Chapter 164 - End of the Second Match (Patreon)

The Emperor Flame was considered the strongest Flame among the Heavenly Flames, and it seemed that it was found by the Hall of Souls and given to the Hun Tianwei.

Probably not only because of the Tournament of the Catomania but also because of his standing within the Hall of Souls, the Tournament of the Catomania notwithstanding.

There was little information known about the Hall of Souls, aside from the fact that it was led by the Hun Clan, which was the main faction within the Hall of Souls. Hun Clan, together with two other Clans, Ji Clan and Zhao Clan, created the Hall of Souls.

The three of them were the main force behind the Hall of Souls, though there existed some Sectarian Faction that was created by the more people not affiliated with any of the main clans; they were a minority... 

Mainly because their ability to produce Paragon equivalent cultivators was abysmal.

Hun Tianwei was the Heir of the Hun Clan in this generation, as it seemed, and from what they gathered, he obtained the unanimous support of the Ji Clan and Zhao Clan after arranged marriages to the Hun Tainwei from the side of the Ji Clan and Zhao Clan.

Seeing the Emperor Flame appear in the grand arena and start burning down the Greater Daemons caused the Champion of the Church of the Mysteries to take the match more seriously because, contrary to Hun Tianwei, he was only using part of his strength to fight...

He grabbed the Staff of the Stars several times waved with it in an intricate pattern, as suddenly, a weird grey fog appeared around the grand arena and the battlefield.

Surprisingly enough, the grey fog that appeared was directly suppressing the Emperor Flames that were burning away the Greater Daemons to ashes. 

"Miracle: Gray Fog Kingdom."

The man holding the Staff of the Stars whispered as the Gray Fog that descended started consolidating itself, creating the shape of some sort of Domain and started directly clashing against the Emperor Flames that on the other hand attempted to burn away the Gray Fog itself.

Even though Hun Taiwei was controlling the Emperor Flame as best he could, the Gray Fog that was summoned by Constantine proved to be the great enemy of the Emperor Flame because it destroyed all of it at a steady pace.

This revelation prompted the Champion of the Hall of Souls to make a desperate counterattack because he knew that once the Emperor Flame was gone from the battlefield, he would be finished. 

What the Gray Fog was doing wasn't any kind of suppression of his ability or anything along those lines, but it was targeting and assimilating the very own essence of the Emperor Flame through something that he didn't understand.

If he had to say something about it...

It would be...

It was a literal miracle.

But... before he could make any decision, his opponent didn't really give him the luxury of decision-making, as Constantine appeared behind him and struck him in his back with the Staff of the Stars, causing him to crash to the ground. 

The Mystery and Miracle were the things that the Church of the Mysteries excelled at, and now, with the addition of the Gray Fog that enveloped the entirety of the Grand Arena, another Miracle appeared.

Not only that, but something even more greater was taking place behind the shadows because the more people believed in the Miracle that was invoked, the stronger the Miracle would get. 

Unknowingly, because countless people who were watching the duels believed in the Miracle that Constantine invoked, its power was increased at a frightening rate, and now, Constantine's raw power was already reaching into the Tier 4...

Way above average Tier 4 expert...

Instantly, Hun Tianwei hacked at Constantine with his sword, which was blocked by the Staff of the Stars without any effort.

In the end, it quickly evolved into close-quarters combat, where Hun Tianwei had a clear advantage with his skills, as he managed to keep pushing Champion of the Church of the Mysteries back.

Unfortunately for the Hall of Souls, the power of the Miracles was too strong and too conceptual for the Hun Tainwei to do anything against it.

In the end, another Miracle happened, when Constantine launched a surprising irrational counterattack but succeded as he struck the Champion of the Hall of Souls in his stomach with the Staff of the Stars with full force.

And then again, as he was using the innate ability of the Staff of the Stars to teleport or rather to warp around the battlefield, creating a series of absolutely impossible to execute and predict attacks, from which each of them hit the target.

Powered by the concept of the Miracles, it was nigh impossible to effectively defend against something like that, because one could fight Conceptual Powers with only another Conceptual Powers and that was something that Hun Tianwei lacked.

However, probably nobody really predicted that the contestants at Tier 3 would already have some Conceptual Abilities. 

With this, it was clear to anyone that the Hall of Souls lost this time, but, they didn't lose on the quality of the contestant or another unpredictability such as luck, but on something that nobody really expected.

Now, everyone was looking even more wary when they looked at the Constantine of the Church of the Mysteries, who lit up another cigarette as he knocked out Hun Tianwei, ending the match.

"Match of the Group Two has ended. Victorious: Constantine of the Church of the Mysteries."

If the result of the match between the Ōtsutsuki Yakou of the Ōtsutsuki Clan and Shix the Machinist of the Asura Tribe, was predicted by everyone, then the one between Constantine of the Church of the Mysteries and Hun Tianwei of the Hall of Souls was shocking.

At the start, practically everyone thought that the Hall of Souls would win; even Ōtsutsuki Shibai had said that the Hall of Souls had a greater probability of winning the match than the Church of the Mysteries...

Yet...

A Miracle has happened.

A Miracle that nobody anticipated, predicted, or saw took place in this match, and everyone grew wary of the Church of the Mysteries. 

Some more and some less...

Ōtsutsuki Clan already had the sight of the factions of the Outer Chaotic Source Dimension as the ones that would be the most problematic during the entire Tournament of the Catomania as they were probably the strongest.

Sans the Longinus Dreizhen Orden as their representative gave everyone chills...