Chapter 89: Heavenly Glare

On the next day, the Challenger League continued.

Although today's Challenger League was slightly more intense than yesterday's, under the intentional arrangement of 'invisible forces', the stronger people still did not face each other.

Kritos didn't meet any opponent that could threaten them, so he continued to maintain their winning streak.

The audience was astonished by his performance. They have never thought that a Rank five apprentice Realm Late one will be this much formidable.

They had heard about his performance and rapid cultivation after he awoke his soul beast. Besides, there is a rumor that Captain Mitchell greatly helps him by giving precious cultivation resources. 

Still, the battle powers Kritos have shown was something only ten miracles could compare with it.

Defeating Rank 8 Apprentice Realm with the cultivation of Rank 5 Apprentice Realm.

However, there exists a doubt about Kritos actual cultivation. Some people said he uses a strange technique which lets him hide his actual cultivation. So, no one was sure about his actual cultivation. 

"I don't believe it. He surely hiding his cultivation. The strength he displays is not something a mere Rank 5 could have." Someone said 

"hmm… but what is his real cultivation? Till now, I had never seen his soul beast."

"Soul beast!"

"Soul beast of the legendary Late one. Certainly, it will not be an ordinary beast." 

People of Rewa City tried to learn about Kritos soul beast. But no one knows the exact. answer.

After the first half, the results on the notice board had experienced some change as opposed to yesterday.

Till now, Kritos remains victorious in each match.

However, in the next match after the break, Kritos will have to face one of the Rank 9 Apprentice Realm youth.

Kritos opponent only losses one match since the start of the Tournament and the person who defeated him was Clara Augusta.

Kritos merely glanced at his next opponent. His name is Radiant Brell. Radiant parents were an adventurer who settled in Rewa city.

Their points were tied, both accumulating a total point score of 25. However, Kritos' total matches were less than him.

After 30 minutes,

"Kritos Rathore vs Radiant Brell...Combat Arena 2,"

Quickly both of them walk towards Arena 2.

"Nice to meet you, Kritos. I am very excited to fight with the late one. I request you to use your full power while battling with me. I hope you will."

"I will but it depends on your skill." Kritos directly said.

"Start," 

Radiant quickly moved his body around Kritos and started using his family's famous skill.

"Multiple Ghost Shadow skill."

The spectators all shook their heads. Multiple Ghost Shadows was very useful in the battles but using it at the beginning of the match is not wise.

Four illusions, one real person. The illusions had to be controlled by the real person. This was why the Multiple Ghost Shadows skill was not used in higher-level battles. Controlling the illusions meant that one had to split their attention and the difficulty of manipulation would increase. Those illusions were only useful for confusing others but did not do anything else.

On the field, five Radiant body spread out.

"Whoa!" A light suddenly rose in the eyes of Kritos.

Radiant Family was the creator of medicine-seal-style, and the Multiple Ghost Shadows skill was his trademark opening move. He was way too familiar with this move! 

The movements of the five Radiant were extremely synchronized. They continuously took out disks from the treasures pouch at the waist and then furiously threw them into the field.

A treasure pouch was a bag which was used for storing items. However, in Rewa city, only the clan heads had a Treasure pouch. The price of it is not something anyone could afford.

In a second, the disks flew like rain into the field.

"What the fuck!"

In a second, Kritos expression froze. His mouth slowly dropped further but he didn't realize it.

However, Kritos quickly uses his Eagle Vision and uses a Shadow trick he learned from the Clan library.

In an instant, his body vanishes from the spot and appears outside the range of Radiant Skill.

"Huh! Shadow Element. " Radiant Sighs

On the contrary, the audience was in shock. 

Shadow Element!

Previously, only two people who had a talent for Shadow elements in the Rewa city were Augusta clan head and an elder of the Vishwa clan. But now, one more person appears.

It is known that the Shadow element is hard to comprehend and only some people can adjust their shade with the shadow. 

On the Stage, Captain Mitchell silently murmurs," So, his soul beast is related to Shadow Element. Now, I am more excited to see his soul beast."

Captain Mitchell glanced at Sasha who was sitting in front of him and used a technique to transmit a voice.

"Princess, can you see his cultivation. My ability is not enough to break his mysterious technique."

Sasha replied with a transmitted voice," I think he is in Rank 6 or Rank 7 of Apprentice Realm and he hasn't yet condensed his magic core. I guess he is thinking of dual-energy paths."

A shock expression appears on Captain Mitchell's face but he quickly recovers.

In the Arena, each Radiant figure moved just the same as the real one. There was no stiffness, no place that they seemed fake. The other people might not understand the difference, but Kritos, who had instant mastering talent and Eagle vision ability, how could he not understand the difficulty involved?

This fight had attracted countless pairs of eyes, experts gathering around. They may not be as familiar with the Multiple Ghost Shadows skill but their understanding of battle helped them see some clues. The underestimation on many people's faces were swept away. They started to think, if they were facing an opponent who had five bodies, real and illusory, how could they deal with it?

"So, I have no option other than using Pure Heavenly Glare but it will consume half of my qi."

There are two ways to use his innate trait, Heavenly Glare. One with other skills and one by solely heavenly glare.

Later consume high amounts of qi due to the consumption of pure energy.

The illusions created by the Multiple Ghost Shadows skill would not move on their own. If they had to move, it must be controlled by the mind. With Radiant cultivation, he could just control one illusion, and he had to leave the other three alone. The one illusion that he could control would definitely not be as realistic and detailed as what was happening now.

Controlling four illusions at the same time, and could fight with such ease, how terrifying must someone's consciousness be?

Soon, Kritos used his innate trait, Heavenly Glare. He felt a huge amount of energy fade away from his body. 

Suddenly, an eye formed above the stadium, and the entire area became hazy.

The eye was pitch black with the pupil radiating golden bright light. If one looked at this eye, their soul would be lost in an illusion.

The eye moves his golden pupil towards everyone and then fixes it on a particular place.

"This!"

Unknowingly, sweat started to flow down Kritos back and silently dripped down. He suddenly had a strong feeling that his soul was going to be taken.

Prior to this time, he never used his pure heavenly glare trait. It wasn't like Kritos didn't want to but before using this trait he had to fulfill one condition.

An illusion is required for consumption, if not Kritos one eye will be consumed by the Heavenly Glare trait.

This trait fed on the Illusions of others.

Previously Kritos thought to learn an illusion skill to overcome this problem. However, he found out that he couldn't learn any illusion skills.

Whenever he tries to, his mind becomes blank. Besides, using skill creation was also not effective. Every time an error displays on the screen.

When Kritos was nervously watching the eyes which formed above the arena. The heavenly eye consumes all the illusion and instantly disappears.

All the people in the stadium just remain stiff and then suddenly they regain their mind.

"What happens?" Someone asked

"Who knows? I just feel I can't control my body for a second."

"I also experienced a similar feeling. Is someone using an illusion on us?"

All the people were talking to each other about the strange event. They don't remember the gigantic eye which formed above the arena 2.

On the stage, Caption Mitchell transmitted a voice," Princess did you notice something?"

"No, but I think there is a high rank illusion expert present between us," Sasha replied

"I also thought about it. But I guess it doesn't have any ill intention towards us."

Sasha nodded her head and transmitted another voice, " Tell everyone don't panic and remain calm. It was a hallucination created by an expert."

Captain Mitchell quickly moves from his spot and tells three judges about the current situation.

They all nodded their head in agreement while Freya had a confused look on her face.

After 20 minutes, the match which was stopped by some incident continued.

The three judges already calmed the situation and respectfully asked for forgiveness from the unknown Expert.

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