At 11:40 AM on Tuesday—twenty minutes before the opening bell of the 1,000-Sun Inter-Solar Games. The grand Central Solar Colosseum was packed to the rafters with over a hundred million live spectators. Meanwhile, Two Trillion Citizens across all 1,000 Solar Systems and the 500 newly liberated Training Planets watched the live holographic broadcast in their town squares!
High up in the gilded Principal’s Sky-Box overlooking the arena, Headmaster Hong sat on a throne of woven golden script-parchment, dressed in magnificent white-and-gold scholarly robes that masked his ruthless, cold-blooded aura.
Standing behind Headmaster Hong’s throne was a sweating, nervous Vice-Principal Qian. Who had already secretly handed the Central Sun blueprints to Gu Changsheng the night before, and was now acting as Gu Changsheng’s deep-cover mole inside the sky-box!
“Look at the giant Cosmic Demon-Detection & Darkening Meter I erected above the main scoreboard, Vice-Principal Qian,” Headmaster Hong said with a cold, sanctimonious smile, tapping a black crystal remote built into the armrest of his throne.
“In five minutes, when Gu Changsheng’s five brats walk out of Locker Room #4 and step onto the fighting stage, I will activate the Underground Resentment-Amplifying Whisper Array at 50% power! Even before the fight begins, the sub-audible demonic whispers rising through the floor tiles will project terrifying illusions into twelve-year-old Gu Nian’s mind. Showing him his father dying in a pool of blood in Frost-Pine Town, his siblings starving in cages, and the whole world betraying him!”
