Chapter 491: Brock vs. Starhair
Sophie dropped everything she was doing to arrange the duel. She also informed everyone she knew, apparently, because what seemed like half the New Cathedral arrived with her.
“Hello, Jack, Brock!” she shouted as she flew closer. She wasn’t a D-Grade, so she couldn’t really fly, but she wore what resembled a space mech suit. Jack had never seen that before—it must have been a luxury item for E-Grades.
“Hi Sophie,” Jack replied. “Nice clothes.”
“Thanks! It’s new!” she exclaimed, doing a little twirl. Her voice came robotic through the suit—which apparently utilized some Dao device to spread the sound in the vacuum. “Are they about to start?”
“I think so.”
“Quick! Quick! Set up everything, guys, we must get good shots!”
At her command, her entire crew of photographers, projection stone specialists, and all sorts of media experts fanned out. They established themselves in various positions to ensure they had a good outlook no matter which direction the battle spread in. Of the entire crew, only Sophie was an E-Grade. Out of the entire audience, in fact, she was one of the few people wearing mech suits.
Thousands of people spread out on a barren, airless celestial body. It was the moon of a large, uninhabitable planet in the New Cathedral’s solar system, on which Brock and Starhair were set to duel.
This wasn’t the original location of the duel. After all, with two people at roughly the peak B-Grade power level duking it out, any nearby planet was bound to be destroyed. They’d originally selected an empty region of space, but Sophie swooped in, claiming she’d already gotten permission from the Arch Priestess to use a planet. She said it would make for a much more impressive battle. Basically, she wanted to make this duel a public event which would go down in the history books, using it to further increase Jack and Brock’s fame.