After using the key, a familiar sensation of Space Mana pulled me inside the cabin, which, was made from wood, unlike the one I had entered before. What greeted me inside the cabin was, well, a wooden cabin. It was a comfy place that would fit perfectly in the middle of a forest or maybe near a lake. It even had a fireplace. What else greeted me were the shocked eyes of, you won''t believe it, six people. It seemed they had survived the sixth rotation well enough.


    "Oh, I see familiar faces!" I waved my hand to Mille and Constantin. Other than them, there was the suspicious, cloaked vampire, one large gremlin of the same race as the exhibition owners, and two humans. Also familiar faces—the guy who had asked me for help at the entrance and Arabella Dwyer.


    "I won''t even ask how you ended up here," Mille said, her face completely flat and devoid of emotion.


    "But I''ll tell you anyway," I laughed. "I am your maintenance guy, and I am here to save the day."


    "What?" Mille gave me a look.


    "Let me guess, you guys can''t leave the cabin, right? I''m gonna help with that! I see more of you survived than I thought."


    "You guys are boring. No one is even making out this time," the sword said.


    "Making out?" Arabella raised her brow. "Wait, your sword hilt can talk!"


    "Of course I can, babe!" Antipucker laughed. Mille whispered something into the girl''s ear, and she didn''t ask any further.


    "So how did you guys do with the last challenge? Was it hard? I assume your group started with ten people... and now, well, there''re less than ten of you."


    "Yes, indeed," Constantin replied, his eyes somber. "We lost one vampire from my group, as well as three humans. That was mostly our own mistake for underestimating the true difficulty of the challenge. And unfortunately, Fyodor was lost for good."


    He and the other vampire were somber, though it was hard to be sure, considering that a mask hid the latter''s face. Mille just shrugged. "It''s all just your pride. You vampires tend to underestimate others, even if they are superior to you. I hope that you learned something from this."


    Constantin glared at her. "Is that for you to say, considering how many more humans were lost?"


    "Those were just weaklings who thought too much of themselves and challenged something out of their league," Mille replied coldly. "I wasn''t responsible for their lives."


    "Oh my, how cold!" Antipucker said. "This makes me hot..."


    "Also, this particular challenge was designed to push each participant to the utmost of their abilities," Mille explained, ignoring the sword. "As you can see, those two," she pointed at the two normal Tutorial participants, "survived just fine even without my help."


    "So what happened?" I asked, even though I wasn''t that curious. At least this knowledge would help me understand better how much the sixth challenge I had undergone was amplified by my presence, and how the System was balancing things out.


    "You see, there are multiple rooms in the cabin, and as the challenge started, we were separated by teleportation into three groups," Mille explained. "Different levels of opponents were waiting for us. I was with this guy." She nodded toward the thin gremlin, who waved at me with a smile. I already didn''t like him. "The vampires were in their own group, and the normal human participants were left to their own devices as the last group. This was a rather fair challenge, if you ask me. The number of opponents was slightly higher than our own, and their levels were slightly above as well. But nothing someone who knows how to fight and utilize their powers can''t handle."


    "I agree with her assessment," said Arabella, who apparently was a big deal—a Hollywood star, no less. She looked rather composed for someone who just fought for her life and was about to repeat it again.


    I checked the girl''s level. She was already level 45—her entire power, as much as I could feel it, coming from the System. So this was what was possible for a human whom the System considered someone who had achieved greatness back on Earth. In just three days, she was already comparable to a Tier 1 Cultivator, very close to Tier 2. It had taken me almost a year to reach Tier 2 in comparison. Of course, she got a head start, and her growth would most likely slow down sooner or later. But still, I had thought that my 10 years on Luminosa had given me unthinkable power in a ridiculously short period, while other cultivators would completely stall after 20 or maybe 30 years of cultivation at most, limited by their weaker Elements. I advanced faster than any of them, becoming the only Tier 5 human in a mere 5 years—something impossible even for the most talented of them in five hundred.


    But how powerful would some Earth humans be in 10 years? The only limits to advancement were the rarity of the earned Archetype, the amount of System Points, and strong enough opponents to kill for levels. Of course, it shouldn''t be forgotten that it had taken me 5 more years to reach the peak of Tier 5 after advancing to it. The stronger you got, the harder it was to progress. And most people ended up stuck at some point anyway.


    "Even inside the rooms," Arabella continued, "we were spread out in a way that would make us face our opponents on our own, at least for a while. The guys that died... well, they died because they couldn''t fight well enough and weren''t composed enough to stall until I dealt with my own opponent and helped them out. They panicked instead of forming a working strategy and following it."


