The Author's POV

Chapter 528

Inside the tunnel leading to the arena, a soft and groggy voice echoed.

"Are you ready?"

The voice came from SilverMoon, who was checking on me.

Her face had become quite sunken since the last time I had seen her, and she also didn't seem to be in the right state of mind. She was clearly still unable to cope with the loss of SilverStar.

She was essentially a dead woman walking.

The only reason she was here was to see my fight against Edward. The man that took her husband's life.

As I stepped away from her, I could hear the crowd's loud cheers behind me.

Without turning around, I replied.

"You don't have to worry about that. I will win the fight."

I wasn't lying about this.

I wasn't going to lose the fight.

In the wake of my meeting with Edward, it was now my turn to face him. There was already a palpable excitement in the crowd's cheers, which were getting louder by the minute.

The atmosphere around me was boiling.

In the meantime, SilverMoon, who was standing beside me, also sensed the weird atmosphere and took a step back.

"Okay. I've already helped you the best way I could. I hope you can keep your promise."

"You can count on that."

It was at that moment.

Clank—

The gates of the arena started to slowly open up revealing the vast arena in the distance. The crowd cheers intensified, and my shoulders relaxed.

'Here goes nothing.'

Taking a deep breath, I took a step into the arena.

***

'I don't know how to feel about this…'

Despite the passive face he wore, Edward's thoughts were complicated as he stood in the middle of the arena.

Having spoken with him yesterday, he understood what the outcome of today's match would be.

His inevitable loss.

But there were two problems with this.

One, he had to lose believably. Everything they had been working on would go up in smoke if he lost in an obvious manner.

But for this part, he wasn't too worried.

'Considering his strength, he does indeed have a chance of beating me. Especially if he has that device…'

His eyes paused on the bracelet in his hand. Ren would have an easier time winning if he had a device to turn off his suppressor.

Even than.

what

the

him was how trustworthy he

his life, and he

to

blamed for this. Having spent as much time as he did in the arena and demon realm, he had long lost the ability to

revealed who he was,

the strength he displayed

point of concern for

how much can a person

completely different from the person he had once

really someone

don't really have

bitter smile spread across Edward's face as he thought of

realization that the games were rigged, Edward knew that he could only play along with whatever he was planning. He was going to lose, either way, so he may as well

simply didn't have a

Clank.

that moment, the gates on the other side of the arena opened and a familiar figure

devoid of any emotions was accompanied by white

Ren, finally came out to

calm echo of his footsteps filled the entire arena

immediate pause in everyone's gaze as he walked in Edward's direction. Heavy

footsteps soon stopped in front of Edward, and their eyes met. Staring back into them, Edward slowly

or the noise coming from them,

that very moment, in his mind, there was only an image of Ren standing opposite

as no other sound entered his ears. He

spear materialized in his hands. A powerful red glow enveloped the spear as he tightly grasped it with both hands; all the mana inside

he slowly took

Ren's. While their eyes met, Ren similarly took a stance and placed his right hand over his sword's

powerful mana erupted

I should do a good

himself as he focused all of his mana

[You may fight!]

moment that the demoness's voice

the demoness's voice, he

blood-red wave resembling a small tsunami erupted, before quickly heading in Ren's

Click

he heard a subtle clicking sound coming from Ren's

'Fast.'

as he found Ren's sword already

that moment that Edward realized that his attack

"Khh..."

and moved the spear shaft toward

Clank—

loud metallic ring echoed throughout the whole arena as Ren's sword came into contact with Edward's

pressurized wind gales were

Ren did something completely out of

sword still pushing against Edward's spear, Ren's back arched and he

'What in the...'

thought that Ren was going to fight him with a sword, but despite his surprise, he reacted quickly by raising

"Hm!?"

about to move his arm, he felt something hard

that

he grit his teeth and exerted more force on his arm, finally breaking through the ring and placing

Bang—

with Ren's fist, Edward was pushed a couple of steps

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