Chapter 187: System Battle Royale 1

Ibro was in another place totally different from what he thought. That place was full of darkness at first. When his nebulas stopped their rotations and started their reverse rotation.

He didn't expect this sudden pulse of huge energy that emerged from the depth of his dantian. After that energy had emerged and broke Nicole's spiritual sense, he lost sense of his surroundings. 

It was like his energy had been depleted. He was like a device that was about to be restarted. He stayed in this weird condition for an unknown period of time. 

When he woke up, he found himself in a strange dark place with a weak source of light. He looked around him to find that he wasn't in a place, he was traveling through space. 

His speed was so fast that everything around him was flashing with no time to even make him see a glimpse of it. 

He looked around him in confusion. Wasn't he just now about to undergo his heavenly tribulation? Was this his tribulation? That was strange. 

He recalled all the info about heavenly tribulation that he read at the scroll he took from Nicole. He didn't get what was going on so he asked:

'System, what is happening? Where am I now? Where am I going?'

Complete silence was his answer. He felt worried at once. 

This was his second experience of losing contact with his stuff. When he moved from the tech world to the cultivation world he lost contact with Dronil. 

Now he also lost contact with the Supreme Emperor Rule system. The only answer that appeared in his mind was very terrifying for him. 

Was he now traveling between worlds? He looked around him without any gains. He couldn't see even the outlines of the things that he passed through. 

He accepted his fate and kept waiting for this trip to end. He looked to his sword that was in his hand and felt some assurance. 

At least he had his weapon with him. He kept waiting for this trip to end. He lost his sense of time as he kept moving forward with his extreme speed. 

Finally, he could see a spot of light on the distant horizon. It looked like the opening at the end of a long deep tunnel. Although he was moving with high speed, it took him forever to reach that spot of light. 

When he reached it, he hit it very hard. He felt severe pain in his whole body. It was like his soul was about to get out of his body. 

Finally, he passed through this spot of light. He fell on a hard ground. The space around him was full of light so he closed his eyes while rolling over his back. 

He took his breaths like a drowned man after getting saved. Each breath gave him a lot of his strength back. After a few seconds, he felt something strange. 

There were pulses around him that caused the ground to tremble. He had no enough strength in him to lift even his head to see what was causing these trembles. 

He was very tense. If there was an enemy in this new world, then he had no confidence in even evading his attack. 

The next few moments were very stressful over him till he heard very loud noises. These noises began to be clearer with time to finally become very clear. 

These sounds were very earth-shaking cheers around him. These cheers were the cause behind these trembles. Each time that cheer appears, it drives the ground to tremble from its mightiness. 

He felt confused, why was he able to hear this loud cheering here? That meant there were so many people around him right now. 

That was even weirder. After a while, he could comprehend what these people were saying. He muttered:

"System Battle Royale?"

Suddenly, a complete silence prevailed after he said these words. The silence after noise held a strange feeling.

"System Battle Royale."

This sudden earth-shattering shout appeared from around him like a sudden lightning strike. 

He felt his body itself convulse under this sudden scream. After that, another complete silence emerged. Ibro was afraid that shout would repeat again so he was ready for it, but it didn't appear. What appeared was something else.

"Welcome back system holder number 11111. It has been ages since I have met you. I'm very happy to be able to meet you again"

Ibro was jolted immediately in his place. This sound was like it was speaking inside his mind, but it wasn't Dronil or his system sound. He thought about what he just heard. 

Was that sound speaking with him like he knew him? He was very confused. Ibro's body had regained enough strength to move, so he stood up. Once he stood up he was shocked. 

He was in the middle of a very huge arena. On the sides of this huge arena, there were rows of a lot of chairs with people sitting over them. 

Their number was endless as these rows extended to the horizon with no end and reached the sky in its height. The cheering he just heard before came from all these people. 

Ibro focused a bit, these people had very excited expressions over them. He felt strange and more confused. Where was he? Who were these people?

"Don't worry, each system holder always shows this confusion for the first time here. Let me brief you about the current situation."

Ibro finally managed to find the source of this sound. It was a huge screen held in the air. This screen was so huge that it was the sky itself. 

Ibro didn't understand what was going on. That screen showed strange vibration over its endless surface as if an ocean of balls were vibrating with the previous metallic sound appearing everywhere:

"After you reincarnated, you started your System Battle Royale at a rudimentary planet called Earth. From there, you started your epic journey. 

Till now, you have gained two supreme scattered powers in the shattered universe. You have traveled in time and you have killed Roran monsters. 

You have fulfilled all the basic conditions to come here again to take your first step at our System Battle Royale."

After these words, a loud cheering appeared from every corner of this vast arena. They all were shouting with the strange name 'System Battle Royale.' Ibro didn't understand anything from the words of this huge screen.

"I'm sorry I don't get what you just said."

"It's normal. Anyway, you will understand more after you finish your next challenge."

Ibro looked around him. There was nothing but this massive arena. He asked in doubt:

"What is my challenge?"

"Wait for a second and you will face your challenger. Before that, you need to decide something first."

"What is this?" Ibro asked while feeling wariness. He wasn't sure of these strange screen intentions towards him.

"Don't feel this vigilant towards me. I'm very neutral to you all system holders participating in this System Battle Royale. 

Now, what you need to decide is your retrieval of one of your old skills. Skill, technique, mantra, talent or a spell. Everything is available to you."