CHAPTER 521: CHAPTER 438: I LET YOU COMPETE, HOW DARE YOU MESS WITH MY BUSINESS?_3

A heavy voice, echoing like a valley, sounded above them. The demons looked up and saw that the three kings had already dealt with the fire hazard and landed nearby.

"Greetings, Your Majesties." The demons present bowed their heads slightly to show their respect.

"What are you talking about, my king? Every word I say is from the heart!" Li Zheng choked up and said, "It’s all my fault; if it weren’t for me, Brother Lorfa wouldn’t be hurt like this!"

The King of Destruction, holding a black spear, said hoarsely, "I used to think that the Snake Demons were the most hypocritical race in the Abyss, but now that I see you, I realize they are a notch below you."

The Snake Demon contestant shrank back; it recognized that the King of Destruction’s words were not complimentary.

"The King of Destruction misunderstands. Although Brother Lorfa and I are opponents in the arena, off the field, we are brothers as close as family! How can I not worry when my brother is hurt like this?" Li Zheng turned to the King of Flame Demons and said, "I implore Your Majesty to save Brother Lorfa’s life!"

Damn it!

Li Zheng’s hypocritical demeanor made all the demons present feel nauseous, truly more hypocritical than demons themselves.

Sylvie also realized the truth and pointed at Li Zheng in shock, "I thought it got hurt saving you, but it turns out it was you who injured it?!"

"It’s just a competition." Li Zheng smiled sheepishly, "Fists have no eyes, swords no mercy."

"Isn’t that way too cruel and blind?" Sylvie showed a satisfied expression, feeling that her decision to invite Li Zheng for a night before the match couldn’t have been more correct. Fighting beyond one’s level and managing to beat a Flame Demon like this shows great potential. It’s not impossible to grow to a king level in the future.

Thinking of being with a future king...

Sylvie’s cheeks blushed with two red patches.

Her appearance left Li Zheng stunned, wondering whether she despised or liked him.

Mere moments ago, wasn’t she accusing me?

"Enough, your pretense is making me want to crush you," the King of Flame Demons said, grabbing what remained of Lorfa. With one last meaningful look at Li Zheng, he said, "I hope we meet again one day."

With that, the king signaled the other two kings, opened a teleportation gate with a wave, and left.

Once the King of Flame Demons had gone, Li Zheng’s heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled.

Thankfully, he hadn’t completely offended them; otherwise, the difficulty of this dungeon would have become absurdly high through his own actions.

He glanced at the dungeon exploration percentage, which had already reached 10%. However, the remaining 90% would be hard to deal with.

Now that the arena had been destroyed with his move, the spectators, although still present, probably had no interest in watching the competition continue. The likely reason they stayed was to wait for the settlement of the bets placed before the match by the three kings.

"Um..." With this thought, Li Zheng quietly asked, "Does the competition continue?"

The other nine contestants all took a few steps back when they heard this; was severely injuring one Flame Demon not enough for you?

In the instant they all retreated, the dungeon exploration percentage skyrocketed to 100%. Li Zheng could now take the final reward and leave.

"From your reactions, no one wants to fight me?" Li Zheng asked the Enchanting Demon Queen, "What does this mean for the competition?"

"The prize for the Star Shining Level competition is provided by you, so I won’t participate in the discussion," the King of Destruction said, turning to deal with the aftermath for the spectators who hadn’t left yet.

This time’s tournament is destined to be the most unique in history.

Because it was forced to pause only halfway through.

Logically, with three king-level demons present, it shouldn’t have developed this way.

But Li Zheng’s earth-shattering explosion came without warning, its power bursting out instantly, leaving the three kings with no time to intervene, turning the entire tavern upside down.

The Enchanting Demon Queen had to rescue her daughter, the King of Destruction worried about the prizes he brought being stolen in the chaos, and the King of Flame Demons... having been in a flame environment for so long, hadn’t realized the scale of damage the explosion would cause other demons, until the stone stool it sat on was blown away that it flew out of the fire column.

Even the demons found it hard to believe, just as Li Zheng himself hadn’t expected the explosion’s power to be so ridiculously vast!

The "Explosion" ability was only a Diamond Level ability, not even at full level!

Who could have thought that combining a large amount of flame conjured by a Star Shining Level Flame Demon, and detonating it all at once, would create such might?

The spectators who managed to escape were only a portion; many others, lacking sufficient strength or standing too close to the explosion point, had become history, unable to escape.

This also showed that the ten demon contestants in this tournament were all quite powerful. Except for Lorfa, the other nine managed to escape relying on their own abilities.

Lorfa, positioned at the explosion’s center, had no time to react when the blue-white flames ignited. Even so, relying on the Flame Demon’s affinity for fire, it mitigated substantial damage, ending up merely on the brink of death.

If any other contestant were in its position, not even ashes would be left.

To have single-handedly disrupted a tournament overseen by three kings, Li Zheng was the first in history.