Erix quickly teleported with Rin and Aria to the peak of the mountain before anyone else.
But didn't cross into the finishing line, which was a huge starry belt like a finishing line on the mountain peak.
The number of participants was 100.
The mountain's neck was huge, and that was where the trio stationed themselves to prevent people from passing.
Erix created 200 Wormholes spending a significant amount of Prana, and began meditating to quickly recover his Prana.
Aria covered the whole mountain's neck with her Spirit sense and shared it with Rin and Erix, essentially giving them the same map she saw using her overpowered spirit sense and spirit force, which was in an entirely different realm than others.
"Aria, do you know you managed to break through in this higher realm of Spirit power?"
"I also don't know how, but It became like this automatically one day," Aria helplessly smiled. "But I think one can achieve this realm when they can use their soul sense and spirit sense together to shape the spirit power in new realms."
"Yeah, but your spirit power managed to have all six transformations, while Lilith said people normally don't achieve all six transformations," Rin smiled and ruffled Aria's head.
"Mhmm, Amu said that a person's experience and personality decide which of the six transformations they can unlock in their Spirit power or some other strange thing," Aria wryly smiled. "I guess I am later because I was strange."
"Haha, You are not strange at all," Rin smiled and rubbed Aria's head. "You are very talented and a cute, lovely bubble."
While the two talked for a while and waited several minutes, someone finally arrived.
Aria sensed a presence in her spiritual radar.
"I'll go," Rin said as she noticed the participant with Aria's shared radar.
She disappeared from her spot like a faint golden-red starlight bolt. The ground charred beneath her form as she traveled at lightning speed.
When Rin was ten kilometers away from her opponent, she stopped and stood on a giant boulder.
Her opponent would reach her in the next 1.5 seconds.
The participant was a woman looking in her thirties. When she finally sensed Rin's presence, it was too late as her eyes reflected a cross-slash whose corners were bent, making it look like two crossed anchors.
It was instant death, and she immediately revived at exactly half the distance she traveled before dying.
"W-what the hell..."
The woman's breathing turned heavy. In her last moment, her consciousness clearly captured her entire body cutting into countless tiny pieces in an instant when that strange cross-slash struck her.
"Damn it! Why are they not letting anyone pass!"
"They want to eliminate everyone."
"Let's go together. We are seven here, and there's another group fifty kilometers away behind those hills."
"This damn mountain...."
"I am leaving. I-I am not interested in courting my own death."
"Even if you go in groups, they are sure to take out several people. Sorry, I can't participate in this complete uncertainty. I am leaving."
Two people vanished as they gave on the event.
...
Rin and Erix waited and killed two more individuals before Aria suddenly said, 'A group is coming. A total of seventeen people. They are second-timers.'
"Haha, let them come."
'Eh...they are flying at the back of the mountain,' Aria said with a wry smile.
Those poor fellows thought that since the mountain was huge, they would be able to bypass them.
However, all of them suddenly stopped as one of them shouted, "Look!"
Everyone saw tens of Wormholes ahead, causing their back to tickle with cold sweat.
In the next second, everyone also saw Rin and Erix arriving before them, standing ten kilometers away on an empty stone area at the mountain's neck.
"Let's kill them! We are seventeen people, for the fuck's sake!"
Erix's smile was big enough to reach his eyes as his Punch Factory appeared, and the menacing five exotic gauntlets started unleashing punches.
Rin didn't attack anyone because her job was to catch someone if they tried to sneakily go past them.
But she didn't need to do anything because no one could escape the slaughter fest of punches unleashed by Erix.
He also took control of space in a large area and made sure to strike everyone.
Almost all of them were forced to employ their full defense, but despite going all-out, the destructive Nihilir-attributed punches bearing pure offense aspect boosted by other power sources Erix were shredding away their defenses like a car getting crushed into a car crusher.
After seven of them died, the others lost courage and instantly went all out to escape, even using their Blood Essence to boost their defense and escape.