Novel Full Chapter 453 - 453: Challenge
85th Floor—Ossuary of Fractured Moons.
Under the seven fracked moons in the sky, Lily flew at her maximum speed across this large floor.
Here, her maximum speed was far from lightspeed. It was merely around a thousand times the speed of sound, which was like 35 kilometers per second.
Soon, she found a challenge at a blazing pond streaming with sparks and accepted it.
[ The challenge will start when two more participants arrive. You may leave now and use the rune to directly arrive here when the two more participants are found. ]
Lily didn’t bother leaving and just descended nearby.
‘Let’s see…’ Lily’s eyes flickered as she entered her Mindscape, where her Soul Avatar acted like a super-computer for her to modify or create her Trinity Techniques.
Lily had finished creating and modifying the Blessings, and still had eight hours left until the Massive-Class event—Chaos of Rumblings Flags, so she decided to find a challenge and increase her Trinity Force.
It wasn’t long before two more challengers arrived, and the three of them vanished into a pocket dimension for the challenge.
They appeared in a barren land with a darkened sky. Their surroundings were illuminated with floating ghastly torches.
Three circles, each one 500 meters in radius, were painted on the ground.
Lily was at the center of the leftmost circle, and the other two were in the middle and rightmost circles, respectively.
[ You have five minutes to do preparation if you want to. After five minutes, each of you will face a wave of Monsters having Trinity Force of 500 to no limit, with the Monsters increasing in power after each wave. ]
[ The winner will be the one to kill the most Monsters and survive as the last one among you three. ]
[Rewards]
—> 5,000 God Essence.
—> 0 – 100 increase in Trinity Force based on performance.
—> 1% chance to get a ticket to the Entertainment and Relax Category facility—Heavenly Bell-Flower Pagoda. Increased to 10% for the winner.
“Nice rewards, haha. I went to Heavenly Bell-Flower Pagoda before, and it was a wonderful experience. What about you two?”
Lily looked at the thick-bearded man with red-cracked skin and fiery horns to her right side, who had just spoken.
Eyes of Truth.
Her eyes glinted.
[Name]: Ramong Roi Deitwir
[Rank]: Elite God
[Trinity Force]: 2130
[God Energy]: 18,204
[Trinity Techniques]: <Expand>
[Divine Blessings (5/5)]: <Expand>
“I haven’t had a chance to enter Heavenly Bell-Flower Pagoda, but I’ve visited Galactic Champions Arcade Center. If you win games there, you can acquire Trinity Force.”
“What?! That’s even rarer than the Bell-Flower Pagoda,” the bearded man was surprised with envy on his face. “You are very lucky, Yoruno Familia’s lady.”
Lily looked at the black-haired lady with fair skin and a single beautiful black horn on her forehead who was in the right-most circle.
Eyes of Truth.
[Name]: Ruka Yoruno
[Rank]: Elite Goddess
[Trinity Force]: 2203
[God Energy]: 17,188
[Trinity Techniques]: <Expand>
[Divine Blessings (5/5)]: <Expand>
“And mysterious lady, who might you?” the bearded man said as he turned to Lily, curious. “I’m afraid I haven’t seen you on this floor before.”
“We just ascended on this floor recently,” Lily replied with a faint smile. “I am Lily, the chief of Ruined Achromatic familia.”
“Achromatic?” Ruka blinked. “So you are the latest rumoured chief of the Achromatic familia. I had read it in the news a couple of months ago.”
“Ah, I remember,” the bearded man exclaimed. “To have established your familia on this floor in mere months, you must have an exceptional arsenal of powers.”
“Well, I am weaker than both of you, but I don’t plan on losing this challenge,” Lily said with a smile.
“It looks like we can’t afford to take this one easy,” Ruka said with a smile. “Is your familia perhaps participating in the Chaos of Rumbling Flags?”
“We will be on it, yes.” Lily nodded.
“Then we should observe you well, for both of us will also be entering with our familias. Our Chief God is determined to win the first place this time,” the bearded man said with a loud laugh.
“Our Chief god is also determined to win the first place, so it won’t be easy, mister Ramong,” Ruka said with a light chuckle.
Lily knew about these two familias in rough details. Both of them were big, as indicated by their God Energy reserve.
Fortunately, she had no concern for God Energy running out because of a few of her Trinity Techniques, and one of the Blessings she created, a passive-type Blessing from the Genelines’ assets, which had the powers of Almond’s Spirit Animation, Riftveil Grimblade, and her Parade of Dreadspire Kingdom.
That single Blessing was the main reason why Ruined Achromatic familia’s members were powerful despite having a low number and managed to climb to the 85th floor.