    I could have asked for more details, like what kind of enemies they faced and so on, but I felt we didn''t have that much time until the next challenge. As I needed some reference points, I had decided to face the challenge of the seventh rotation, which was supposed to be even harder than the last one, but by how much was still an open question. The good news was that I didn''t feel any responsibility for any of those people. Well, perhaps losing the vampire would cost me some information, and losing the nun would badly affect my relationships with her boss, and having a world-renowned star die would make her fans angry. But in the end, none of them were critical to my mission, and I believed that, at the very least, those three were unlikely to die as long as the challenge wasn''t too unfair.


    So, without further ado, I found the issue with the place. It was the fireplace. I eliminated the Space fluctuations, and my multi-tool changed and helped me reignite the fire, which seemed to be the source of this cabin''s energy and Space manipulations.


    [Congratulations! You have fixed your fourth cabin out of six.]


    "Now you can easily leave the next time the cabin reaches the ground," I said as I turned towards them. "As long as you survive the next challenge, that is."


    "Thank you again," Constantin said. "I have completed my objective with the sixth rotation. The same goes for Eleonora." He nodded towards his vampire companion, and only now did I confirm for sure that she was a woman—it wasn''t very obvious because she wore a faceless mask with crimson tears under the holes for eyes and a dark cloak that covered most of her body.


    "Your companion looks like someone who likes their secrets," I remarked.


    Constantin laughed. "Don''t worry about her. She''s just very shy. Right, Eleonora?"


    The woman nodded without saying a word. I had paid some attention to her before, but not that much. She wasn''t much stranger than the other vampires or some of this land''s residents. But now that I thought about it, she had a strange aura that made her harder to notice. Most likely, she was using her Mana to hide her presence and make herself inconspicuous even when in plain sight and looking rather eye-catching.


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    "Let me give you guys a choice," I said. "You see, I could probably leave the cabin right now, and then you would face the normal challenge of the seventh rotation. Or I could stay here, and the challenge will be significantly more difficult—but the good thing is that I would save your lives, or at least try, and probably the rewards will be better as well."


    My words were met with silence as everyone tried to process what I had just said. I decided to give them a choice, after all for me it didn''t matter that much if I completed the challenge with them, or waited for the next cabin and did it on my own. Though there could be a chance that the latter option would mean a harder challenge, it wasn''t guaranteed.


    "So, what do you guys think? Do you want me to leave or not? I think you have less than ten minutes to decide. You can vote if you want."


    "With you, Clinton, I believe that there is nothing that could truly scare us," Constantin voiced his opinion first.


    "A greater challenge? I''m in," Mille said. "I also would like to see you in action one more time. I bet you didn''t show all of your capabilities when you fought the sugary golem."


    "If you promise to at least try to protect me, then I would agree. Otherwise, I would like to ask you to leave," Arabella said. "Sorry if I sound presumptuous, but if you''re right and the challenge will be more difficult, and you just ignore my struggles while I die without a chance to protect myself, then I''d rather have you leave. Of course, I understand that I can''t order you, and if you want to stay, then no one here can stop you. I''m just sharing my opinion because you asked."


    I looked at the actress with curiosity—she indeed was rather bold to voice her opinion when two of the stronger people here had already shared the opposite point of view.


    "I think the same way, i-it would be unfair if we die without your help or... a chance to protect ourselves..." the seemingly shy man—the one who had asked for my help at the entrance—nodded despite being too scared to meet my eyes. It seemed he had decided to become Arabella''s knight in shining armor. Or maybe he just had a crush on her; who knew?


    Eleanor, the masked vampire, just shrugged her shoulders.


    "It means she doesn''t care either way," Constantin clarified.


    The two ordinary Tutorial participants voted against me, I noted. Though to be fair, they just shared the opinion that they''re against it only if I don''t try to protect them, and I haven''t replied to them yet. Well, let''s see what the last guy says; I''d rather not waste my time negotiating with the girl.


    "So now we have two votes for, two votes against, and one who doesn''t care." I turned to the gremlin. "Wow, look at this. Now the decision lies entirely with... who are you again? A gremlinoid, right? You know, I don''t exactly have the greatest image of your people."


    The gremlin just laughed. "Oh, I am not different from you. I also hate the other gremlinoids— the System really gave us a funny name. I prefer to call us just gremlins, you know? And no one can truly hate a gremlin unless he''s one himself. Only then will you truly know how petty, greedy, and envious our race is. Or should I call it our species? I don''t know how it would be better put in your language; after all, the System''s translation is far from perfect."


    "We don''t have much time, gremlin, so get to the point," I said.


    "I''m here just to have some fun," the gremlin continued. "I don''t care about dying. I have nine more lives. And haven''t you realized where are we? It''s called an attraction. That''s a place for fun! And wouldn''t it be more fun if the challenge is more difficult while we also have a more powerful ally? Of course, it would!" The gremlin laughed. "Just because I hate gremlins doesn''t mean that I''m not as insufferable as most of them, by the way."


