To say that the Martial Artists in the battlefield were shocked was yet again an understatement. No language possessed the vocabulary that was able to experience the calamitous emotional turmoil that ravaged within their hearts.
First, everybody thought Rui was going to win as he dominated Ieyasu and shattered his final defenses.
Endless despair crushed the alliance Martial Artists while the Kandrian Martial Artists rejoiced with ecstasy.
Then, in the final moment, Ieyasu seized victory.
Somehow.
Their psyches shook as both sides experienced a radical shift from despair to joy and from joy to despair.
And then, instead of landing the killing blow, Ieyasu instead reached for the emergency teleportation artifact that Rui had on him at all times, and used it to teleport himself to the Kandrian Empire.
To say they were shell-shocked was an understatement.
It was simply too much.
