In the arena, the intense sounds of battle gradually faded away. Most of the surviving Mechanical Bodies had deduced that something was very wrong with the arena's environment.
Outside, the spectators were equally shocked by the brilliant design of the Spider Slayer. The towering flames from the tracked Mechanical Body's self-destruction, immediately followed by the mantis Mechanical Body being slain in close combat by a phantom descending from the sky... this entire sequence had been witnessed clearly by everyone in the stands.
"Is this... is this really a Mechanical Body made by a newly promoted Advanced Apprentice? Just how did he tune a standard Control Core to act like this? It doesn't make any sense," an Advanced Apprentice muttered to himself, utterly dumbfounded.
