Chapter 60 - 60 : The Competition (1/2)

Arthur was a bit excited about the upcoming competition, he liked those kinds of events so after some thorough thinking, he decided to join it, yes, you heard right, he wanted to enter the competition as a normal martial artist.

It didn't indicate that outsiders are forbidden from entering it, actually, many powerful individuals would join it, there are also some people would want to try their chance in it, but it's not a simple competition, there will be a lot of strong people from the clans.

The competition was kind of like a tournament, it was divided into three tournaments, one for disciples and those who joined, the second is for sections chiefs and the other is for Elders.

Anastassia also told Arthur that the winner from the disciple tournament can participate in the section chief tournament and so on, it happens a lot of times as there are some genius disciples from the clans who are considered very powerful, there were even some exceptional ones who even managed to get second place in the section chief tournament.

Arthur told Anastassia that Lucy would be attending and as for him, he is busy with some important matters.

She was a bit disappointed, but she couldn't force him to go, it was his choice after all.

He already thought about how to enter the competition and planned everything, he had Zodiak's corpse and with some good clothes, it would be easy to hide his appearance.

Lucy already knew about all of this, it was kind of unfortunate that she can't change her appearance or else she would have joined him, but they already for something like that too.

The 2 weeks passed just in the blink of an eye, nothing interesting happened, Lucy and Arthur passed their days, as usual, either snuggling and raiding the dungeon or playing with little Saly, who with their help and Astrith's, managed to reach LVL39.

She was just leeching in the dungeon and finishing the monster when it was near death, although at first, she was unwilling, she quickly got used to it, after all, they were just monsters.

If she could kill them alone then her LVL would have been much higher as their LVLS were high too, but considering she only dealt the final blow, the experience she got was not that much.

Her lvl is low compared to others, but for normal people, she was a genius, she was very hardworking and trained every day so she never ceased to improve, furthermore, while Arthur cleared the dungeon a lot of times during his stay in the clan, she luckily found 3 medium cores of the dungeon.

It is really hard to find them as they rarely dropped from the boss, he had no use for them so he passed them to Saly, who consumed them, fortunately, her stats have risen once again.

Her overall stats were in the 2-3k, she was considered very strong, no matter how exhausting the training was, she bore with it and never complained.

Seeing her dedication and strong will, Arthur told her to rest for a few days and go with Lucy to watch the competition, training too much may lead to negative effects so why not rest from time to time?

Compared to her, he only needed to hunt a few monsters and possess them, it was really a big difference. Clearing a dungeon would only take seconds as he would pass by the monsters and they would explode into blood and gore, if they could respawn immediately then his stats would rise by millions in just a day, such a pity..

Nonetheless, in these 2 weeks, he hunted quite a few of monsters, it was not like last time but he killed and possessed a few as he went with Saly to the dungeon.

Today was the day of the competition, it was held in a big a Colosseum in a secluded place in an island South of Itas of the continent.

Lucy, Anastassia, and the others headed there a couple of days ago to arrive in time, as for Arthur, he didn't need to do that as it would only take him a few minutes at best.

He already knew the location of the island, he went early in the morning after possessing Zodiak's corpse and wearing that familiar dark robe along with some black gloves and boots.

It was as if he was him from back then, in Willsden.

The island was nothing suspicious from the outside, however, once he got too close and stopped a few hundred meters from it he saw a couple of people guarding it, it was just a 5 kilometer radius, it was small and appeared to be a forest for travelers that used boats, they only thought of it as a deserted island so no one bothered to check it.

Arthur sensed the illusion barrier around it much like the one in the Ma clan, of course, he could break it with but a wave of his hand but he didn't, he didn't come to bring trouble but to participate in the competition.

The guards suspiciously looked at Arthur but once he told them he is here to participate, he just had to pay a small fee of 50 gold then he was allowed in.

The big colosseum could be seen from far away, and it was apparently full but people were still coming from all directions.

After inquiring about the location of the place to sign himself in the competition, he went there and did a simple strength test to measure his power, after all, they can't accept anybody who came, one must at least have a certain amount of strength.

He didn't need to pay anything for the entrance which surprised him but what Arthur didn't know is that simple strength test was considered very hard, but he only needed to pretend to punch at that brown rock then a number showed on the crystal near it.

He was an extremely low amount of strength so to not attract attention and it seemed his control over his strength is as perfect as ever.

Of course, there was some who used martial arts or magic to attack the rock, everyone can do whatever they wanted, they just needed to pass.

Actually, this competition is not made by the collaboration of the several participating clans, it was made by the Locus Clan, Anastassia didn't say much about it except that it was the most powerful one and that its master is known to have exceeded the Heavenly Realm, it didn't arrogantly control the other clans because if all the clans help each other they can manage to defeat the Locus Clan.

However, that didn't mean that it(Locus Clan) is on equal footing, it had many strong individuals which made it a terrifying force not to be messed with.

Arthur noticed that the guards outside and the people measuring the strength of the applicants are all dressed in violet robes or violet clothes with the word Locus imprinted in it so he immediately knew they were from that clan.

To be honest, he didn't care about it, he just came here to have some fun so there is no need to meddle with them.

Each participant had his own waiting room, they can also go to a certain place which is near the big arena, all participants who are waiting for their turn can observe the matches from there.

Arthur directly went there, just when he exited the long corridor, what faced him was a big stone arena, probably 200x200 meter, it was broad, the Colosseum was 100 meters high and full of people sitting on the stone chairs, they were already cheering loudly.

All those people were either random people who knew about this event and exclusively came to watch or disciples from the various clans.