Surrounded on all sides
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Choosing the right moment when the 'girl' was unfocused, Aeries wasted no time in attacking,
He shot out several Air blades to carefully zip past Draculina, Although these Air blades would not severely injure him, in such prolonged and continuous battle, any degree of injury must be avoided.
And just as Aeries had concluded, Draculina chose to jump out of the encirclement before making his comeback. But Aeries was already prepared for that,
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His technique had already been activated. This skill took the advantage of the Misty Steps and Golden Sky Fist!
Being proficient in both Speed and attack force. And, because of the sudden breakthrough of his Misty Steps in the last fight between the Soul Slime, Aeries had another leap in both speed and strength.
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By the time the 'Young Lady' realized that she had fallen into his attack range, Aeries had already capitalized on that advantage and punched out.
*Hong!!*
*Rumble*
The surrounding trees flailed about as if a great tsunami zipped past.
The battle in question could be said to be finished. Draculina had greatly underestimated his strength and paid dearly because of that.
[Ding! Remaining numbers of players, 345]
“Sigh! What a pain!
If it wasn't due to the allure of those priceless treasures free-falling from the sky, this Father would've long given up”
Almost as though he needed a tight rope to hold onto, Aeries checked the mouth-watering rewards that shone with dazzling lights in the System's menu.
‘Today is the last day huh? almost no one else should have right about the same amount of soul points as me. I wonder I might just pass this test and the first position be mine’
*Rustle*
Suddenly, the bushes were overturned to give a view to several blockbusters. These were without a doubt, Chosen that we're attracted by his soul points. Counting them with a swirl of his head, Aeries made out at least 50 people— Top notched geniuses in their own right.
“f**k! I spoke too soon.”
One of the individuals spoke out, “Everyone, remember our agreement, the person who strikes the last blow would take an additional 2000 points to his share. So don't blame this king if I don't hold back.”
While the 'king' was speaking, Aeries calmly watched on while several thoughts flickered in his head. From how the speaker huffed out in a commanding manner, he was most likely the head of this team.
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From this point, it is understandable that he must be the strongest here because, in this tournament, status and money would not make a difference, only the power to come on top could make others now to you.
“Go!”
The speaker pushed out almost immediately he finished speaking, on his face was a gleaming look like how one would in the face of treasures.
Regardless, Aeries could not hold out till the end without any serious injuries, after fighting all the dozens. So instead, he chose a simpler approach.
'Kill the Chicken to warn the monkey' It is then...
He reached out to meet the attack from the other Player. When he was near enough, Aeries exhausted part of his Qi to activate his newly improved art, Mountains, Lakes, and Man.
When their fist met, there was a brief silence, before a rocking sound that tore the eardrums of everyone close by reverberated throughout the forest.
Following that was an even briefer shriek like an Old woman putting her hand in scalding water.
The only thing left of the player of a bloody mist that drizzled quietly on everyone.
'T-this is!?'
Even the perpetrator himself had no idea how much change a second Golden Mountain could make his power-up so astonishing. Looking at things, his current power was more than double of what it was just a day ago.
‘If that's the case... I think I can hold on to my prime award. Haha!’
On Aeries face, a look at brought horror to the faces of the sorrounding players became more pronounced.
“Run for your lives—”
*Hong!*
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*Bash!*
...
Before long, corpses were sprawled on the forest all around Aeries, no doubt the few contenders that made the mistake of not running off fast enough after seeing his display of strength.
Aeries huffed after this relatively easy battle— because it was tiring, to say the least.
“En, I can use the full power of these Mountains as Mountains for 20 seconds, if I push myself beyond my limits, at most 30 seconds. But that's more than enough to win against anyone at the Great General Realm, or below. As for those old freaks at the Martial Flying lord Realm, forget it, forget it”
The problem wasn't with the technique, but that his cultivation was just too low to power it for long. Cultivation equals Qi storage space. And even greater skills and techniques would not work unless one as a required amount of Qi in his Shang.
Putting that aside, it seems like looting off Soul Points from associate Players and Soul Monsters is the only way one can move up in the ranks, so far, Aeries had a massive amount after the defeat of the Soul Slime and killing of the Soul Avatars of other players.
[Player 'Scourge'
Amount of Soul Points: 209,067.
Total number of Active Players, 104]
“So quick!? How could they be falling so fast? This is bad!
“System, tell me why are the killings so quick?”
[Beep! 50 Soul Points for the answer to your question. Do you accept?]
“Yes” He replied with a bad taste in his mouth.
[All players, after arriving to the Soul Demi realm, are bestowed with the privilege of questioning the system for anything regarding this First Contest, other than the questions prohibited by the Administrator]
“So that's what it is! No wonder. Those with adequate points can ask about the location of other players as far as they have the capital to pay. This Dog eat Dog game, two can play it
The system, I need to know the locations of every player!”
[Beep! Amount of Soul Points assigned for that question; 100,000
Do you accept?]
“What can of thievery is this. Then what about the players 50km near me?”
[Soul Points assigned; 45,000]
“Humph! I need the location of every player 10km near me!”
[Soul Points assigned, 5,000.
Do you accept?]
Even though it felt like a punch of flesh slowly peeling from his body, Aeries made his decision to accept.
Instantly, a Map showing a diverse region with a steady green dot, and several flickering red dots appeared on Aerie's mind.
To his blight, they were many of such flickering dots hurrying towards his position.
“These crazy bastards! They see an injured tiger to feast on right? If this daddy had not used his Qi reserves, I would've shown you guys the true spelling of death”
However, his condition was severe. So after spurting a mouthful of curses, Aeries moved to an area with the lowest amount of red dots. While also filling his Shang Cloud with the Pure heaven and earth Qi.
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