The outcome was obvious. Severin taught Shyam a lesson that he would never forget. After that, every time he saw Severin he would run away as fast as he could to avoid meeting Severin. What unlucky it was for it to have Severin as his opponent in the competition.
After one year, Shyam had made a huge improvement and became a level eight supreme saint. Severin was quite surprised with how far Shyam had gone and looked at Shyam to examine Shyam again. Then again, not everyone could be on the Heavenly Prodigy Rankings. With so many disciples in the sect, one would have to be above excellent to take a spot.
After both of them greeted each other, the elder announced, "Let the battle begin!"
Severin took a step forward. Lights sparkled around his body. A heavy load of spiritual energy of heaven and earth left his body. Suddenly the breath with the equivalent power of a level one paragon was spread everywhere around the arena.
Shyam who was standing not too far away from Severin felt the pressure from the breath and had trouble breathing. It gave him the goosebumps. Fear quickly filled up his heart and the thought of him dying soon entered his mind.
"Se— Severin! I give up!" Shyam shouted out loud like if he said it too late he would end up like Riley.
He had no confidence in even surviving an attack from Severin. Especially he knew Severin had just killed Riley. He knew as a level eight supreme saint he was not stronger than Riley so he was not going to take any risk and fight Severin.
After he announced his surrender, he quickly threw his token to Severin. Shortly, an elder activated the formation to teleport him out of the arena.
Severin looked at the token in his hand and chuckled. After that, he left the arena as well. The audience saw it and did not feel surprised with the result. In fact, they thought that was how it should be. As Severin returned to the sideline, the token in his hand heated up again. He only had rest for a couple of minutes but the elder had called for him to be at the arena again.
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