Then, without waiting, they moved to a random hallway. Quinn followed while both of them walked in front... It was best to act like a slave outside to avoid causing a commotion.

...

As they arrived at a huge door made entirely of black material, Quinn could only marvel at its beauty. The intricate carvings depicted many scenes that Quinn didn’t understand, but they didn’t wait any longer as they entered the room. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

The interior of the room was just plain black, turning everything into a dead space... but at the center of the room, there was a huge floating orb that flickered with some kind of broadcast.

The scenes depicted the colosseum! The blood-red sands and the countless beings cheering for the slaves as if they were insects struggling just to live...

Quinn could only feel even more disgust... he couldn’t explain how these beings liked watching people die like moths burning in a candle fire.

What made him even angrier was that they even placed bets on the slaves, and if they died in battle, the spectators started cursing... the already dead slaves!

"This is the norm here... it’s best for you to slowly adapt... You won’t live long if you act like a saint." Alice warned him.

"Mhmm..." Lyra agreed with what Alice said.

"But! This is life we are talking about! We are fighting for our lives... while those scums mock and enjoy looking at our pitiful state!!" Quinn couldn’t control himself anymore, and what was raging in his heart poured out.

"That’s how the world works, Quinn... in this world, weakness is a sin. The only way to truly gain your freedom is to become strong enough to make your actions right..."

"We’ve truly had our fair share of cruel experiences... and because we adapted, we are still alive today... remember that."

Quinn was acting like a hypocrite now, and he knew that... but he was not some cold-blooded person who would kill anyone just to please himself.

Still, he already knew that his hands were bloodied, that he had killed beings of his own free will... He still remembered the look on Blink’s face as he died by his hands, and those beasts he had killed without blinking.

Though Quinn came from Earth, the way he acted felt entirely different... a calculated and precise mind during the carnage was surely not something he originally had. He used to be scared of getting caught by those small-dicked husbands back then!

"Hah..." Breathing out, Quinn regained his composure.

"That’s good... you just need to control your emotions. Things will work out in time..." Alice said, truly sincere in her words.

"Hey... I think I might fall for you at any moment..." After regaining his bearings, he tried teasing Alice... alas, he received a hard pinch on his side!

"Ow!!"

"Hmph, trying to flirt when you are embracing me? You’ve got balls, huh..." Lyra rolled her eyes, feeling annoyed.

"Hehe... the jealous side of Lyra emerges!!" Quinn didn’t miss what she truly meant... then, without hesitation, he fondled her tits, forcing her to moan!

"Ahnn... pervert!" Lyra shouted, feeling shy knowing that Alice was watching.

"Hehe... and here’s the shy side of you!"

They didn’t stop bickering, making Alice’s expression crack!

"Ahem... the battle will start now... And as for what you said earlier, you might find yourself sleeping beside me~ maybe tonight? Fufu..." Alice teased back, not wanting to be on the losing side.

"Ahem... let’s get back to the game, it’s starting now" Quinn coughed, stopping what they were doing.

"Yeah..."

Even Quinn stopped for a moment... but his hands refused to listen, losing control and touching Lyra’s tits again...

Alice ignored them, but deep down she felt heat coursing through her body!

’Control yourself! You are not a slut!’ she kept repeating to herself like a chant.

Boom!!!

A deafening burst erupted, indicating the start of the game!

"THIS IS IT, FOLKS! THE BATTLE BETWEEN MONSTERS! THE GRANDMASTERS!!!" the host shouted with all its might, making a grand casting right from the start!

Whoahh!!! Whoahh!!! Whoahh!!!

The chants of the beings never disappointed! It was even more deafening compared to Quinn’s previous battle!

This was it! The battle between Tier 5 monsters! The true powerhouses from every quarter!

This was his chance to see how monstrous those beings were... how much time he would need to work until he reached that level.

"FROM QUARTER 39! PUNCH!!!!" The host’s voice reverberated through the whole colosseum as he introduced the champion!

What emerged was a hulking humanoid being... It stood as a colossal figure, breaching the very limits of what the eye could accept. At five meters tall, its presence alone crushed the air, as if the world itself struggled to contain it.

Its body was sculpted into impossible perfection. Muscles swelled and coiled beneath its skin like living steel cables, each movement sending ripples of raw, contained power across its form. Yet it was not flesh in the human sense; its entire body shimmered with a radiant golden sheen, as though forged in some divine furnace.

Every step it took felt deliberate. The ground seemed to acknowledge its existence.

Something covered its face. It wasn’t a mask, nor armor, nor bone. It had no clear shape, no edges the mind could follow. Looking at it for too long made the senses falter, as if the brain refused to process what it saw.

Yet, despite the lack of a visible expression, dread radiated from it in suffocating waves.

It didn’t need eyes to see. It didn’t need a mouth to command fear. It made Quinn’s skin crawl; even though he wasn’t watching it directly, the aura it released was dreadful enough to instill terror into one’s mind.

Yet the silhouettes sitting above didn’t care! They just chanted the name again and again and again!!

"PUNCH!!! PUNCH!!! PUNCH!!" The deafening sound made the colosseum feel small.

The host didn’t stop... he then introduced the other champion!

"THE CHAMPION OF QUARTER 32!! THE ALMIGHTY... PRIDE!!!!"