Book 5: Chapter 64: Showing Promise

Book 5: Chapter 64: Showing Promise

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One competitor goes after another, and each one does about the same as the first, give or take. Some last for four minutes, others for six minutes.

Im pretty sure some of them even pretty much do just the bare minimum in defenses so that they can take with them the extra points from this competition, apparently deciding theyre going to lose before even trying. Which isnt a bad idea for them.

After about six competitors go, Arias turn arrives, and I find myself smiling when I see her tower.

Arias tower is a very strange one. Its almost entirely on the outside of the tower with very few parts inside of it. And all across the tower are quite a few traps meant to send the void creatures flying off of the tower and into the lava surrounding the tower. Meanwhile the strongest actual damaging traps and towers are at the bottom of the tower in the single interior floor, meant to deal a lot of damage to everything that enters inside.

A rather good setup with a good tower as well.

Void creatures enter through the first floor, taking a significant amount of damage from the towers and traps before entering the exterior parts of the tower where they are constantly being pushed off of the tower as they make their way up. Then they join the new void creatures down below that are entering the fray to get attacked by those same powerful defenses within the interior floor. Further eliminating large numbers of the creatures before the process repeats.

And while the numbers do end up building up like that, the exterior tower traps not serving to push down all of the void creatures, the ones that remain end up being stopped by the second round of powerful defenses at the top of the tower. Defenses that are more than just towers and traps this time.

She has Class III equivalent monsters stationed at the top right at the entrance to the interior, blocking it off in the process. Meanwhile quite a few towers and traps are set up at the entrance as well, meant to fire at the void creatures fighting against the monsters.

Something that is only really possible thanks to there not being any friendly fire in this competition. All towers dont deal any damage to your own monsters.

Honestly, I cant help but feel impressed by her tower. And I dont send void creatures of my own at it, because I want her to succeed.

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Ah, the power of video games.

Its wonderful.

I hear a certain Fae King pointing out the fact that Im not sending any void creatures something I didnt realize he knew but I simply ignore him.

Hmm, I wonder why I ever felt any sort of fear or mystery from that fae?

The immature Fae King aside, it takes a few minutes before the void creatures finally manage to push their way through the last of Arias defenses and make it to the roof of her tower, destroying her core. Which in the end leaves her lasting for about eighteen minutes and thirty-four seconds.

Over three times as long as anyone who had gone before her.

It looks like Competitor Aria Knight has shown her true potential with this competition, King Oberon declares, sounding interested and impressed. And the roars of approval coming from the audience appears to agree with him. Not in direct combat, but in strategy.

I cant help but smirk, feeling happy for Arias success. Meanwhile the girl in question reappears with all of us and smiles at me with a wave.

Then everyone returns their focus to the next tower that appears. One that actually belongs to Anthony.

The void creature-human hybrid guy.

And his tower isnt much worse than Arias. Now, its not on her level, but its interesting enough and much better than the demons until now.

It also takes defense in an entirely different direction from hers.