Ten minutes flashback
Musashi Hirata's gazed fixed at the monitor in the waiting room. In fact, he was quite curious about Wei Tian's power, so he intended to watch the match seriously.
Not long after Sun Zhou Yi and Wei Tian arrived on the stage, Hirata felt a vibration from his smartwatch.
He looked down and found it was a message from his Master. Hirata opened the message.
[Scan everyone in the waiting room with your Mystical Eyes and get ready to…]
Musashi Hirata read the message till the end and immediately raised his head. With Sun Zhou Yi and Wei Tian on the stage, there were fourteen people in the waiting room including him.
His gaze immediately landed on a group of three people. These three people were the newly promoted Legendary Class Ranker. They got promoted to Legendary Class Ranker at the same time as Wei Tian.
Musashi Hirata's pupils turned blue and his hand instantly moved to his sword. He wanted to attack but stopped as he remembered his Master's message.
Only making a move after the signal. There were two signals. First, it was chaos or commotion in the arena. Second, it was a message from his Master.
After he calmed down, he scanned all the people in the waiting room. All five Emperor Class Heroes were a human, the last three Legendary Class Rankers also a human, and the prince also a human.
After a quick scan, he established a target, the three newly promoted Legendary Class Rankers.
He put his sword next to him, ready to fight anytime.
Ten minutes passed, Musashi Hirata heard a commotion from the screen. The picture on the screen focused on the commotion. There, he saw a black creature with a wing that was similar to bat wings.
The black creature was fighting against a man and Musashi Hirata recognized the man, the man was Butcher Wang.
Recalling the message from his Master, Musashi Hirata without hesitation sheathed out his sword. His figure blurred and appeared before the three Legendary Class Rankers.
His action shocked everyone in the waiting room.
"What are you doing, Hirata!? Stop it!" Musashi Naizen was the first one to react and shouted. He tried to stop his brother from killing the ranker.
Even though the relationship between ranker and hero was sour, it did not mean they could kill each other openly.
However, Musashi Hirata ignored his brother. His sword whistled through the air slashed toward the three Legendary Class Rankers.
The Legendary Class Ranker in the middle could not avoid the sword. His chest was split into two, but no blood came out of his body. Black gas got pumped out of the body and the young body instantly withered, leaving only darkened skin and bone.
Thanks to Musashi Naizen's shout, the other two Legendary Class Rankers managed to dodge the sword. They only got their hand cut.
The same thing happened, the wound on their hand also released black gas. It shocked everyone in the waiting room as they realized these three were not human.
The three Legendary Class Rankers from the other cities were angry at first. They thought Hirata attacked the three Legendary Class Rankers because of the conflict between ranker and hero.
However, those thoughts puffed into smoke as soon as they witnessed this scene. Musashi Hirata attacked the three not because they were rankers, but because these people were not human.
Soon, they witnessed the two surviving Legendary Class Rankers regenerate a new hand.
Musashi Naizen was the first one to react. He flashed to one Legendary Class Ranker and he swung his sword to cut the Legendary Class Ranker before him, Duan Wei.
Duan Wei's hand suddenly turned into a scythe and blocked the incoming sword.
Clang!
"Heh, without a sneak attack, all of you are not my match!" As Duan Wei said that, his other hand also turned into a scythe. He swung the scythe toward Musashi Naizen's neck.
Musashi Naizen easily dodged the scythe by taking a leap back.
Facing such a situation, other people immediately joined Musashi Hirata and Musashi Naizen.
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Meanwhile, on the stage, after Heero shouted, Sun Zhou Yi immediately turned serious. He summoned fifty Ki Swords, encircling Wei Tian with Ki Sword.
Sun Zhou Yi's action startled everyone, including Long Bin. The top brass of Ranker Alliance who were watching from the luxurious box immediately stood from their seats.
They no longer could watch the match calmly when one of them would get killed on the stage.
However, most people's attention was divided with the chaos ensued on the west stand. Long Bin who wanted to save Wei Tian from the Ki Sword could not make it in time.
The fifty Ki Swords flashes toward Wei Tian. Wei Tian himself caught off guard with the sudden turn. It only took five seconds for Sun Zhou Yi to make such a deadly move.
Wei Tian was helpless facing such assault and he still did not realize that his identity as specter was already known by Sun Zhou Yi.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
All fifty swords pierced Wei Tian's body. The body instantly went weak as Wei Tian collapsed. There was no way Wei Tian could survive from the fifty swords.
Long Bin was furious that a participant was killed before his eyes.
"Sun! Zhou! Yi!" Long Bin called out in fury, but Sun Zhou Yi was still calm as his gaze fell to the north stand.
"I am sorry, Elder! But this Wei Tian should be killed, he is not human!" Sun Zhou Yi pointed his finger at Wei Tian's withered body.
Long Bin followed Sun Zhou Yi's finger and found out black gas came out from Wei Tian's body. He was shocked at first, then he realized Wei Tian was indeed not human.
Recently, the Hero League discovered there was a new creature aside from the mutated beast and zombie, specter. As an Elder, Long Bin of course learned the thing called specter, including the phenomenon when a specter died.
"Elder Long Bin! The specter in disguise infiltrated the arena! Now, My Master and my fellow disciple are cleaning the specter on the middle-tier seats! Can you help us to evacuate the spectators out?"
Sun Zhou Yi politely requested. Long Bin was an Elder and also a senior, so Sun Zhou Yi was polite and respectful while telling the situation what happened in the arena to Long Bin.
Long Bin scanned the arena, from the west stand, the commotion spread to the north stand. Fortunately, nothing happened on the south stand.
"The heroes in guard would not be able to face the specter properly. We need your assistance!" After saying those out, Sun Zhou Yi ran forward and leaped up.
His leap reached fifty meters in the air, he was five meters above the upper-tier stand.
Just as he was about to land on the upper-tier stand, a shadow flushed out from the nearest luxurious box. The shadow rushed toward Sun Zhou Yi.
Before Sun Zhou Yi could land on the upper-tier stand, a pale-white man appeared before him. The man swung his hand toward his chest and Sun Zhou Yi blocked the strike as he crossed his hand on his chest.
Bugh!
The strike successfully sent Sun Zhou Yi back down to the arena. Except for a slight pain on his arms, Sun Zhou Yi was fine.
He looked up, he looked at the figure who sent him down. There was a wing flapped on his back, a blade-shaped horn on his forehead, and the man's eyes were black.
Despite his humanoid form, this figure was no longer human.
"Kekekekekekeke…" The monster let out an evil laugh as his face was broadcasted through the screen.
"Not bad! Not bad! You managed to find us early! But it does not matter, we are here to celebrate the Red Festival!"
"But before that, let's introduce the new party! We are from Shadow Fang, we are here to enliven the Red Festival with blood! Kukukukukuh…"
As the monster said that, more and more similar creatures appeared. They joined up with the monster.
To everyone's surprise, they recognized these people. Feng Xinlun, the former Emperor Class Hero. Feng Tian Xou, the current Emperor Class Hero - Rank 15.
The monsters that joined were the Feng Family who ran away from Star City. They came back with their new form, not as a human but specter.
Meanwhile, Hong Yu was shocked to see a familiar face on the screen. Yes, the first monster who appeared, he recognized the face.
A wanted criminal and also an ex-principal of the Hope Preschool, Fang Guo Ming.