Conrad collided with his two lackeys and the three of them crashed onto the ground like a couple of bowling pins.They hit the ground hard and skidded backward for a few meters before they were able to stop themselves.Conrad and his two lackeys were in a sorry state as their arms and legs were tangled with each other and their bodies were covered in layers of dirt and dust.As the three of them finally came to a stop, what greeted them after was a terrible amount of pain that racked through their bodies. This pain was as a result of their technique which had been activated that let Conrad borrow the power of his two lackeys being forcefully interrupted.Normally, for a technique that lets three people share their powers with each other, there would generally be quite a few shortcomings to its usage.In the universe, there was no limit to the number of techniques that would have this effect and these techniques usually had a few commonalities. One

"The reason why we do not have any tokens on us is that we had been robbed of them by the temporary alliance of defeated participants," Richard said."The temporary alliance of defeated participants? what's that? it sounds like a sorry attempt of a formed cult meant for world domination and revolution.""From how bad the name sounds, this temporary alliance doesn't sound like much so how could they have robbed you clean of your tokens?"Arran was very curious about this temporary alliance of defeated participants.From the name of the alliance itself, Arran could guess that it had been formed by a couple of participants who had been defeated during this elimination round and had had their tokens taken from them. but here comes the issue.Although Arran did not know exactly how many participants were here in the second elimination round, from how difficult the first elimination round was, Arran guessed that the number of participants was quite consi

At the end of the day, Arran decided to take Richard as well as Conrad and the last lackey whose name was Val along with him and Brianna. Arran did this not because he took pity on them but instead Arran considered the fact that leaving them there for anybody to come across was a security risk. If Arran had just left Richard and the rest of them to their own devices and somebody came along, Richard who knew of the existence of the traps Arran had left scattered in the tunnels was very likely to expose this intelligence to them just to save himself. It would have been especially bad if Richard had exposed this information to the members of the alliance of defeated participants. Arran had already recognized this alliance as a very formidable force that would prove to be especially difficult to deal with. Arran was not confident of being able to come out on top in a confrontation between himself and this alliance without the help of the various traps tha

Somewhere in the tunnels...Currently, a team of participants was making their way through the dark tunnels.Just like other underground tunnels in this mountain was, this tunnel was no different from the others.During the more than five-hour-long duration of the second elimination round, some of the participants had speculated on how these tunnels were formed.Normally there would be various reasons why underground structures like these tunnels would form. Some of these underground structures could be formed naturally while at other times they were artificially created.Some participants had speculated that these underground tunnels had been naturally formed due to various reasons like the overflowing of ocean water when the mountain was still submerged in the sea before it ascended due to the effect of the heavy magnetic field of the planet or the dissolution of certain minerals... like limestone for example or its equivalent.Apart from

As soon as Jerome shouted at the cloaked figure to stop, everybody else in his team immediately paused their movements and looked towards the two of them.They were very surprised by Jerome's abrupt command and they had puzzled looks on their faces that reflected their confusion.Some of them were very irritated while others were quite indifferent to what was happening. the only thing that the other members of the team wanted to know was why Jerome had suddenly started causing a ruckus all of a sudden.Looking at Jerome who was pointing his sword towards a member of their team, some of the more irritated members started demanding an explanation from him immediately."Who is the one shouting so loudly? Don't you know that your voice will be amplified in these tunnels? You almost gave me a heart attack...""Hey you there, how dare you to point your weapon at one of us? Are you trying to rebel?""The person that just shouted, you'd better give