Chapter 194 Black Myth Ruins (1)
Chapter 194 Black Myth Ruins (1)
Aleron was sleeping soundly, snoring while smiling, and radiating warmness. Enorin was snoozing on his chest, Yeuha and Ruan to his left in an embrace, while Liang and Mei were sleeping to his right. All of them were glossy and clean as washed by the purest and cleanest water, their bodies faintly glowing as filled with power.
The night was long as their passionate battle lasted for six hours, after which they finally fell asleep and their sleep lasted for eight hours.
Aleron's eyes opened first, feeling freshened and exultant like never before.
He got off the bed with a blink of a teleport and began his day.
The girls woke up one by one and got off as well, joining Aleron and others for combat activity.
All of them were pumping with energy and refreshed. Everyone practiced and trained intensely for hours without stopping, until only 4 hours were left before Aleron's Warlord Event began.
Aleron decided to take a nap to recover in prime condition before the event.
Time passed…
Black Myth Ruins — Begins in 15 minutes.
The details of the event were also disclosed now since an hour ago.
Aleron waved his hand and showed it to everyone as well, filling their curiosity because just like how Warlords could spectate their subordinates' events, the subordinates also had the privilege to observe their Warlord's events.
However, the details of this event were quite peculiar. This Event was also the only one that didn't change after Aleron's rank shot up and he understood why after reading this basic information panel of the event.
[Black Myth Ruins]
__Rank: X
__Participant Ratio: All Warlords.
__Type: Reality Cosmic Myth Ruins.
-Note to Warlords: This Event is of utmost importance to all Warlords as it grants unique power seeds of higher cosmos. Do your best.
"Well, it seems that we'll know the rules of this event after I enter," Aleron grinned, his eyes filled with anticipation. "I am quite excited for this."
The others also couldn't help but nod.
As they talked for a bit, 20 minutes passed by quickly and Aleron entered the portal to enter the event.
His subordinates' avatars also entered a special portal leading to the spectate hall to observe the event.
Soon, everyone saw their Warlords appearing in the same place yet at different locations.
All of them were inside a giant black lotus each.
Aleron also looked around and found the lotus quite interesting as it radiated a unique kind of energy. It was familiar, yet unique. 'This feels like a very strange Magilore energy that displayed these purple, golden, and sparkling brown patterns. Also, it feels like we are in a flower.'
[Gachapi: Indeed. It appears to be a lotus.]
'My Monitor Dome can't penetrate this lotus, it's tough. Welp, that's the power of cosmos will.'
Suddenly, Aleron saw a screen floating in front of his eyes, one not from the Ultimate Gacha System.
[Welcome to the Black Myth Ruins.]
[In these ruins, each Warlord will have a crest of Black Myth displaying a value of 100. That is your Life point. You won't get injured as long as you have life points, but once the life points turn to 0, you will be kicked out of the Black Myth Ruins.]
[The Black Myth Ruins is as large as a planet, with plenty of mystery-woven wonders, bearing both trouble and rewards.]
[The rewards included abundant Ascension-rank resources. The longer you manage to stay, survive, and thrive, the more abundant Ascension-rank resources you shall gather.]
[Scrolls bearing wonders of the upper cosmos, the knowledge that makes you definitely stronger.]
[Items of power. Weapons, armors, and accessories of Paragon-rank.]
[Mysterious little wonders from upper cosmos and chaosverse—Eggs of Chaosmons, the beasts of chaosverse that hatch directly at Ascension-rank lifeform power level.]
[And finally, the Esoteric Power Arts from various forces of the upper cosmos and Chaosverse. Once you master them, you can have aid and a great chance to ally with a powerful established force.]
'Wow, all of this does feel like it's preparing Warlords, giving them a chance to get strong for a better future once they ascend.'
[After 1 minute, all of you will appear in random locations of Black Myth Ruins. Explore and proceed it well, for these ruins are in shambles of black void. The difficulty in these ruins exceeds well beyond your capabilities, so learn to avoid and tread carefully if you want to survive longer and reap more benefits.]
[But do well to remember the famous phrase and its meaning—Fortune favors the bold.]
'Let's go!' Aleron was thrilled. 'I can't wait, haha. This event is going to be awesome, I feel.'
[Astral: For real, mastah! I am excited as hell. This is going to be fun!]
