A week passed and there wasn't a single day where Arnold did not spar with Tiamut and Talos. Arnold had also finished building their gears and they were testing it out on each other. Thanks to the reinforced armour Arnold had made for Talos, Arnold was now able to use his fists at 85% of its full strength. Which in Arnold's eyes was more than enough as he did not expect them to fight anyone who was even as strong as that. 

Call it arrogance or overconfidence, but even System sama had to concur to that fact. If there was someone even as strong as Arnold they would have already gotten to know about them. As for what Johnny and Nicole were doing during this time... they too were exchanging fists trying to prepare for the next round. 

They had invited Arnold over too, but he was better off fighting someone close to his level. After all, both Nicole and Johnny were only at Cosmic S and Cosmic A levels respectively. Sparring with them would be like sparring with a punching bag. Arnold would be the only one dealing the punches and never receiving one in return. Thus he had to decline their offer. But he was kind enough to send Asterios and Natasha over to help them train. After all, even though it was only for the competition, he still didn't want them to suffer. 

As for the rest of the summons, Arnold had to force them to stay away. It was because he didn't want any one of them to accidentally get destroyed while the three of them were sparring seriously. 

Thanks to all the sparring they have been doing, Arnold could no longer afford to fight them without his armour on. He was afraid that fighting them without the armour on might necessarily trigger his defensive abilities and go under cooldown especially when he was trying to save them for the competition.

Also, after Zeus would see the surprise Arnold had made for him, he would certainly do something underhanded as usual to kill him. Thus, Arnold was saving his skills for that moment alone. As for his armour, it was taking all-out hits by Talos and Tiamut and not once had they even be able to as much as put a dent on the armour.

Then there was the sword Arnold had given to Tiamut. It was safe to say that doing so wasn't a good idea. Giving her the sword was equivalent to letting a newborn be in charge of taking care of nukes. She had gotten so excited and careless at one point that she almost destroyed the forge itself.  Arnold had to force her into submission before she got a hold of herself. 

As for Talos, in addition to the armour received a new and improved version of the Vindicator and a crapton of god slaying bullets. Arnold also used enhancement on both of them regularly and although he did not manage to increase their ranks, he managed to upgrade their stats by almost 30%, which was a huge amount especially considering how strong they already were. 

"Alright, that's enough for today." Arnold called an end to their sparring session, "We'll continue tomorrow again."

"Come on! One more round!" Tiamut enthusiastically roared while swinging her sword.

"Do you want me to take away the sword again?"

"No! I got it. No more sparring for the day." Tiamut immediately hid the sword behind her back.

"That's better."

However, before Arnold could say anything else, a notification popped up in front of him. His lips curved as he read the contents. However, he wasn't the only one to receive that notification. 64 contestants from over seven planets received that same notification too.

"It's about da.mn time." Arnold's smiled widened even more, "Looks like the watcher was waiting for us to get done with our training."

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Honourary Vassal, Greetings!

It is my pleasure to invite you to the final round of the grand event known as 'War of the Worlds'. There would be six rounds of battles. But before we get into that, let's discuss the division of the contestants first.

The vassals and paladins would be divided based on their ranks into 8 different groups. 

Each group would contain 8 vassals/paladins. All of these 8 contestants would have to battle the other contestants of the same group. After all the possible battles are over, the top 4 contestants of each group will proceed to the next round while the rest would have to either die or surrender to the ones who bested them. 

This sequence will continue till only 8 contestants are left. From then on the true knockout tournament will start. In quarterfinals, the contestants would have to face their opponents and the winner will proceed to the next round while the user will once again have to either accept death or surrender, hence acknowledging the other contestant as their master. 

However, these slaves would not be allowed to intervene in the battle and their ownership will transfer in case their master is either killed or defeated by someone else. With that being said, each contestant is allowed to bring two consorts with them. 

These consorts can aid their master in battle, however, each consort can only aid their master once per round. 

I hope you all have prepared well, as the round will start in: 48 Earth hours. 

Best wishes,

[The One who sees Everything].

P.S. All participants are requested to use their tokens to confirm participation in the next round as soon as possible. 

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Arnold did not waste a moment and placed the token on the weird-looking circular seal.

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Invitation accepted. Please be ready at the above mentioned time for departure. 

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"Looks like we will be training after all." Arnold looked at Tiamut and nodded.

He had 48 hours according to the time out of his domain. That meant, while inside the domain, he had six days to do his final preparations. It wasn't like he had much preparation left to do either way, other than to spar and rest.