[Xiao Ao Buluoye has invited Inoue Amano back into the group chat.]
[[Xiao Ao·Buluoye]: "Just joking, Amano-kun, don't be mad, otherwise it'll make people think you're really petty."]
[[Kuye]: "In terms of one-on-one, we indeed are not a match for the Shadow Dancer. Her class has too high agility, appearing and disappearing unpredictably."]
[[Long Bei·Sen]: "Cannot deny, if it was just me alone being defeated by her, then I'd admit it was because I was weak. But since all of us here have been defeated, then it's not just my problem."]
[[Le Luofus]: "We've got to think of a way to blunt this Shadow Dancer's sharpness. Don't let her push her luck any further."]
As soon as these words came out, everyone fell into silence.
After a long while, Kwon Ji-Hyun said, ["Forget it, let's just see about me and Elfa."]
["When I meet her, I'll personally deal with her."]
The ultimate gladiator battle raged fiercely.
Unknowingly, time had reached noon, twelve o'clock.
Since the Ultimate Gladiator Arena opened, more than four hours had passed.
Inside the Ultimate Gladiator Arena, the number of participants in the battle had reached 2000+.
Up to this moment, the points leaderboard basically remained the same as before, without major changes.
Within the Nine-Star Arena Immortal rank.
Still, Elfa was far ahead in first place with 8245 points.
Chen Zijin, with 5298 points, was in second place.
Kwon Ji-Hyun ranked third with 4980 points.
In these four hours, Chen Zijin had been painstakingly searching for a golden item with resurrection ability.
However, not to mention a specific item with resurrection properties, Chen Zijin hadn't even found a single golden item.
Yet, one very strange point was: since the Ultimate Gladiator Arena opened, the Ghost seemed to have stopped all activity.
As if vanishing into thin air.
Before the arena opened, it was still devouring professionals in various battlefields everywhere, but now there was no movement at all, and nowhere in the whole arena were there cases of participants disappearing anymore.
Facing this problem, the media of the Beacon Nation and the Cold Nation began spouting nonsense, ["Obviously, it's intimidated by our Cold Nation's number one powerhouse, the myth-grade professional Frost Mage King. The Ghost has been scared into not daring to come out."]
["I predicted long ago, that Ghost was just bluffing, only daring to bully weaker ones. Now that it's come into this Ultimate Gladiator Arena full of powerhouses, it dares not act. Why? Of course, because it's afraid of meeting our Beacon Nation's number one powerhouse, the Ghost Sword Elfa-sama."]
["Haha! After going through the first eight gladiator arenas, the Ghost never dared to offend our Elfa-sama. It's for sure, if Elfa-sama met the Ghost, wouldn't it just be cut down in a single sword stroke?"]
["At the critical moment, it's still our Beacon Nation that defends this world. Dragon Nation's Zero, Asura, what are they worth? Elfa-sama has also said, the world does not need Asura; having the Ghost Sword is enough."]
The whole world was speculating about the Ghost's movements, and most indeed thought the Ghost was not appearing because it feared meeting the Ghost Sword, the Frost Mage King, or perhaps the Hell Dragon Rider in the arena.
Only Wolong, Hidden Dragon, and Xuanlan could truly realize that things were not as simple as people imagined.
["Ordinary people might fear a myth-grade professional, but this time what we face is the three main gods of the other world, and the evil thing occupying Asura's body."]
While advancing through the Ultimate Gladiator Arena, Wolong, Hidden Dragon, and Xuanlan kept in contact through voice.
["Since from the very start his goal was to use the Hell Gladiator Arena to gather all the world's powerhouses together for hunting, then devouring them. Now that the Ultimate Gladiator Arena has opened, it's actually even more beneficial to him."]
["Yeah, before, with multiple battlefields divided, professionals were so scattered, it was easy to end up eating some small bugs with no nutrition. Now, after the heavy selection and elimination of the first eight arenas, the most elite batch of professionals in the world are all gathered here in the Ultimate Gladiator Arena. By reason, this should be his ultimate hunting ground, so why has he stopped acting?"]
["It's not that simple. Even if we don't fully understand the evil thing inside Master's body, with the temperament of the three main gods, they would never pass up such a good opportunity. They will definitely act, it's just that they might be waiting for the right moment."]
["Mm, so from now on, be extra careful. At any time, we cannot lower our guard."]
———
Meanwhile, elsewhere.
[Molten Realm]
Zhang Yue was lying in the center of a highland, starting to slack off.
Not because he wanted to, but because after several days and nights of effort, jumping across countless highlands, slaughtering countless lord-level, BOSS-level, and even god-level fire dragons, he still hadn't found an exit.
Or rather, not even a hint of hope could be seen.
No matter how Zhang Yue jumped from highland to highland, he ultimately found he could not reach the end.
This place seemed to be made up of countless highlands.
And beyond these highlands, there was simply no edge.
Yet it gave people the illusion that as long as they kept switching, they could find an exit.
Zhang Yue had figured it out, this was basically a no-solution place.
So what was the point of working so hard to kill monsters, collect flame pearls to open the Flame Gate, and jump to highlands?
Might as well slack off directly.
"Master, are we really just going to give up like this?", Cherry circled around Zhang Yue, her face unwilling yet helpless, as she spoke.
"Let me think about it," Zhang Yue rested both hands behind his head, lying flat on the ground, thoughts churning in his mind.
Obviously, this was no longer an ordinary hidden map, but an extremely special hidden map.
He had already suspected this before.
Because if it really were just an ordinary hidden map in World 32, the confining power it had would not possibly be this strong.
In a normal place, it would be impossible to trap Zhang Yue for so long.
So the only possibility was, this was a hidden map within a hidden map.
That's right, trap within trap, ring within ring.
To break this ring, one must first break the outer ring.
But how could a small World 32 have such a complex place?
Zhang Yue thought back and forth.
As if suddenly thinking of something, his heart jolted and he sat up abruptly.
"Wait! That means… could it be…"
Just as Zhang Yue began to suspect something, suddenly, a tremor came from beneath his feet.
Zhang Yue looked around, finding that the surrounding highlands, after twelve hours of stillness, had begun switching positions again, resetting.
Zhang Yue lay back down again.
After all, these past days, he had witnessed these highlands moving countless times, long past feeling any novelty.
However, just as all the highlands stopped moving and fell still, suddenly, the ring on Zhang Yue's hand, the one that could sense Nether Stones, emitted a faint light.
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