Although their maximum output was lower because of low total capacity on God Energy, they had no problem replenishing the God Energy during combat as long as they had living targets in proximity.
‘I’ll win this,’ Lily thought as she looked at the countdown, which only had ten seconds remaining.
Her aura surged as her Exotic Element—Darkess of Lossless Wonder x Ichor of Dreadspire Eidolon x Ice of Everlain = Eidol-Blood Dreadlain—streamed out as she activated her Regalon Spirit Armament.
Previously, Regalon Spirit Armament could boost Body, Mental, and Soul constitution by 200% and up to 300% based on Spirits fed to it.
But after becoming a God-rank lifeform, this Geneline ability no longer boosted her Trinity Force, as if it was forcefully prevented by the Grimworld’s Laws.
However, that loss was compensated by a change because it now generated Regalon Force, equalling 200% of her Trinity Force and more if fed Spirits.
Regalon Force was an adjustable force that she could apply to her body in multiple aspects—Speed, certain types of defense, certain types of attacks, and boost them.
Her Intents, Gloom Reaper, and Blooming Ruination visibly transformed the atmospheric pure Prana into exotic phenomena displaying their characteristics as gloomy wisps bloomed into gleaming, cracked flower of destruction.
Her aura was clearly more threatening and powerful than the other two, as both Ramond and Ruka were startled.
‘What the…my soul is trembling.’ Ramong frowned, slightly shaken.
Not just him, but Ruka was also shocked.
‘What is her power level?! Miss Ruka, do you have Inspection Stone?’
‘I do not have it, but…it’s higher than ours. Achromatic familia’s Geneline is strong, but that doesn’t look like Achromatic…I’m sure I remembered reading about it, and they never had an outfit-type enchantment ability.’
‘Well, her Power Level is higher, but her reserve of God Energy is not that high. Still, it seems that we both will be competing with her instead of ourselves, haha. I can’t wait to see her Power Level at the end of the challenge.’
‘Yes. And she has a fair chance to enter the top 50 on this floor’s leaderboard.’
‘We’ll see later. The challenge has started now, so good luck, Lady Ruka.’
Since it was just the first wave and the monsters were a wave, Ramong and Ruka were leisurely and focused more on Lily instead of the Monsters.
Lily, on the other hand, stood still as she observed the incoming Monsters. They were several meters in size with exotic appearances.
At the forefront was a two-headed emerald-horned frost-scaled lion.
Lily’s eyes flashed as she used a Trinity Technique—Dagger of Blooming Corruption.
The moment it was struck, the lion stumbled and dragged forward while cracks appeared all over its body, oozing out greenish-blue blood that began absorbing into the dagger.
In just a second, the entire lion was gone while the dagger pulsed with light.
After a moment, the dagger released a burst of energy that transformed into a small two-legged creature with wings and a trident, with a harrowing mouth that had demonic teeth.
Lily absorbed half of the energy and created one Dreadling.
The dreadling attacked other monsters while Lily also controlled the dagger to attack.
“Summon-type powers…that’s rather advantageous in this challenge, indeed.” Ramong wryly smiled. Since it was wave-type assaults with many Monsters, and Lily created summons using the Monsters themselves, she wouldn’t run out of creation fuel.
The first wave had fifty monsters total, and Lily killed all of them without moving a single step.
She also had 27 Dreadlings still remaining, even though others had died fighting. Dreadlings were rather weak, but their attacks were devastating in the sense that they inflicted a bunch of debuffs.
The second wave arrived with even stronger Monsters.
But all three of them cleared it with ease.
One by one, the waves arrived with 30 30-second break between each of them.
The trio only started to get slower when the wave with the Monsters having 2000 Trinity force started appearing.
Killing fifty monsters, with ten monsters spawning every three seconds while staying in a 500-meter radius circle, wasn’t easy. It took time.
Lily also had to dodge some attacks since the Monsters could get to her now, but she was confident in her combat sense and danced through the battlefield, striking monsters, inflicting a rain of debuffs on them, and annihilating them while keeping her God Energy pool full.
She cleared the wave faster than the other two.
‘Yeah, no. We are not winning this one, it seems.’ Ramong wryly smiled.
‘But we learned something. She can boost herself physically as well as her techniques significantly, and the crazy debuffs that render these Monsters into sitting ducks for her.’
‘Yeah, it looks like a dark horse is coming in the Massive-class Event today.’
In the end, the trio continued fighting, but after three waves, Ramong and Ruka were eliminated, and Lily was declared the winner as the challenge finished.