Divine Emperor of Death

In the spectator seats, Davis saw Princess Isabella getting the two rewards and heard people discussing about it.

'This is good... Princess Isabella wouldn't be financially constrained anymore...' He mused.

Beside him, Evelynn slightly nudged his arm which she was holding and eyed him to keep the paper talisman inside his spatial ring.

With an "Oh" of realization, Davis kept the paper talisman into his spatial ring with an embarrassed smile. He had forgotten to keep it inside since the paper talisman was fake through and through. 

He only took it out as a preparation to save Princess Isabella in case if she were to be cornered and rendered helpless. Even he did not expect for her to end the life of the Eighth Stage existence in a single strike!

'Looks like although the beast-like man's cultivation base increased to the Eighth Stage, his bodily defense remained the same at the Seventh Stage or failed to keep up with the rate of improvement, huh? Either that or she really used a powerful move to instakill that beast-like man...' 

Princess Isabella's sword skill could be said to be at the elementary level at best but the way she swung her sword, combined with the timing and her comprehension of Earth Laws poured behind her swing, instantly helped her decapitate the beast-like man's head.

Davis had been ready to use Fallen Heaven the moment the beast-like man pounced on her but he realized that she stood her ground without any fear while displaying confidence, making him hesitant to make a move instantly.

And that allowed Princess Isabella to clearly display her prowess to the entire crowd!

Davis then looked at Princess Isabella receive a few more rewards and he became momentarily surprised because he didn't think that they would be quite generous.

A High-Level King Grade Medicinal Pill which shone with a lustrous blue, capable of healing a person's dantian and meridian pathways from being damaged by fire-attributed or corrosive attributed attacks.

A Water Attributed Medicinal Pill, Tidal Wave Healing Pill!

A paper talisman that had an imprint of a hexagon along with a symbol of a frightening yet vivid lightning strike at the center.

A High-Level King Grade Inscription Symbol, Lightning Strike!

'Indeed, Ethren Empire is a Mid-Level Emperor Grade Power and they have the wealth to spare this much of rewards to the winner of the tournament.' 

Normally, with participants at the Peak Level Of King Grade participating, their rewards should be at Peak-Level by logic and right, but external treasures such as these were hard to come by, especially when the existing treasures are reserved for the royalty and other Eighth Stage Experts, it became extremely hard for people at the Peak of the Law Dominion Stage to possess treasures that are at the Peak-Level of King Grade.

Even the Grand Elder of the Tripartite Alliance didn't have Peak-Level King Grade Treasures. 

Davis garnered that even the spatial talismans he looted from the Grand Elder of the Tripartite Alliance were only at the High-Level King Grade. His guess was backed by the fact that the Grand Elder didn't seem to possess any Peak-Level King Grade Treasures.

'Aren't they giving out too many treasures then? Each of these treasures can become an heirloom for a family, at least, in a sense...'

Davis even had the thought that there were sponsors with malicious intentions, trying to take advantage of the winner of the tournament.

However, Davis didn't entirely know that his thoughts were close to reality.

There weren't any sponsors other than a single entity. 

The only sponsor was the Royal Ethren Family, and they willingly reward the winner of the tournament only because they would try to marry off one of their princesses to the Conferred King, and therefore indirectly recruit the Conferred King into their ranks.

This will form a connection to a future expert who might unexpectedly break into the Low-Level Law Sea Stage or above! 

If one of their princes won, then that naturally benefited them as well since the goods are kept within the family.

However, Princess Isabella's appearance made them experience a loss in this endeavor.

Due to a 'Miss Isabella's' unknown background, they didn't dare to rope her into their Empire.

Of course, if she were a cultivator without a background, then they would've tried their best, sending their princes at her, but they didn't know that 'Miss' Isabella was someone precisely without a background.

Keeping an Empire standing in the sands of time was no easy task. They have to be cautious of every move they make against a powerful person, lest they offend a superpower behind that person's back and successfully stab themselves in their asses.

Once Princess Isabella received all the four rewards, she looked at the beast-like man's spatial ring and thought of taking it for herself but then realized that it would bring suspicion to the identity of an 'adventurous spirit with a possible powerful background.'

Once she thought of it like this, she no longer cast a look at the spatial ring but looked at the corpse and asked, "Did this man die after consuming the blood essence or was he still alive when he had transformed into that beast-like form, only losing consciousness and becoming berserk?"

Princess Isabella was plenty curious about what had happened to the beast-like man's corpse in front of her. She wanted to know what happened after he had absorbed the blood essence of the unknown magical beast which looked like a tiger.

She cast a glance at the three of them from the Ethren Empire, expecting an answer as if she had never seen this phenomenon before.

Royal Protector Aleron wanted to gain the goodwill of Miss Isabella, so he instantly replied, "The chances that he could be alive is close to zero because after a person goes berserk, they lose their consciousness, sanity, and awareness completely, becoming something even lower than a Magical Beast."

"Although it can be said that this man was dead at that point after absorbing the blood essence, the possibilities he is still alive after going berserk still can't be ruled out since we are none the wiser."

Without another prompt from Princess Isabella, he explained further about the method, "The method that this man had used is generally called Magical Beast Transformation."

"This method is mainly used by people who have reached the end of their potential and with no other way to increase their lifespan or people who give in to temptation and quickly want to increase their cultivation even at the cost of abandoning their humanity and other important matters."

"I guess this man falls in the latter category." Royal Protector Aleron cast a derisive gaze at the beast-like man's corpse beside them.

"Abandoning humanity?" Princess Isabella muttered with a complex expression on her face.

"Yes, these people who all use this method are indeed abandoning their humanity. They will become a magical beast-like existence but are not magical beasts either. Hence, they are half-human and half magical beasts."

"Half-human and half magical beasts..." Princess Isabella repeated the term and asked, "What is the success rate of this Magical Beast Transformation then?"

"One can only estimate it to an unknown percentage since there are many unknown factors influencing the transformation. However, I would personally like to say it depends on one's cultivation and the potency of the blood essence absorbed!"

"Where do you think that this man gained the blood essence from?" Princess Isabella asked.

Royal Protector Aleron smiled.

"Of course, in the wilderness, from magical beast corpses. Although it is extremely difficult to extract blood essence, an alchemist would be able to refine the blood and turn the blood into blood essences with a few methods."

"So this matter is because of an alchemist?" Princess Isabella narrowed her eyes.