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

on the fence

worried him was how trustworthy he

met him once in his life, and he didn't know him

losing to

as much time as he did in the arena and demon realm, he had long lost the ability

was, Edward would've probably ignored

the strength he displayed really shocked

was a point of concern for

a person

person he had once met in the

someone he

I don't really

spread across Edward's face as he

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 just bet everything he had on

didn't have a

Clank.

side of the arena opened

emotions was accompanied by white hair and two eyes of

finally came

filled the

gaze as he walked in Edward's direction. Heavy

their eyes met. Staring back into them, Edward

crowd or the noise coming from them, immediately

mind, there was only

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 to it. It was probably the demoness who always

a blood-red spear materialized in his hands. A powerful red glow enveloped the spear as he tightly grasped it with both hands; all the mana inside of him bursting

breath, he slowly took a stance

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

erupted

a good job at making it look like I

himself as he focused all of his mana toward the tip of

[You may fight!]

that the

The moment he heard the demoness's voice, he took a step forward and mercilessly thrust

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

Click

he heard a subtle clicking sound coming from Ren's

'Fast.'

thought as he found Ren's sword already reaching out for

that moment that Edward realized that his attack wouldn't

"Khh..."

torso and

Clank—

metallic ring echoed throughout the whole arena as

contact between the two weapons, circular pressurized wind

then that Ren did something completely out

arched and he punched out

'What in the...'

that Ren was going to fight him with a sword, but despite his surprise, he

"Hm!?"

felt something

did that get

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

Bang—

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

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