Countless figures, condensed from the light, shattered, revealing strands of golden light. Simultaneously, the arena formed by the will of the Hall of Valor dissipated, and blue fluorescent light slowly drifted away.
It disyed a rather beautiful scene.
However...
Willis merely stood there, clutching his chest.
A seemingly tiny blood hole had appeared, emitting a faint golden and blue glow.
This legendary warrior had all his vitality drained by this blood hole.
His body froze in ce until Sterl casually pushed him, and Willis fell to the ground like a ragdoll.
Thud.
Blood slowly flowed out.
At this moment, the subordinates who had previously ttered Willis found their voices choked...
Instantly frozen!
Stuck!
A hint of excitement flickered in Sterl''s eyes.
After his second ss, hisbat power had grown tremendously.
To say nothing else, just the boost from [Stardust] was exceedingly exaggerated.
By using the evolved cheat to forcefully add a point, plus the addition of 20 legend points, [Stardust] had be an extremely formidable ability!
Sterl currently didn''t have any tinum-level skills.
But merely being able to enhance his legendary ability made [Stardust] seem quite overpowered.
One must know, any legendary ability is the culmination of a legend''s entire effort, and in legendary-level battles, the key to victory often lies in the strength and counteraction of these abilities!
However, with [Stardust], Sterl could easily enhance his legendary abilities to several times their original strength! At most, he could achieve a sevenfold power boost!
That''s insane!
Sterl spected that it wasn''t just the forced point addition through the cheat, but also because [Stardust] had ascended to a golden quality by absorbing the bonus from an SSS-ss profession, making it so unbnced!
In the recent battle, Sterl tripled the enhancement of Shadow Stealth, effectively quadrupling its output! Then, with just one Star Point Finger, Willis was instantly killed!
The radiant armor constructed from his legendary ability didn''t evenst 0.1 seconds before shattering.
Of course, the new [Stardust] skill had a drawback: the difficulty in collecting [Stardust] had increased significantly.
He had to kill units level 60 and above to collect Stardust, and the amount collected wasn''t substantial, while the consumption during enhancement was considerable. Each additional enhancement required double the amount of Stardust.
Although Sterl sessfully killed Willis in an instant, he still felt a pang of regret: "I overestimated Willis; boosting my power once would have sufficed."
"I ended up wasting six extra Stardust..."
He felt a bit mncholic.
After all, the Stardust he was using now was all saved up earlier. Until he found a method to farm second-ss or higher wild monsters on arge scale, the number of times Sterl could use Stardust for enhancement would be limited to one or two times.
Wasting so much today made Sterl quite heartbroken!
Moreover, there was another minor w with [Stardust]: it could only enhance one skill at a time in a short period. Otherwise, if Shadow Stealth was an output enhancement skill, Sterl could theoretically activate Stardust again while using Celestial Stars Finger.
But in reality, activating it twice in a short period was impossible.
While Sterl felt heartbroken, the others were in chaos!
Utter chaos!
No one had any doubt about what had just transpired—the arena had ended, the rules of the Hall of Valor were unchangeable, and David was alive and well. Didn''t that mean Willis, the legendary warrior…
Was dead!
However, this fact was so unbelievable that no one could trust their eyes. It felt as if the sky had fallen!
"What the hell just happened?"
"How did Willis die?"
"I only saw a sh of light, and then he was gone. Was it some kind of artifact?"
"That can''t be right. I didn''t sense any powerful artifact aura…"
The yers present were utterly dumbfounded.
They couldn''t figure out what method David had used to defeat someone of a higher rank.
In their view, Willis had activated his legendary ability! Willis''s legendary ability was too strong! Willis attacked again!
Willis got killed in an instant?!
The arena ended!
Everyone was in a daze.
They simply couldn''tprehend it; even their expressions when looking at David were extremely bizarre.
Instantly killing a legend, with barely any energy fluctuations…
The crowd couldn''t even perceive David''s strength; it just seemed absurd.
Only Felicia in Faye''s mindspace had some inkling, but she was still extremely shocked: "A legendary ability! This kid actually cultivated a legendary ability, and I can guarantee he hasn''t reached legendary status!"
Felicia was certain. Although she couldn''t see through David''s second ss disguise before, just like Emperor Octavius of the Divine Mountain Empire, Felicia knew that ascending to a legend meant inscribing one''s myth into the world. This was something that couldn''t be faked or hidden.
