Sensing the rising temperature, the dwarves quickly summoheir level 145 familiars and used skills to buff each other.
Activating [Lightning Movement], lightning began crag around Sora, sparks dang around his body.
Feeling the intense pain of sustaining his Lava State and knowing he couldn’t fight this way for long, Sora immediately threw his hammer at a level 137 dwarf who was mounting a giant bck panther while casting an unknown skill that made both of them glow.
'Are they about to fuse?' Sora wondered.
Before the skill could take effect, the hammer struck the distracted dwarf in the face, crushing his skull pletely and tinuing its flight.
[You have eliminated a Fox: +1,000 points (2 lives left)]The remaining dwarves froze in shock as the human warrior’s hammer struck with precision—only to see him appear behind their fallen ally, catch the hammer mid-flight, and throw it again.
The sed dwarf tried to shield himself with his familiar, but the hammer tore through both master a, killing them instantly.
[You have eliminated a Fox : +1,000 points (2 lives left)]Nearby, su nded in front of the third dwarf and bsted him with a torrent of fire, iing him in moments.
[You have eliminated a fox : +1,000 points (2 lives left)]Catg his hammer once more, Sora turo face the final enemy. The Spirit, a pyer from one of the nine invading races, stood apart from the others. He had entered a few Spirits oh and 8th floors, but he wasn’t yet familiar with their unique powers.
The Spirit had a ghostly form that glowed, resembling a human but g limits to their body.
Deg to end the fight quickly, Sora stopped his oppo and unched an attack, appearing in front of the Spirit as su cut off its retreat. He swung his hammer directly at its face.
Just as the hammer was about to ect, Sora felt nothing—it was as if he’d swung through empty air. The Spirit, seemingly surprised by the human’s brutality, vanished instantly as the on passed harmlessly through its body.
Not expeg this turn of events, Sora checked his event map and saw a yellow dot darting away, slipping through the dome before disappeariirely out e.
Choosing to ighe fleeing Spirit, Sora sed the area for loot the dwarves might have dropped but found nothing.
Removing the dome, he activated [Mana Recycle], one of his newer css skills. Initially, it allowed him to recover a portion of the mana used in matter-creating spells like [Earth Dome]. Having evolved the skill, he nained 80% of the [densed] mana used for matter creation and 30% of the overall mana spent.
This saved him siderable time, as [dense] was a skill he still struggled to evolve fully. When densing mana withiime Space], he would drain the space’s mana reserves faster than Kara could replenish them by abs mana from the outside world. As a result, the years he had spent training with her did not allow him to raise his profi all skills.
He had learned from Kara that reag the perfect level for a skill wasn’t truly the end—"perfect" skills still had room frowth. Though Sora hadn’t pushed any of his skills to their absolute peak, he had noticed the growth of [Amplify] and [Speed Surge] slowing down, hinting at a potential limit.
After abs his mana, Sora sensed a strange, powerful pressure building behind him. Turning, he saw a massive, chaoti approag. The ripples and pressure he felt were unmistakable, hinting at a trated space-element area.. He uood this was the system’s way of shrinking the battle area over time, f pyers into frontation.
The storm moved slowly, but Sora had no i in flying around it just to test its effects.
‘Unless… I could use it for body f…’ A crazy thought crossed his mind, and he paused, gng back at the storm.
Notig his master staring at the storm, su felt a chill run down his spine, worried Sora might be sidering something dangerous—possibly even life-threatening.
Sora shook his head, chug. ‘Maybe toug it would kill me instantly. I’d better test its effects on a guinea pig before trying it on myself.’ His gaze shifted toward su, who flinched. Beads of sweat formed on the phoenix’s feathers before vaporizing from the heat radiating off his wings.
Sora burst out ughing. “Rex, I’m not about to make either of us suffer just yet.”
su sighed in relief, wary of his master’s pent for extreme ideas—especially when it came to training.
Opening the event panel, Sora he storm’s progress, represented as a steadily shrinking circle on the map. He also checked the number of remaining survivors.
[Remaining pyers : 843]‘Obviously, no one could die 3 times in 15 mihat’d be hirious. And humiliating’ He thought, aware that such a number was not strange.
Stayihe shore and keeping a low profile after a few kills, Sora soon noticed two dots on the map moving toward him at incredible speed.
