Kyle, Swamp Dragon, Star Genesis, Manny, and Fierce Breaker looked at the empty space in front of them.
Non-lethal battles between Organizations mainly took place in space.
The reason they didn't fight on a Planet was because of their power.
As a Crusher, they already had the power to severely damage Planets.
Battles between Sages could even destroy some smaller Planets.
After a couple of minutes of waiting, Broken Spark also appeared.
Just as advertised, they appeared with ten people. Two Advanced Crushers and eight Major Crushers.
They all wore purplish-blue uniforms, and they looked at Explosive Karma calmly.
No greetings were exchanged.
Everyone was still waiting for something.
Two hours later, another person appeared.
Surprisingly, this person was a Sage.
Of course, under normal circumstances, Sages were not allowed to be in the Secondary Sector, but as with everything, there were exceptions.
The Sage wore the black and white uniform of the Contrast Empire, and he looked at both sides with a neutral expression.
"Explosive Karma?" he asked.
Star Genesis floated forward. "Present."
"Broken Spark?" the Sage asked.
A young man carrying a long spear floated forward. "Present."
The Sage nodded. "Both parties are present. I will be officiating the conflict. Both parties have agreed to keep the fight private. As discussed, here are your Life Shields."
The next moment, a round emblem with the symbol of the Contrast Empire appeared in front of all members.
"Refine the Life Shields and allow them to enter your body. They will protect your Center, mind, and essential Energy Pathways. If it detects a strike that would kill you, it will immediately teleport you to the Formation Array I have placed."
"During the battles, you are free to use your Concealing Arrays. They do not interfere with the function of the Life Shields. Before every round, I will call out the participants according to the list you gave me."
"Any questions?" he asked.
No one had one.
Naturally, the reason why a Sage was here was that both parties needed a neutral party to officiate the battle.
Without a neutral party supervising the battle, there would be plenty of problems.
For example, someone might not be able to show all their power during the battle due to the fear of accidentally killing the opponent.
If either party decided to create the Life Shields, the other party wouldn't trust them. After all, what if they had messed with the Life Shields? What if the Life Shields were not strong enough?
Of course, they also wouldn't want another Organization in the Secondary Sector to oversеe the fight since that would give them valuable intel.
Because of that, more powerful Seekers without a stake in the battle would be allowed to enter and officiate the battle.
Since the Secondary Sector was within the territory of the Contrast Empire, it mostly fell to them to oversee the battles.
Naturally, if one of the Organizations had some kind of connection to the Contrast Empire, the other Organization could request a different power to oversee their battle.
With all of these rules and safeguards set up, both parties could go all out during the battle. If someone died anyway, it would be the referee's fault.
"Both parties, place your Concealing Arrays," the Sage said.
Star Genesis moved forward and placed several stones in certain places in space.
One of the most important parts of a Formation Array Expert was the Fragment of Spatial Stasis. Without this Fragment, placing Formation Arrays in space was almost impossible.
Luckily, the Fragment wasn't hard to comprehend, and Star Genesis knew it.
Surprisingly, while Star Genesis created the Concealing Array, no one from Broken Spark stepped forward.
While they did have a Formation Array Expert, they didn't know the Fragment of Spatial Stasis. They could only place Formation Arrays on solid ground.
However, no one was really surprised that they didn't have a good Formation Array Expert.
Learning Formation Arrays took a lot of time, and they rarely increased someone's power directly. After all, placing Formation Arrays took a lot of time, resources, and Energy. Very few people could place Formation Arrays during a battle like Star Genesis.
Because of that, there were not many Formation Array Experts.
When Star Genesis placed and activated the Formation Array, the Sage glanced over before nodding wordlessly.
Any referee had to be a Formation Array Expert as well, since they had to have the ability to see through the function of Formation Arrays to stop any party from cheating with them.
In the end, a black sphere with a diameter of about a thousand kilometers appeared in the emptiness of space. This was Star Genesis' Concealing Array. Nobody present had the pоwer to look into the Concealing Array. The only way to look inside was to destroy the Formation Array or to enter.
A moment later, the Sage also placed several stones in space.
He also placed a Formation Array, but even after he activated it, nothing seemingly changed.
"I have placed the arena inside the Concealing Array. No one is allowed to enter or exit without my permission," the Sage said.
Then, he looked at the two parties.
"Both parties have agreed to three battles. A Singles Duel, a Trio Duel, and a Team Duel. We are starting with the Singles Duel and ending with the Team Duel," the Sage said.
"Broken Spark, you have chosen Electron Stream as your fighter. Electron Stream, enter the Formation Arrays," the Sage said.
Some of the members of Broken Spark secretly smirked as one of their members floated forward.
It was a beautiful but quite small woman, carrying a bow.
'I wondered when I would meet someone like that again,' Kyle thought. 'I saw some in the Cult, but this is the first one I've seen ever since I left the Cult.'
Kyle was referring to something specific.
Electron Stream had red fox ears and a fox tail.
Kyle remembered Wolf Mistress, which had also looked like a half-human, half-beast.
These hybrids were called the Beastkin, and there were not that many of them.
There were only a couple of Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Worlds that had Beastkin. Naturally, in order for them to enter the Supreme World, they had to reach the Universe Realm.
In the past, a couple of them had managed to reach the Supreme World, and some of them had children. Those children had children, which had children, and so on.
Like that, the Beastkin appeared in the Supreme World as well. Yet, they were still rather rare since there were simply so fucking many humans.
The reason why they were much more common in the Cult of Final Fate was that the Cult received a big chunk of their recruits from different Tertiary Worlds, and in some of them, there were only Beastkin.
However, the reason why some members of Broken Spark smirked wasn't because of Electron Stream's race.
No, it was because of her power.
She was a Major Crusher, and she was one of their weakest members.
Broken Spark had sent one of their weakest members into the Singles Duel.
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