Chapter 3962: A Single Hour

"He... sat down?" the Spear God asked, looking around. "Is that allowed? Can he just start meditating?"

The other gods weren’t so sure either. The Golden God rubbed his beard as he thought and then nodded. "Sky God, how long does one usually have before they must simply concede?" he asked.

"Well..." Newheaven looked around. "Normally that would be something both parties would come to terms on, wouldn’t it? But... we can’t ask them."

The Golden God nodded. "He’s already started meditating, so disturbing him is not possible. As such, we should be the ones to come to the decision."

The Sky God turned toward the Fire God. "What do you think?"

The Fire God shrugged and removed his Sun from existence, leaving behind a molten arena and an atmosphere that still felt burning hot.

"I am perfectly happy with letting the audience decide on things. Just, don’t make it too long."

"I say a minute," the Storm God said as he leaned on his arm. "We should just move on to the next one already since he failed twice."

"But it wasn’t a normal failure," Bladedance added. "You all know what happened. Expecting an Immortal to easily overcome an Axiom is no different than condemning him to a loss before the battle even started."

"Well..." the Storm God couldn’t come up with a response.

"I hate to have this go on for too long, but I do agree with the Sword God," the Forest God said. "If nothing else, we should at least give the young man some chance to prove something. I would say half an hour should suffice."

"I say that is too long," the Ocean God replied, lightly yawning as he said so. "We all know what is going to happen in the end. The kid has already lost, even if we give him the entire day. You cannot expect him to simply learn someone else’s Axiom. That would be absurd."

"Absurd is where he flourishes the best," Bladedance said. "The very fact that he stands on that stage, challenging an established Half-God to a duel is already absurd, and yet you doubt he can do it again?"

The Ocean God tilted his head slightly and shrugged.

"Half an hour to an hour sounds fair," the Winter God said after some thought. "This might be the end of the duel afterwards, so we might as well give him this opportunity to do what he can."

"An hour," Bladedance said without hesitation.

"Half an hour," the Storm God said on the other side.

"We will move to a vote," the Sky God said before the group could devolve into a flurry of back-and-forths where no one could convince the other of anything. She quickly held the votes, asking not just the gods, but everyone.

While the Fire God had more people who thought of him as a god, enough people were interested in Alex that they allowed him as much time as they could, which in this situation was a single hour.

"It is decided then," the Sky God said. "At the end of the hour, if young Dawnblade hasn’t produced his own Sun for comparison, he will have been considered to have failed this portion of the duel."

Everyone nodded along as the decision had been made. And so, they could only wait for Alex to be done.

The Sky God returned to the seat at the middle of the arena and leaned back and waited. She looked around at the gods who had begun discussing the earlier contests themselves and how Alex had done more or less well. However, while Alex had won all of the four contests before this, he hadn’t done it so convincingly before, except for perhaps when he showed them his artifacts.

Having two Primordial artifacts was still something many could not easily reconcile with. Most of them still wondered if he had more and was just hiding them. They wondered what else he had.

The Sky God waited around, quietly listening to everyone’s conversation. As she did, she noticed something that she hadn’t realized before.

The Mind God was missing.

’When did he leave?’

The entire contest had been so overwhelming in aura and revelations that she hadn’t managed to even realize the Mind God having left the arena. She could not force a god to sit through the contest, so she couldn’t do much with the fact that the man had left.

She returned her attention to Alex and waited for him to be done.

Alex had slowed down time inside the formation while time itself was already slowed down. That allowed him to slow down time to nearly a hundred times as slow, without forcing too much mental burden on himself. His Spiritual energy was running low, so he did the only thing he could do in this moment and ate a pill to help with it.

At the same time, he used his Divine Qi to activate his Nine Sun Robe’s Sixth Sun: Sun Eater.

That replenished a little of his Divine Qi, which was okay at best since he had to refine it properly before using it again, but what was best of all was that it replenished his Spiritual energy. And a lot of it, in fact, to the point where he could redo it over and over again, and always be in the surplus so long as the sun was out.

At some point, the Fire God took away the replica sun next to him, but even without it, the Axiom still remained. At the Celestial realm, the Fire God should have been able to take back his Axiom, but letting it be was where his advantage lay, so he wouldn’t.

That allowed Alex to learn it without any worries of it running out. The only worry was that the contest would come to an end before he did, but the Sky God had sent him a message just earlier.

He had been given an hour to do whatever he could.

With the hour being over a hundred hours for him, Alex concentrated on the Axiom and sought to learn it entirely.

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