As the battle began, edward sat with the rest of spectators.
Two players were about to fight but hawkins made gesture towards edward as he shouted when battle was not even started: "Hey, you, hollowfied guy, you look strong, you fight first with the strongest guy present here."
Hawkins moved his gesture towards another guy as he spoke: "Bruce Watson."
Hawkins knew that a person like Edward already knew that Hawkins knows Edward's identity, but he wanted to get entertained first. then in the end, he would press a button after emerging it from the pocket. as he would press the button, Dante would be teleported here. Dante gave that button to everyone.
Right now, Dante does not knew Hawkins currently watching edward right now, but that would mean Edward would get caught on the spot if there will be no knowledge to be gained from Hawkins, but this time the system fixed this problem, Dante would gain another information regarding edward unlike previous time.
As he pointed his fingers towards a guy named Bruce Watson, Bruce stood up.
"You both, go battle now." Edward and Bruce walked towards the battlefield as Hawkins said this.
Both of them were now ready to fight, according to edward's memories, this guy Bruce Watson is illegitimate son of Hawkins Watson from 'Watson Bloodline."
His mother was Hawkins' concubine but died by hawkins just because she broke a plate, her crime was not just breaking the plate but the plate was mistakenly broken by her hands in front of hawkins. If there was not Hawkins, she would not get killed.
Bruce was traumatized when he heard it her mother is dead, it was 10 years ago. bruce is now 20 years old, he is pseudo venerable. pseudo venerable are those who are at the peak of immortality and at the verge of becoming venerable, according to his growth, he may become venerable after 4 or 5 months. his dream was to get revenge from Hawkins who ruined his childhood which, as time passed, he realised this dream can never be fulfilled.
The spectators who were forced to battle into his palace with death threats by Hawkins felt somewhat interested in this battle because they would see first time a venerable like figure to fight.
There was ant and elephant like difference between edward and Bruce in terms of powers, if the elephant would step on ant, it would be over.
The referee rang as the bell battle as he shouted : "The battle begins now."
Soon, Bruce ran towards him with magma in his hands with speed of light. venerables could destroy the planet, same as them pseudo venerables could do it.
At the almost was about to hit edward, system suddenly spoke.
[The time has been stopped only in this room to let you know i am giving you temporarily pseudo venerable's strength right now]
Edward nodded.
Sophie was spectating the match there on the seats where rest of the 98 players were spectating from.
He was the stopped person in the room, who did not got stopped, thus, she felt joy about system giving Edward pseudo venerable's strength to fight.
As the time continued, edward was behind him.
"How can he be this fast?" Bruce thought inwardly.
Bruce moved around and punched towards edward with his full power, but then edward punched him back.
Bam!
Both of them collided!
With their punch a huge red coloured energy emerged.
The energy was so powerful that it broke all the windows!
This was beyond spectators' imagination, they did not thought of seeing this much power of the venerables.
If one of them would lose they would die by hawkins' hands, to be correct, by Dante's hands. according to edward's memories, whether edward wins or loses, dante will still be summoned here especially for edward, even system was weaker than dante.
The red energy was still emanating and emerging from their collision.
But at the next moment, someone arrived from the elevator.
"Who dared to come here at such moment? Whoever it is simply courting death" Hawkins spoke on the next room to him when elevator was still opening.
As the elevator completely opened, it was the same unknown guy who was wandering around with the huge sack which contains money which would even buy venerables!
But as he walked forward and reached the door of the room where Hawkins was, he spoke to hawkins in calm voice: "Yo!"