Chapter 107: Cross the boundary (2/2)

The royal knights and other experts that saw the fight narrowed their eyes at the person in a hooded black armor.

Each of them had similar thoughts, that his strength was nonordinary. They wondered who was the person behind the armor.

'Looks like Miss Ella found a reliable guard,' most of them thought.

The empress who was watching at the scene in disbelief forthwith ordered the soldiers for additional security and to bring the prisoners to the underground prison cell for further investigation.

She then asked the Royal Knight Captain to escort Miss Ella.

After arresting the three robed people, Yman and Ella were startled when Gilion suddenly barked, ” Impudent, get off your dirty hands from the prin- Miss Ella!!” He roared when his feet landed on stage.

His friends were puzzled as to why Gilion was angry at that person who saved Miss Ella, while Hannah was shaking her head for Gilion's childish act.

However, Hannah was surprised by the person who saved the princess. 'So it was the reason why the headmaster of the adventurer's guild talked to them in secret,' she thought.

Looks like the headmaster appointed that handsome guy to be the princess's personal guard.

After Gilion roared at him, the two looked at each other and noticed how close they were from each other.

Ella's mind went back to reality and noticed that she was still in the embrace of Crimson Canceler. Her face instantly became redder.

Yman then immediately released her.

Ella said her thanks to him without looking at his face when the soldiers of the empire came to escort her towards the empress.

When she left together with the guards, Yman was left standing on the stage together with Gilion who was raising his brow at him and declared a challenge that he would be going to defeat him.

”Kuku,” Yman smirked. He wondered why this person was always challenging him without a proper reason.

Gilion could not argue further with him as he was the one saving her. However, this guy annoyed him to the bone! Just seeing that ability would boil his blood. He would be going to defeat him and that ability of him in this competition.

One girl inside the room of Miss Ice could not settle her feelings. She wanted to believe that it was him. But it was impossible to be him. Almina wanted to believe it was him and also wanted to deny it at the same time. Especially after she saw him hugging the beautiful Miss Merea Ella.

However, the skills he used were similar to him.

Regardless, more soldiers came to secure the place, no matter what happened the competition must go on.

Actually, it wasn't the first time that terrorism like this happened in the Empire. So such a kind of event wasn't an unusual event for them. The only thing that made the people bemused by it was the fact that this time the target was the famous artist Miss Ella.

Faye the trickster went in front again and announced the rules of the competition.

The painting seemed to be 3-dimensional geography of the world when Faye toggled it into a bird view.

The painting wasn't an ordinary painting as it was made through magic.

”The first round of the competition is known as — Cross The Boundary.

As you can see, there are 3-layered circles from the small, medium, to large. Each circle had an estimated distance of 20 kilometers each. These three circles would act as boundaries.

For you to be qualified for the next round of competition, you needed to enter the center-most boundary. Which is inside the smallest circle. However, these three circles are made of magical barriers. One can only pass it when he or she gains a total of 1,000 points at the first boundary, which is the larger circle. Then you need at least 3,000 points at the second boundary. And in order to enter the last boundary which is your end goal, you needed at least 7,000 points…”

”Woah as expected of the Empress. She came up with a new kind of competition again.”

”Yeah, this competition seemed to be interesting!”

”But how to get the points?”

”Maybe we needed to defeat other participants to earn it.”

”Right.”

Some participants muttered.

Thud! A dull sound was heard which caused the noise to die down.

”Chuchu chuchu chuuuu, I see everyone was excited to start the fight.

Remember! Each one of you holds 100 points. When you defeat a participant your points will become 200, then it will become 300 when you defeat another again. Continued defeating the other participants will gain you more points until you reach the amount needed to enter the boundary. On the other hand, the defeated participant will automatically be summoned out from the painting.

”100 points only?”

”Damn, then we need to defeat 10 participants in the first boundary!”

”Bwahaha, this is exciting!” Ember laughed.

”Fufu, indeed!” Added by Harou.

”Fuu! Good thing that it seemed I don't need to fight with this muscle brain brother of mine,” Cinder muttered which caught the interest of the other people around who managed to hear her.

”He's right, hey do you want to team up with us?” Whisper the person to the person beside him.

”Keke, that sounds good,” replied the other.

The whisper escalated until more participants formed a team.

Yman forced a soundless laugh upon noticing the undergoing secret recruitment from the other participants.

He glanced at the person beside him.

”Hey, do you want to team up with me?” He asked.

Gilion didn't expect this person to talk with him. And, 'What the heck this guy was talking about?! Does he look like he needs it to win this elimination?! Damn!'

”F**k off!” He replied annoyingly.

”Kuku,” Yman smirked. Well, he wasn't serious though. He just wanted to annoy him.

”Chuchu chuchu chuuu, aside from participants there are also beasts in the area which contained different numbers of points. You can kill them and earn additional points. The points they hold depend on the ranks of the beasts.

Just remember,

When you enter the painting, each one of you will be sent randomly outside the boundaries.

Alright!

I wish you Goodluck everyone! Chuchu chuchu chuuu!”