BXBX NOVEL Chapter 145: Attracting Trouble
"Me too," Erix laughed and said with a sharp expression. "But we are not done yet. We have four statues, so only forty-six people have golden wings. In the next batch, let's try to collect more golden statues."
"You want to collect more rather than ascending?" Melissa raised her eyebrows.
"Didn't you see people flying and chasing after those with golden wings? Heh," Erix snickered. "Those who don't have golden wings will try to hunt and possibly kill those with golden wings."
"I see," Rin nodded as she rubbed her chin, "to increase their chance of succeeding and passing, they will do their best to lower the number of those who have golden wings. After all, only a hundred of them can pass this race out of five hundred."
"That's true, but we shouldn't have a problem getting away from others with our combined powers," Melissa said.
"Nah. I think I am already attracting some attention because of having Space affinity, so I don't want to risk it," Erix shook his head before he grinned. "We'll collect five or more golden statues next time and then sell the rest to some fortunate soul whom we encounter."
"If we approach people who are alone, we can sell them in exchange for Chaos Gadget or something else," Rin said excitedly. "This is a good idea. Let's do it."
"Alright," Melissa nodded as she shrugged. "Since I teamed up with you two, I'll go along with this so-called safer route."
The three of them waited in one safe spot before four minutes passed, and three monsters spawned around them.
All of them were above level 150.
However, they were three, and had more powerful moves and better teamwork, so they easily destroyed the monsters.
Rin and Erix leveled up for the first time after reaching Noble order, reaching level 102.
A chaos beacon also spawned, which Rin killed, and Melissa didn't intervene but said, "I'll take the next one, which is only fair, right?"
"I'll take next, and then you take," Erix said. "We'll take turns."
"Alright," Melissa shrugged. "Although I hope this advantage of ours doesn't become meaningless."
'Humph, she definitely got one Chaos beacon before meeting up with us,' Rin snorted.
Of course, Rin and Erix also had one extra chaos beacon now.
And then suddenly, the Chaotic element of Chaos Race appeared.
[Chaotic Intervention. Everyone has Golden Wings for one minute. All other flying and traveling methods are disabled for twenty minutes.]
"Twenty minutes?" Erix sighed with a huge relief. "If so, then I'll be able to start teleporting when the next batch arrives.
"It looks like someone marked one of you with a skill. It should be Lex," Melissa suddenly said as she frowned and stood up before flying above the giant tree they were using as their shelter.
Rin and Erix confusedly followed but soon sensed presence when people arrived within their spirit sense's range.
"Run," Melissa said as she flew up, flapping her golden wings as fast as possible.
Rin and Erix quickly followed up, while the number of passed participants was not increasing that fast.
[8/100]
So far, only eight have passed because the hundred people of Savage Maw House were not letting others pass easily and had already killed 14 possessors of Golden Wings with their huge number and Chaos Gadgets.
"You are not getting away!" Lex shouted while using his punches and their skills to increase his speed of flying.
There were three more people behind them, and they were the ones who were searching for golden statues, but then they suddenly sensed a few presences out of nowhere before they quickly vanished.
At first, they were confused, but they understood that someone grabbed it before them after not finding the golden statue despite literally flipping up a five-hundred-meter area of land and not finding the statue.
Rin, Erix, and Melissa started descending after thirty seconds, going towards the area with a thick forest.
'There's a whole twenty minutes before the next pillars of light shine,' Melissa sent her thought message to Erix and Rin. 'These people won't stop chasing us since they are higher in number, and you two are lower level. We have to either hunt them or get hunted.'
'Let's run first.'
'It will be trouble to run once all of our movement and flying means are disabled,' Erix said. 'Let's hide in that jungle first and plan something.'
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"They are planning to hide there!" Lex shouted. "Use some skills and stop them!"
"Why don't you use it?!"
"You use it first!"
"FUCK," Lex cursed. "I don't have anything that can stop them from afar."
"Same here!"
"I don't have any control-skill that can do either!"
"We ain't fucking Royal order powerhouses that we have a perfect arsenal of skills, numb skull! Attack them from afar if possible and hinder them!"
Rin, Erix, and Melissa were nearing the jungle while flying at their full speed, which was only 300 meters per second due to this pair of golden wings.
"They are attacking!" Erix shouted before he turned around and punched powerfully with his whirlwind fist, but he didn't absorb the shockwave, which allowed him to shoot toward Rin as he grabbed her and punched one more time before shooting straight into the jungle.
"Jeez, I wish I could also do something like that," Melissa said with a smile before turning back and seeing two skills hurling in her direction.
One was a huge black fireball, and another was a lightning bolt.
'Good. My defense can handle it.'
With no other choice, Melissa used a Chaos gadget, conjuring a sleek black defensive orb around her with eccentric green and dark green patterns.
The skills struck her orb and shot her down into the ground at once with the impact, but her defensive orb remained unscathed.
"Destroy it."
Melissa heard Erix's voice after she came out of a crater and saw a golden statue hurling towards her.
One minute soon passed after that as her golden wings disappeared, and everyone officially became wingless, aside from the ones who originally had golden wings after destroying the statue.
"Now we won't have as much disadvantage with the wings," Rin grinned as they had also destroyed a statue each and got golden wings.