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 worried

still on the fence

worried him was how

met him once in his life, and

he probably saved me from losing to SilverStar, I

spent as much time as he did in the arena

he was, Edward would've probably ignored his

the strength he

this was a point of concern for

can a person change in

different from the person he

someone he could

I don't really have a

Edward's face as

was going to lose, either way, so he may as

didn't have

Clank.

other side of the arena opened and a

emotions was accompanied by white hair

finally

calm echo of his footsteps filled the entire

he walked in Edward's direction. Heavy tension

in front of Edward, and their

whether it was the crowd or the noise coming from them, immediately disappeared as soon as he closed

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

standing next 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 mind

spear as he tightly grasped it with both hands; all the mana inside of him bursting out like a

breath, he slowly took a stance and opened his eyes

their eyes met, Ren similarly took a stance

powerful mana erupted from

up losing, I should do a good job at

he focused all of

[You may fight!]

moment that the demoness's

moment he heard the demoness's voice, he took a step forward and mercilessly thrust his spear in Ren's

a small

Click

he stabbed his spear, he

'Fast.'

he found Ren's sword already reaching out for

Edward realized that his attack wouldn't make it before Ren's

"Khh..."

twisted his torso and moved the

Clank—

whole arena as Ren's sword came

between the two weapons, circular pressurized wind gales were released.

it was then that Ren did something completely

still pushing against Edward's spear, Ren's back arched and he punched out toward Edward's direction using

'What in the...'

confused Edward, who had originally thought that Ren was going to fight him with a sword, but despite his surprise,

"Hm!?"

move his arm, he felt something hard press against his arm.

that

and exerted more force on his arm, finally breaking through the ring and placing his arm next

Bang—

fist, Edward was pushed a couple of

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