Chapter 306
Chapter 306. The Hunt Begins
After Fulan killed one Emissary, she watched the other party’s broken body, stained red with blood, gradually turn illusory. She knew that an Emissary had truly left the stage here.
She rubbed her baseball bat. Right now, it was glowing red. This was the trace left behind from her use of Sunflame techniques.
“The abilities on these Emissaries are somewhat too strong. Why did I only get healing...” Fulan complained a little about the Emissary ability she had obtained.
“I almost failed to kill him in one hit just now. Who knows what would have happened after he turned invisible? Fortunately, I thought of Light Prayer at the last moment.”
“And I need to use Sunflame techniques more often. I have to aim to kill them directly in one strike. Otherwise, these Emissaries always have all sorts of strange abilities.”
In the battle just now, Fulan had learned a lesson. She had to use powerful techniques as much as possible and strive to kill the enemy in one go. As long as the other party was dead, they would not be able to use any abilities.
In the battle just now, if she had used Sunflame, [Forced Fusion], or elemental spells, it might have been possible to instantly kill the other party.
But her hands had itched, and she had wanted to test how powerful this baseball bat was.
“I just need to pay attention next time.”
She ended her review of this battle.
She did not cast too much attention toward that illusory corpse. Instead, she looked up at the sky. Previously, that had been where the directions to different areas were shown to guide her.
But after obtaining Zari’s help, she could see small yellow orbs and large crimson orbs distributed across the Sky-Screen.
Of the two, the former represented the positions of those Emissaries, while the latter represented the positions of the three minor trials.
The colors of the latter three were also distinct. The brightest crimson one was the third trial, while the opposite end was the first trial.
The directions indicated by these orbs were all targets Fulan needed to resolve in this trial. She could not let a single one go.
Fulan naturally lowered the baseball bat in her hand and began observing the directions indicated by the orbs in the sky. After she blinked, she saw several of the yellow orbs change position.
“One was killed by me just now. There are still twelve yellow orbs up there. In other words, there are still twelve Emissaries.”
She then looked toward the faintest red orb. That was the area of the first trial.
Zari had also told her the specific content of the first trial. After she arrived there, relying on the Sunflame techniques raised through her panel, she estimated that she would only need a few seconds to pass it.
So for Fulan, the first trial was a trial she could pass simply by walking over and touching it.
And on Fulan’s path toward the first trial, there were two small yellow orbs slowly moving.
“I will go here first, eliminate these two Emissaries along the way, then head to the first trial. After that, I will deal with the three Emissaries in the area above that trial...”
After planning her route, Fulan did not delay for even a moment and rushed at full speed toward the nearest yellow orb.
“This feeling is kind of like clearing question marks in a single-player RPG.”
While hurrying along, Fulan could not help making that remark.
***
“Why are you killing me? Is this not a Spirit Realm trial? Can we not all pass the trial and advance...”
Before that voice could finish speaking, it was interrupted by a Water Arrow falling from the sky.
That Water Arrow was a full three meters long and pierced straight through the trial participant’s body.
“I am sorry. If you want to blame something, blame your poor luck. Why did the Trial Key you obtained have to correspond to this trial?”
Heather stood in the distance, watching the Spirit Realm Excursionist before her turn illusory. She raised her right hand, and that Water Arrow vanished into the air.
After dealing with this person she had finally managed to encounter, Heather looked at the barren surroundings and could not help sighing.
“How much longer do I have to search? I searched for half a day and only found one person. Do I not remember the Oracle saying there would be at least a hundred trial participants? How long will it take to find them all?”
Heather looked up at the pitch-black sky and could not help sighing again. Just as she was about to continue walking forward, the sound of heavy footsteps gradually grew louder.
“Who is it?”
Heather immediately turned her body toward the direction from which the footsteps came, and saw a familiar figure.
The newcomer wore a set of leather clothes. The clothes were loose, making the hands hidden inside the wide sleeves look even smaller.
In particular, the other party’s pants were clearly not especially well-fitted. Aside from her face and neck, not a single patch of skin was exposed anywhere on her body.
Heather looked at the other party’s grayish-yellow hair and curled her lips before saying,
“So it is you, Rachel. I was wondering why the footsteps were so loud, yet I did not see some enormous creature.”
Rachel smiled, placed her hands in front of her abdomen, crossed them, and then said,
“Heather, what a coincidence. I actually ran into you.”
