At that moment, on Arena No. 5, Odelle continued sweeping her spear across the battlefield.
Her unrivaled strength effortlessly sent countless treasures flying, while the surrounding Law power was also completely dispersed.
Under the enhancement of her Victorious Battle Body, the Dao-Breaking Spear possessed overwhelming might.
Odelle did not even need to use her full strength to kill her opponent.
The scene of her slaying the enemy was exceptionally striking.
Clad in armor, she appeared valiant and imposing. With her long spear in hand, she needed only a single thrust to take her opponent’s life.
The clean and decisive instant kill was extraordinarily impressive.
[Arena No. 5: Odelle of the Skyvault Consortium is victorious.]
[Arena No. 5: Hervey of the Eternal Summit has died.]
When living beings throughout the universe witnessed this performance through the heavenly projection, many of them became entranced.
Even their minds wavered slightly at the sight.
"What an astonishing female powerhouse!"
"She truly proves that women are no less formidable than men!"
However, several observers soon noticed something unusual.
Odelle was also a member of the Skyvault Consortium.
They immediately thought of Hilt, John, and Kaine.
The Skyvault Consortium had sent a total of five powerhouses into the top thirty.
No one had paid much attention to that fact before, but now that they considered it carefully, the number was truly frightening.
Kaine had already advanced into the top fifteen.
Now Hilt and Odelle had also successfully secured their positions in the top fifteen.
With those three alone, the Skyvault Consortium already had three qualifying participants.
Three entire positions!
As the tournament progressed, the number of contestants belonging to each major faction continued to decrease.
Yet the Skyvault Consortium still possessed the largest number of remaining powerhouses.
Was the faction about to overturn the entire balance of the tournament?
On Arena No. 2, Morado once again used the technique he had displayed during the elimination round.
A die suddenly appeared in the space between him and his opponent, directly above their heads.
It spun continuously.
After a moment, the die abruptly stopped.
A single point appeared on its surface.
This represented his opponent’s forbidden spell.
At the same time, another die appeared above Morado’s head.
The number displayed on his die was six.
Within a single breath, the opponent standing before him had all of his vitality and power drained away by the Die of Life hovering overhead.
He was utterly defeated in the top-thirty competition.
As a supreme prodigy of the Eternal Divine Palace, Morado primarily cultivated the Law of Destiny, the Extreme Dao Law, the Law of Destruction, and the Law of Life and Death.
The combined might of those four Laws made him a powerhouse who could never be underestimated.
John frowned slightly when he witnessed the scene.
"That technique is far too strange."
"However, I possess an invincible state, so I do not need to fear Morado’s methods."
[Arena No. 2: Morado of the Eternal Divine Palace is victorious.]
[Arena No. 2: Asure of the Demon King Council has died.]
Meanwhile, the battle on Arena No. 3 was also approaching its conclusion.
Morin primarily cultivated the Law of Creation, the Law of Reincarnation, and the Law of Destruction.
All three were innate Laws.
Gathered within a single person, they granted him both overwhelming destructive power and formidable killing methods.
His style of combat was equally clean and decisive.
At first, Morin allowed his opponent to attack freely.
After determining the foundation and characteristics of the enemy’s strength, he immediately launched a counterattack.
He casually swung his fist.
Without the slightest suspense, the opponent was blasted into countless fragments.
The man was incapable of blocking the attack.
He did not even have time to react before dying on the spot.
[Arena No. 3: Morin of the Eternal Divine Palace is victorious.]
[Arena No. 3: Salik of the Demon King Council has died.]
With the conclusion of the battle on Arena No. 3, all five top-ten participants had advanced with overwhelming advantages.
The tournament format was inherently unfair.
Having a participant ranked within the top ten fight someone ranked near the bottom of the top thirty was as easy as asking a university professor to compete against a child in kindergarten.
The battles in the first round had been much more intense.
Those confrontations had involved supreme prodigies and powerful participants from the middle of the rankings, so the difference between the two sides had naturally been much smaller.
The second round, however, had practically ended the moment it began.
When the living beings and powerhouses throughout the universe saw the representatives of their factions emerge victorious, they immediately erupted in celebration.
Their excitement grew even greater when those victories were achieved through instant kills.
However, whenever they witnessed a participant from their own faction being killed and eliminated, they invariably lowered their heads in dejection.
It was as though the defeat had caused their entire faction to become inferior to the victors.
Among all the factions, the performance of the Skyvault Consortium during the second round was the most remarkable.
The first round had unfolded very differently.
Two of the Skyvault Consortium’s recognized supreme prodigies had entered the arenas.
Aldric had been directly defeated by a supreme powerhouse of the Demon King Council, while only Kaine had narrowly overcome his opponent and successfully advanced.
The second round also featured two participants from the Skyvault Consortium.
This time, however, both of them won without exception.
Of course, their opponents were not recognized supreme prodigies and could not be compared to powerful figures such as Morris.
Even so, the current results proved that the Skyvault Consortium possessed numerous combatants with strength at the level of supreme prodigies.
Any knowledgeable powerhouse could immediately recognize how profound the faction’s foundation truly was.
Even among the countless factions spread across the myriad universes, the Skyvault Consortium unquestionably stood at the absolute peak.
When a Grand Sovereign from the Treasure-Rich Mountains witnessed the scene, he was astonished to discover that the Skyvault Consortium had concealed such formidable strength.
If John and Holly were included, the Skyvault Consortium would possess an extraordinary number of qualifying participants.
John and Holly were the next to fight.
They were about to face participants near the bottom of the top-thirty rankings, so both of them had an extremely high probability of advancing into the top fifteen.
If that happened, the top-fifteen competition could contain five members of the Skyvault Consortium.
That would represent nearly one-third of all the available positions.
A powerhouse from the Eternal Summit also noticed the problem.
His expression changed dramatically.
"Five of the fifteen participants could come from the same faction."
"Just what kind of concept is that?"
The Grand Sovereigns did not believe John and Holly would lose to participants ranked in the twenties or thirties.
As long as the two of them advanced, the leaderboard would be filled with the names of Skyvault Consortium powerhouses.
The very thought was frightening.
A Grand Sovereign from the Demon King Council gritted his teeth, overwhelmed by regret.
"Damn it!"
"Of all the factions John could have chosen, he just had to join the Skyvault Consortium instead of my Demon King Council!"
In the past, he had personally invited John to join the Demon King Council, only to be directly rejected.
Back then, John had merely been a demigod-grade powerhouse.
No one had expected him to gradually grow to his current level.
More importantly, John was not alone.
Three other powerhouses followed him, and none of them appeared any weaker.
The more the Grand Sovereign thought about the matter, the more he felt that the Demon King Council had suffered an enormous loss.
He sighed and shook his head.
"Had I known this would happen, I would have ordered the members of Leo never to oppose John."
"Sacrificing the entire Leo faction would have been insignificant."
"All we needed to do was promise John the treatment and resources of a High God-level powerhouse."
"If we had done that, the Demon King Council might have dominated the entire tournament."
"What a pity."