Chapter 550 Challenges Daphne’s version (part 1)

Chapter 550 Challenges Daphne’s version (part 1)

For a few seconds everything went dark, but Daimon didn't need to do anything because the travel didn't last long, the scenery changed from the dimensional tunnel in which they appeared after jumping inside the portal to a dismal looking corridor.

"Mm?", Daimon's emblem which was floating and glowing a second ago returned to be inactive and fell on top of his hand.

But the darkness which reigned over the area was diminished once again, this time the illumination came from another source though, Daphne's emblem to be more accurate.

Daphne's eyes curiously gazed at her emblem which was now shining, the thing cracked which made Daimon frown, but it turned out to be a positive thing, a "layer" fell from the surface of the emblem which previously had a simple design and was of a grey blue tone.

The result was an intricately designed emblem that had runes in the form of arrows which formed a circle, also its color changed from that lifeless grey blue to a mix of light green and royal blue.

Daphne grabbed her renovated emblem and curiously inspected it, she looked at Daimon's emblem and realized that now its design was similar to his, in the sense that it had a runic engravement on its center.

Daimon on the other hand was slightly confused, not understanding the reason behind this change, according to Vincent the only way for an emblem to change its design is when it is completed, but the only thing that changes is that its design becomes more detailed, the color doesn't change.

Not to mention that even complete emblems don't have that runic engravement on the center.

"Let me see it for a second, please", said Daimon, Daphne nodded and handed the emblem to Daimon without a second of hesitation.

Daimon compared the two emblems and realized that the runic design was different not only in shape, the runic engravement on her emblem was "lifeless", unlike his as the runic shark moved around from time to time.

He returned the emblem to Daphne and then she pointed frontwards with her right hand, meaning she wanted to advance in that direction, to which Daimon agreed, his emblem wasn't reacting but Daphne's was, so whatever this place, she was the main character here.

As Daphne was about to use a wind movement spell to enhance herself, Daimon stopped her from doing so.

"Reserve your mana for later, something tells me you might need it, here hang onto me", he said as he pointed at his back.

Daphne's eyes sparkled remembering how Daimon carried all of them back at the three-art tournament, the difference is that this time Daimon wasn't going to use Will Manipulation, so she had to tightly hang onto him so she didn't fall.

The idea was for them to not use either mana or aura, so Daphne hugged Daimon from behind, and the latter started running, with his monstrous physique, Daimon could move at high speed with just physical strength without the need to use aura and his stamina wouldn't be reduced just for a bit of running, not after the hellish training Aura made him go through, as for Daphne, from Daimon's point of view she was as light as a feather.

Daimon who was running at high speed while using infinity eyes to make sure there were no traps ahead of them, felt Daphne's grip tightening, to move as fast as possible he was jumping and then using the walls of the corridor as support to continue moving like that, for Daimon it was a walk on the park, but for the Valas princess it was probably like a wild ride on a roller coaster.

Last time, none of the girls had any troubles because they were being kept static thanks to Daimon's aura after all. Folloow current novÊls on nov/3lb((in).(co/m)

"Hang on, we'll be out in a second", said Daimon.

"Mm", Daphne nodded and then leaned her head on Daimon's shoulder, as they flashed through the corridor in the direction where their emblem was guiding them.

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The corridor seemed to be endless as it took Daimon around thirty minutes of running to finally see the "light at the end of the tunnel", but ultimately, they reached a different part of this place whatever it was.

The moment Daimon set foot outside of that corridor, he dodged to the left, avoiding a stream of green liquid that was aiming at their heads, when the liquid made contact with the floor, sizzling sounds were produced as it slightly melted the tiles.

"Tsk, they dodged it, if only you two didn't get in our way I would have eliminated some competitors", said the one from whom that attack originated, who was none other than a skelefiend, one of the members of their young generation and an early-stage Knight Lord to be more accurate.

