At some point, the remaining participants had stopped trying to coordinate their attacks. They had begun fleeing individually, desperately searching for an opening in the darkness.
"Spare me!"
"Stop! We'll tell you who fanned the flames!"
Some begged for mercy, some offered treasures, and others cursed him and his evil family while attempting to unleash their strongest techniques in an attempt to take him down together, but none of it mattered as Azariel tanked those attacks without even having to defend properly.
A bunch of supreme geniuses, Heavenly Autarchs, the equivalent of Empyrean cultivators who cultivated the Transcendent Path, merely had a prowess of five levels higher on average.
A Heavenly Autarch had a prowess of four levels higher, a Kingly Autarch had a prowess of five levels higher, and an Empyreal Autarch had a prowess of six levels higher. Six levels was already considered extremely good, and in the preliminaries, such supreme geniuses colored the lands.
