The Grand Imperial Arena still trembled beneath the lingering aftermath of the semi-final battle.
Smoke drifted endlessly through the night air, curling above shattered stone and melted steel like the remnants of a battlefield abandoned by gods. Massive fractures spread throughout the arena floor in jagged patterns, glowing faintly red beneath residual spiritual heat. Entire sections of reinforced terrain had collapsed inward, leaving deep craters where golden solar fire and sovereign inferno had collided moments earlier.
Emergency restoration formations pulsed across the damaged arena in layers of blue and silver light. Teams of imperial engineers hurried across the ruined battlefield while formation masters stood near broken pillars, pouring spiritual energy into unstable defensive arrays before structural collapse could spread further.
Yet despite the destruction—
Almost nobody cared about the arena itself anymore.
