For a long moment, silence hung over the grand gathering like a thick fog as everyone processed the revelation, countless experts staring at Max in utter shock, their eyes wide with disbelief, because of the accusations from the Thunder Monarch Hall and Void Soul Tower had swirled of a mysterious youth who had supposedly slain prodigies at the peak of the Legend Rank, and they had all imagined some secret monster in human skin, a youth whose strength was veiled and monstrous.
Yet here he stood before them, calm and fearless, revealing himself as nothing more than an 8th-level Master Rank expert—someone powerful by ordinary standards but still utterly incapable of slaying geniuses standing at the pinnacle of Legend Rank.
Whispers rippled through the crowd like waves cresting on a restless sea, as experts leaned toward each other, murmuring in confusion and shock.
