Chapter 304
Chapter 304. Arrangements Before the Trial (Part 2)
“You came.”
Inside the Sun Domain, Zari looked at the figure that had appeared and spoke calmly.
Fulan had not fled at the last moment. This made the way Zari looked at Fulan carry a trace of regard, but only a trace.
Over the past several hundred years, he had long since grown used to people coming here from time to time, wanting to participate in the Trial of the Sun. There had also been many wise people who chose to give up.
Some people had directly chosen to give up after hearing that the Emissaries of the gods would obstruct them, and had not allowed him to open this trial.
Even more people, after those seven days of waiting, had learned how terrifyingly powerful the Emissaries of the gods were.
Others had lost their courage during those seven days and never came to the Sun Domain by the time the trial began. Zari had never seen them again.
In the first few decades, even Zari himself had still been full of passion, believing that the Emissaries of the gods were not impossible to defeat.
Back then, when he encountered cowards, he would even curse them harshly. But now, his heart had already become a stagnant pool.
Two hundred years ago, he would still advise those people to give up, not wanting them to throw away their lives for nothing.
But after continuing such behavior for fifty years, no matter what expression those people showed, it became difficult for them to leave any trace in his heart.
He looked at the strange weapon in Fulan’s hand, one he had never seen before, and sensed the changes in Fulan’s body. The feeling she gave him was somewhat different from the Fulan he had seen before.
“Perhaps she made full preparations during this time...” Zari thought as he looked at Fulan.
“But...”
Zari did not quite dare to continue that thought even in his heart. He lowered his head slightly and made no other movement.
He knew Fulan was unlikely to pass this trial. Even after sensing what was roughly Second-Tier strength from Fulan, he still believed that.
In the past, there had been quite a few Second-Tier Professionals who wanted to rely on their tier to deal with those Emissaries.
After passing the trial, they would use special means to give up their original profession, causing their tier to fall, then obtain the Sunflame Knight profession.
Although this method was expensive, its effect was also extremely good. Many high-tier professions would use this method at low tiers to switch professions and walk a better path.
Their ideas had been good, but when they put them into practice, those with weaker strength were killed by a single Emissary, while the stronger ones were killed by three Emissaries working together.
So even if Fulan truly was a Second-Tier Professional right now, in his view, she still did not have much hope of passing such a trial.
After all, every time the trial was obstructed, even the smallest group had at least nine Emissaries.
Seeing that Zari still made no movement after she arrived, Fulan spoke first.
“Zari, what help can you provide me?”
According to what Zari had said before, he was the Domain Lord here. Presumably, he could provide her with significant help during this trial.
Only then did Zari return from his thoughts and slowly look toward Fulan.
“Because the Gods have already incorporated the Trial of the Sun into the Spirit Realm trials, I cannot directly provide overly powerful assistance.”
This was also part of the Gods’ scheme. They knew that the Domain Lord here would certainly lean toward the trial participants under the Gods’ obstruction. With Zari’s full assistance, perhaps a Sunflame Knight might still appear if the other party fought with everything they had.
But after it was connected to the Spirit Realm trials, things were different. Zari also had to obey the rules of the Spirit Realm and could not interfere too much with the progress of the trial.
Before it was connected to the Spirit Realm trials, perhaps if Zari made up his mind, he could stake everything and shatter himself completely to let one person become a Sunflame Knight.
But after it was connected to the Spirit Realm trials, even if Zari wanted to do that, there was no way for him to do so. He could only watch the trial proceed. This was the Gods’ objective.
Then Zari first explained the specific situation of the Trial of the Sun from the beginning.
“In the end, only one person can truly pass the Trial of the Sun.”
“When the trial begins, it will send you to three places to undergo three minor trials. The first place is a gate that can only be opened with Sunflame techniques. After entering, you will carve your mark there, and that minor trial will be considered complete.”
“The second minor trial is a test of hunting Spirit Realm creatures. At that place, you must hunt a certain number of Spirit Realm creatures to pass.”
“The third minor trial is the place that decides who will be the final trial participant.”
“That place is an arena. After standing on it, others may challenge you freely. As long as you hold out on it for one day, you can pass this trial.”
“One important point is that the order of these three trials is not something you can decide freely. Only after completing the first two trials can the final trial be completed.”
“If you have not completed the first two trials, then even if you remain on it for several days, you will not complete the third trial.”
“Some Emissaries will stand on the arena immediately when the trial begins...”
