No matter how unbelievable it was for Arran to venture into the storm clouds that were surrounded by lightning like that, the fact remains that it was happening and it did not take long before everybody was aware of this.When more and more people found out about Arran's actions, the predominant feeling was shock and surprise before excitement settled in.The thing about the unexpected appearance of the storm was that although it added new elements and variables to the competition... like the appearances of the ocean overlords that were usually in deep slumber in the depths of the ocean... even with these variables added, it was not as if the participants were fools who would just expose themselves out in the open for danger to meet them.Even without putting the ocean overlords into consideration, staying out under the storm was very dangerous on its own since you never know if a rogue bolt of lightning might be attracted to you giving you an intimate feeling a

As always Arran was unaware of the commotion that his actions had caused. He was wholly focused on maneuvering his way through this storm.Actually, there were no ulterior motives to Arran's actions that made him do things the way he did them. While others were speculating about Arran's reasons for doing things in such a controversial way... coming up with various absurd ideas like how Arran just wanted to show off, and how he was not taking this competition seriously and was only looking for a thrill in the midst of danger... all Arran ever thought about that motivated him to take the drastic actions that he did was simply to clear this first round in the quickest way possible and securing an advantage.Arran knew very well his own capabilities very well and he knew that he was not the strongest person here. While he may not be the weakest, it was a fact that Arran's chances of winning all four elimination rounds were very slim, and if he were to run into a slightly s

Time was still moving forward and nobody would wait for either Arran or the audience to sort out their thoughts.Just as the tentacle finally retreated into the ocean, in the next moment the surface of the ocean erupted and two tentacles flew out of it once again.The speed at which the tentacles traveled was so fast that by the time they had breached the ocean until Arran noticed, they had already reached him and he was only left with a small window to reacts.Thankfully Arran had never let his guard down for even an instant and he was able to just barely evade the attack.As, soon as Arran evaded the attack made by the two tentacles he immediately started moving again as he flew forward in the sky. This turned out to be the correct move because unlike before, the monster hidden in the ocean did not wait until its two tentacles were retracted before it immediately used another two tentacles to attack Arran once again.If Arran had still stayed in

It was a race between both parties with one trying his hardest to fly upwards and out of the encirclement in time and the other trying to prevent its prey from escaping.The Charybdis was mightily enraged by Arran's earlier attack on it and it doubled its effort to close the dome as soon as possible. The amount of damage that it had suffered from Arran's attack was naturally minimal and it did not actually hurt it. Instead, it was the momentary pain and feeling of numbness in its tentacle that had slowed its attack that had truly enraged the Charybdis.Even if the Charybdis had only slowed down for a split second due to the lightning attack, that was enough time for Arran to reduce the distance between himself and the top of the dome by quite a lot.Arran after seeing that his attack was effective against the Charybdis, he was delighted but he did not hesitate to use this tiny window of opportunity to close the distance.Before Arran had only been relying