At this moment, the Gray Merchant was like a high-speed spinning top. Upon landing, he directly smashed a large crater on the arena platform, showing how terrifying his current power was.
With the appearance of a pit on the arena platform, without needing to think, it was clear that the Wise Sovereign would issue a compensation reminder.
However, the Gray Merchant no longer cared about these rules. In a true battle, how could one indulge fully or be worthy of an opponent who fights freely by being constrained by these rules?
Ignoring the noise in his ears, the "top" reactivated, carrying an overwhelming dragon might, leaving a long trail on the arena platform, charging straight towards Angel.
It must be said that as long as the Crystal Earth Lizard does not reveal its head, all other parts are beautifully splendid.
Now, although the Gray Merchant has transformed into a spinning top, rolling around, he pulls out a rainbow-like trail of dust. This is formed from crushed gemstone powder, shimmering with radiant brilliance.
Observers saw a dreamy spectrum of colors, but for Angel, this shining wave of colors represented a terrifying crisis.
Angel’s forehead was faintly swelling. Facing this impending crisis, his whole scalp tingled and went numb; this was actually a kind of premonition warning, indicating that the next strike, at his current strength, was absolutely unmanageable.
Even Earl Mi constantly sent warnings to Angel at this moment.
Although the danger hadn’t truly descended upon him yet, Angel now understood why the Bloodline Wizards could dominate the same tier. This kind of terrifying oppression, this overwhelming tremor, and the horror of having nowhere to hide, vividly and clearly exposed the gap.
Bloodline Wizards are true battle machines, or rather... battle monsters!
From the feedback of his crisis premonition, Angel could basically confirm that the Gray Merchant was now seriously engaged, probably due to some notion of a "true battle", hence starting to go all out.
Facing such terrifying incoming, Angel naturally couldn’t just do nothing.
However, his approach puzzled the spectators.
Because he merely stretched out his hand and suddenly clenched. The blue lantern flowers above his head gradually came to a halt from their swaying state.
The entire sequence of actions seemed like the conclusion of a mute play. No energy was perceived within it by the crowd, and no anomaly was detected from an energy perspective.
Everyone was completely clueless about the significance of Angel’s actions until... they looked at the Gray Merchant.
The Gray Merchant remained in the form of a spinning top, rushing towards Angel with an unparalleled momentum. Initially, this might have been an inevitable collision, but strangely, as the Gray Merchant spun forward towards Angel, he suddenly deviated at an angle.
Originally, the Gray Merchant’s trajectory was bound to hit Angel. However, inexplicably, a noticeable deviation occurred in his path. This deviation caused the trajectory line to directly bypass Angel.
At first, the crowd thought the Gray Merchant had predicted Angel’s prediction, heading straight for Angel’s possible evasive route.
But results proved that Angel hadn’t moved at all, while the Gray Merchant bypassed Angel with a slight angle, continuing to roll out of the arena platform.
This slight angle intersected with Angel, even the luminescent aura surrounding the Gray Merchant just grazed past Angel.
Witnessing this scene, the crowd suddenly realized, Angel must have done something.
However, nobody understood exactly what he did. Even the Wise Sovereign in the air didn’t see any action from Angel.
It could even be said, the Gray Merchant himself was unaware of what he was doing.
From the Gray Merchant’s perspective, he was clearly rushing towards his opponent. Given the opponent’s giant gemstone body, how could the Gray Merchant possibly lose sight of a locked target?
The Gray Merchant kept Angel locked on from start to finish, yet somehow didn’t collide with Angel.
When the Gray Merchant saw nothing but the dark void outside the arena platform ahead, he exerted all his efforts to stop the immense inertia.
A long shattered trajectory on the ground extended to the edge of the platform, and at the edge, an even larger pit appeared than the one previously caused by the Gray Merchant’s landing.
It was clear how much effort the Gray Merchant exerted to avoid rushing into the void.
Finally managing to stop, the Gray Merchant immediately heard the voice of the black-robed referee warning about fines, and he slightly raised his head: "I will repair and compensate the venue after the battle is concluded."
Although the Gray Merchant didn’t explicitly say, the meaning was clear, hoping the referee wouldn’t keep nagging during the match.
How could the Wise Sovereign not understand the Gray Merchant’s intention? He lightly chuckled and replied with a cryptic tone: "Okay."
After his words, the Wise Sovereign suddenly pointed at the arena platform.
The Gray Merchant immediately felt an eerie silence at his ears; the external magical creature howls, the low whispers at the sidelines, all disturbing noises were blocked by the Wise Sovereign.
Having done this, the Wise Sovereign said again: "As you wish, there will be no external sounds disturbing you. I hope you’ll follow through after the match."
In the Wise Sovereign’s dialogue, there was still full of deep meaning.
The Gray Merchant merely thought that powerful beings like the black-robed referee preferred to speak with a mysteriously profound tone, so he didn’t mind the referee’s tone.
Instead, he nodded gratefully towards the referee.
Without the noisy sounds of the outside world, he indeed felt able to calm down better and engage in a confrontation of males.
However, the Gray Merchant failed to notice that the spectators on the sidelines were all staring at him in surprise.
The pink-haired girl shouted loudly at the Gray Merchant, but... it just so happened that the Wise Sovereign had blocked the sounds from the outside, leaving the Gray Merchant, who was solely focused on dueling with Angel, not looking towards the outside at all.
The Gray Merchant looked at the gemstone giant opposite, took a deep breath: "Your character is noble, and I respect you. Next, I won’t make mistakes again."
The Gray Merchant stated his opponent’s noble character because when he failed previously, the other could have pursued, but didn’t.
According to normal logic, one might think the opponent was belittling him. However, the Gray Merchant had identified his opponent as a "qualified" one from the start, seeking "true battle," hence according to this logic, the opponent not pursuing wasn’t belittling, but an embodiment of dignity, a noble character.
Whether Gray Merchant’s speculation was correct or not, let’s leave aside for now.
But those outside observing this situation showed increasingly odd expressions.
The Gray Merchant couldn’t hear their voices, but they could hear the sounds inside, from this point of view, the Wise Sovereign was quite considerate.
However, compared to these details, among the Traveling Merchant Organization personnel, their feelings towards the referee deliberately setting up a sound barrier at a critical moment were rather anger and helplessness.
Because... the Gray Merchant had a problem.