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

still on the

worried him was how trustworthy he

only met him once in his

saved me from losing to SilverStar, I

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

Ren not revealed who he was,

he displayed

a point of concern for

how much can a person change in

person he had once met

really someone he

don't

across Edward's face as he thought of his

going to lose, either way, so he may as well just

didn't have

Clank.

side of the

emotions was accompanied by white hair and two eyes of

finally came out to

his footsteps filled the entire

as he walked in Edward's

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

around him, whether it was the crowd or the noise coming from them, immediately disappeared as soon as

his mind, there was only an

to him. In the moment, he was only focused on studying his opponent opposite him as no other sound entered his ears. He could also feel the presence of someone else, but he made sure to pay no

he tightly grasped it with both hands; all the mana inside of him

slowly took a stance and opened his eyes

moment later, his gaze met Ren's. While their eyes met, Ren similarly took a stance and placed his right

mana erupted

if I do end up losing, I should do a good job at making it look like I

he focused all of his mana toward the tip

[You may fight!]

was at that moment that the

he heard the demoness's voice, he took

a small tsunami erupted, before

Click

he stabbed his spear, he heard a subtle clicking

'Fast.'

found Ren's sword already reaching out for

was at that moment that Edward realized that his

"Khh..."

torso and

Clank—

throughout the whole arena as Ren's

circular pressurized wind gales were released. Spreading out throughout the

Ren did something completely

spear, Ren's back arched and he punched

'What in the...'

originally thought that Ren was going to fight him with a sword, but despite his

"Hm!?"

he felt something hard press against his arm. It was a small

that get

eyes open a little as he grit his teeth and exerted more force on his arm, finally breaking through the ring and placing his arm next to his

Bang—

fist, Edward was pushed

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