Read Novel Full Chapter 519: Grim Student Examination (3)
Chapter 519: Grim Student Examination (3)
Fortunately, after crossing the forest, people could see each other without any deception from Grimverse.
Almond and Lily met up first and sat down.
As time passed, others also arrived one by one by detecting Regalon geneline of Almond and Lily.
Admiral Rudra, Big D, Kexell, Arjun, Viktor, and Julian met up eventually and sat down, waiting for the first round to finish.
Eight hours later, the announcement finally came.
[ The first round is over. Take a look at your scores and the leaderboard. The highest score is SSS, but even among SSS, there is a difference, as indicated in the leaderboard. ]
Everyone saw two windows in front of them.
[ Almond Regalon ]
-Round 1 Score: SSS
[ Leaderboard ]
Rank 1: Baratos Yelvain — SSS
Rank 2: Zuma Ongrai Zed — SSS
Rank 3: Almond Regalon — SSS
Rank 4: Lily Regalon — SSS
Rank 5: Mephis Vikans — SSS
Rank 6: Rudra Regalon — SSS
Rank 7: Dean Regalon — SSS
Rank 8: Dravos Quenrai — SSS
Rank 9: Keelthorn Drezmir — SSS
Rank 10: Kexell Regalon — SSS
Rank 11:...
The list went on until the last participant, which was 401. It was clear that the other participants were dead.
"We are not first," Almond muttered.
"That’s fine. Honestly, I would’ve been disappointed if we were first," Lily said with a grin.
They were always first, but it was in the lower world.
Here, there were many exceptional people and high walls for them to overcome, which was exactly what the Regalons hoped.
"Indeed. This just tells me we’ve got a long way to go to truly reach the peak," Admiral Rudra said with a laugh. "We are merely breaking through to the second-tier position, and we still have seven more to go after this."
"This is just perfect," Julian said with a chuckle. "While we try to get close to you in terms of combat power, you two will also have to surpass others."
Kexell grinned. "Correctly said, brat."
"I wonder how strong those two people are?" Viktor blinked as he looked at their names. "They must be from a different race than humans, right?"
"Most likely." Big D nodded.
Meanwhile, the other participants were surprised by something else.
Regalon.
There were five people in the top 10 with ’Regalon’ in their names. Moreover, there were two more in the top 20.
"Who are these people?"
"Is Regalon some kind of famous family that produces exceptional people?"
"Never heard of them."
The idle chat of the people didn’t last long as Grimverse’s announcements rang after a minute.
[ The top 3 will be rewarded with a Random Mystery Box. ]
[ The next round will start after a ten-minute break. ]
Almond saw a Random Mystery Box appearing in front of him.
"Let’s see what it gives."
He opened it without further ado.
Inside was a small thumb-sized crystal with a sparkling liquid giving blue and green hues.
"A crystal filled with liquid?" Lily raised her eyebrows.
Soon, everyone got their information upon looking at it.
[ Prominus Life Potion ]
—Grade: Tier-5
—Effect: After drinking this, it will create a mirror alteration of your existence, which can revive you from a drop of blood anywhere or a centimeter of flesh after you die. This will only work while you are at Tier-4 position or below.
"Drink it." Lily smiled. "It’s a great item."
"Yeah, I guess you got lucky with that. It doesn’t look like a low-quality thing if it can revive people from a drop of blood." Admiral Rudra nodded.
"You can store a drop of blood in the Spirit Voiderran Realm," Big D said with a grin. "In case there’s something that needs to risk life, you can go ahead without hesitation."
Almond nodded. "Yeah, it sounds good."
He directly devoured the whole crystal. It quickly melted and spread through his body.
Ten minutes passed by in the blink of an eye, and it was time for the second round.
[ Round 2 begins. ]
In an instant, everyone vanished from this world and arrived in another.
This time, the world was sunny with greenery.
All 401 participants were scattered across an exotic land stretching a thousand kilometers in radius, containing all kinds of biomes, shifting landscapes, and chaotic elements.
As each participants found themseleves in a wholly exotic place from each other, the announcement from Grimverse rang, explaining the round 2.
[ Round 2 begins. ]
[ Rules: Gather the highest number of points by conquering the Obelisks scattered across this world. ]
[ Challenges are divided into three types: ]
— Combat Hunts (slay Guardian Beasts)
— Trials of Wit (solve illusions and slay riddles)
— Speed Crown (reach the Obelisk’s peak before others)
[ Details: ]
—> Different series of Obelisks are connected to each other, with each Obelisk’s participant limit being 5, so five participants will randomly compete with each other on their performances in the three challenges mentioned above.
[ Duration: 3 days. ]
[ Every Obelisk conquered at rank 1 increases your overall score. ]
The earth shook as monolithic Obelisks of Verdancy surged upward from the ground, each towering hundreds of meters high, covered in green crystalline vines that glowed faintly. At their base, runes flickered to life, revealing choices.
[Obelisk of Dooming Strain]
Almond looked at the towering building that rose out of the verdant, utterly wild, greenary of this place.
He was already being attacked from all sides by exotic plant-life monsters.
Destructive vines rampaged around him.
Wild flowers unleashing chaotic elements.
Some of them released dimensional spores trying to break his Voidpulse Veil of Absolute Defense that could literally allow him to redirect and phase out most of the defense, with the exception being equally potent spatial techniques that could trace his skill’s structure and clash with the defense.
’I guess this is the difficulty we have to cross to reach the Obelisk.’ Almond narrowed his eyes.
’Billion Edge.’
In an instant, a destructive torrent of dark gold blades, each bordered with neon purple glow, sliced through everything within 100 meters of him, cleanly weeding out and destroying every single plant life.
’The space...’ Almond frowned.
He teleported, forcing in through unstable space, but suddenly found himself further away from the obelisk.
’Tsk.’
Reaching the obelisk was trickier than he thought.
The wilderness already grew within the exact two seconds he wasted.
’I guess I’ll have to force my way through this.’
Almond unsheathed his dual swords.
He stood calmly as his defense veil endured the attacks. With no cost of energy within his domain range, he unleashed a storm of blades around him that annihilated everything into dust and dashed towards the Obelisk.
But just as he was fifty meters away from the obelisk, a giant flower directly devoured him right from the ground.
’It escaped my radar?’ Almond was surprised.
Boom!
He was spit out at supersonic speed in the air, but Almond screeched to a halt as he forcefully locked space around him.
Shifting through, he swapped position with a shard of his blade on the ground using his second Grim Tree’s power.
Although he couldn’t swap positions with the plantlife here, he could swap positions with his own blades.
Shortly, he arrived at the Obelisk.
[ You can rest until the other participants arrive or 10 minutes pass by. If no one manages to come in, you can go ahead and start the challenge, acquiring default rank 1. Naturally, the score will depend on your performance. ]
[ Number of participants: 1/5 ]
’So I am first for this Obelisk of Doomed Strain.’
Almond sat down cross-legged in the mysterious hall he found himself in.
The other people were also having difficulty reaching the obelisk.
And all of them had an obelisk near their location.
But once this was over, they would have to travel to this chaotic land to find another Obelisk to gather points.
"This round will be interesting," Lily muttered as she also arrived at the obelisk near her—Obelisk of Twilight Lake, and got the message like Almond.