BXBX NOVEL Chapter 766 - The Third Event IV
The battle for the points has started early as each team will kill monsters on sight. A summary board could be summoned by each player in order to see how many monsters of the same rank are left. The two hundred F rank monsters are easily cut in half due to the precision of the players.
The audience could sense that the contestants in this event are more competitive compared to the previous two events. It could be said that the players are channeling their rage in hunting monsters since they gain nothing by hunting other players.
Of course, there are still people that are bitter about their loss in the second event. It could be said that they become petty as long as they have the chance. Hou Yiwei is the best example for this as he specifically tracked the soloist Apolaki and will last hit all the monsters that the latter will try to kill.
The pettiness could be seen by everyone, but they actually liked it as it is also a great strategy. The best revenge for this event is not to team wipe the opposing team but to make them lose the chance to get points. Apolaki wanted to retaliate but he did not let his emotions get to him because the monsters that he tried to kill are just low point monsters.
He is also ticking Hou Yiwei by cutting the arrows before they hit the monsters. This pettiness battle has become a great watch for the audience, but the game analyzers could see the professionalism or prowess of the two by watching them fight.
As the players were trying to find and defeat monsters, one team managed to awaken something that they should not have this early. In the jungle area, a loud roar is heard that can even be heard by everyone in the entire map. A loud deafening roar that could be said as a roar filled with the authority of a king.
This roar came from the SS Rank monster that the Finnish Team accidentally awakened. They delved deeper in the jungle area and are greeted by a ruin. The ruins that they saw portrayed a monster revered as a god by the past inhabitants of the jungle that is in the form of a large tiger.
There are even murals of it that the people would sacrifice their own people just to satiate the beast or else it will kill half of their people in return. It is also shown that it was sealed in a relic that looks like a crystal laced with red and black lines with runic characters. The warning should have been apparent, but the murals are already fading and could not be read as easily anymore.
Since items could also be picked up in this event, the players would pick up hers or scattered items. There are even some dead adventurers to add the effect that the areas are very difficult to stay alive in. The Finnish players thought that they had hit the jackpot as they found consumables like bombs and arrows but that is what they only thought.
One of them touched the crystal that sealed the SS rank monster hidden in the depths of the jungle. They activated the SS rank monster earlier that predicted which means that the balance of the event will be ruined. Some people are either really lucky but then bring misfortune after.
The Finnish national team awakened one of the deadliest SS rank monsters that is famed for its ferociousness. They awakened the Blood Hungry Crimson Tiger. It is a monster that can be said to only inhabit the high-level dungeon called Mysterious Jungle, but it is actually just a mini boss there as the dungeon level is actually level 300.
With one roar, Blood Hungry Crimson Tiger managed to induce fear on all of the Finnish national team members. It also dealt with them swiftly as the other team is unprepared. The red striped tiger is now roaming the jungle area with the intent to eat as it has been imprisoned for too long inside the crystal.
The players that heard the roar did not waste time as they knew that it was a roar that came from a high ranked monster. They must be the first to kill it in order to get the points for it. One could easily win this event if they defeat the SSS rank monster, but they are not even sure if they could take on that monster.
The Blood Hungry Crimson Tiger noticed that many presences are now coming towards its as soon as they stepped foot in the jungle area. The jungle is its domain so wit will make sure that it will not lose to those invaders. If one is very observant, then they would see that the Blood Hungry Crimson Tiger is actually smiling but no one can even know what a smiling tiger looks like.
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"Can you see anything, Poison Ivy?" Totem asked his team member as she is the best one when it comes to surveillance among them.
"I already scattered all the spores in the jungle area, but I cannot see any monster that is different. I can at most see a few B ranked monsters but not something like a S rank or SS Rank monster." Poison Ivy replied.
Totem suddenly felt the spirits of the monsters inside of him tell him to be prepared as a powerful foe is nearby. The other team members in his group did not even detect this as the SS rank Blood Hungry Crimson Tiger did not even emit killing intent.
The Blood Hungry Crimson Tiger used the jungle as a cover, and it could pass through it without even being seen. It will remain undetected as long as it does not attack. It smelled an interesting human in this area which is why it came to look for it and found Totem. It vanished in the area after seeing that the interesting human it saw can detect it.
"It vanished!"