Two hours before Evan summoned Albelu….
Inside Forest Sanctuary, Denis looked at Noah who was scanning the formation on the ground with a serious look on his face.
After a few seconds when he was sure that there was no problem with the formation, Noah walked towards the middle of the formation and took out a silver colour core from his storage ring. The core was A+ rank, and was releasing space energy.
‘This core can be used to create a powerful space type artefact but…’ Noah shook his head and sighed inwardly.
He looked at a round hole in the middle of the formation that was looking like a circuit and placed the silver core inside it.
Just as he placed the core inside the circuit, the formation lit up, but as soon as the formation lit up some energy waves came out of the ground and the formation stopped glowing.
The small formation that Noah and Denis created slowly started to disappear and soon ground returned to normal. The core and the circuit of the formation disappeared like it was swallowed by the ground.
“All right, our work is done.” Noah looked at Denis who nodded his head.
Seeing him nodding his head Noah waved his hand, and some sharp vines came out of the ground, piercing Denis’s shoulders
Denis didn’t even flinch when his shoulders were pierced and looked at the sharp vines without any change in his expression.
“Be ready, the fun will start as soon as this round will end,” Noah said to Denis and the vines that pierced his shoulders disappeared.
Soon the oval-shaped vine barrier that was covering them also disappeared and the people present in the stadium were able to see them.
When people were finally able to see them, Denis was on his knees and his face was pale, Noah on the other hand was standing some distance away from him.
No one was surprised when they saw this because they already expected that Noah would beat Denis.
Denis glared at Noah hatefully before he took out the blue crystal and crushed it. Soon his body was covered in silver light and he disappeared from there.
Noah glanced at the place where the formation disappeared a moment ago before he dashed towards the centre of the small world again.
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The people present in the audience were cheering out loud as they watched participants move forward while fighting against the monsters.
Hunters of the different guilds were talking about participants to see if there was anyone they wanted to recruit.
The S rank hunters who were present in the arena calmly looked at the screen, occasionally giving their remarks about participants.
The portal of the small world was still hovering above the small stage. The portal was still releasing the same energy waves towards the small stage that it was releasing in the beginning.
The fluctuations released by the energy waves were so low that even the S rank hunters present in the arena were not able to feel them.
At this moment, the power of the fluctuations coming out of the portal increased for a second. Even though it was only for a second before everything returned to normal, all the S rank hunters present in the arena were able to feel them.
“What were those energy fluctuations?” Nathan said while raising an eyebrow. He stopped looking at the screen and was now looking at the portal of the small world.
Other S rankers also looked at the portal with raised eyebrows wondering what just happened.
“Don’t worry, it’s not a big deal. Just like how a dungeon portal releases energy fluctuations from time to time this artefact is the same.” Natasha said while waving her hand when she saw how they were looking at the portal.
“Oh,” no one found anything wrong with what Natasha just said and nodded their head in understanding.
They stopped looking at the portal and once again focused on the screen present in the stadium.
Natasha glanced at the S rank hunters from the corner of her eyes before looking back at the screen.
While they all were looking at the participants, the energy waves that calmed down travelled inside the small platform located below the portal.
Through the small platform, the energy waves travelled inside the ground and started to cover the entire field of the stadium.
As the energy waves travelled underground, a formation began to take form. The formation was around thirty meters deep within the ground and no one was able to feel it when it began to take shape.
The formation was covering the entire field of the stadium, and it was similar to the formation that Noah and Denis made inside the small world.
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Every time a participant travels a distance of one hundred kilometres towards the centre of the small world, the world’s gravity changes and they are forced to use their mana to move forward.
Along with gravity, the rank of the monsters was also increasing as the participants moved towards the centre of the small world.
It is been around five hours since the first round started, and during these five hours, six participants were sent out of the small world.
Currently, there were nineteen participants who were still moving towards the centre of the small world.
Most of the participants were halfway towards the centre but their speed reduced greatly after covering half of the distance because of the increase in gravity.
Crackle!!
While most of the participants were moving towards the centre, in the outer area of the small world a storm of lightning was destroying everything.
Trees turned into dust while the ground was split open, but surprisingly when the lightning struck monsters they did not explode into blood mist and just dropped to the ground as their life aura disappeared slowly.
Amid the lightning storm, Evan stood at Albelu’s back and looked at the golden platform that was some distance away from him.