So David must be as he appeared: third ss, no stronger.
What was utterly absurd to Felicia was that David, at third ss, had cultivated a legendary ability!
And he used this legendary ability to effortlessly kill Willis!
It made no sense, and it was doubly nonsensical.
Felicia was almost questioning her own understanding. As a demigod, she knew a lot of information and had never heard of a third ss possessing a legendary ability.
Moreover, what was even more absurd was that this third ss cultivated legendary ability crushed Willis''s legendary ability with overwhelming force.
One had to know, Willis''s ability was forged from three eight-legend point golden skills, which was not weak!
To crush it so easily, and bearing the inherent disadvantages of third ss attributes and effects.
Theoretically, even a perfect legendary ability couldn''t achieve such output!
Felicia saw through Sterl''s tactics and the abilities he employed, but she was even more baffled and found it illogicalpared to the other yers!
Others were clueless; she, knowing the truth, felt that the rules of [Transcendence] seemed to have been broken by David!
Felicia thought for a moment and did not share her thoughts with Faye because she felt a deep unease, as if she had stumbled upon knowledge she wasn''t supposed to know!
...
At this moment, Willis''s subordinates were inplete despair, looking at their leader''s corpse, yet still unable to understand what had happened.
"No way, this has to be a joke, right?"
"How could the boss be dead?"
"What did you do?"
They each shouted, sounding almost hysterical.
Then... taking advantage of the yers'' distraction, they suddenly unfurled teleportation scrolls.
This group acted crazy for a few seconds before vanishing instantly, clearly escaping.
Sterl: "..."
The many yers present: "..."
Say what you will, Willis''s subordinates had a pretty good survival instinct.
Sterl merely watched Willis''s subordinates disappear.
If he wanted to, he could catch up with them.
However, Sterl had noticed earlier after killing Willis that in the Hall of Valor, there wasn''t much benefit to killing those weaker than oneself.
He got no loot from defeating Willis, only a notification.
[You have obtained the identity rank [Challenger].]
[Since you have not officially passed the Hall of Valor trial, this identity rank is temporarily stored. You can retrieve the [Challenger] identity rank anytime after passing the trial.]
Sterl roughly understood the situation.
The Hall of Valor encouraged internal yerbat but did not reward it.
Since everyone belonged to the same faction, internal kills yielded no loot or rewards, but the benefits of identity ranks were enormous.
The Hall of Valor encouraged you to challenge the strong!
...
Sterl was deep in thought.
He slowly walked back to Faye, while around him, including Osmond backed by a deity and other yers, looked at him with extreme reverence.
At this moment, many yers were whispering: "That was a legend, and he just died like that."
"And he''s a [Challenger], the second-tier identity rank in the Hall of Valor…"
"It''s really exaggerated. Who exactly is this David??"
"Could he have hidden attributes? I feel his strength is definitely more than just third ss…"
...
The yers, initially extremely shocked, were now gradually recovering.
They spected that David''s strength was not as simple as it appeared to be third ss; his talent and profession might not even be just S-grade!
Even...
Led by Osmond, a group looked at Willis''s corpse, firmly believing—
"Could it be that this David has SS-grade talent and an SS-grade profession??"
Osmond couldn''t help but specte.
After all, with his SS-grade talent and S-grade profession, it was absolutely impossible to challenge a legend beyond his rank.
"By the way, it seems no one has told us how to participate in the trial yet?"
Sterl''s tone was casual at this moment.
However, before he could finish, several terrifying auras suddenly descended from the sky, pressing everyone to the ground with immense force.
Including Sterl!
This time, he wasn''t disguising but was forced into a half-squat! It was extremely ufortable!
Simultaneously, figures surrounded by radiant colorful light slowly appeared in the sky.
Next, many yers eximed in shock...
"Father!" Osmond''s face was astonished.
"Gloria!?" several yers who hade from the Dark Moon Alliance with Sterl eximed.
"Father God!" some rough-looking individuals dressed in fur called out.
...
Then, those figures finally stopped in front of the many yers.
They swiftly scanned the entirend with their divine senses, finally stopping at Willis''s corpse.
At the same time, an elderly man, draped in a dark purple cloak and leading the group of deities, waved his hand slightly, and a group of people rolled onto the ground in a sorry state.
It was Willis''s subordinates who had fled earlier.