Chapter 165 - The Tournament Continues (Patreon)

The next day, there were two matches that attracted the attention of the people, but the first one proved to be an enormous disappointment for most because it was finished practically a few minutes after it started.

The Group Three consisted of cultivator Jin Bai of the Divine Palace and Reinhard Heydrich of the Longinus Dreizhen Orden. Just several minutes after the battle started, the Champion of the Longinus Dreizhen Orden used one of his esoteric Magics and knocked the Champion of the Divine Palace out.

But it was the next match of the Group Four, that attracted the most of the attention.

Jian of the Destruction Devils of the Unicron Chaotic Source Dimension and Aleister Crowley of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn of the Outer Chaotic Source Dimension.

The Destruction Devils of the Unicron Chaotic Source Dimension gave their all in cultivating their Champion for this because they wanted to get the most from all of this...

In fact...

The entire Unicron Chaotic Source Dimension was much weaker than the other Chaotic Source Dimension, as the strongest entities of the Unicron Chaotic Source Dimension were only at the Overlord-Class.

That was far, far, far from the peak of the Transcendental Realm.

Even though there were a few of peak Overlord-Class beings like Lord Shibai, there were only a few of them and it was showing the strength of the entire Unicron Chaotic Source Dimension overall.

Aleister Crowley looks like a tall, androgynous-looking man with long white hair with shining emerald green eyes, but aside from that, he looks rather unassuming. Or, better speaking, he didn't look like someone powerful truth to be told.

But there was a bit of a weird feeling around his entire person as he stood on one of the ends of the battlefield. Everything that was taking place within the Grand Arena was being observed and analyzed by him to the utmost last detail.

His opponent of the Destruction Devils was the native of the Unicron Chaotic Source Dimension; Jian was the strongest Destruction Devil that appeared in their Chaotic Source Dimension for a very, very long time. 

His affinity to the Dao of Destruction was so frightening, that he was considered as the prodigy among the Destruction Devils. Everyone was curious how this fight would go on, because it was very interesting...

It was very well known that the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn possessed some of the most advanced Magic and Spells in the entire Outer Chaotic Source Dimension and their Magic Gods were match even for the strongest Outer Gods of the Kadath. 

"Contestants of Group Four, Aleister Crowley of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Jian of the Destruction Devil Race, get ready for the combat."

The voice of the referee, who was one of the Cathulhus, sounded through the grand arena as both contestants got ready for the fight.

"Fight!"

The moment the referee finished the countdown, nothing happened surprisingly, which was shocking to many, as they had anticipated that the Jian, as the Destruction Devil, would attack as the first one, but shockingly, he didn't.

Instead, the Destruction Devil was observing his opponent with the same care and detail as the Magician was observing the Destruction Devil. This was very unusual for the Destruction Devils because they were pretty violent species of the Unicron Chaotic Source Dimension...

Though they were famous outside of it too, due to their unique nature as they were birthed from the Origin World itself to bring the end of the Origin World and restart the cycle of the Origin World after...

In a split of a moment, crimson-blackish energy cracked around the Destruction Devil Jian, shooting toward the Magician with speed faster than light, but before it could make contact with the Magician, a Magic Circle appeared in front of the Champion of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, completely blocking the Destruction Energy.

The Destruction Jian looked surprised when he saw that the Magician managed to block the Destruction Energy without any effort with a single Magic Circle, as he grinned before cracking his neck and deciding to increase the power...

The Dao of Destruction was one of the most powerful Heavenly Dao that existed and it was clear that the Destruction Jian had comprehended the Dao of Destruction to at least Half-Completion of the Cosmos Level... 

This was Dao Comprehension and understanding on the level of the Cosmos Gods; considering the fact that the Destruction Jian was only Void God, it was indeed most impressive...

Though it only confirmed that how strong his affinity for the Dao of Destruction was, but even more shocking was the fact that Aleister Crowley managed to block it with such ease... 

In a mere moment, Destruction Jian appeared in front of the Magician, his body being enveloped by the cracking Destruction Energy, which was ready to disintegrate everything it touched, only to hit the illusion of the Magician, who teleported several meters away.

Instantly, hundreds of Magic Circles appeared behind the Champion of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, as they unleashed their Magic and started shooting concentrated beams of the Elemental Magic of various elements toward Destruction Devil.

While Destruction Jian was surprised a bit, he didn't waste any moment as he waved both of his hands, congregating the Destruction Energy around him that created something akin to a shielding wall.

This was a rather pretty effective means of defense because while many would think that the Dao of Destruction was virtually useless when it came to defense, it wasn't true because Destruction Devils used the Dao of Destruction as their best defense.

What was the best defense, than something that could destroy all incoming attacks... That was something that Destruction Jian was doing right now, as he used Destruction Energy to destroy all of the Elemental Magic Spells that were cast by Aleister Crowley.

Both of them were in the phase where they were just testing each other and wanted to figure out about the other's abilities, skills and capabilities, before they would fight with everything they got.

This was a common strategy when fighting the unknown enemy or in high-end fights.