Chapter 164 Labyrinth: Darkin Blues (13/13)

Arkhen and others saw the pillar at the center disappearing in just two seconds before countless wisps of dark blue flame-like structure manifested.

All people on the floor gulped in nervousness and excitement as they wondered what kind of monster they would face…

Soon, the number of dark blue wisps increased even more as they covered a thousand square meter area at the center.

Afterward, they slowly started merging as a darker black hue spread over them. A few seconds later, a giant skeleton monster whose skeleton body was black with dark blue patterns carved on them appeared.

A giant scythe appeared in the monster's hand along with a black robe that covered its body. Its eye sockets were empty, but after it fully manifested, two dreadfully dark blue wisps appeared in them.

Quickly afterward, it opened its mouth before releasing a sharp and loud screech.

*Screeeeeeeeech!!!*

Someone attacked the monster as it screeched, causing something to appear in the air near the high ceiling.

It was a mystical cloudy leaderboard panel that appeared like this:-

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[Leaderboard]

1st Rank— 24

2nd Rank— ???

3rd Rank— ???

…

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The ranks went on to 50th Rank on the leaderboard.

After that first attack, people started attacking the monster, but not even two seconds later, the monster did a spin with his scythe, releasing a dark blue wave in all directions!

"Baloth, defend!" Gereld said.

Baloth used his power and created a golden barrier that blocked the dark blue wave.

After blocking, Arkhen waved his right hand and released Oblivion Slash!

*Swoosh…*

-1st Rank: 135

Since the slash ignored all damage, Arkhen became temporary first rank with 135 points since that number appeared on the 1st rank right after he attacked.

But soon, many people started attacking, making his 135 points disappear from the top 10.

The rankings didn't mention names, but they just showed the damage dealt by people.

Gereld and others also started hurling their attacks from afar.

Yeezy and Jeizy were close-range fighters, but they could still release powerful attacks from afar as they released potent fist projectiles and other types of attacks toward the boss.

Arkhen was also rapidly firing his Slaughter Blades from his Dragon Blade weapon as he looked at the details of this monster.

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||Darkin Blues||

-Monster ~ Unique

-Life: [10,000,000/10,00,000]

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'That's it?' Arkhen was surprised.

[Its other parameters are unstable as this is a unique monster].

*Roarr!!*

Darkin Blues shouted as it disappeared from its place and appeared at the far left side of the ground, on top of a group before waving its large skeletal palm to release a dark blue bubble before disappearing again and appearing at the center.

"What the fuck? It will attack like that?" Arkhen uttered in surprise. "Will they even survive?"

Arkhen got his answer the next second as the dark blue bubble trapped the entire group inside. While trapped, they were feeling intense burn and heat, causing them damage. However, all of them used their attacks and broke free of the bubble before it could damage them more.

"As long as we focus on survival on this floor, the chances of death are low," Farin said. "Ultimately, this floor is a final rewarding floor."

"Haha, labyrinths are still less dangerous than real danger zones in the 1st realm," Jeizy said with a laugh.

…

*Screech!!*

When Darkin Blues was left with half of its Life, it loudly screeched and dispersed its body into countless dark blue wisps.

"Be careful! This seems like some tricky life-threatening attack!" Gereld said as took out the Area Immunity Potion and smacked it on the platform.

Everyone bathed in the immunity motes as they got an immunity buff.

On the other hand, the countless dark blue wisps spread towards everyone! Each group of people was surrounded by hundreds of dark blue wisps.

This mysterious attack caused the temperature of the entire floor to rise very high.

Arkhen pointed his right hand at the wisps and released Slaughter Blades from his weapon. Others also attacked the wisps.

However, the moment they destroyed the wisps, it resulted in the destroyed wisps releasing a burst of dark blue beams toward them.

Other people also did the same, resulting in them freezing into Popsicles! But Arkhen and the group did not freeze due to the immunity buff.

There were also other groups with immunity buffs that did not freeze.

Knowing that destroying the wisps resulted in freezing, many other groups that were observing instead of recklessly attacking did not attack the wisps and just endured the burning and heating from them.

Some of the groups that froze into Popsicles managed to break free from the frozen status with their powers.

Arkhen saw one group's two members break out of the freezing status, but the other two people in the group who failed to break out were suddenly blasted because of the heat from the wisps.

Dead!

'Jeez… Well, at least they had a quick death,' Arkhen wryly smiled.

After several more seconds, the remaining wisps gathered together to form into the boss, Darkin Blues! However, because the destroyed wisps were a part of its body, its Life also decreased in proportion to the number of wisps destroyed!

In short, that wisps attack from the boss was also an opportunity to rack in more damage to get a high ranking on the leaderboard!

Of course, nobody knew who was the first, second, third, or any rank by now. All of them just focused on attacking, defending, and dodging various large attacks of Darkin Blues.

So far, several people died, but most of them were alive and attacking the boss.

Arkhen also released several Oblivion Slashes on the boss after filling the Oblivion Gauge many times.

Finally, after five more minutes…

*Graaaa*

Darkin Blues uttered a death cry before it burst into countless blue sparks and disappeared.

Right after that, the top ten people had their personal chests upgraded to the Divine grade, but except for the top ten themselves, nobody else knew who they were.

Aside from that, the rest of the people's tattoo's glowed slightly, increasing the reward in their personal treasure chest according to the damage they dealt to the boss.

Arkhen was not surprised that he did not even come into the top 50 as he had truly seen the real power of these 3rd class powerhouses here. Even though he had a powerful weapon, his damage was far cry from these people.

Arkhen could use his Elemental Deck to deal damage, but he did not want to consume the rest of the cards.

"Let's leave first. We can open our personal treasure chest later. It will still stay in the tattoo form for the next 12 hours," Gereld said as he conjured wings behind his back and flew up.

Everyone also flew up before moving towards the center of the floor where a large gate had appeared. It was the exit gate.

After appearing outside on the Northern Omar Island, Gereld took out the flying ship from his storage ring. The first thing he did after taking his flying ship was to raise the flag of the Bariat Kingdom.

"Let's wait for ten minutes before departing," Gereld said as he jumped on the ship before waiting for people to appear who initially arrived here on his ship.

Various flying ships were quickly leaving the island while some waited as Gereld did.

"Doesn't this seem like a good time for people to attack other people and steal the things they gained?" Arkhen asked as he looked around in this vast island's open ground filled with people.

"It will happen to people without backing," Yeezy said as a wry smile appeared on her face. "The people who didn't arrive on a flying ship will have scuffles on the island as they try to leave. Gereld also raised the flag of the Bariat Kingdom, which will make other greedy people steer away from us. If not, some shabby-looking flying ships will also be targeted."

"But such shabby-looking ships without any flags are also baits oftentimes," Yeezy said, smiling ruefully. "The ship is not good-looking or powerful, but people inside them are. It's better to leave quietly without raising greed to not hit an iron plate while trying to kick some people."

"True," Arkhen said with a nod before grinning. "Purposefully making oneself weak to bait others… It sounds like something I would love to do, hahaha."

After waiting for a while, more than half of the people returned back to the ship. But several people still didn't return, indicating that they either died or.... maybe left via other means? Welp, this was unlikely.

"Let's go below," Gereld said to his group with a smile after taking off the ship. "I'll show you what type of rewards you get from a Divine-grade chest."

Hearing him, Arkhen and others were startled!

Gereld came into the top 10?!