Chapter 385: Point System

Chapter 385: Point System



Sylas looked around. "I'm being forced to wait? Interesting..."

He was starting to understand why his words had been so effective against Vayu. It seemed that he had stumbled into some good luck after all.

He looked around, hoping that there would be rewards of some sort. Usually, there would be more to gain from a Dungeon than just whatever the final rewards were. But unfortunately, though he had finally had some good luck, it wasn't that exaggerated.

There was nothing here at all. Well... other than the barrier.

"The barrier..."U//ppTodated fr/o/m nô/v/e/lb(i)n.c(o)\/m

Sylas looked at it, activating Enchanted Scholar. These days, it was too easy to use this Gene Talent. Usually, it would have some strain on his Wisdom, but between Rune Soul lowering the requirements, and Unyielding Scholar boosting his Wisdom to ridiculous levels, he didn't even feel it much.

He had kept it active all through those nine steps, actively using Rune Soul to disperse his targets, yet he didn't feel any fatigue at all.

"Another fascinating application of Rune Mastery..."

Sylas carefully touched the barrier. It looked ethereal, but it was as hard as aged ice compressed beneath millions of years worth of snowfall.

Clearly, this barrier was relying on Ice-Poison Runes, or rather, Frostbane Runes? But it was so much more powerful than what Sylas was capable of despite the fact it should have been the weaker Rune. After all, Sylas could control two Runes with 11 more Foundations than what was found here.

Then there were those spirit wolves. That was definitely another application of Ice-Poison Runes, but Sylas couldn't even fathom completing something so intricate. He didn't even understand how you could turn Runes into something that felt so... real.

Logically, it should be possible. After all, Runes were the foundation of the world, its fundamental laws. Since life sprung from the world, Runes should have the innate ability to grant life.

But he couldn't see how one could make the leap from one to the other nonetheless. It was too complicated for even him to wrap his head around.

If he had to guess, it was likely the system doing the heavy lifting again. It was more than likely that whoever created those wolves had a Class Skill that did it for them.

Still, the first thing Sylas noticed wasn't the fact that Vayu and his team had appeared across from him, but it was rather the fact that there were several spawn points for wolves as well. "Why would there need to be spawning wolves if this is a head-to-head battle?"

There was a possibility that it was just for an added layer of chaos, but Sylas didn't feel that this was the most likely choice. There was already supposed to be a 10v10 battle, why would they need more chaos?

"Point system?"

Sylas looked toward Vayu's team and realized two things. First, they were all scanning the area as though they were looking for something, and second...

They were tired.

"There's no reason for them to be so tired with their strength unless... they rushed here?"

Suddenly, it all clicked for Sylas at once.

He took the initiative, moving first.

"This must be a point-based victory. The point shouldn't be to kill your opponent, instead it's more like capture the flag where your opponent is a hindrance."

The moment Sylas realized this was the moment he also realized that he had already all but won. His visualization had a 30 meter range that could cover almost half of this "arena". He could easily claim a large number of points while they were still waiting for the wolves to

spawn.

But he didn't choose to do so.

That was because for the sake of his Gene Talent and to deal with the inevitable next rounds,

he needed at least one of them to die... and there was no better time than when they were both

tired and distracted.