Come to think of it, the Black Earl was quite perplexing earlier. From his perspective, the duel’s outcome was crucial to the Noah Clan, significant enough that the Black Earl would exchange his secret technique for Angel’s continued company.
Yet, at this crucial moment, the Black Earl decided to test Vay.
It should be noted that even Vay’s friend Dox didn’t think highly of this duel against the Phantom. Angel verbally said that Vay had a chance, but it was actually speculative; deep down, he agreed with Dox’s perspective.
No one expected Vay to win.
Of course, now that Vay has won, backtracking from the result seems acceptable... But what if Vay had lost?
If Vay lost and wanted the apprentices to also enter the legacy site, then hope could only be placed on Kaier.
With "Out of Discussion" methods, Angel could make Kaier challenge four opponents alone.
But would the Black Earl be the kind of person to place hope in others?
This concerns the important legacy site of the Noah ancestors. If it were Angel, he wouldn’t trust all hopes to an outsider either.
But the Black Earl did something unusual at this time, which is very strange. Could the Black Earl have foreseen Vay’s victory? Unlikely, because Vay’s victory was entirely due to the opponent’s oversight; if the Phantom had continued to attack and not given Vay a chance to recover, he wouldn’t have lost.
So what was the reason the Black Earl did this?
Angel really couldn’t figure it out... but since the Black Earl had already done such an unusual thing, it didn’t seem to be a problem for him to unusually let Vay continue to play?
As Angel and Dox were chatting, the duel on the arena was already coming to an end.
The battle between Kaier and Fen Mo was essentially determined the moment Dox diverted his attention to Vay.
Dox’s distraction meant that there was no suspense in the duel; Kaier was bound to win.
And indeed, that was the case.
Kaier won even faster than everyone imagined. The small calculations made by the Grey Merchants and others had no effect at all.
They sent Fen Mo to test Kaier’s abilities, but Kaier hardly used any abilities. He just kept creating spatial fissures, reducing Fen Mo’s combat space to a minimal extent.
In the end, Fen Mo was completely trapped in the prison of spatial fissures, unable to escape.
As for Fen Mo’s illusions? They were used, of course, but from beginning to end, Fen Mo’s illusions had no effect on Kaier, as if Kaier was naturally immune to illusions.
Without the support of illusions, Fen Mo’s strength was reduced by eighty percent.
On one side was Kaier in full state, on the other was Fen Mo with only twenty percent strength. Their ranks were similar, and Kaier who frequently appeared in major relics wasn’t an Academy Faction without combat experience. Under such contrast, Fen Mo’s defeat was inevitable.
Fen Mo’s defeat was not unexpected, but what troubled the Grey Merchants and others was their complete inability to see how Kaier avoided the illusions.
When Fen Mo stepped down, they intended to get some intelligence from him. After all, Fen Mo had direct contact with Kaier, so perhaps he could see how Kaier avoided the illusions.
But Fen Mo was crying with a sullen face: "I don’t know either."
As Fen Mo explained, the Grey Merchants furrowed their brows even tighter.
Fen Mo initially tried different illusions to test Kaier, but whether it was Mist Illusion, Induction Illusion, or constructing a false illusion of herself, Kaier simply didn’t care.
He just kept laying out spatial fissures, narrowing Fen Mo’s range of movement.
At that point, Fen Mo saw that Kaier was likely immune to illusions, so she immediately changed her fighting strategy.
She began to use the difference in perspectives and controlled lighting projections to employ psychological suggestions on Kaier.
This was no longer an illusionary trick but a highly sophisticated hypnotic method.
Moreover, some of the tools Fen Mo used were given by the Evil Woman, which had no lethal force but were accurate against apprentices without defense to Spirit Sea.
But to her dismay, Fen Mo’s psychological suggestions still had no effect on Kaier. It was as if all her arrangements were just Joker’s play in Kaier’s eyes.
Eventually, after exhausting all her means, Fen Mo was forced to admit defeat.
After listening to Fen Mo’s description, the Grey Merchants and the Evil Woman looked at each other, and they saw the same bewilderment in each other’s eyes.
Kaier’s victory was too simple. The whole duel hinged on a single decisive factor: Kaier’s immunity to illusions.
Under the influence of this factor, Fen Mo couldn’t even approach, let alone probe Kaier’s abilities.
"Could it be that Wizard you encountered before?" The Evil Woman was referring to Angel.
The Grey Merchant said, "It’s possible. He has a high possibility of being an Illusionist Wizard. But even if he is an Illusionist Wizard, we shouldn’t be completely unable to see what method he used, right?"
The Evil Woman and the Grey Merchant looked at each other, realizing this was a mystery they were unlikely to solve.
In fact, the principle was quite simple.
Just like the misty illusion Angel created inside Vay, which was invisible even to Vay himself, let alone outsiders. The Black Earl was an exception, as his nose coexists with Vay. If the Black Earl’s nose and Vay were two separate entities, he might not have been able to detect the misty illusion either.
Similarly, Angel also implanted a mark inside Kaier.
A nightmare illusion mark created through the power of the Nightmare Illusion.
The effect of the Nightmare Illusion completely crushes ordinary illusions. Especially for Apprentice Level illusions and related mental attacks, it can even provide direct immunity.
With the help of this nightmare illusion mark, Kaier didn’t use any other trump cards, nor did he summon the Speedy. He simply used basic spatial tricks to secure victory.
...
Like the previous duels, the Wise Sovereign gave both sides time to recuperate.
After the match ended, Kaier began to hold back his joy of victory, knowing that the next opponent might be the most difficult.
After coming down from the arena, Kaier originally wanted to calm his fluctuating emotions nearby to avoid affecting the next battle.
However, Vay’s situation caught Kaier’s attention.
At some point, Vay had already undone all the petrification and stood quietly beside the Black Earl. At first glance, there was no longer any of the previously discomforting white mildew filaments on his body; his skin was very smooth, and there were no visible scars.
Was he healed after the duel?
Furthermore, getting better should be a happy event, so why did Vay’s eyes look so dim?