Chapter 84: String bound

[There is death near you]

[There is death near you]

[There is death near you]

Atlan lost his focus on the race as he saw the words in front of him. It didn't stop. It just kept popping up in his eyes like an endless scroll.

His intuition told him to look back toward the Colosseum. However, he couldn't see past the skyline. The tall buildings in the City obstructed his view from the Colosseum.

Despite seeing nothing but a peaceful and serene street behind him, he knew that there was something wrong. He was sure of it. And if he closed his eyes and tried to block out the sounds of chariots rumbling and rattling as they rolled on the street, he would hear a faint thunderous mix of roars behind him.

A part of him wanted to go back and reap all of those souls. But upon further thinking, Atlan shook his head.

If something is wrong, then I should warn the others. Judging from how many 'deaths' I'm sensing, then whatever's coming at us is in numbers even I can't count. And since I can't use my LifeSkills out in the open, I'd need the others to fight with me.

And the only way to do that was to go forward and warn them of whatever was coming towards them. He could hear it. And it was getting closer and closer to them.

He whipped his mount to go faster.

Out in the distance, he saw a large group of competitors in the street, about seven of them. From his enhanced vision, he saw that there were 5 Olympians and 2 Genesians.

What was weird about the five Olympians was that they weren't trying to race against each other. Instead, they occupied the whole length of the street and blocked anyone from passing them. Sёarᴄh the NovelFire.net* website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

This was one of their tactics to prevent the other Genesians from coming close to their top racers.

I'm in tenth place right now. If I pass them, there will only be three people left to surpass—NO. I'm here to warn them about the crisis.

With his Giraffe-Horse running at full speed, it didn't take long until he was able to catch up to the group.

Meanwhile, the two Genesians became more and more frustrated at the Olympians. Even though their horses were faster than them, they couldn't go forward because they were using dirty tactics to block the road.

Trying to squeeze past the Olympians was no easy task. Their seamless coordination allowed them to put as little space between each chariot without risking crashing between them. Not only that, their LifeSkills threatened to destroy anyone coming close to them.

The two Genesians were just about to give up, when all of a sudden, they heard an intense rumbling behind them.

And before they could even turn around, they suddenly saw a new chariot arrive in the middle of them. When they saw that his uniform corresponded with the Genesians, they were relieved. And when they looked at who was able to catch up to them, their eyes widened when they realized that it was the porter!

They didn't expect him to be able to keep up in the top 10. Heck, they didn't even expect him to subdue a Canzer at all.

Not only that, they realized that his chariot was the wooden chariot reserved for the last one to subdue a Canzer!

This meant that Atlan worked his way up from last place to 10th place! They considered their mounts to be fast, but even they didn't think that they could have overcome that gap in such a short amount of time.

How fast is his steed?!

Even the five Olympians up front couldn't help but look back at the newcomer. When they saw his face, they didn't recognize him. He wasn't one of the geniuses that they knew from Genesis City.

One of them finally recognized him.

"Hey! It's that porter!"

The rest of the Olympians couldn't help but take a good look at Atlan once they heard that. They simply couldn't believe that a porter was able to subdue a Canzer by himself without any damage-dealing LifeSkill to help him. If he had a higher realm, then it would have been more believable. But from what they knew, the porter was only in the 2nd stage Student realm.

They respected Atlan for his efforts. However, their eyes turned unfriendly once they saw his chariot advance towards them as if he wanted to overtake them.

Atlan opened his mouth, about to say something to them, when all of a sudden, he saw an Olympian's body glow a faint green.

"Avian Conjuration!" he shouted. White liquid flowed out of his hands and floated in the air. Using some hand signs, the white liquid slowly turned into two sharp-taloned doves.

These doves flew up in the air in a helix until they reached the apex of their flight. Then, they slowed to a stop. And as gravity pulled them down, they sped up towards Atlan like a rocket. They had their sharp talons armed and ready to maim their target.

"Slow down your chariot to avoid it!" screamed one of the Genesians towards Atlan. They almost lost their chariots from that attack.

Unfortunately, one of the Olympians already moved. She stretched her arms toward Atlan's wooden chariot and shouted;

"Adriane's String!"

A golden rope sprung out of her left hand and attached itself to Atlan's chariot. And with her Olympian strength, she tied the rope to her chariot, preventing Atlan from retreating his chariot to safety.

At this point, he would surely get hit in the chest.

They all thought Atlan would defend himself, but he didn't even try to do that!

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Atlan simply looked over the railings and grabbed the golden rope from the woman's LifeSkill.

The Olympian laughed to herself when she saw that.

"You won't be able to destroy a manifestation of my LifeSkill. Didn't they teach you about Savior basics? I'm a 3rd stage Student while you're only at the 2nd stage which means that you won't be able to overpower me. So unless you're in the 4th—"

But before she could say anything further, she saw Atlan snap the rope with his bare hands.

Her frayed golden rope lost all its luster. She looked at him. He was holding the two ends of her rope with a casual indifference.