Chapter 342: Breaking Through Piece by Piece (1/2)

At this time, Chris furrowed her brows and said, “How strange.”

“What is so strange?” Stingham asked, his eyes still glued on Belo’s disfigured hands. “Anyone’s hands will become like that upon contact with that burning floor.”

“I’m not talking about his hands Moss,” Chris replied as she shook her head. “I’m talking about those streams of golden flames.”

Stingham’s face turned ugly as he agitatedly exclaimed, “Chris, you are doing it again! I’m Stingham!”

“What is strange?” Ayrin interrupted.

Although it appeared as if the silver female metal puppets were only able to rotate where they stood, making them sitting targets, there were just too many of them. If Ayrin and the others attempted to force their way through without creating an effective plan, it was likely that over half of them would be knocked out here.

“As Belo moved faster, those streams of golden flames seemed to lose some power,” Chris replied as she apologetically looked at Stingham.

“The flames lost power as Belo moved faster? Could it be…” Rinloran had not noticed the subtle changes, but upon hearing Chris’ words, a light flashed through his eyes as an idea immediately emerged in his mind.

“Let me try something!”

Rinloran was like a wisp of smoke as he abruptly entered the chamber.

The eyes of all of the silver metal puppets immediately turned over in their sockets as they began to shoot streams of golden flames once more.

Rinloran immediately increased his speed.

He didn’t rush towards any particular metal puppet but remained near the doorway and just simply avoided the incoming attacks.

“It’s true!” Ayrin cried out, astounded.

He could clearly perceive the streams of golden flames becoming thinner and weaker as Rinloran moved faster and faster.

“Whoosh!”

Rinloran exited the chamber several moments later as billowing steam began to rise from the chamber floor once more.

Due to the conditions of the competition, he immediately began to explain his insights upon returning and providing Ayrin and the others no opportunity to interrupt. “These metal puppets have the ability to latch onto the unique aura of arcane masters. This is what allows them to continuously pursue us with their attacks. Furthermore, these puppets charge their attacks as long as the target is not moving. Thus, their attacks become increasingly weak the faster we move and the more often we move.”

“As a result, the best strategy for us to pass through this chamber is simply to move through it as quickly as we can. That said, we should also try our best to stick together as a group so that we can evenly divide the number of attacks which we face.”

“So it’s like this! It all makes sense now. In the past, there must have been an arcane master presiding over this area and guarding the exit, hindering anyone who entered from charging straight through even if they figured it out! Alright, let’s get ready to move out!”

Ayrin’s eyes lit up as he began twisting and bouncing in place to warm up his body.

“Haha! I can run rather fast now. Out of the six of us, you should be the slowest,” Stingham gloated as he patted Moss on the shoulders. “Moss, try your best to not become a roasted turkey, will you?”

“Idiot!” Rinloran cursed.

“All of you get down and lick this grandfather’s feet!” Belo shouted as he looked at the two rows of metal puppets.

Afterwards, Belo’s body began to contort as he transformed into a monster which was half wolf and half man.

“Are we all ready to go?” Chris asked as she tied her hair up in a ponytail.

“Let’s not waste any more time then. Go!” Rinloran shouted as he took the lead.

“Charge! Brave warriors!” Ayrin immediately hollered afterwards as he also charged forwards at a pace no slower than Rinloran.

“I’m coming! Wait for me!” Stingham cried out.

“What?!”

Stingham had only just entered through the bronze gate into the chamber when his eyes abruptly widened in shock… because a huge red blur had exploded by him the moment he entered. He watched as the blur passed dozens of meters beyond Ayrin and Rinloran before crashing to a stop and revealing Moss.

Countless densely packed streams of fire shot towards Moss.

“Boom!”

“Boom!”

“Boom!”

However, before they could reach him, they were completely dissipated by the waves of turbulent energy created by his constant explosive motions.

Just moments ago, Stingham had mocked Moss for being the slowest, yet now, he was the one who was closest to the exit.

“I forgot this guy learned such a skill… he doesn’t have to run when he can simply send himself flying…” Stingham silently despaired on the verge of tears as he realized at this time that he was the slowest.

Ayrin, Rinloran and Belo, who looked like a giant wolf as he ran on all fours, were all far ahead of him.

As for Chris, although her speed was comparable to his, she didn’t have to deal with any added resistance in the form of the weeds and saplings which were constantly growing over him.

As a result, even Chris was a good six or seven meters ahead of him.

By this point, Moss had already charged through the exit.