Chapter 381 The Hunt of Outer Island Part 1 (1/2)

Chapter 381 The Hunt of Outer Island Part 1

The scenery that surrounded the students changed, and soon after, they found themselves in what appeared to be the crater of an active volcano Underneath their feet was a surface composed of multiple layers of rock and dust, and the smoke that ca cultivators to have difficulties in even keeping their eyes open

Despite the odd situation, not a single one of these young cultivators entered into a state of panic Instead, those ere adept in the use of wind essence, iusts of wind that wiped out all of the smoke that caain able to see, those ere adept with earth essence ied the path of the s, and preventing it froain

As immortal cultivators, all of the participants were able to float, or even fly by sio over the control of their immortal essence, and direct the stream in the opposite direction in which they were headed towards However, this was a co off, they would be in less danger They needed to assess the situation, and understand what the objective of the contest, as well as what the nature of their surroundings were

Now that they were able to see once again, the cultivators looked around, and i on the top of a volcano placed exactly in the middle of a massive island Far away in the distance, many more islands could be seen placed in a crescent moon-like pattern

Another, yet more internal row ofof one to the inner one Each island of the inner ring was connected to two of the islands fro, which meant that the nu er

The paths that connected the islands of the two rings were extre hadn't been so massive, it would have been unlikely that they would have been able to see where these bridges would lead to

What was interesting about these islands, was the fact that each of the ones visible in the distance, seemed to present a different type of environht was a dense forest, in the middle of which a massive temple made out of carefully cut boulders had been erected, while to their left, hat looked like a patch of desert surrounded by the sea

Another detail that these cultivators noticed right aas the fact that they were not the only one present in their island The nuroups of cultivators had been placed in the same island

The nu on the volcano's crater was closer to twelve thousands, than the original four thousand participants that the Egregious Mercantile Ethics had originally sent in

Most of these groups had been instructed to stick to their own, and help each other in obtaining a better result in the coroup that, aware of the i part of their conglomerate, had instead decided to make the students attempt to obtain as much visibility they could for their own coloroups of four thousand cultivators Each lead by the lomerated had found within their domains

From the way these cultivators behaved, it was obvious that each group possessed a specific hierarchy, and their first objective was to regroup with thea way to proceed through the contest The leading figures were either the disciples or the falost the strongest individuals within the three s cultivators had, at some point, had the chance to participate in a smaller, and yet si methods would always follow the sah a specific path, move towards the middle

These three simple notions lead the cultivators to focus on the ly endless ocean, and the bridge that separated them from it

An unwritten rule that most cultivators that would participate in a contest of which they did not know much about would usually folloas to not attack each other unless specifically requested by the test, and since there appeared to be no reason to attack one another, the three leading roups fore between islands, and ordered the advanceroups departed iious Mercantile Ethics remained behind

The reason for this was simple While lo faroups, that was not the case for the Egregious Mercantile Ethics The objective of the leading ned with the task of separating the students of the Hiel Academy, and if the occasion presented itself, to secretly kill one, while re on friendly terms with the others

Unfortunately, not even aof the competition, these students had already failed in their task, as there was no trace of any of the seven students of Hiel academy in the volcano's crater

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On the border of the island, just a few dozen kilometers away from the volcano, was a beach with clear white sand The waves broke on the sand with a loud, and yet relaxing noise, only to end up seeping into the wet sand, and leave the place for another wave to co on undisturbed for who kno many years, and was only interrupted by the arrival of seven individuals These seven individuals were, of course, Nilo, Finn, Cynna, Fyro, Zack, Ivan, and Sigg

Froroup had been teleported, instead of trying to discern their position based on their sight, the for abilities It was then, that they had noticed that their ability to sense their surroundings had been limited to about fifty meters in the distance

After the five of them understood in what kind of situation they were in, there was no need for the to leave immediately Their initial plan was to learntheroup, but since the place was so large, and their sensing abilities were liree, there was a real possibility that, had they stayed, the rest of the group would have kepttheir escape al, they had decided to grab Sigg and Ivan, and escape before the others would bother to check if they were still there