All 256 participants were gathered together while one of the organisers started to tell them all the rules related to the second round. Obviously all of the participants had already been given a leaflet with the rules written in detail. But still the organisers wanted to make sure that everyone was familiar with the rules, so they did this explanation event.
The rules were quite simple, all the participants just needed to find and kill as many monsters as they could while protecting the drone following them within 3 days. After the time period of 3 days, the super computer who had calculated everyone's score would declare the winner.
These were the most basic rules but there were also a few other extra rules that the participants needed to be aware about. Defeating a fellow participant in battle would allow the winner to gain 80 percent of the total points collected by the loser. But killing someone was not allowed.
If any of the participants killed another one then it would cause an international incident. So there were very strict laws regarding the killing of a UR grade. Only the Council of Nations or CoN were able to give death sentences to an UR grade powerhouse.
Teaming up was also allowed in the second round and before teaming up, the participants needed to decide the way they were going to distribute the points. But carrying someone by giving them easy points or marking others to work for you to gain points quickly was not allowed. A few judges would also be keeping an eye on the whole situation.
So if anything like that was discovered then the related participants would be disqualified.
Actually the most straight forward way for them to gain points was to go solo and kill as many monsters as they could within the time limit. Teaming up and quarreling would just be a waste of time. But still there was a need for everyone to be aware of all the rules.
After the organiser told the participants about all the rules thoroughly, it was finally time for the second round to start. All 256 of the candidates would be sent to a random area close to the Ashen Barrens. From there they would enter the danger zone and would start killing monsters.
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While Rein was making progress at a decent speed, Sophia was just killing it at her end. After she became familiar with this area after all the scouting she did, she was clearing out monsters at an insane speed. In just a few hours, she had already completely cleared out the area where she started and went to the other areas.
She did come across quite a few other participants but she defeated them in no time. But that did not really boost her points gain as it was way tn early and most of those people had not managed to gather any points.
Sophia did not mind that and continued with her unstoppable run in the second round. At the pace she was going, she might even clear out most of the monsters living in the Ashen Barrens before the three days were over.
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Chris did not really have any skills in his arsenal that were useful for detecting so he used a simple strategy. With his complete trust in his own physical defense, he recklessly roamed the whole Barrens and killed any monsters he came across.
He had also managed to get his hands on a map from a few other blessed who were good at scouting so he was doing decently fine at the beginning but later on his speed slowed down quite a bit when the monsters started to move away from their previous location but still he went doing better than most.
As Chris was not really worried about any of the monster's strength, he was able to take this reckless approach which was impossible for others to do with how risky it was. So he was doing fine and should have no problem getting to the final round.
Among the other participants, some whose abilities suited this place were doing fine and the people whose abilities were restricted here were having a lot of trouble. So after just a few hours, small and big teams started to appear. Small teams only had two or three members while the big ones had six or seven.
With this the second round was getting more and more interesting even though the first day was not over yet.