    "I must say I disagree. I think I like you more than the other gremlins I''ve met here," I said. "Well, it''s three votes against two."


    "I just wanted to clarify that I wasn''t voting for you to leave," Arabella said, giving me a seemingly shy smile, though her eyes remained calm. "I said that I would vote for you to leave, but only if you don''t plan to help me in any capacity. And I don''t think you answered my question... mister. Your name is Clinton, right?"


    "Yes, I''m Clinton. Just a maintenance guy passing by. And to answer your question, well, I said it already. I won''t go out of my way to save your ass when it puts my own life at stake. But if it costs me nothing, then why not? If it''s a challenge that''s personal for you and that you can realistically complete, then you should at least try. Otherwise, I''ll take care of you all."


    "That''s just what I wanted to hear," she replied. "If it''s like this, then I want you to stay."


    "It wouldn''t matter even if you wanted me to leave at this point," I said, "because the challenge is just about to begin, anyway."


    [Seventh Rotation Challenge Activated: One Against All and All Against One]


    [Main Objective - Kill all other participants.]


    [All but the strongest living participant (excluding you) will receive Absolute Barrier.]


    [Losing more than 10% of your health or more than half of your current Mana counts as your loss.]


    [Failure Penalty: Being unable to leave the cabin until completing the next revolution challenge.]


    [Reward: System points based on contribution and performance, Premium VIP Super Ticket.]


    [Good luck killing those random strangers, hero! It would be so much fun!]


    Instantly, the atmosphere became heavy.


    "So guys, I''m not sure I even need to ask, but what is your challenge? Because mine is to kill you all," I said with a bright smile as I looked at their faces. Based on the challenge''s description, it was more likely that it was all of them against me, rather than a free-for-all.


    "We have to deal you enough damage for it to count as 10% of your health or lower your Mana to half," Mille stated as she prepared her daggers. Interestingly, with my Mana Sense, I found that she had the "Absolute Barrier," which meant she wasn''t the strongest among the group. Only one of them was left without protection.


    [Gremlinoid, Level 434]


    It seemed that the System didn''t just consider levels alone but something else. After all, Mille was level 452 already. Maybe it thought the gremlinoid, whose power was mostly gained from the System, was a bigger threat than the nun, who mostly relied on her own mysterious methods. Or maybe it just decided that giving her the barrier would make it harder on me.


    "If we fail," Arabella added with a grim face, "we are going to die."


    "Oh, is that so? I think this is obvious. Of course, you will die if you fail the challenge because failing would mean that you are dead," I laughed. "I wonder why the System bothered to clarify this."


    "Yeah, it has a sick sense of humor," said the gremlinoid—the most dangerous opponent of them all and the only one without absolute defense. I felt more threatened by him than by Grimweld and Grigo combined.


    "I think it''s a nice opportunity to see the one who gave two of my boys a beating in action." He smiled again. "Oh, I probably should thank you for teaching them a lesson. They’ve been showing me no respect lately. That boy Grimweld even sent assassins after me—can you imagine? Well, I suppose I can’t blame them too much. I have thirty-two children, after all. Those two just didn’t get much of my attention growing up. I had much cuter kids, anyway."


    "So, can we say their personality is the result of daddy issues?" I asked.


    "Ha-ha, it may be!" The gremlin shrugged. "Or maybe it''s because their Mom was such a crazy bitch. Hell if I know."


    "I am sorry, Mr. Wyatt, but I don''t want to die," Constantin said as he took a battle stance. "Eleanor, please don''t hold back."


    His companion nodded silently.


    "So what will we do, Clinton?" the sword asked. He still had his pom-poms after being fed by Sarah, as I hadn''t channeled any of my Mana into him yet. "I don''t care about the men, but cutting those two... no, three, beautiful women feels so wrong!"


    "What do you mean, my friend? Of course, we''ll complete the challenge. Women or not, they are our opponents now." I smiled at those people, but this time my smile turned bloodthirsty. "Give it all you have, my little lambs. And don''t worry, the System protects you, right? And yeah, Big Daddy Gremlin, I think I didn''t catch your name."


    "My name? I am Griswold Bubbleshadow. Yeah, we gremlins have shitty second names, all of us," he laughed. And as he spoke, I felt a thick wave of Mana gathering around him. It seemed that I had met a fellow Primalist, though his abilities were based on the System. If that was the case, perhaps the System didn''t play favorites, and he was actually more dangerous than the Cardinal of a higher level.


    The air around him turned toxic green, and I instantly knew what it was—poison. And a particularly deadly one to boot.


    At the same time, the rest of my opponents finally seemed determined to fight. Even if they knew about my powers, they felt some confidence thanks to the barrier.


    Well, good luck to them... they would need it.