Zari paused, then seemed to remember something and said,
“Right, there is one more thing. The final arena battle is not a simple one-on-one duel. Instead, all those who have not stood on the arena will attack the arena defender together.”
This was also why no one had advanced into a Sunflame Knight for so many years. If the final arena battle were one-on-one, then perhaps those trial participants might still have a chance.
But the rules of this arena battle happened to be that everyone would deal with the arena defender together. That rendered all the trial participants powerless.
The reason Zari had not remembered it at once was that nearly one hour after the trial began, all non-Emissary trial participants would usually be cleared out by those Emissaries.
Even now, Zari could count on both hands how many people had ever fought their way to that final arena.
That was why he had not mentioned this matter immediately. It was because there had been too few cases where it mattered. Only after seeing the Second-Tier fluctuations on Fulan’s body did he remember it.
Zari continued,
“The help I can give you includes locating the positions of the other trial participants, as well as identifying who is an Emissary.”
“Also, whenever the trial begins, I will mark the locations of those three minor trials for you. The other participants will need to search for them, which will help you gain some time.”
“I can also decide the general positions of those people when the trial begins, but I can only decide their approximate locations. The details depend on what you want.”
“Lastly, during the trial, I will increase the power of Sunflame throughout the entire Domain. Your Sunflame techniques will be more powerful.”
“That is all the help I can provide. After the trial begins, I can only watch as you undergo the trial.”
After Zari finished speaking, Fulan stood in place, deep in thought.
Objectively speaking, the help Zari could provide was already very significant. If her opponents were all beings of the same level as herself, then this set of assistance alone would greatly increase her odds of victory.
The problem was that her opponents were clearly no ordinary people. Even she did not dare claim she could directly challenge all those Emissaries alone.
But if it was changed into single combat, she was almost completely confident in victory.
So once she entered the trial, her optimal strategy was to fight those Emissaries one-on-one as much as possible.
After thinking this through, Fulan raised a question at this moment.
“Let me ask. In the end, can those gods interfere with this trial? For example, things like communicating with the Emissaries inside the trial.”
She had to understand this matter clearly, because she remembered that during the Spirit Realm Trial in which she had advanced to the Formal Tier, she had been able to communicate with the Lord of Radiance. Then could these Emissaries do the same?
If these Emissaries could all contact their own gods, then her method would be far riskier. If she handled it poorly, when she killed the first Emissary, her information might be forwarded through a god to the other Emissaries.
“They cannot. This is a principle of the Spirit Realm. When those gods incorporated this trial into the Spirit Realm trials, this point was decided. This trial does not allow gods to interfere, not even through communication.”
“The only thing those gods can do is choose to pull their Emissaries out when their Emissaries request that their gods remove them from the trial.”
When Zari explained this, his body leaned slightly to the side. He knew why the Gods had not allowed even their own power to enter this trial.
It was because the Gods were also guarding against one another. They feared that one among them might betray the group.
If a god suddenly went mad and projected power inside, allowing a trial participant to become a Sunflame Knight, that would be disastrous.
Although those Emissaries were already tightly bound to their own gods, they could not rule out the possibility that some god might collude with a trial participant and allow that person to become a Sunflame Knight.
So they had stipulated that only Emissaries of gods, and no one else, could pass the Trial of the Sun.
After Fulan finished listening, a faint smile appeared at the corner of her lips. After thinking for only a moment, she said,
“I want everyone to be scattered apart. Make every Emissary of a god as far away from the others as possible. As for the trial participants sent over by the Spirit Realm, place them around those Emissaries. Can that be done?”
Zari lowered his head, thought for a while, then answered,
“That is not difficult.”
It truly was not difficult. It was much simpler than the things those previous people had asked him to do.
Some had asked him to throw those Emissaries and the Spirit Realm trial participants into a crowded cave so they would slaughter one another.
Zari truly could not fulfill such requests, because the Spirit Realm would not allow him to do that.
But Fulan’s request was much simpler. It only adjusted everyone’s positions and prevented them from gathering together.
He was simply somewhat curious. Why did Fulan want him to separate all the Emissaries? Would that not make it very easy for those Emissaries to catch her?
“As for my position, place me beside one of those Emissaries. Preferably within ten meters of the other party.”
Fulan rubbed the baseball bat in her hand and spoke slowly.
In the past, those Emissaries had been the hunters.
Now, she was the hunter.