[Gachapi: Indeed.] n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
What Aleron and others saw was also shown to all subordinates in the spectate hall.
"Master must be excited," Yueha chuckled. "I can't wait to see him in action," Mei appeared eager, wishing for the event to start. "Master will surely go all out in this event given the details at the end."
Mei was in complete Waku-waku mode.
"It seems that many people are interested in lord Aleron," Darzax narrowed his eyes as he felt many pairs of eyes boldly looking at their table's screen that displayed Aleron.
"Heh, let them see and witness for themselves that they are already doomed," Ying ferociously grinned. Despite being soul avatars, the others couldn't help but feel intimidated by the collective intimidating aura they released, filled with their boldness and intent to fight.
One minute soon passed by, and all Warlords vanished from the lotuses before appearing in the Black Myth Ruins—a piece of dimension with hundreds of floating islands and black clouds looming over.
But the formation of islands was particular and in order. There were a total of 721 islands, with the biggest and most exotic being at the center, because half of the total islands were on the left side of this special island and the other half were on its right side.
There were tens of islands in each row, with the most peripheral rows of the island being the smallest and gradually getting bigger in island and special structures on it as rows neared the center most the island.
All Warlords appeared on various islands on the periphery rows, where their first challenge had already begun. They appeared directly inside the ruins on the islands.
Aleron arrived in ruins akin to a castle. [General's Ruined Castle.]
_Challenge Spot: 0/3.
_Dangerous Encounter: 0/1.
'Interesting. So this ruin has four special things.'
Aleron walked around the castle to find a challenging spot or dangerous encounter. It was a huge castle with 10 floors and quite wide as well. His Monitor Dome was shrunk to the size of a mere 100 meters here, so he also couldn't observe everything, but the good thing was that he could inspect everything clearly within his Monitor Dome.
After a few minutes, he broke a door and entered a hall since he felt it was special.
[Challenge Spot: Black Blade Monkeys]
Aleron found himself inside a huge hall with ten monkey statues in front of him, each holding a sword. The monkeys were humanoid with great postures as if each displaying a sword technique.
As he stood before the statues, a countdown of 1 minute appeared along with some words.
[You have 1 minute to prepare before the ten Black Blade Monkeys unleash their techniques on you. Observe and find answers within this one minute to keep the Life points you lose to a minimum.]
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'Interesting,' Aleron observed the monkeys, his eyes glinting as he inspected the monkey statues.
He could observe a trail of Magilore that connected all ten of them together, and also their movement and flow of technique as displayed in their postures.
Aleron's eyes shone as he could understand it, feeling amazed, 'This technique is amazing.'
'A technique that is only executed if ten people use its portion. It's power must be great.'
Aleron conjured a sword and held it tightly, narrowing his eyes as he stood in a sword stance, his hilt facing his eyes that focused on the ten monkey statues, his blade pointing at the statues.
'I will break it.'
Aleron's Magic Board conjured symbols as he began cooking a skill and before the 1 minute count down was over, Aleron created a sword skill.
Singular Severam—Savant-grade skill.
_Arcane attributes: Space, Time, Wind, Flame, String, Multiplication, Mirage.
_Body attributes: Vigor energy, Enchantment.
_Soul attributes: Astral Flow.
'Thanks for this idea,' Aleron grinned as he saw the monkeys coming to life, their swords glinting coldly before all of their figures blurred, their swords unleashing black ink-like slashes that conjoined like a whirling towards Aleron at once.
Aleron's eyes remained like calm water, his eyes dim with a glinting blue light at the depth.
'Severe away,' Aleron made a single slash, tearing off space that seamlessly turned into strings that adopted intensely hot temperature with sophisticated weaving of flame and wind. As those thin strings with ultimate searing power condensed into them spread open from his slash, their net-like formation entirely covered the incoming ten techniques executed by the monkeys.
Time flow slowed down terribly while those blade strings completely annihilated the incoming attack, resulting in mutual destruction.
[Congratulations. In the face of a powerful attack, you choose to meet it head-on with your attack instead of defending or avoiding it, and even successfully neutralizing it. You have gained a perfect score.]
[You have been rewarded with the 10 Mystery Box containing a random number of Ascension-rank resources.]
'Damn, this is a reward from an event usually, and I already got it now?' Aleron was dumbfounded but overjoyed.