Arkhen was among the 2nd ss group. He stood there calmly, not standing out much except for his uber-handsome frame and face. However, there were other 9/10 charm participants as well, and even a few 10/10 people like an elf witch, the fox dude, and a couple more.


    Lady Rong also spotted Arkhen and raised her eyebrows.


    She didn''t meet Arkhen even on thest day before the tournamentmencement, so she assumed that he failed. However, the moment she spotted Arkhen and used her soul sense to check him, she was surprised.


    With a slight movement of her finger, Lady Rong removed the formation from the suppression seal that allowed Arkhen to renew it.


    Arkhen also felt something and knew that he wouldn''t be able to renew the suppression seal. If he couldn''t control his strength, he would be disqualified.


    "We''ll have to clear the weeds in the first round. The second round must have 50 participants remaining for each section," said the bald middle-aged man with sword-like eyebrows as he looked at participants in the vast za hall.


    The other middle-aged man and a woman nodded. City Lord Yanshi then waved her hand as he used some kind of power, causing magic circles to appear on the floor of the hall.


    A total of five magic circles appeared, each below each section of participants.


    Arkhen also felt some kind of space ripples permeating the air before the scenery changed in front of his eyes, and he appeared on a vast empty ground surrounded by trees with over ten thousand participants of 2nd ss.


    "Attention!"


    Everyone looked up and saw a man in his early thirties wearing a dark green leather outfit with a cross-chest metal belt, and a waist belt that hung three pouches.


    Aside from that, he wore dashing ck sses and had two metal sabers behind his back positioned in an X shape.


    "You can call me Prade. Now before I tell you about the 1st round…" Prade said in a heavy maic voice as he waved his hand and created arge square curtain in front of the participants.


    "After passing that curtain, an Escape Rune will be attached to your body. You can use that in half a second with your thought. So if you want to give up, use it. Now the condition to pass the 1st round:


    "All you have to do is to pass that curtain and continue moving in the direction towards that giant mountain thirty kilometers away through this forest. The first fifty to reach that mountain''s peak will be the winners and move to the next round," Prade finished speaking, and in response, the participants started an uproar.


    All of them were chaotically speaking, but their topic was simr. Only fifty winners in the first round?! Wtf?


    "For your information, the first round has begun," Prade said with a grin as he looked down at the participants.


    Hearing Prade''s words, everyone became fanatic and started moving. A literal chaotic situation ensued.


    "Get out of my way!"


    *Chriii!*


    ? Someone killed a bunch of people by releasing a smic Thunder Field around him.


    "Y-You! Senior Prade, he is killing people!"


    "Arghhh!"


    Some more people died as a girl released over a hundred fire needles swirling in all directions around her, piercing people and killing them!


    "If you die, that''s on you," Prade said indifferently. "You are not here to y. If you are scared of dying, then activate that Escape Rune and return to the Hong-Shen town."


    Instantly, many participants used their runes and disappeared.


    …


    Arkhen was actually at the foremost of the race because he was flying on his Force Field with his full power. After all, the speed of his force field moving was faster than his purple-star wings.


    However, many were catching up to him as he looked back.


    "Seven, huh?"


    Out of those seven, two were pure humans, one was an elf, while the remaining were Beastkins and Beastfolks.


    Out of those two humans, one of them was a girl with me wings. She was faster than the rest and was quickly approaching Arkhen.


    Seeing Arkhen turning to look at them and then turning his head to the front again, a cold glint passed through her eyes. ''This guy… I should eliminate him to reduce thepetition in theter rounds.''


    She infused energy in her wings and used some kind of skill as a burst of deadly fire feathers shot towards Arkhen from her wings.


    Arkhen quickly sensed the energy readings and turned his head. However, he just smiled in the face of iing fire feathers.


    In the next second, everyone was shocked to see all feathers that hit Arkhen''s body disappearing! The other feathers that hit some trees exploded, indicating their power.


    "How?!" the girl eximed in shock.


    "Since you attacked me first, then goodbye," Arkhen said with a in expression while his hands were behind his back.


    Soon, everyone saw arge dark red de wreathed in mes conjuring above Arkhen while he was still moving on his Force Field.


    Half a secondter, therge dark red de in the shape of ance shot towards the girl with me wings at a breakneck speed, breaking the sound barrier with a boom!


    *Boom! Swoosh!*


    Arkhen had even infused chaos force in the dark red de, increasing its overall power, including speed, the intensity of mes, and offense of the ughter de.


    The girl saw the de shooting toward her like a shooting star, but her reflexes were fast as she tried to dodge.


    However, Arkhen was observing her with focus and also manipted the de to the side.


    "Noo-!"


    The girl''s scream was cut short as she failed to dodge it, and the de hit the left part of her abdomen.


    s… she disappeared before truly dying.


    …


    In the town za, the girl appeared as she coughed blood and started screaming in pain since the left part of her abdomen was burned to a crisp along with her organs as blood gushed out.


    She quickly took out a pill and a potion from her storage ring before gulping both of them as her wounds started healing. "Damn it! I was not supposed to fail in the 1st round!"


    A second after cursing, she sighed and felt regret. She shouldn''t have attacked that guy. If she didn''t attack him, she would have passed the 1st round!