Chapter 257 Strange Phenomenon, Top 10

As Sierra opened the golden treasure chest, a bunch of lights flew out of it before materializing into items after falling on the ground.

? - 955 high-grade rainbow essence stones.

- SSS rank skill scroll, Shadow Sneak.

- SSS rank combat art, Deviant Power Veins.

- Class 7 potion: Mist Acid Zone.

- Class 8 weapon: Dark Star Mace.

- Special Rank pill: Apex Ponds Refinement.

- Epic rank resource: Soul Star Dew.

Arkhen walked over curiously and held Sierra from behind while looking at the items, "This is our first golden treasure chest, and it is indeed good, haha."

"Yep," Sierra nodded with a smile as she felt a wave of comfort with Arkhen hugging her from behind. "What do you want from the loot?"

"Hmmm, I could use that Shadow Sneak since I was looking for such types of skill," Arkhen said as he waved his finger a bit to create a thread of primal energy that wrapped around the skill scroll.

The skill scroll flew up before unfurling as they saw the details.

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[Shadow Sneak]

[-Skill Rank: SSS]

[-Affinity: Shadow]

[-Class: Maxed]

[-Cost: 150,000 primal energy]

[-Effect: Turns into a shadow for five seconds. You can move through the slightest of gaps when you are in the shadow form. However, if any energy nears within a meter of you, your shadow form will collapse, and you will return to normal.]

[-Note: Be careful when using the skill. If you are going through a small gap and some energy breaks your shadow form, it can result in various dangerous situations. If your body is not powerful enough to break whatever structure of the hole you were going through, it can fatally damage your body if you turn into a normal form from shadow form]

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"This skill is good, but you need to be careful. I guess you shouldn't go through any hole unless your body is powerful enough to break the structure over that hole," Sierra said with a wry smile.

To put it in a simple way, if a normal human turned into a shadow form and was going through a hole of a solid wall, then if that human suddenly turned into a normal form from shadow form while going through that hole, that person's body would simply turn into a bloody mess. Death.

"That is indeed a flaw of that skill. But I'll just combine it with some other similar skills for a better sneak-type skill," Arkhen said with a grin.

"Yep. That's a good idea," Sierra said before she turned her gaze to that black mace with a metallic black sheen and patterns mixed with white on it. "I'll take that weapon. I don't have a weapon, and from the information I am seeing, that weapon is dark attributed."

"Alright. What about that Combat Art scroll?" Arkhen asked.

"I have an EX rank combat art that I got in 2nd trial," Sierra said with a smile.

"Then I'll take it. Now I have two SSS ranks and one SS rank combat art. I can combine the three, hehe. We'll do that later and see what kind of Combat Art we get," Arkhen said as he grinned and put the Combat Art scroll into his inventory.

"You should also take that pill and that bottle filled with Star Soul dew drops," Sierra said. "That pill is good. It will refine all of your ponds to the max. That Star Soul dew will also refine your soul enough to break through."

"Yeah. I'll take them and get one step closer to your class," Arkhen said before kissing Sierra's cheek from the side.

Afterward, they split the essence stones as they did with all previous treasure chests and put away that potion in Alchemy Pavilion to decode its recipe.

That Immortal Idol Alchemist's use was also that.

...

While Arkhen and Sierra entered the final floor of the labyrinth and waited with hundreds of other people on that final floor for the appearance of the last boss, something strange started moving, and it was going to affect... Everything.

Somewhere in the 9th realm...

Ulioran, the being who gave the reality system to Arkhen was watching a giant mystical wheel manifesting in an expanse of Black Limbo, a special location that only those who had reached the ceiling of power of the World of Nine Realms could access.

The giant mystical wheel with dark gold patterns and eccentric symbols on its rather darkish-white frame appeared for the first time in this place, making Ulioran curious.

Soon, many beings started appearing one by one. All of them are of various races and unique entities.

"What is this?"

"Ulioran, you are always sneaking around here. Did you pull some shit again as you did previously?"

"No way. I did nothing. This thing just suddenly appeared," Ulioran said as he snorted.

"You still haven't told us about that strange thing you got when you pulled a stunt of trying to use those ancient runes to activate the Depth Pool."

"I already told you, it was nothing much. Anyway, I am more concerned about this wheel," Ulioran said.