Barely looking up from the event panel in time, he saw a figure speeding toward him like a meteor.
su, ever alert, immediately positioned himself in the figure’s path and unleashed a powerful beam of fire to slow the oning threat.
However, the “figure” effortlessly sidestepped and tinued forward, ung a somersault kito Sora’s chest, sending him flying like a onball.
Feeling his chest cave in and his ribs fracture, Sora coughed up a mouthful of blood. Looking up, he saw two figures h where he had just been.
They were level 137 and 143 Dark Elves, marked as red dots on his map and surrounded by a faint red aura, indig they were from the Chi group.
Sora quickly unsummoned su, sensing that his familiar would not survive against such powerful oppos, despite their levels being only slightly higher than his.
Activating [Lava in My Veins], he threw his hammer at his assaint, like he had doh the party of Dwarves he’d fought earlier.
From the st exge, Sora could tell that while he was slightly slower than his enemy, he was much stronger in his empowered form. Capitalizing on this, he reappeared behind the Dark Elf using [Blink] from his [True Mage] css, preparing to punch him from behind as the hammer closed in from the front.
Caught between a rod a hard pce, the Dark Elf made a quick but surprising decision—he ighe ining hammer, turned his back to it, and used all his strength to block Sora’s punch.
Not expeg such a, Sora still poured all his power into the strike, trying to cripple his oppo. The Dark Elf was sent flying from the force, but the hammer, which should have collided with him from the other side, had vanished—saving the elf from the anticipated double hit.
Sensing his soul on’s presence elsewhere, Sora turo see it iher Dark Elf’s hand.
The Dark Elf smirked. “You’re quite sturdy… Surviving Eldor’s somersault like that and eveing him up. I thought it was luck when you defeated my familiar i trial, but it seems there’s more to you.”
Sora, unaced to letting oppos talk during a fight, tried to strike the Dark Elf as soon as he began speaking—but was shocked to find he couldn’t move. Activating [Lightning Movement] in an attempt to break free, he received an ued notification:
[Your movement skill quality is too low to ter your curreri]Sora desperately activated every se and skill he had, but nothing could release him from his enemy’s hold. A strange sensation spread through his chest.'He's trying to destroy my heart!!' He realized, disc the battle inside his body. Feeling his trol over his body slowly ing back, Sora pushed his Lava form to the limit.
His oppo frowned, and said, "A body f supreme skill, it seems. Show me if you resist this then."
As he sensed a forvading his head, Sora lost sciousness.
[You have died to a Chi: -1,000 points (2 lives left)]Reading the notification, Sora felt a wave of disbelief. Moments ago, he’d been fident, enjoying the challenges of the trial—only to be ambushed by two random pyers with insane powers. 'bining strong power with their group buff, they are invincible.' He thought, frustrated.
‘You really ’t judge a book by its cover… Imprisoning those four pyers and surviving might have been luck. I thought I’d be fine as long as I avoided the level 150 elites, but even level 135+ pyers be a threat if their skills are strong enough. Was that a supreme skill? I could feel him crushing trying to crush my lungs, heart. He failed doing that, but mao cut off the blood flow to my brain and crush it just after…’
Reappearing on another part of the isnd, Sora fumed, hating himself for failing every time a stronger oppo showed up. ‘It keeps happening! I wao move around alone, fight, and improve during the trial. But ever since I died to that witch, I hate the feeling of being killed and trampled on. Should I just avoid people, train for ten years, and e bavincible to escape this feeling forever?’
He shook his head, torween choices.
Looking around, he found himself alone in a different area of the isnd. Deg to stay on the ground this time to avoid dete from the air, he sprioward a rugged part of the ndscape where ambushes would be harder to pull off. With a t, half-buried stone hand rising a few hundred meters behind him, he wao summosu again, his on in hand.
Just as he looked up, five figures zoomed past above him at lightning speed.
Notig their red auras, Sora’s heart nearly stopped. ‘Don’t tell me…’
The figures slowed, h mid-air as they turned in his dire, clearly intending to “greet” him.
Sora didn’t wait. He bolted in the opposite dire, his heart pounding as he sehe overwhelming strength of the group behind him.
‘I jinxed myself! No way am I getting spawn-killed!’ he cursed inwardly, his fear rising as he pushed himself to his absolute limit, fleeing with every ounce of speed he could muster while regretting his choice to go solo.
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