Chapter 95 - Conserving Energy (1/2)
”Oh, What do we have here?! It seems like Landlord is in a pinch!!”
Marlion instantly noticed Wobbly Web's ambush and switched the camera focus from those at the lead to them.
Creeped out, the crowd drew a deep breath at the sight of thousands of small red spiderlings crawling all over Felix's car and entering inside from every hole and opening they found.
”He is doomed! What kind of f*cked up ability is that?! Who can defend against such an army while driving?”
”Sigh, that legendary bloodline is truly wasted on him.”
”That's the peak ability of Queen Harvest Spider! That's an epic rank Tier 1 Bloodline!”
”Hehe, I guess his luck has been totally consumed when he won that bloodline.”
Suddenly, their chatter quietened down a bit as they watched mouth agape, the spiderlings they were just glorifying gets engulfed in an acid green mist. Then, magically disappear after the mist was removed.
Felix's car kept accelerating forward as nothing happened.
Marlion, the spectators, and more so Wobbly Web stared at Felix's sparkling clean car with a dumbfounded expressions.
”Are my eyes playing a trick on me? Or did I just watch an epic rank peak ability get dealt with the same way as spraying gas at flies?!”
”Brother, you are missing the point here. His aura switched to another poison like his bombs!!!! Can he do that with all of his abilities?!!” The spectator then added with a slight tremble on his voice, ”And how many poisons can he switch to?!”
Everyone near the man felt a shiver in their skin as they imagined the immense possibilities of this overpowered bloodline.
”That's it; I am focusing only on Landlord from now on! Let's see how many poison inducements he can use.”
”I am with you.”
”Count me as well.”
”Tsk, I bet he would use at max 5 inducement like the known legendary bloodlines.”
Just like a domino effect, the crowd bit by bit began switching their vision from known veterans to Felix after realizing how unique his bloodline was.
Some spectators knew of such an ability to switch inducements since a few legendary poison bloodlines had it as well.
However, the maximum number of inducements they could use never went beyond five. They knew that Felix's bloodline would be just the same as them, nothing to boast about. Yet, they still switched their focus from the lead to him. They were somewhat curious about what five inducements he unlocked.
....
”Hahahhaha!”
Meanwhile, Felix was laughing his ass out inside the car while watching a small cute spider on top of his hand. It was biting him viciously, trying to penetrate his skin and spew poison inside. Yet, Felix's defenses were too strong for its little fangs.
”Trying to poison this daddy?! Aren't you simply asked to be slapped in the face?”
Felix chuckled one last time and smacked the spider away like a fly. He glanced at Wobbly's car that was speeding away from him in retreat and sneered, ”You lucky this was a race format.”
Felix ignored him and continued his acceleration to catch up. If this was a different game mode, Felix wouldn't hesitate for even a second before hunting him down in retaliation.
However, this was sadly a race. And in a race, he should only have one thing in mind, and that was to reach the finish line first and foremost.
Hence, he couldn't waste any more time dealing with those pests, as his rank was currently 15 from 34 players that were left.
A whopping 12 players were eliminated in the very first minutes of the race. This just showed how dangerous was to remain within the pack. Good thing, the players now somewhat spread out in the wide desert.
There wasn't really a track to limit their flying space or such. One could literally go wherever he wanted. However, to reach the 2nd area of the track, then 3rd, and the 4th, one must always fly in a straight line and minimize any type of delay.
This meant those players who spread out, going either left or right, chickened out after seeing players get eliminated constantly. Felix and the rest of the players, who kept on flying in a straight line weren't really complaining about it.
”Oh, Mystery box?”
After flying for while solo, Felix's eyes caught the tail of three cars ahead of him. They were rushing towards a quite large blue box, that had a question mark on it while revolving slowly on itself. They were trying to be the first to obtain it or hinder their competitors from doing so.
Just because the veterans decided not to rely on those boxes, it didn't mean they would let those losers get hold of them.
After all, who knows if they managed to get an ability that could turn things around?
”It seems the silver car is going to it.”
Felix observed from distance and slowed his speed a bit to not catch up to them. Three players fighting was already a crowd. No need to add himself to the mix.
BOOOOOOOOOM!
Scared shitless, Felix instantly closed his eyes and changed his direction reflexively after he saw a massive explosion originating from the blue box.
'Marlion was definitely not bullshiting us.' Felix thought with cold sweat in his back.
He didn't think that the bombs inside the boxes were strong enough to destroy everyone in the vicinity. Heck, if he didn't slow down, the force would have definitely cracked his front window.
This scene just further reinforced his decision of not touching those mystery boxes.
”More like Mystery scams.” He murmured while dodging some alloy scrubs raining from above.
The only ones who enjoyed the fireworks were Marlion, who was hyping it even further, and the spectators who paid to see exactly those brutal deaths.
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After 10 minutes of continuous flying, Felix finally saw the great canyon that had thin cracks in it. Those were actually the narrow paths they were supposed to pass through to reach the underground tunnels.
Felix pushed the acceleration pedal harder and wheezed towards one of them.
”Hopefully, this one is in a straight line.” He wished quietly while entering the crack.
Unfortunately, the path turned into a crooked one with multiple turns and narrow chocks that could be entered only by flying horizontally. The path couldn't get any more messed up.