Chapter 723
The people in the arena couldn''t believe what had happened.
Only after a couple of seconds did it register that Lucin had dered Shang as the victor.
He had won?!
He had killed Erel?!
"What happened?!" one of the Archmages shouted.
"Yeah, what happened?!" another one echoed.
"He shot forward, destroyed the Light Mana Domain, absorbed the Light Mana, and killed his opponent with one strike," an
Ancestral Mage Cloud said.
While the High mage and Archmage Clouds couldn''t see what had happened, the same thing wasn''t true for the Ancestral Mage
Clouds.
They were extremely talented and also an entire Realm above Shang. They had still been able to perceive most of the things
that had happened inside the arena.
The weaker Clouds looked at the Ancestral Mage Cloud with shock.
How?!
“How did he destroy the light Mana Domain?" one of them asked.
“Not sure," the same Ancestral Mage answered.
"It was the Concept of Subtraction," a different Ancestral Mage said.
"Concept of Subtraction? I''ve not heard of that Concept," one of the Archmages said.
"It''s an unusual one. It works on the basis of absorbing energy in all forms. It''s made of Ice and Darkness Affinities and is a
Complex Concept. It can absorb energy or weaken it. In this case, he used the Concept of Subtraction to get rid of the will on the
Domain by using up his own Mana," the Ancestral Mage exined.
Shang wasn''t surprised to hear that someone knew the Concept of Subtraction. The Concept of Subtraction might be aplete
unknown outside, but here, there were only insanely talented people.
However, there was one thing that told Shang a lot, and he even grew a slight bit excited when he heard it.
The Ancestral Mage had called the Concept of Subtraction a Complex Concept.
That wasn''t true.
Entropy was one Affinity, and the Concept of Subtraction was part of the Entropy Affinity and nothing else.
This meant that the Concept of Subtraction was a Pure Concept, not a Complex Concept.
And since the Ancestral Mage had called the Concept of Subtraction a Complex Concept, it meant that nobody knew about the
Entropy Affinity.
Now, one had to differentiate between two things.
The people knew about the Child of Cmity but the people didn''t know about the specifics of the Child of Cmity’s Affinity.
This was extremely important to know!
‘It''s understandable,’ Shang thought. ‘Maybe not even the Emperors know how the Child of Cmity works exactly.’
‘Lucius was the Child of Cmity, but he kept everything about his Affinity a secret. After that, the Emperors immediately found
each Child of Cmity and stopped them from bing more powerful.’
‘This meant that every single Child of Cmity in history, except for Lucius, never even reached the Adept Realm.’
‘Because of that, they couldn''t be sure what powers the Entropy Affinity has. In their minds, the Child of Cmity is simr to an
Abomination, but the Abominations only show their powers in their pure forms, which is Entropy itself. They are not showing fire,
light, ice, or darkness."
"Sure, they might know that the Child of Cmity''s Affinity is made of these four Affinities, but that doesn''t tell them which
Concepts would be considered Pure for that Affinity. After all, they had never seen anyoneprehend them."All rights ? N?velDrama.Org.
This was important!
‘That means that | don''t even need to keep the Concepts | n toprehend a secret. To them,prehending Temperature
and Twilight afterprehending Addition and Subtraction would seem normal, although maybe a bit inefficient.’
‘How interesting. This also means that someone else canprehend the Pure Concepts of the Entropy Affinity. Sure, it would
be very difficult toprehend since they don''t share the Affinity, but it is possible.’
‘Although, ording to the God, the first four Concepts all lead into one single level five Concept, which is something that only
Peak Mage Lords canprehend, and these Peak Mage Lords are probably busy withprehending something else.’
‘Additionally, they wouldn''t even know that it is possible tobine these four Concepts into a level five Concept.’
‘That means everyone knows all theponents needed to understand the Entropy Affinity, but none of them realize that they
are theponents."
Today, Shang learned something very important.
The Child of Cmity was known, but the Child of Cmity''s Path and its goal were a secret.
The Ancestral Mage exined in more detail how Shang had won the battle, and when everyone finally understood what had
happened, they realized that a bigponent of Shang''s victory was luck.
Which was true.
If Erel had only released one Domain and readied a defensive Spell, he would have vanished from Shang''s Spirit Sense,
completely obscuring him.
Shang had only managed to hit Erel since he had remembered where Erel had been when the Domain had appeared.
In fact, for once, Shang believed that he had been lucky.
Someone that could obscure Shang''s senses would be one of the hardest opponents for him to defeat. After all,pared to a
normal Mage, Shang couldn''t releaserge-scale destructive Spells that destroyed huge areas, revealing the enemy.
Shang had to get close and strike his opponent precisely.
Erel had most likely been the most difficult opponent for Shang to defeat, but due to his recklessness, Erel had ended up being
the easiest opponent.
But the same thing wouldn''t happen again.
Shang''s Spirit Sense focused on his next opponent, the woman wearing purple robes, Cindy.
She had a Temperature Affinity.
However,pared to Erel, Cindy didn''t have as much potential to win against Shang in his mind.
Erel had been Shang''s counter, but Shang was Cindy''s counter.
Rowan, with his Darkness Water Dual Affinity, would be in the middle for Shang. Shang would neither be at a disadvantage nor
at an advantage.
Cindy looked back at Shang.
By now, her expression had changed.
Earlier, she had still taken Shang easy, just like Erel, but now, she had realized that Shang was actually truly dangerous.
However, none of these people were greenhouse flowers that had never seen the outside world.
All of them had gone through tons and tons of life-and-death battles, and they wouldn''t crack under pressure.
To her, this was a deadly and difficult fight, but it wouldn''t be her first deadly and difficult fight.
Shang was a powerful opponent, but she was used to battling someone like that.
"Shang, how long do you need to recover?" Lucin asked.
Shang''s body had been injured by the power coursing through it, and he had also used up quite a bit of life energy and Mana to
release so much power.
Even more, while his body would recover just as fast as always, due to his new body, his life energy would take multiple times
longer to recover.
"Give me ten minutes," Shang said.
Lucin nodded. "The next duel will happen in ten minutes," he announced to everyone.