Chapter 253 1st Floor

A giant flying ship left the Cherry Blossom Mountain Sect with four peak masters and several vice-peak masters.

Lady Rong became the peak master of Illusion Flower peak after Arkhen took Ferian under his control.

A total of seventy-three 7th-class disciples were on the ship aside from Arkhen and Sierra.

After ten minutes, the flying ship arrived at the location, and they saw a huge demonic gate with seven dark purple flame swords floating on top of the demonic gate of this tier-7 labyrinth.

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There was a huge flying ship, all dark, floating one kilometer away from the gate. It was Dark Shadow Tower's ship.

The Labyrinth gate's entrance was facing west direction while both flyings ships were in the north and south directions.

Arkhen, Sierra, and other 7th-class disciples of the sect flew out of the ship following the Peak masters and vice peak masters towards the Gate's entrance.

"Humph, the weak cherries are here."

As they arrived at the entrance, they saw a bald old man with a long black beard mocking them.

"Disciples. Here's the lesson of the day," the peak master of Spirit Blossom peak said with a smile as he turned to the disciple and then continued after looking at the bald old man, "Never respond to barks, got it? Because in the end, they only bark and can't bite."

"Pff!…"

"Haha, that peak master can roast, alright," Arkhen said as he snickered.

The people of Dark Shadow Tower felt slight anger, but in this situation, they could indeed only bark!

If they tried to bite, a full-on war would start, and it would result in mass causality. Neither side wanted that, and the peak master of Spirit Blossom took that into consideration before speaking.

As such, no more mocking or cold war started. Members of Dark Shadow Towers and disciples of the Cherry Blossom Mountain sect entered the Labyrinth entrance gate silently.

Arkhen and Sierra went ahead before the other disciples followed. Those who wanted to stay in the group held their hands.

Arkhen and Sierra didn't want to add anyone else to the group. A few people asked on the ship, but Arkhen rejected all of them.

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The members of Dark Shadow Tower who entered inside roughly numbered around eighty.

After both sides' disciples and members entered, the bald man, who was silent until now, sneered and said, "Let's see how many of your disciples come out alive or… Maybe none will come out alive, hahaha."

The peak masters and vice peak masters just smiled in response and didn't say anything.

Someone from the back released a sound of barking, causing the face of the bald man to turn red and black.

"Someone just barked again. But ignore it," the peak master of Spirit Blossom Peak said with a smile.

…

Arkhen and Sierra arrived in a barren land with a dark sky. There were already hundreds of people present everywhere in this barren land!

The 1st floor of the labyrinth was usually the one in which many people would need to work together to defeat the boss.

There was a huge countdown written in sparkling red works in the sky.

[5:41]

Five minutes and forty-one seconds…

Five minutes and forty seconds…

"Senior Arkhen!"

Arkhen and Sierra turned in the direction of the voice and saw a group of ten Cherry Blossom Sect disciples walking toward them.

"Can we work together on this 1st floor? We would feel safe with you," a man in his twenties with dark green hair said. He appeared to be the leader of the group.

"Alright. Send a signal in the sky as well and call all of our sect's disciples here," Arkhen said with a nod.

"Awesome. Thanks a lot, senior Arkhen," a girl with a long red hair ponytail said. She wore a martial artist-like outfit and punched in the sky as a red energy line shot before exploding into words.

<!Cherry Blossom Mountain Sect!>

Seeing the big words, many people were startled but soon understood.

The disciples of Cherry Blossom Mountain Sect who were scattered around on this barren land also got the signal and quickly flew towards Arkhen and others.

Soon, twenty-seven people arrived!

"Arkhen, I've never entered a labyrinth before. What is going to happen now?" Sierra asked curiously.

"I'm not sure as well. I only entered a tier-3 labyrinth, and Lady Rong said that Tier-7 and above labyrinths are vastly different," Arkhen said with a wry smile.

"Ahem, let me tell you. After that countdown finishes, there will either be a single powerful monster or many monsters. To pass the floor, we need to just kill whatever the labyrinth throws at us. After we do that, the passage to the 2nd floor will open."

A nearby disciple explained.

"Oh, so there might be mass spawning of monsters as well? Though, I wish for only one monster to appear, haha," Arkhen said with a laugh.

"Why one boss monster? Usually, a single powerful monster is bad luck because they are usually very powerful and they cause more causality with their powerful attacks," another disciple said with a sad smile. "I lost my friend a year ago in a labyrinth on the 1st floor. The challenge was a single powerful monster. It killed many."

"If it's a single powerful monster, let me one-shot it," Sierra said with an excited glint in her eyes. "I have yet to use my EX+ skill to its full power. It can surely kill whatever that monster is unless it has too much tough skin."

"Hahaha, alright! I was planning to one-shot it with my new combo, but you can have it this time," Arkhen said with a grin.

The disciples were speechless.

Soon, the countdown turned 0, and a big whirlpool-ish portal appeared in the air, thirty meters off the ground!

*Onggggggggggggg!*

A strange cry reverberated from the portal, and every single person's heart dropped hearing that!

A single sound usually indicated that it was a single monster!

"Fuck!"

"Everyone! You all better fucking focus on fire! Whatever that is coming, we have to kill it fast!"

"Yeah! The longer we stretch it, the more causality will appear, and the chances to defeat it will decrease!"

People started shouting at the appearance of that strange portal and the loud cry from it.

Soon, a giant whale-like head came out of the portal with its front head filled with over a hundred red eyes!

Before even fully coming out, the monster opened its mouth and revealed sharp dark green teeth with white spots and released another strange cry that produced powerful sonic waves in the entire barren land!

Everyone started attacking it without wasting a single second! Some even executed control skills such as chains, energy ropes, locks, and such conjured around the whale-like monster before it even fully came out of the portal to trap it!

"Attack! Kill that monster before it rains devastation!"

Sierra activated her physique's 2nd passive consuming some soul energy.

Brilliance of Deep Blue!

Dark blue shining motes produced around Sierra before she used her EX+ rank skill. Hammer of Abyss!

A tiny dark blue hammer with golden patterns appeared in Sierra's hand.

All dark blue shining motes infused in the tiny dark blue hammer with golden patterns before Sierra used the superpower, Call of the Abyss.

Her get-up changed just like previously when she dominated Refal, Carow, and the other two lackeys.

Every disciple was shocked at the amount of terrifying aura coming out of Sierra and that tiny hammer in her hand.

"Do you need to go there and hit it with the hammer?" Arkhen asked curiously.

"Nope, hehe. Just watch," Sierra chuckled before a brilliant dark blue glint passed through her eyes! The tiny hammer in her hand glowed for a brief moment before an abyssal whirlpool opened right above the whale monster!