Odyssey of the Blind God

"Stop the battle!" The Referee\'s voice rang through the arena of the Colosseum and Nial stopped moving immediately.

He stepped back from the half-dead body of the Heligav Assassin and smiled lightly as he turned in the Referee\'s direction.

Nial accessed his spatial ring, he retrieved the same potion he had been holding before and cheered the vial toward the Referee before he led it toward his mouth. After he swallowed the content, Nial felt the changes that occurred in his hand. The broken bones would heal quickly and there wouldn\'t be the need for him to waste his time resting up.

The Referee frowned in Nial\'s direction but he didn\'t say anything. He gestured with his right hand and a group of medics rushed toward Jivam to make sure that he would survive.

"Next time, you should stop earlier. I can tell that you knew he wouldn\'t be able to fight back after you created this weird…darkness flood," the Referee said, but Nial shook his head and snapped back at the Referee\'s comment.

"Just do your job and stop the fight when one side is unable to continue fighting. That would be much better than accepting bribes, don\'t you think so?" Nial said the first sentence out loud while he mumbled the last one in a voice quiet enough only for the Referee to hear.

"I might not be able to see but don\'t think that nobody noticed what you\'ve been doing before the battle started. As you said before, I might not know the rules but I am not stupid!" Nial declared in an ice-cold voice that rang in the Referee\'s ears.

The Referee wanted to say something but he turned quiet after understanding that he didn\'t have any cards to play against Nial.

Ryu rushed to Nial while chirping joyfully. The wingless Gryphon hadn\'t been worried about Nial for a single moment, otherwise, he wouldn\'t have been so calm when he had been standing next to the Referee.

Nial began to pat Ryu as he left the arena. He ignored the attention he received from the various influential spectators as he walked toward the attendant, who had verified his bet with the Heligav.

"Hello Sir. I was told the result of your battle, congratulations!" The Attendant bowed politely to Nial as he spoke. Nial could only smile weirdly as he handed his Insignia to the attendant.

"The contribution points of the bet have been transferred to your insignia. Because this is your first time using the Colosseum, the Colosseum won\'t charge a fee for your first bet. You may use contribution points that have been stored in your insignia for anything else you desire!" The attendant explained calmly before he returned the insignia.

He prepared a few more things and returned to his other work afterward, not bothering anymore about Nial.

\'3,000,000 contribution points are quite a lot…I wonder what I should buy with them?\' He began to think hard about possible purchases.

It was not as if he would purchase more resources to keep practicing the 10,000 Refinements of Imperfectia technique for another half a year or year right now.

Instead, it would be better to take a look at various shops to see if there was a suitable ability crystal for him to purchase before he would leave Alliance City to complete some Guild Missions.

Even if he had enough contribution points to focus on increasing his strength, that didn\'t mean he would focus on that solely. He wanted to go on a walk with Ryu, conquer a few dungeons and test the full extent of his newly improved strength.

Nial looked forward to it and he was just about to leave the Colosseum when he perceived a bunch of rowdies, the same Heligav who had bet against him before.

"Give me my points back!" The leader of the Heligav group from before shouted at him. His mana was unstable and it looked like his emotions were about to explode at any moment.

Nial may only be able to perceive others using his range of perception and [Mana Sense] but that was still more than enough to tell how others were feeling, sometimes.

"I don\'t want to do that though," Nial said, shrugging his shoulders as he began to smile lightly, "How about we place another bet?"

The Heligav Leader stared daggers at Nial, ready to throw his fist when he heard his comment about a bet.

"A bet? What kind of bet are you talking about?!" He asked, his voice overflowing with anger. The leader of the Heligav group was still not able to digest that Nial had tricked them, that a mere human, a cripple, had played around with them.

Nial had humiliated him and their higher ups had told them to return the 3,000,000 contribution points or to be ready for a Hellish punishment.

The higher authorities of the Heligav were already displeased that the Blade Obliteration Academy had been humiliated by the Thousand Bodies Refinements Dojo, especially in front of the higher ups from more than 10 powerful organizations.

But that was not everything because the higher ups of the 10 organizations had been drawn to the Thousand Bodies Refinements Dojo. They were interested in why a human had been accepted in the Dojo where only Valxians were supposed to be eligible to join, and how Nial could have become so powerful.

With today\'s battle and the publicity, the Thousand Bodies Refinements Dojo had attracted it was only a matter of time before they would grow.

Until now, their growth might have stagnated because the Heligav had always intercepted.

But that wouldn\'t be possible from today onward because the Dojo had garnered too much attention This frustrated the higher ups of the Heligav race even more than the loss of three million contribution points.

However, instead of worrying about that, it was necessary to make up for their losses, otherwise the growth of their own organzations would start stagnating.

"You can bet your life and 2,999,999 contribution points and I might consider betting three million contribution points!" Nial declared the bet he had in mind without feeling the slightest bit odd about what he had just said.

However, the leader of the small Heligav group didn\'t feel that Nial\'s words were the slightest bit amusing. He stared daggers at Nial and started growling.

"What the hell are you talking about, you fucking bastard!?!" He roared out, attracting the attention of the spectators that were just about to leave the Colosseum after they had watched the earlier battle.

"What am I talking about? Well, that\'s quite simple, but let me explain it to you so that even someone like you will understand it, okay?" Nial spoke calmly and slowly as if he was trying to explain to a three-year-old what was going on.

"I valued your life at one contribution point, which means that you will have to bet the remaining points to make a wager worth three millions points. I was quite generous to put any value on a trashy life such as yours don\'t you think?" He explained, flashing a bright smile at the leader of the small group of Heligav.

Nial initially planned to show a serious expression in the Heligav\'s direction but he was way too amused to achieve this. Thus, he began to smile in the same direction without feeling the slightest bit odd about it.

Other Originals, who had heard Nial began to laugh lightly and the expression of the Heligav changed in response. He began to fume in anger and clenched his jaw.

Tremendous amounts of mana surged through the Heligav\'s body as he dashed forward all of a sudden. A dagger had manifested in his hand and killing intent started to leak from his body.

Nial didn\'t expect the Heligav to be stupid enough to attack him in the open but it was not as if he could be bothered about this. On the contrary, it was quite advantageous in Nial\'s opinion.

There were many witnesses, whom Nial could use to justify his actions. Thus, he manifested a Broken Tier-2 runic weapon from his spatial ring to defend against the Heligav\'s attack and kill him with a counterattack.

However, it was just when Nial wanted to move when he heard that someone cleared his throat.

This someone had appeared next to Nial all of a sudden and by simply lifting his hand the charging Heligav at the Peak of the Prometheus rank stopped mid-air.

"What do you think you\'re doing in my Colosseum?!"