After half an hour, Sam finally broke through the room and came out without so much as a scratch.
On the other side, his opponent is still struggling. The spectators are unable to even look at his state. His body bleeding all over, the blood corroding at a rapid rate, his hair fell off and whatever that's left of his skin seemed to have been charred.
Now, he even lost his ability to move.
All they could see is that he is screaming at the top of his lungs. What they didn't know is that, he also lost his vision and the only thing he could see is an illusion that is torturing him just as much as the physical torture of other inscriptions.
He didn't look like the prospective candidate of the Zeus academy.
The arrogance and superiority that is usually associated with that identity has long since disappeared.