Chapter 37 - The Devil Is Back

After choosing the option "join a competition " , Shadow was transferred to a suspended arena . The arena was floating in the air with no base or columns to support it.

When Shadow looked around he noticed that the floor was made of transparent glass . The scene made him look like he was was floating mid air .

Shadow wasn't exactly in the middle of the arena . He and four other people were on the side of the arena surrounded by red laser-like bars. It resembled more like a cage than a room.

The floating arena was surrounded by a magnificent audience that was seated on a higher level seats than the arena .

' This is reminding me of the prison where gladiators were put in while waiting their turn during arena fights ' Shadow thought.

The people next to Shadow noticed his strange appearance . They thought the way he looked was oddly familiar even though they have never met him before.

"I know you . You are the so called Devil the cheater that crushed his opponent ruthlessly on his first match " a voice resounded from the people next to Shadow.

The other three participants and Shadow turned to look at the source of the voice . The one who spoke was a teenage boy with brown hair . The boy seemed older than Shadow but his strength was much weaker.

"Cheater?" Shadow raised his eyebrows .

"Yes , everyone was talking about you the one who has weird clothes and hide his face with some strange mask feature." The boy replied .

"So because of my odd character design you guys deemed me as a cheater ? " Shadow said sarcastically .

" When you are the only one with such features of course we're going to deem you as a cheater or how else are you gonna explain the way you look?" The brown haired guy asked.

"It's no secret that there are different visual fields out there and every single one of them provides exclusive features to the user so why can't i be just another one of those users?" Shadow questioned .

"What you said is actually correct but not in your case" said a black haired girl, she was one of the other three participants .

"Huh ? What do you mean? " Shadow asked while turning his head towards her.

"It is true that every visual field device permits exclusive features to its user but all these features are known by the public and none of them has such features as yours" the girl said.

The other three nodded in acceptance.

"If it's not out there in the public doesn't mean it doesn't exist" Shadow said.

"Are you saying that your visual field device is not known by others?" The boy asked.

Shadow didn't reply to him as he showed a devilish smile under his mask .

Boom!!

Everyone's attention was shifted to the sudden explosion in the arena .

On the arena , two men were fiercely clashing with each other . One of them was deeply wounded in his left hand while the other one seemed exhausted .

"Why don't you just give up ? You know that you don't have a chance to win this competition so you might as well spare me the effort of wasting my power on you " the one in good condition said .

"Either way , they're both going to lose . He has almost no energy left " murmured Shadow to himself.

The girl heard Shadow's words so she started explaining. "Not exactly, rules might differ from one competition to another, this one for example , you don't have to get a set amount of consecutive victories to win the competition, you just need to defeat your opponent and advance , winners will eventually meet each others and the last one will be titled as the winner of the competition "

"How convenient " Shadow replied .

"How foolish . You really are an amateur after all" one of the men said sarcastically.

Even though these people were used to these kind of battles and had some experience, they would never take it lightly. They knew how hard it was to defeat an opponent in the arena unless one has the lady luck on his/her side and were faced by someone with many times weaker cultivation than him/her .

Shadow's remark wasn't out of foolishness on the contrary he never underestimated his opponents but most importantly he never underestimated himself . He knew that with his abilities it wasn't impossible to defeat all the participants.

Back to the arena , the fight has ended . There was only one man standing while the other was lying on the floor .

The wounded man lost the match leaving the arena almost half conscious.

The other guy walked out of the arena to the side where the rest of the participants were waiting for their turn.

"Looks like it's my turn " the black haired girl said