960 Did I Win? 1 (1/2)

Everyone's eyes were trained on Dyon, as though in an attempt to see through all of his secrets. Of them, none were more focused than Donari's elder brother.

During his own round, he had remained lowkey, not revealing too much of his hand because he had long begun to take this bet seriously. Even the red robed elder was sweating incessantly, unable to control his emotions. If Dyon really won, he would have to be a servant for 100 years! Even worse, half of that time would be in the service of a child, and the other half would be in service of his worst enemy! That was a fate worse than death!

Even without his soul, Dyon could tell that his nine opponents must be communicating with their essence energy right now. Unfortunately, he had no means of intercepting their messages. However, he had a good guess of what they wanted to do.

From the very beginning, the rule was set that any winner of a group had to be responsible for the defeat of at least three others. So, what do you think happened if a winner didn't meet those requirements?

In past years, this would mean that all members of the group would receive something known as a ”fated chance”. This would allow the losers of the group to have the opportunity of challenging one of the top 100 disciples with the qualifications to enter the sect. In that case, as long as that challenger displayed battle prowess similar to that of the top 100 disciple, they would then be admitted into the sect as well.

That's right, it wasn't even necessary to win!

These rules were set in place because Soul Rending Peak understood that although group battle royales were quick, they weren't necessarily fair. Often time, stronger opponents would be ganged up on. If one didn't have absolute power to suppress everyone else in their group, even if you were objectively the strongest, you wouldn't have a good fate awaiting you.

To mitigate this, Evangeline implemented this ”fated chance” rule, and it was also a major reason why everyone loved her despite her only recently coming to prominence.

Evangeline's kind heartedness had come to the fore of the minds of many. After all, she was so soft hearted that even though she was the supervisor of these assessments, she refused to appear until after the first two rounds were concluded so that she wouldn't have to witness anyone's dreams being crushed before they could even try.

Truth be told, the only reason Dyon hadn't moved yet was because he was still mostly lost in his own thoughts. He was very interested in Donari's kill intent still and couldn't be bothered to worry about the schemes of people he felt he could beat whenever he wanted. Although he wouldn't belittle them, that didn't mean he would go all out. If he did something like that, they'd end up dead.

Although it was called killing intent, as far as Dyon was aware, it wasn't a type of will. Or rather, it wasn't a type of will that was often used.

Wills usually came in the form of emitting type that could directly be used to attack. These were wills like fire or water that could directly be incorporated into attacks.