Hearing the announcement, the viewers were startled and then went bonkers.
[ Is this for real? ]
[ Almond and Lily fighting 100 Supreme Emperors?? ]
[ Bullshit. ]
[ That’s going overboard, no? I mean, those two are very powerful, but fighting against 100 Supreme Emperors belonging to the Big Ten will cost them their lives. ]
[ Humph, our King and Queen will win against them! Just watch! ]
[ Regalons shall rule! ]
The viewers from planet Earth were also commenting and they were obviously in full support of Almond and Lily.
As the day passed by and only twelve hours remained, the leaderboard rankings had shifted except for the top three.
Admiral Rudra was still leading and was on the 97th floor, but so were Krala and Ramonia.
The majority of the Regalons were on the 80s floor and 90s floors, including Spirit Lords.
Asura and other spirit lords gathered on the 90th floor.
They had resources they couldn’t use, so it was better to give them to other Regalons while they could.
The resources here directly entered into one’s source space and were bound to them. The only way they could give to others was via challenges and winning.
If they kept the resources even after the chaotic dimension was over, those resources would be forever lost since Spirit Lords had no use of them, and giving to others would make them vanish.
As such, when just six hours were left until the closing of the chaotic dimension, the Spirit Lords contacted other Regalons after reaching the 95th floor.
They climbed down and gathered at the 90th floor before letting other Regalons challenge them one by one and giving them the resources.
95 floors cleared meant 95 resources multiplied by five Spirit Lords. So there were a lot of resources to be distributed one by one.
Although the resources got better as the floor number went high, 475 resources were a lot even if divided equally among other Regalons.
As such, aside from Admiral Rudra and Krala, the others stopped climbing and just rested on the 90th floor.
There was no point in going past the 95th floor because for the old monsters, Julian, and others, just clearing the 95th floor took three to four hours. There was no point in going further. Instead, it was better to get resources from Spirit Lords.
Half an hour later, Admiral Rudra reached the 98th floor.
Krala and Ramonia followed up shortly one by one.
[ Shit, two more floors in a bit over five hours… ]
[ Yeah, that’s going to be difficult. Maybe no one will reach the 100th floor. ]
[ The good thing is those lower than the 90th floor can no longer challenge those on the leaderboard. ]
[ Yeah, those fuckers wasted too much of Admiral Rudra by challenging him, but no more. ]
[ Please hit the 100th floor and clear it, boss Rudra! ]
Meanwhile, Big D decided it was time.
He visited Almond first and nudged his consciousness a bit.
In the chaotic dimension, Almond opened his eyes, feeling like years had passed but it was only thirteen days.
“Big D?” Almond blinked as he felt it was Big D’s presence.
“Sup, boy. Sorry for disturbing you, but we need to talk.”
“Is there any problem?”
“Kind of. Let me start from the beginning. A few days after you and Lily went into your wish stone generated chaotic dimensions for training, a ship arrived with an offer…”
Big D told Almond about the chaotic dimension, streaming, rewards, and how Regalons were dominating it.
Almond laughed. “It looks like everything is going smoothly. What’s the problem then?”
“The problem is that the Big Ten wants to weaken the House of Regalons. They want at least half of those who participated to die. Naturally, you can revive them, but they’d have to start over from the beginning. In fact, they might do this again and again in different ways to keep your overall force weak.”
Almond’s eyes turned cold. “What?”
“Yeah, that’s how they do stuff to a force that displays a powerful potential. Moreover, the Regalons earned way more resources in this chaotic dimension than they expected, so they will break through again and will just need to focus on improving their assets next, so they want to weaken you all now by killing half of them.”
“What about our plan? You made it,” Almond narrowed his eyes.
“We are going to execute it, of course. But since they are adamant about killing half of the Regalons once they come out of the chaotic dimension, I decided to intervene with this little plan of my own,” Big D said with a grin.
“I already announced in the stream that you and Lily will fight against 100 Supreme Emperors of the Big Ten. If you win, they will leave the Regalons alone…well, for now. And if they win, they’ll kill the Regalons. But I figured this is better than just them taking initiating.”
“This way, you and Lily can fight 100 Supreme Emperors and have fun. Knowing you two, even if you die in the end, you’ll still be able to kill a whole lot of them and improve tremendously after the revival.”
Almond blinked, his eyes brightening. “That’s wonderful. I was getting bored here just experimenting on my own since I’d already reached Ascent-rank in this variant of space. I want to fight against others with the Space of Oscillation Echo and my new intent Nullbreaker Entropy.”
“I’ve already created my new move-set.”
Big D grinned, “I knew you’d be eager. Alright, get out of here first. I’ll go and speak with Lily. We’ll meet at my office so I can send you to the 48th Cosmos fast. I am also excited to see your new combat power and arsenal.”
…
Half an hour later, Almond and Lily arrived in the Big D’s office.
Almond and Lily sat at a table with Big D, watching the stream.
“They all got a lot stronger,” Lily said with a smile. “There’s a clear improvement in their ability trees and intent.”
Big D chuckled. “Yeah, they were all fired up and determined to win, which boosted their natural progress of Intents and Ability trees. It’s all thanks to the hunger you two have, which also affects the other Regalons.”
“That’s good. And to maintain it,” Almond’s eyes flickered as he sharply smiled. “We are going to win.”
Grabbing Lily’s hand, Almond declared. “You and I will kill every single one of those 100 Supreme Emperors.”
“That’s given,” Lily grinned. “We have over a million Griminion Emperor spirits still. Even if we have to exhaust half of them, we’ll win.”
“But Almond, don’t use the Spirit Drape on the two Hollow Defiler spirits you have,” Big D said with a somber expression. “Those are better kept as trump cards.”
Almond grinned. “Although I don’t know how strong I can be right now, I’m pretty sure I won’t have to use Spirits of those Hollow Defilers.”
“Yeah, we finally have our first elements at Ascent-rank. That was the only thing we were lacking in the peak of the second layer,” Lily said. “Our stats can already match to Supreme Emperors via various boosts, and with our new assets, both of have have crossed over 10k in Arcane Constitution.”
“Yeah, I want to see if anyone can even put a scratch on me now,” Almong laughed.
Big D rolled his eyes. “Alright, alright. You two are drunk in power, which is perfectly fine given the progress and the amount of power you can drive up at merely Immortal King rank. But let me tell you, there are still people out there who can kill you in the second layer.”
“Like me, and I am not alone.”