Apotheosis

At that moment, no one cared who would win first place in the Seven Mountains Meeting.

They all stared upward, only wanting to know who would win the fight—Zen or Elvinia.

Each of the giant stones could only be lifted by the force of two hundred divine megatons, and they were moving at such speed. Anyone on those stones would surely be severely injured after that collision.

Even Tacy and the others from the Land of Sword Grief were shocked by what was occurring.

"I feel quite small now after seeing their performance."

"I too participated in the Seven Mountains Meeting once, but I was far inferior to them!" Everyone chimed in their words of praise and amazement.

Bang!

The two huge stones collided head on in the air. The elite warriors behind Elvinia were thrown off and hit the distant mountain wall, all of them seriously injured on impact.

When they saw this, Mekhi and the others from the Flow Sword Sect understood why Zen had asked them to leave. He had saved them from devastating pain.

Only Zen and Elvinia remained fixed to their stones.

As the huge stones bounced back, they both moved to stand on the runes that would activate the enchanted barrier. They had both realized that after a collision like that, the best thing to do was activate the enchanted barrier.

Rumble...

In the blink of an eye, the stones wrapped by enchanted barriers had crashed into the walls of the cave, leaving two massive craters.

The cave walls shook, causing rubble to crumble down and leave a layer of dust floating and obscuring everyone's view.

They looked up and around, trying to see something, but no giant stone flew out. No movement could be seen at all.

Tacy then released her spiritual sense to pass through the dust.

Her eyes brightened and she raised her hand and said, "Princess Elvinia is out!"

"Wow..."

A round of heated discussion broke out among the spectators.

Elvinia had performed so well that she seemed to be invincible, and yet she was out in the end!

Konnor and the others from the Flow Sword Sect looked at Tacy with nervous and hopeful eyes.

If Tacy were to announce that the Flow Sword Sect was out as well, then everything Zen had done would be in vain.

Dorothy studied the side of the mountain too, just as worried as Konnor and the others.

'Would Zen be able to withstand such a violent collision?' she thought to herself.

Jermain and Whitlock waited with bated breath. If Zen was out, all their competition

hrew the giant stone onto the top plate, and raised his arms in triumph.

"Woo hoo!"

Konnor and the other elite members of the Flow Sword Sect raised their hands and roared, filled with pride and excitement.

Others also began to applaud as the air of joy and amazement continued to flow around everyone.

Jermain cast a challenging glance at Whitlock and asked, "Do we still need to compete for the second place?"

The biggest prize was for the number one in the Seven Mountains Meeting. The gap between the prizes for second and third places was small enough to not even matter. Whitlock was a cunning man. Even if he had a half chance to win second place, it was not worth the risk of getting eliminated. He'd rather win the third place than neither.

"Jermain, after you," said Whitlock, cupping his hands.

Jermain fused the stone with the second weight rune and put the Origin Mountain's stone onto the second plate on the metal mountain. The Ivory Mountain did the same for third place.

No one left, and they all looked up to the top of the cave.

After a while, the four figures including Athemar, Winchell and Goran floated out from the top of the cave and slowly landed beside Zen.

"Nice to meet you all!" Zen said, bowing with cupped hands. He had already met them all before.

The only thing that surprised him was that the old man who was responsible for distributing the flags in the Dragon City was here as well.

"Ha-ha! Athemar didn't believe you would win first place. Zen, you'd better quit the Flow Sword Sect and join the Origin Mountain. We are a hundred times more confident in you!" Winchell joked, grinning widely.