The ring was already packed with the unconscious audience, none was moving and none was aware; it was like no one was there anymore.

But surprisingly the effect of the black eyes didn't work on Nusi. Not only did she move, but she had also already drawn her sword and lunged forward at Uznu.

Once she was close enough, she raised her sword and thrust forward to stab him in the eye. Uznu didn't move until the sword almost touched his body, only an inch away, at which point he blinked his eyes once. A dark light came out of his eyes and turned into the shape of a black, writhing snake about fifty cubits long. The snake opened its mouth and swallowed the sword turning to ashes.

The snake continued to attack Nusi, trying to swallow her as well. Nusi jumped back. But as she landed on the ground, the snake turned into a huge iron pillar and descended upon her like a heavenly tribulation.

Nusi untied a board from her sleeve and read the incantation on it, which caused an iron wall to appear between her and the pillar. Before the pillar collided with the wall, Nusi jumped to the side where she again called out another incantation. A seedling appeared on the side of Uznu Ururu, and before Uznu could avoid it, the seedling became a tree and tied him in its red branches.

Nusi clapped her hands and a small green pot appeared in her hand. She poured some ingredients into the pot and a flame appeared beneath it, boiling the contents of the pot.

Suddenly an odor similar to that of a rotten sea permeated the place. A green liquid appeared in the pot and Nusi emptied it on Ururu and the branches on him. All of this happened in less than three seconds.

The green liquid touched the tree and its branches grew larger and bigger. One branch turned into a hundred and then all of them tied Uznu until his body disappeared in the wood.

Nusi was immediately paralyzed, her face aged and a single white hair appeared on her forehead. She couldn't even stand straight. The Bend had drained her pol. She was still content since Uznu was tied to the tree and immobilized.

Back in the VIP room, King Deniz stood up in fear, his eyes wide. He turned to look at the people who escorted him. "Men, let's put a veil between the audience and the ring." He pointed at the ring where Ururu stood in chains. "These kids have caused us trouble. Today the world is going to remember Ururu." He spoke calmly but the dire expression on his face indicated the magnitude of the situation. "Many people do not know what Ururu is."

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Even as he spoke, Uznu removed the seal restraining his eyes to reveal his real eyes. All that was seen wasn't his real eyes for the original eyes had just been revealed.

Two large balls of black flame resembling the moon and the sun appeared above the ring.

Uznu blinked his eyes once more and the tree that Nusi had tied him with melted. He looked at Nusi and Armad.

Armad was already seeing dark since the first time he saw Uznu, which was why he had failed to contribute anything, but it was only at this moment that he felt the true power of the Ururu. It broke his pol and disperse it like it was nothing more than a nuisance.

Armad fell to the ground unconscious.

Nusi trembled in panic. She had already exhausted her strength in her last attack. She had never imagined Uznu to be this strong. After all, in the sacred tree she used to bind him there were more than a thousand years of pol.

As she thought about it, she suddenly felt something so heavy like the weight of the entire universe hit her on the stomach. She was sent flying, thrown out of the arena like an insignificant pebble.

The last thing she saw was blood coming out of her mouth before she fainted. But she didn't stop flying. Under the force of the blow, she passed through hidden barriers and left the underground world for another. All her bones were broken and her internal organs were crushed.

***

As for Armad, as if in a dream, he felt a hand reaching into his shirt to take the book-sword, then he felt the book melted into something jelly-like and slipped into his body.

At that moment, Uznu Ururu called one of the five captains under him and ordered him to take Armad to Ururu's headquarters in the fourth world. He would extract the book from his blood there.

***

At the same time that Armad was about to be taken to the headquarters of the Ururu, Armad found himself in a strange situation.

He stood in a conspicuous environment. In front of him was a giant creature, a thousand cubits tall and wide.

The first thing that came to his mind was he was either dead or dreaming, so he bit his tongue to prove he was neither. The last thing he remembered was seeing Ururu's eyes and falling unconscious.

Sigh.

The landscape was a complete white; there was no other color. Armad stared at the creature and it stared back at him.

At the top of its head were three horns, and its eyes were green with gray stripes. Its skin was a homogeneous white with not a single hair follicle. It was so big that you could compare its little finger with the whole of Armad.

After a while, Armad sighed and looked at the creature. "What are you, why are you tied up in chains, and what is this place?"

The creature looked at Armad with self-loathing. It wasn't happy to see Armad there.