Book 1: Chapter 97.3: Blood and Death Part III

Book 1: Chapter 97.3: Blood and Death Part III

Scarlet

My eyes widen in shock when the wound I dealt to Necro begins to glow. Specifically, the black cracks running through the wound. So I draw my other arms claws across his back before jumping backwards myself to avoid whatever skill hes using.

Only to be shocked when I see the black cracks begin to explode across his back in tiny explosions, making the wounds much bigger as he drops to one knee.

The hell?

So that was the drawback of whatever skill he was using Tar mutters in my head, making me frown. Its likely that he got a massive boost in all of his stats, both magical and physical, in exchange for a powerful penalty for taking any sort of damage. Something you normally only see in void related Tar trails off, making me curious about what he was gonna say. But the sight of the man struggling to his feet while stumbling a little distracts me from that.L1tLagoon witnessed the first publication of this chapter on Ñøv€l--B1n.

You can still stand with those wounds? I ask with a raised brow.

He coughs out a mouthful of black blood on the ground, which has me raising my other brow.

He really does have void spawn genes Tar mutters, seemingly at the sight of the blood, shocking me in the process. Just who decided to experiment with void spawn anyways?

Who cares about that. Its pretty clear how the government treats human experimentation. And Its just as clear how obvious it is that a void spawn a creature that doesnt reproduce didnt give birth to him.

I shiver slightly at the thought of those disgusting masses of flesh, claws, talons, and tentacles that enters my mind. Humanity didnt really know what we were dealing with the first time a Fracture core grew corrupted and ended up linking Earth to the void instead of Tartarus. But it didnt take long to find out that the creatures were quite a bit weaker and stupider than demons.

The main issue Guardians took with them though was that they didnt have any life force to take, since they werent from the mortal plane themselves. So Guardians cant gain EXP from killing them.

Which is a big downside to a lot of the Guardians and a demotivator in regard to dealing with the creatures.

Anthony drops down to his knees again, only to faceplant on the ground before were both sent back to reality again.

And the first thing I see when getting back is Anthony grinning at me as we unlock our hands that were still clasped together from before entering the duel.

Youre interesting, he says, only to wave at me and turn around. Ill catch ya later then. Wouldnt want to fall behind in points because of this.

Damnit, is everyone just going to decline my challenges?! I understand they might not want to die, even if its only a magical reality, but I can go easy on them since the rest of the people here should be weaker! Or I could just avoid using blood boil maybe that would make more of them challenge me?

Then again, they might not trust my word on that.

Surprisingly, Tar doesnt say anything in response to my thoughts like he usually would. So I guess hes just left for somewhere and isnt just blatantly ignoring me. More like offhandedly ignoring me by leaving and avoiding any questions I might have over the previous subject.

I look up to see Viper looking at me with a face full of amusement.

Yeah, laugh it up.

These challenge declines are all making me lose two points that I couldve gotten by beating them for each decline! Damn it!

Its just such a disappointing waste

I continue pressing the random challenge button over and over again until someone finally bothers to accept it. Then I completely wipe the floor with them, making sure not to use blood boil and to knock them out instead of killing before returning to the dome to continue my spamming of the button.

But in the end, most of the students remaining decline my random challenge. Even Denise declines. But there are around seven or so that accepted out of the remaining students. And right when I get my last challenge declined, I get another message from my earpiece which I hear through my wolf ears instead of my human ones. Because ended up realizing that it was pointless to use my human ears when I can hear it with my wolf ones as well even with the earpiece in my human ear.

[One point has been awarded for your opponent declining your challenge. You now have a total of 303 points.]

But then a second announcement echoes through the loudspeakers in the dome, making everyone hear it, followed by another one in my ear from the earpiece, not being heard by the others.

[Scarlet Asger has successfully challenged every student in the dome and either defeated them or had them decline her challenge. As a reward, they are given a bonus of 50 points.]

[You now have a total of 353 points.]

Every gaze in the room turns to me.

Seriously?