'This can't be related to the reality system. If it was so, then this thing should have appeared when I gave the reality system to other people previously,' Ulioran thought as he curiously looked at the mysterious spinning wheel.

"Anyone wants to attack that thing? It's not releasing any particular threatening aura," said a humanoid man with a majestic light blue dragon behind his back.

"Why don't you try?"

"Stop it. As frustrating as it is for we are the so-called most powerful beings, we shouldn't mess with unknown things. Let's try to comprehend those symbols and patterns," said a beautiful woman with angelic white wings. She wore a simple white dress with a light gold embroidery design.

Hearing her, everyone nodded and sat down cross-legged in the space after taking out various kinds of sitting mattresses.

All of them focused on the spinning wheel as they tried to comprehend the mystery regarding it.

...

"Who the hell is that?!!"

"It's that woman for sure! Her attacks are the most intense!"

"And what about that dark elf? That dude's attacks are even more intense than that woman's!"

"Fuck! The boss will not even last a minute with those two legacy holders!"

The final floor's boss was a giant monstrous behemoth with four legs, and a big mouth with sharp teeth.

It also had a giant single horn pulsing with dark blue and dark green energy.

Sierra was raining attacks using her Superpower and skills while Arkhen was also nonstop unleashing attacks through his Saragan Dragon Blade!

This time, he wanted to be in the top ten and upgrade his golden treasure chest into a divine treasure chest!

[ Leaderboard ]

- Rank 1: 1,445,785

- Rank 2: 1,248,599

- Rank 3: 577,455

- Rank 4: 274,169

- Rank 5: 264,856

...

Arkhen was sure that he was in the 3rd rank. As for the 1st rank that was off the chart. It was not Sierra! But some other dark elf guy shooting various powerful arrows from his bows from afar.

The final floor's boss didn't even last for a full minute before it died!

"Damn, we got two legacy holders or inheritors who already have fucking innate physiques."

"Sigh... I want one as well."

The people were moaning in unfairness while the dark elf man approached Sierra with a smile and stretched his hand for a handshake, "Hello. I am from Karfain Elf Kingdom in Wilmord land. The name is Aenor. It's my 2nd time seeing another one having a physique in the past month, haha. Very pleased to meet you, beautiful lady."

Sierra shook hands slightly before smiling plainly, "I am Sierra."

Arkhen also arrived after they finished the handshake since Sierra was attacking the boss in close range, so she could also use her physical attacks along with her Superpower and skills.

"Congrats on the 1st rank," Arkhen said with a grin as he stood beside Sierra and put her closer to him after putting his left hand on her waist.

"Thanks. Are you two...siblings?" Aenor asked with a smile. He wished for them to be siblings for obvious reasons.

"You wish, hahaha," Arkhen laughed while shaking his head. He felt that the guy was funny.

"He is my husband," Sierra said with a sweet smile. "Anyway, we shall leave now."

"Ah, um-" Aeron was slightly stunned before he wryly smiled and said, "If you come to Wilmord land, for some purpose or the Path of Stars, do visit my kingdom if you feel like it."

...

Arkhen and Sierra left through the giant exit portal that appeared after the boss was defeated.

That single portal sent people out from their respective labyrinth entrances. After all, a total of three labyrinth entrances of this tier-7 labyrinth were opened.

Lady Rong and other masters of the Sect saw their sect's disciples coming out. Soon, they also saw Arkhen and Sierra.

The Dark Shadow Tower's members also came out and quickly told them about Sierra. They all knew Sierra's powerful display in the final boss.

Soon, people stopped coming out as both sides sighed.

Dark Shadow Tower lost 18 people.

Cherry Blossom Sect lost 21 people.

"It seems that you need to train your disciples better. If they continue dying like this in every labyrinth, your sect will become empty, hahaha."

Hearing the mocking from Dark Shadow Tower's seat master, the faces of the disciples turned dark.

However, vice peak masters and peak masters stayed calm and heed the lesson of not replying to barking dogs as they simply left.

The disciples were rather silent on the way after hearing those mocking words.

"Senior Arkhen, you should have killed some of them on the last floor. Those hateful bunch," someone said to Arkhen.

"Yeah. If senior Sierra also just released her attack slightly off target, a group of them would have died instantly."

"Why would I kill when there's no benefit for me involved? Just get better if you feel like losers," Arkhen said as he coldly snorted.