Chapter 343: An Individual Battle, Moss’ Crisis! (2/2)

By this point, Stingham had already entered the chamber.

“Ayrin, Rinloran, where did you guys go?!” Stingham’s cries abruptly rang out from within.

“What?” Ayrin exclaimed as he looked at Stingham. “Stingham, you can’t see any of us? We are right behind you. We haven’t moved at all.”

“I can hear you guys, but I can’t see you!” Stingham said as he turned around, exposing the grim expression on his face to Ayrin and the others. “You guys can see me though?”

“Yes, we can see you.” Ayrin and the others exchanged looks as he asked, “Can you see absolutely nothing in there?”

“No, I can see the exit and my surroundings perfectly fine, I just cannot see you guys,” Stingham whimpered.

“Idiot!” Rinloran muttered as he couldn’t endure any longer and passed through the gate.

“Eh?”

As he passed through the metal gate, the scene before him abruptly changed. Everything around him seemed to become desolate as he found himself by himself.

Not only did he not see Ayrin and the others, who were still outside, he didn’t see Stingham either.

He was by himself within an empty arena.

“Ayrin, I can’t see you guys anymore, and I can’t see Stingham either,” Rinloran said calmly.

“You can’t even see Stingham? But we still can out here…” Ayrin began to speak, but then suddenly paused as if some drastic change had occurred.

“What happened?!” Stingham shouted fearfully.

“The light is getting thicker! We cannot see you from out here anymore!” Ayrin exclaimed.

Before Ayrin, Chris, and the two others who were still standing outside, the light behind the gate slowly thickened, forming a curtain of light which obscured them from seeing within.

“There are no changes occurring in here,” Rinloran said.

“So strange. Maybe it’s meant to separate us so we fight individual battles!” Ayrin reasoned after a moment of thought. “This should be one of those occurrences the referee mentioned before we entered. The arcane energy field surrounding the area makes it so we can only see our opponent and nothing else within!”

Neither Stingham nor Rinloran responded.

“Could it be that they have encountered powerful opponents?” Moss asked nervously.

“It’s possible that the arcane energy field has now blocked off sound as well, so they are no longer able to hear us,” Chris said.

“Once we enter as well, we will no longer be able to support each other. We will each be fighting by ourselves,” Ayrin said he swept his gaze across Chris, Belo and Moss.

“It should be like this. Everyone be careful,” Chris said with a nod.

“Let’s go! Let’s go in and see just what is so strange!”

A cold light flickered through Belo’s eyes as his body transformed once more.

“Pssssh!”

Belo quickly tore through the curtain of light and entered.

“Let’s go!”

Ayrin and Chris simultaneously entered.

Only Moss was left standing outside. Both of his palms were clammy and covered with a cold sweat.

“I just have to do as I did earlier!”

Taking a deep breath, Moss steeled his mind.

Afterwards, his body erupted forwards and crashed into the curtain of light at a speed invisible to the naked eye.

Although Moss did not manage to completely master Explosive Strike before arriving, at the least, he was able to control it so that he shot forward, and not up towards the sky like before.

Just this already made it impossible for the skills of normal opponents to chase him down.

“What?!”

Moss felt nothing as he burst through the curtain of light and entered the chamber. The sunlight which fell down from above was still as gentle and clear as ever. But in the next moment, his pupils abruptly constricted as he saw a golden figure glaring at him from a corner of the otherwise empty and silent chamber!

At this moment, a sense of spatial disorientation washed over Moss.

Because the golden figure before him looked exactly the same as the golden metal puppet he had encountered in the earlier chamber!

It was as if the golden metal puppet had penetrated through space and arrived here.

And unlike before, the golden eyes of this golden metal puppet now seemed to be alive and glowing with a faint golden brilliance as they stared at him.

A biting chill arose in his heart and pervaded every corner of his body.

“Boom!”

Wanting to pass through here as quickly as possible, Moss didn’t wish to waste another second thinking about the strangeness of this metal puppet’s appearance. He used Dual Transformation and returned to normal and then immediately erupted forwards once more.[1]

“What?!”

Moss’ breath abruptly became caught in his throat.

In the periphery of his vision, he could see a golden light approaching him.

The golden metal puppet was no slower than him and had moved to block his way forward.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh”

A scream erupted from Moss’ mouth as he shot uncontrollably towards the golden metal puppet.

The golden metal puppet’s emotionless eyes slowly turned.

“Clang!”

A sharp golden blade abruptly shot out from each of the golden metal puppet’s ten fingers.