Many people in the crowd had been cheering excitedly throughout the fight.
Now, almost all of them had gone quiet.
The sudden silence spread across the Arena as hundreds of thousands of spectators looked toward the fight platform with expressions of surprise. Some of the ordinary spectators couldn't even understand what had happened in the final exchange. To them, Veda had been moving around the platform while Sasha attacked him with flames, and then, in the next instant, the two were suddenly standing in a position that looked completely different from what they had expected.
The stronger Alchemists among the audience had seen more.
A few of them had followed Veda's movement clearly enough to understand how he had closed the distance.
Patrick stood up from his seat, his eyes widening slightly as he looked toward the platform to make sure that what he was seeing was actually happening.
On the fight platform…
Veda had caught Sasha before she could fall.