The reason Rachel had such heavy footsteps was because of the god she worshiped—the Elephant of the Mountains.
According to Heather’s understanding, as the Emissary of the Elephant of the Mountains, Rachel could supposedly become heavier than a mountain when she fully activated her Emissary ability.
This ability was extremely outstanding even among Emissaries. Especially at the First Tier, it was said that Rachel had relied on this ability and almost never lost when facing the Emissaries of other gods.
Although Heather did not want to admit it, judging from the actual situation, she truly could not defeat Rachel. The power granted by Rachel’s god was simply too strong.
After exchanging greetings for a while, Heather suddenly said,
“Right, Rachel, how many of those trial participants have you encountered? I searched for ages before finding just one.”
“I have not found a single one.”
“Ah?!”
Heather scratched her head, then spread both hands and said,
“Then how long are we supposed to search? This place is truly boring. I still want to go back quickly.”
Rachel’s slow reply answered her.
“Why... are you in such a hurry...? As long as that beam of light from the final trial has not lit up in our sky, we can walk around here however we like.”
The beam Rachel referred to was the one that would light up after the third trial began, reminding everyone present that someone was currently defending the arena.
Rachel showed no sign of anxiety or impatience at all. She cast her gaze toward the surroundings, looking with great interest at the reddish-brown earth spread everywhere, as though it were some beautiful scenery.
Heather knew this was due to the other party’s nature. The believers of the Elephant of the Mountains were like this.
No matter what they did, they were slow and unhurried, and they possessed an aesthetic sense quite different from other people’s. For example, they liked admiring things Heather herself did not find beautiful at all.
She knew that if she asked what was so worth looking at about this soil, the other party would definitely launch into a long explanation about the magnificence of this continent of earth...
So Heather wisely did not mention this matter. Instead, she asked Rachel about something else.
“Right, Rachel, was it like this the last time you came to this trial?”
After receiving this task, Heather had specifically communicated with Rachel and had received the answer that Rachel had participated in a trial like this once before.
As everyone knew, the believers of the Elephant of the Mountains had a very slow rhythm. The same was true when it came to advancement.
This was one reason Rachel had still not advanced after several years. Of course, the greater reason was that when she had participated in the trial back then, she had only just advanced to the Formal Tier, so naturally she had not advanced again so quickly.
“It was not like this last time.”
Rachel did not look away. Her gaze moved from beside her own feet toward a small mound in the distance as she slowly said,
“I remember that last time, the moment I arrived, I was completely surrounded by ten trial participants. I spent some time dealing with them.”
“Later, I quickly encountered other Emissaries. They also said they had been surrounded by many trial participants. It was only afterward that several Emissaries who had been very far away arrived.”
“I think we are probably those Emissaries who were thrown very far away. There are barely any people around us. Perhaps the areas around the other Emissaries are already packed with people.”
Heather’s eyes lit up after listening, and she said,
“Then do you know where the other Emissaries are? Or the place where you were surrounded last time? We can go there...”
“I do not know.”
“Did you not come here last time? You should know the roads here, right?”
“This place is all reddish-brown earth, and there is not even a signpost. How would I know where anything is?”
Rachel’s words left Heather speechless. She opened her mouth wide, and in the end, she only said two sentences.
“Then let us walk together and look for people.”
“All right.”
***
In front of a palace built from cyan stone bricks, Fulan arrived at the place. This was where the first trial was located.
There was still a faint red glow on her baseball bat. That was the lingering heat from the Sunflame technique she had just used.
She had already killed two more Emissaries. Now, she only had ten Emissaries left to kill.
On her way here, the two Emissaries she had casually killed had been stabbed to death with Sunflame before she even learned what their abilities were.
Whether one said it or not, if every Emissary she encountered after this was isolated like this, then passing this trial would be simple and effortless. But...
“Why have several yellow dots touched each other?”
Fulan looked up at the sky and frowned.
At this moment, on the Sky-Screen, Fulan could see two groups where two yellow dots had gathered together and were slowly moving.
Although the other yellow dots had not yet gathered together, several were already very close to one another.
For Fulan, this was not good news. Perhaps after this, she would no longer be able to continue hunting individual Emissaries like this, and would have to face multiple Emissaries who had gathered together.
“It is still fine if two are gathered together. I can kill one first, then fight the other one. But if three join together later, that will become somewhat troublesome.”
“When that happens, I may have to use my identity as an Emissary to mix in.”
Fulan began planning her next moves.