Chapter 1296 - Survival Type Round?

"Less than 500 participants passed?"

Ajax was a little surprised; however, when he thought about the king realm cultivator's full cultivation pressure, he was no longer surprised.

Actually, Ajax expected at least 900 young participants from the non-summoner section to advance to the third round because the young cultivators from the other provinces would experience the cultivation pressure of a king realm cultivator from time to time.

Nevertheless, a king realm cultivator's full pressure was very hard for the young participants to endure for a few seconds, not to mention, they had to endure for two minutes.

"Overall, there will be 10500 young participants for the third round."

Ajax added the 10000 young participants from the summoner category and added with the young participants from the non-summoner category because from now on, there would be no difference between these two categories for the rest of the contest.

Each one of them has to go through the remaining rounds and every round would be the same for everyone.

"Yes."

Jeff nodded his head before going to his bed.

"Also, do you have any clue about the third round?"

Ajax was a little curious as he asked them about the third round.

"That's right! Actually, the old minister said that the third round will be inside a secret realm belonging to the Flerton kingdom."

This time it was Levi who replied to Ajax's question as he continued, 'Looks like it is going to be a survival type round.'

"A survival type round? In a secret realm?"

Ajax understood what Levi said as he replied, "So, are you guys planning to form teams? I am very sure that if it is a survival type round, the youngsters from other provinces will definitely form their own teams."

Even though Ajax didn't have to form any teams as he currently had 11 king realm spirit beasts under his care along with a dozen elemental spirits and the contracted spirit beasts each.

But, he wanted to help others in passing the round.

Even though his friends were strong, compared to the top geniuses from the other province, they were considered average and if by chance, they formed teams, then it would be hard for his friends to come out of the secret realm alive, not to mention passing the round.

"We are thinking about that. What do you say? Do you want to join us?"

Levi nodded his head as he asked Ajax to join them.

"Why not? I can see how powerful my friends are and at the same time, you can also see how powerful I became."

Even though Ajax was not planning to summon all his king realm spirit beasts out, if required, Ajax would go all out in using all his battle prowess.

"Great."

Levi and the rest of the youngsters became excited.

"Big sister Keshe, Brave and Princess Daphne, what about you? Are you going to join us in tomorrow's round?"

Lewis and others didn't know much about Keshe and Brave whereas Princess Daphne, didn't like her much and at the same time, they didn't hate her also because she was related to the Draton kingdom.

The feud between the Draton kingdom and the vagrant cultivators was there for two decades and since they were the disciples of the vagrant cultivators, they didn't want to become close with Princess Daphne.

Moreover, they also knew that the royal family had a hand in wiping their families from the face of the Zrochester province. So, no matter what, it was hard for them to act like they forgot everything that the Zrochester province did to their families.

However, for Ajax, he didn't care much about it as he asked Princess Daphne and others about joining their team.

"I…I will n."

"We will join."

Before Princess Daphne could give her reply, Princess Keshe agreed to join Ajax's team followed by Brave who said, "Of course, we will join and let's show that the youngsters from the Zrochester province are much better than the youngsters from the other province."

"That's good then. So, we two members have to find each other the moment we enter the secret realm and survive together."

Even though the third round being a survival type was not confirmed, the chances were high.

Also, if it was not a survival type round, they could just stay away from one another and fight others instead of fighting amongst each other.

Princess Daphne struggled a little before changing her words as she didn't retort to Ajax's words and joined the group.

'...'

No one showed any dissatisfaction when Ajax allowed Princess Daphne to join the group and they knew it was better for them to work together and survive to pass the round.

However, that doesn't mean they were going to speak to her normally from now on. To them, she is just a member of the group and if her help was required, she would help them.

"Everyone, go and take a rest. Tomorrow will be the actual start of the contest and we have to prove that we are better than the participants from the other provinces."

Paulin shouted loudly as he made everyone go to their beds and Ajax was also one of them.

…..

In one of the normal demon worlds around the Purple stone world.

"Damn it….We lost five smaller demon worlds."

"Among them, three smaller demon worlds are directly under my control."

"I have one."

The three golden demon apostles were cursing the one who destroyed the smaller demon worlds under their control.

According to their plan, demons would open multiple portals in the Ylercestere province at the same time and before the powerful cultivators and the protectors of the Purple stone world could react, they would destroy half of the Ylercester province.

However, they lost five smaller demon worlds, making them lose five portals to the Ylercester province.

It was just for the demon apostles of the Golden demon emperor, the other demon apostles were also more or less in the same situation, worrying about the destruction of the smaller demon worlds under their control.

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A Bonus Chapter for every 100 Golden Tickets.