Theron's name was nowhere to be seen on the leaderboard. After the series of events related to the Ice Spirit, the bags of holding he was using to contain his Ice Spirit Crystals had shattered, leaving nothing at all behind.
His name plummeted off the list, falling into the zeroes around disciples that had long died or had far too little sway to even get their hands on a single crystal.
However, this wasn't an unexpected result to the spectators. If the Tribulation was truly Theron's, then this made perfect sense. It wasn't something they couldn't see coming, but it was something that left them filled with uncertainty.
Was Theron alive? Was he already dead?
They wouldn't have the answer to this until the Forest of Ice closed and the disciples came out.
However, unsurprisingly, First Elder Bertrum was having the time of his life. Did it matter all that much?
