The tournament continued to run smoothly. Matches had already been going on for several hours. By now, a clear pattern had formed. William's side won most of the straight power battles. Their mechanical advantage showed itself again and again in every pairing. When the ancient gods from William's universe got pushed hard, they activated their innate divine abilities. The principle traces hidden inside those abilities shifted the balance of power in ways that the Supremes from Willith's universe had no proper way to handle.
On the other side, Willith's cultivators managed several upsets. They used clever technique combinations that William's side had never seen before. These approaches were so different from the unified system in William's universe that even the fights they lost gave both sides very valuable new information.
