The victory screen from Max Morgan's battle against Damian Voss slowly faded from the sky above the Eternal Hourglass.
The arena remained heavy with the lingering aura of that single sword clash. Even though the stage had already begun restoring itself under the golden laws of the Eternal Hourglass, countless spectators across the Divine Realm were still trapped in the memory of what they had just seen.
Damian had used the strongest sword attack of Sword Sovereign Heaven, pushing Throne Of The Only Sword to its absolute limit, while Max had answered with the Emotion Severing Path fused with the Saint Order Sword Art and severed the invisible connection that made Damian's final edict absolute.
Damian had lost, but no one could call that defeat humiliating. He had stood as one of the greatest swordsmen of the younger generation and had lost only after using the very peak of his sword path against an even stranger and more terrifying sword.
