benign," Linastra Boomwitch said with a snort.
"Malicious," Gregorio said, eliciting a couple of glances from the Emperors. "Malicious," Kali finished.
"We are in agreent. This is a malicious tournant."
"Both parties will decide if their fight will be benign or malicious."
"If both of them say it is malicious, it is malicious."
"If both of them say it is benign, it is benign."
"If one says it is benign and the other says it is malicious, it is malicious."
Jenny and Linastra were not the biggest fans of the current developnt.
Jenny Greenhouse was generally an honest person that liked working together with others, and she really wasn't the biggest fan of this entire two-faced plotting.
While Linastra Boomwitch was the opposite of a conflict-averse person, she also preferred direct confrontations.
Now, if everyone would genuinely start going at each other's throats, she wouldn't mind, but she knew that almost all the fights would be benign since they didn't want to lose their powerful Mages.I think you should take a look at
"As always," Kali continued, "the opponents will be chosen by the Void of Death."
Kali summoned a huge cloud of Death Mana that floated in front of her.
"Throw in your tokens."
The Emperors all took out a couple of small balls and threw them into the void.
Shang could tell that the Void of Death was a Spell that made the level five Concept of Exodus beco excited, which would essentially turn it into a huge whirlpool of destruction.
The excited Death Mana would rapidly move around in random directions, pushing the tokens around.
This kind of movent couldn't be controlled by any Mage since it was simply far too chaotic.
'However...' Shang thought as he looked at the silent Kali. 'She is not just any Mage.'
The other Emperors hadn't complained about this way of drawing lots, which ant that they believed that Kali had no control.
And yet, What if she actually did?
Maybe she had hidden it very well all this ti?
Shang inspected his opponents while the lots were rapidly getting shuffled in the Void of Death.
Most of the teams were made of two Mages with fourfold Spirit Senses. In fact,there were seven of these teams, which ant that there were only two teams with different configurations.
One of them was Shang's team.
The other one was Brutus Cesar's team. His team had soone with a fivefold Spirit Sense and soone with a fourfold Spirit Sense.
Soone with a fivefold Spirit Sense that had comprehended a level six Concept could fight two enemies with a fourfold Spirit Sense.
The gap in power was huge.
This ant that Brutus' team would win under normal circumstances.
However, Shang wasn't too worried.
A mont later, all the tokens shot out of the Void of Death and landed in the Emperors' hands.
And then, everyone realized sothing. Kali definitely had control over the Void of Death!
These fights were too perfectly orchestrated!
The Emperors looked at Kali with narrowed eyes, but she didn't respond to the looks.
Everyone had already agreed that the lots would be drawn this way. If they wanted to change it, they needed to wait for the next tournant and change the rules.
So, what did it look like?
Well, the Lightning Manor got the free ticket.
However, getting the free ticket was bad in this tournant.
If one got the free ticket, they wouldn't get to skip a round but would get to fight an additional one.
The first fight would be between two teams, and the winner would advance to the quarter-finals, the round of eight.
Who was the Lightning Manor's opponent?
The Tower of Climate's team.
Jenny Greenhouse's team.
One of the two teams that voted for benign.
And if the Lightning Manor's team won, they would face the Sungod Mountain Empire's team.
Linastra Boomwitch's Empire.
The second team that voted for benign.
Obviously, Kali was throwing these two teams in front of the Lightning Manor as fodder.
The Judgnt Palace, Land and Sky Empire, and Twilight Dusk Family had all been allied for a long ti, and these two Empires had always kept themselves out of the fight between them and the Lightning Manor.
Well, now they would need to get involved. Cynthia looked with fear at the team she was about to fight against.
A bit later, she threw a glance at Shang, who didn't seem to feel any different from before.
Which was true.
Shang wasn't worried about this fight at all.
The mont Kali had decided that this would be a team tournant was the mont she had essentially declared Shang's team the victor.
However, since nobody knew a lot about Shang's power, nobody realized the truth.
The only two people that knew that Shang would win were Kali and Abaddon, and Shang was certain that Kali had made this decision because of Abaddon.
Abaddon knew a frightening amount about Shang, and he also knew that fighting as a team would make this tournant very one-sided.
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