Chapter 719: A Terrific First Trial
Chapter 719: A Terrific First Trial
Even though there was the threat of death both in the tower trials and in the reward room, none of the students were at all surprised, revealing to Zeras that everyone was already well aware of the operations.
A couple more things that weren’t that noteworthy were also explained by the faerie, and soon she came to a conclusion, quickly rounding everything up.
Once she was done with explaining, she brought out a staff from thin air and began drawing a rune in the sky.
A rune that quickly enlarged until it turned into a gaping vortex that created a dark force on everyone present in the place.
“This is the portal to the first tower. The trial name is Eerie Realm Chaos! I hope you all good luck, and remember these words:
SIDESTEP THE FRAY AND PURSUE WITHDRAWAL...” she loudly called out before disappearing into thin air, and immediately Zeras’s eyes narrowed at her last words.
“Sidestep the fray and pursue withdrawal. Just what does that mean?” he mused before turning to the small girl who also had her eyebrows furrowed but soon turned to Zeras and gave her answer.
“The faerie’s last word is the key to passing the trial. But it’s never easy to crack by thinking. People could better understand once they’re in the tower itself.
So this still holds priority...” she answered to him as Zeras hummed before immediately the vortex’s dragging force increased monumentally, and powerfully they were all quickly sucked in, disappearing into the gaping vortex that soon closed up after swallowing every one of them.
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THUUUMP
A gentle sound was made as Zeras’s leg made contact with the ground, and he landed crouched, his wary eyes quickly scanning around the place and he quickly came to a conscious awareness of where he was.
At the front, back, and all sides of him was a never-ending grassland of green.
Raising his head up, he could see a beautiful blue cloud, and the air in the place gently blew his clothes around him.
Dumbly, Zeras watched as the gigantic dead bodies began piling out from the ground, quickly assembling themselves, and the floor watched over by the crimson rain all began cracking up, giving way to massive undead giants.
“Their aura...It’s impossible!” Zeras said in shock, and without waiting a second more, he turned back and the hill beneath his feet gave way, crashing onto the ground with a loud thud as the entire otherworlders witnessed a figure rapidly running into the distance.
“RUN!”
Without saying much more than that, Zeras poured every bit of his energy into trying to get away as far as possible.
Of course, even though Zeras warned for all to run, none of the other otherworlders moved an inch and instead stared at the area where Zeras was running away from.
Their eyes also narrowed when they looked at the strange environmental condition, but most had their chests dropped to the ground when they watched titans rise from the ground.
An undead titan of unparalleled terror towering over a thousand meters high.
Its skin had decayed and became mottled, revealing the damned blackened bone and sinew.
Eyes like smoldering pits of malevolent green fire pierced the light, casting the entire world in an unholy and eerie, sickly light.
Each of their steps sent tremors through the earth, the ground itself seemingly recoiling from fear, and all vestiges of life draining from it.
Jagged teeth, yellowed and lined their cavernous maws which emitted a bone-chilling wail that echoed with the voices of thousands of lost souls.
The ordinary breeze that gently blew through the garden was quickly replaced by the arrival of the dark cloud, and crimson rain was quickly replaced with the stench of rot that filled the air to the brim, suffocating some of the otherworlders.
“They...they are all at the...Undying rank!!!” an otherworlder finally released the terrifying words, faces of mighty geniuses paled.
“RUN!”