Chapter 546: You Cant Take It Yourself (1/2)

Krune almost lost control over his Dimond Shields, which would have turned things even worse. But he gritted his teeth and retreated with his Tribulation Lightning Movement.

'Fortunately, it was a probing attack. If I had attacked with a Heavens Fall, I might have killed myself. Let alone if I had time for a Tribulation Cannon.'

Some of the competitors were not so lucky. They used their own methods to avoid the copies defenses, striking them hard! As one can expect, they suffered even more than Krune.

Krune, just like all the other competitors, were taken in a dilemma. They can't defend forever, attacking their copies would also injure themselves. Also, they couldn't see any exit at all.

'The tricky to escape this place is the words spoke by Norzulun earlier. 'The clues are within yourselves.' But what did he mean with it? Should I try to attack myself?'

Krune then decided to return to his wisp form, where he had better control over his power. Sure enough, all the copies assumed a colored wisp form as well.

Krune was expecting it, though. He was much better with his Tribulation Lightning movement than the copies, so he quickly opened distance from them. They might be ranged attackers like himself, but he knows his own patterns better than anyone else. Besides, they don't attack with any skills unless you Krune uses it first. Just like when Krune used his Tribulation Line, they all used the same attack.

'Alright, let's try a weak attack first.'

There was no need to attack himself with Tribulation Lightning, so he simply used a weak fireball, which was among the simplest skills. The difference was that he left his Wisp Core open for the attack, no protection at all.

*Bang!*

The fireball hit his wisp core, but it didn't hurt that much. Nonetheless, it would be more than enough to notice changes in those wisp copies. However, all the wisps didn't seem to suffer any damage at all.

But it was then that he noticed, all those wisps summoned a fireball each and attacked themselves just like Krune. Ultimately, Krune felt the pain of being hit by eleven fireballs instead of one. Krune felt like crying because the damage they took was also reflected in him.

'Shit! Was I wrong?'

Suddenly...

-Number of participants who exited the Mirror World: 01.-

'So, someone already found the way out.'

Krune felt it to be way too fast. Considering the power of his Divine Sense, the distance he could observe was enormous. Yet, there was no such thing as an exit.

'In that case, the participant who passed first would not have enough time to reach an exit outside the Divine Sense range. There was simply not enough time to move that far. Also, he definitely didn't know which direction to go in the first place. That can only mean one thing, the exit is close by, and it has always been.'

-Number of participants who exited the Mirror World: 07.-

As Krune kept his distance from his copies, he noticed one weird thing.

'Why would they keep madly rushing at me without using any attacks?'

'Ah!'

Suddenly, Krune stopped. His shields were put away as he also stopped using any energy barrier. He was totally and completely vulnerable.

'Norzulun said that the clues are within ourselves, but he never said that we should be the ones to use it.'

It was a dangerous gamble, so Krune positioned himself in a place where one of the copies would arrive at him first. If anything went wrong, he would try to retreat once more.

The copies seemed to become enraged, their speed increased even more as all of them rushed at Krune at high speeds. Because of the amount of Spiritual Energy leaving their bodies, it seemed more like they were ready to explode. Most of the participants would not be able to hold themselves and would immediately flee at that sight. However, Krune steeled his resolve and didn't move at all.

When the first copy arrived, spiritual energy blew like waves, making it quite difficult for Krune to stay in his position. If this copy really decided to explode at that moment, Krune would probably be done for. Even his first plan of running away after the first copy touched him would be hard to accomplish.

Still, Krune made up his mind and did not move until the copy slammed into his body. However, instead of an explosion or anything like that, the spiritual energy waves rushed inside his body like a tide. The Wisp Copy also merged into him as if it was part of himself since the very beginning.

'So that's how it is.'

Krune then let the other copies come to him one after another. Every single one added even more Spiritual Energy into his Wisp Core. Finally, when the last copy merged with his body, gathering the rest of the Spiritual Energy inside.

”Go!”

Krune felt like something within himself had been triggered. All the accumulated Spiritual Energy suddenly exploded outwards, destroying the fabric of space around Krune completely. But at the same time, it also opened a spatial gate that immediately swallowed Krune inside. Krune's vision went blurry for a few seconds before finally returning to normal.

When he looked around, he saw another 20 or so cultivators and demon beasts. At the same time, a message appeared in his mind.

-Number of participants who exited the Mirror World: 24.-