It becomes easier for Archmages to do it since their compatibility with mana is naturally enhanced when they advance, but Daphne is just an early-stage Mage Lord.

The moment Daphne destroyed her last target, she dissolved her spells and the targets that the others failed to destroy so far, disappeared, then a number appeared on the barriers of each participant.

Daphne destroyed the whole one thousand targets, next was Ryan who got seven hundred of them, then there was the guy from the Purple Haze sect which got six hundred and fifty, the pirate with six hundred and the skelefiend only got five hundred.

Daimon who limited to observe, clapped a couple of times, Daphne destroyed those guys in terms of score, unfortunately the challenge wasn't over as the gate that appeared at the exit of the individual barriers separating the participants, suggested.

Daphne nodded at Daimon and then walked towards the gate, followed by him, Daimon felt a hatred filled gaze falling on him, which originated from Purplehaze's cousin, while Ryan also glared at him with wary filled eyes, which made him smirk.

"You should be grateful that Daphne asked me not to participate, otherwise I would have killed you all at this point", he mockingly said as he entered through the door, leaving behind an angered group of people that stared at each other.

"My whole team was trashed by that guy before, however here his strength is limited, and we all have obtained new strength, it's a perfect chance to get rid of a future source of trouble", said Ryan.

Since he now had knowledge, he didn't, back at the tournament, despite his wary nature, he thought that Daimon had stopped being a problem after meeting Arlion, unaware of the fact that the one who screwed up Arlion's thousands of years of plotting, was Daimon.

The other participants agreed, for a variety of reasons, and then they all entered through their respective doors, to appear at the other side.

The second part of the challenge was a giant battlefield, each participant was separated from each other, and was given a small fort which they apparently had to defend, from who you ask.

Each fort was surrounded by a large group of "enemies" in the form of golems, but that wasn't all, all the golems were equipped with crossbows and bolts, they also had long ranged siege weapons, like catapults.

It was easy to notice the reward for the winner of the previous test, since Daphne's fort was in a better geographical position, being at the top of a hill, which made it harder for the enemy to reach it and also gave Daphne a better view of the battlefield.

With a loud drum sound, the five armies of golems, started advancing towards their respective targets, the golems all reached the crossbows with which they were equipped and then started shooting bolts toward the forts.

At Daphne's assigned fort at the top of the sole hill in the battlefield, Daimon saw all those "long range" weapon users and his eyes glowed behind his mask, they were basically free experience for him to unlock the other aspect of the skill Cosmic Weaponry.

But he didn't let greed blind him, this was Daphne's challenge so she was in charge, Daimon didn't want her reward to be diminished because of him.

Luckily, this time, Daphne's restrictions were different, she tugged Daimon's right sleeve and pointed at the arm that was coming from the north and east sides of the fort, she was telling Daimon that he could destroy the golems on that side.

Daimon chuckled, he nodded and then said.

"Don't push yourself too hard", leaving those words behind, Daimon became a white flash that landed in the middle of the golem army.

"Booom!", a loud explosion followed by a giant curtain of dust was created due to the impact, Daimon didn't even leave the golems aim at him with their crossbows, he directly flashed and used his fist to punch a hole through the chests and heads od a dozen of golems on the spot.

While Daimon was running wild in his side of the battlefield, Daphne calmly stood on the watchtower of her fort to gather mana for her strongest spell, the best way to deal with this situation was using her lineage's innate ability and cast the Storm Stream, that will blow away a large batch of the golems.

Daphne who was gathering and mixing the required mana to use her spell, suddenly felt a strange sensation of oppression on her chest, which forced her to stop casting her spell.

Strangely enough, that sensation disappeared as fast as it appeared, but for Daimon who was down in the battlefield destroying golems right and left, stopping wasn't enough to trick his eyes.

'For someone that puts on airs for being "smarter" than his brother, you used your trump card too openly', he thought as he sent a message to Daphne using mana, to then carve a path through the golem army.