Chapter 320
The amount of shock that everyone felt when they saw the rankings was immeasurable! The person that was shocked the most when she saw it was Aria. She knew that her father was one of the strongest in the temple and she thought it would take a very long time for Han to pass her father! How is he able to pass him after just one battle!
It was a very strange thing to happen, but that doesn’t mean that Aria minded at all! At least she can now sign the contract of submission with Han without being afraid that he cannot protect her people from the celestials! She always wanted to know if Han was stronger than her father
She already heard that Han killed a Celestial before and she needed proof to confirm it. And now that she had seen thE rankings change like this, she didn’t have any sort of doubt!
The other person that was shocked by it was Esteroth himself! He was looking at the ranking and he was just staring, almost like he was seeing a ghost!! He couldn’t believe his eyes! How did Han Luo pass me!? Even if he is strong, this is too much!
But even though he was shocked Esteroth didn’t feel fear! No! Esteroth was vibrating in excitement! His hand was shaking and his entire body looked like it would jump out of his chair at any moment! He couldn’t believe that someone finally passed him! How long has he been waiting for anyone to come and pass him in the ranking! He has been cursed with all this strength and he has never had anybody that he can fight on an equal footing and now there is someone that passed him on the ranking? This is perfect! This is exactly what he has been looking for all this time! Esteroth couldn’t wait for Han to come! He needed to meet Han and cross swords with him! He wanted to fight with Han so badly!
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Floor ninety was a large floor that resembled a city! It had many tall buildings and about a hundred thousand people lived there! The thing that made this floor so special was not only the fact that it was led by Esteroth himself, but it was also because this floor only had black stars on it! Every single person here was a black star! The people here have lived for thousands of years! They were the first generation to enter this temple and they have had a long time to train themselves! Although none of the black stars were as strong as a king, each of them would still be able to say that they were at king level!!
The people here were all under King Esteroth so they were all under his contract of submission! Esteroth was the one that made sure each of them had a black star. Esteroth made sure that all of them got a black star because he was a battle manic! As someone that lived only to fight, Esteroth has been looking for a good fight for ages! He has tried to fight everything and everyone that he could find and none of them were able to satisfy him! So he decided that he would allow all of his people to grow into black stars and then maybe one of them will be able to fight him one day. But no matter how strong they grow none of them were able to give him a good battle! It was like they were all destined to only be able to get IP to a certain level of strength and never go beyond it!
That is why Esteroth set up fight arenas all around his territory and made people do battle all the time! Even if he cannot fight then he will just watch because he knows he will just bulldoze his way through all of them like a monster. He is still able to watch strong people fighting! The two combatants that are supposed to fight will be put on a stage and then transported to another place using a special skill! This place was not connected to the real world so neither combatant need to hold back at all! All of the citizens of Esteroth’s city usually gather in the colosseum and they watch the fight happen on a large projection screen? To them, this was the ultimate form of entertainment!
When Han asked Quinthreath about what floor ninety was like, this is what Quinthreath told him. Quinthreath knew that even if he were to call an entire army to go with him to floor ninety, they will not be of use at all. The people there were all black stars and no matter how strong the army that you call is, they will all still be white stars and they stand no chance against black stars! So Quinthreath told Hanan that he should just challenge Esteroth to a one-on-one match. This is exactly what Esteroth wanted, so it will be the best way for Jan to gain Esteroth’s territory.
If Han wins, then he can force Esteroth to sign the contract of submission. None of the people up there would even care about who their leader was. They have lived for so long and they have fought so much that they now love battle more than anything! If Han told them that he was planning a fight against the celestials they would fall over themselves just so they can join him! But that is only if he is their leader! Han needs to defeat Esteroth in a head-on battle first and prove himself to them. They could all see the rankings but they wanted to see the battle as well!!
And so that is how we see Han going into floor ninety alone! For once, he didn’t have anybody with him, Gregory and the other kings were in the colosseum along with his family and they were all sitting in the crowd and waiting for the battle to begin!
The place was huge! That is the first thought that Han had once he entered the colosseum! It looked like you could fit a small city inside and it would still have space! There were hundreds of thousands of people in in the stands and once they saw Han in his black t-shirt and black trousers they erupted in extraordinary cheers! They all knew who he was! He is the first king of the temple! The strongest out of all of them! He is also the first person to pass Esteroth in the ranking in more than five thousand years!
As the crowd broke into cheers, Han ignored them to take a look around. He couldn’t believe that this many Black stars even existed! They were up to a hundred thousand of them!! Why did they all stay in hiding all this time? I’ve always been wondering why there aren’t enough black stars on the lower floor even though the temple is very old! There should definitely be more black stars!! It was like all the black stars just disappeared! But now I see that it is because they all come here!
The reason why the black stars all come to the floor ninety after some time is mainly because they were all used to the constant cycle of the temple. Fight, Fight, fight. They all fought bravely and they tried their best to move to a higher floor. But no matter how hard they try they can never go past this floor. It is the same dilemma that they had when they were on floor forty-nine but this time they grew tired of it. Why can’t we move higher when we are this strong!? Why is it that the Celestials keep trying to make us stay at the bottom no matter what!? We have trained hard and we can win this temple if we just move higher! But the portal won’t even allow us to go! It is bullshit!
So they all gathered under Esteroth and stayed on floor ninety. Over time, they completely forgot what they were meant to do and they just decided that they loved to fight! They started to enjoy these deathmatches more than anything else! People putting their lives in the line to win against a stronger opponent! It was like watching titans battle it out!
The cheers of the crowd suddenly got even louder as they saw their own king coming down from the sky. Esteroth held a regular two-handed broad sword in his hand as he grinned at Han! He was a monster of a man. Built like a bear and bigger than a freaking giant! But he had this smile on his face that told Han that Esteroth was enjoying this far too much! Esteroth truly loved battle! He wanted that feeling of excitement that he always gets when he is about to go into a fight again! And knowing that Han Luo is stronger than him has given him that feeling! He is going into a fight knowing that it is possible for him to lose! He was too excited that he couldn’t even stop that smile that bloomed across his face as he shouted!
“King Han Luo! I’ve been waiting for you for years! Thousands of years!”