Chapter 591 - First Challenge in the Tundra (2/2)

Link stood in place to think. A few seconds later, he decided to retreat. What had happened was outside his range. Going forward wasn’t wise.

He turned to walk back, but then it felt even more wrong.

Deep in the extreme north, white snow was everything. Paired with the fact that it was night and even the wind had stopped, it was difficult to find one’s direction. Link could still tell north from south though. The southern sky was slightly brighter than the north. He also had a compass. Relying on the magnetic field, he could precisely distinguish north and south.

But now, Link discovered that the sky before and behind him was still the same sky. He looked down at the compass. It stayed frozen; it couldn’t distinguish the direction.

Link spun around and discovered something even more shocking.

The four sides are the same. They’re all going northward. No matter how I move, I’ll get closer to the northernmost point…The space must have been distorted, but I’ve never seen this technique before.

At this time, the sword spirit said, Link, for some reason, I suddenly thought of something.

Link really wanted to drag the sword spirit out of the sword and beat it up. Why did it have to wait until something had happened to tell him? Was it playing with Link?

He sighed and asked, “What is it? Tell me.”

I think it’s about that person. The one who’d stopped the Storm Lord from carelessly throwing the piece away. I suddenly remembered what he’d said. No, I didn’t remember it. It just jumped out by itself.

Hearing this, Link’s heart twitched. He felt that things weren’t as simple as he’d thought. There seemed to be something existing in the sword spirit’s memory that planned this.

“What did he say?”

He said that this is the first step. It’s a solo challenge.

“Oh?” Link fell into deep thought and came up with two points. First, everyone who came here probably had to face this test alone. Thus, Eliard, Milose, and Nana were separated from him. Second, he wasn’t the only who could pass this test, so there must be a second and third step until there was a final winner.

Here, Link stopped thinking. He continued walking deep into the icy plain.

Soon after he entered the test, two fiery-red figures arrived. They were Hamilton and Noa, Inferno Warriors from Aragu.

They didn’t have the calmness as when they’d first arrived in Firuman. They were in a panic as if a beast was chasing after them. Their glamorous leather armor had become tattered, and they were wounded too. Hamilton especially had a still-bleeding injury under his ribs. His pallor was white, and his steps were unsteady.

Noa beside him wasn’t any better. She’d had two curved fire swords but only had one now. There was a menacing wound on her right arm. The blood had frozen already, but more blood kept seeping from the ice. Her arm trembled.

“F*ck, they’re still chasing!” Hamilton gritted out. Speaking had pulled at his injury. He immediately clutched his chest and grunted.

“I didn’t expect Magicians in this world to be so powerful.” Noa’s eyes were filled with terror. These people were too frightening. They weren’t as strong, but no matter how the two fought, they couldn’t hit the enemy. And the enemy seemed able to predict their every move, always beating them to it.

If not for their power and the fear of the enemy, they wouldn’t be able to escape here.

Hamilton still wouldn’t admit defeat. “Hmph. They had four people and attacked secretly. Of course, we weren’t their match. If it was one on one, I’d halve them with one strike!”

Noa didn’t speak. She knew that this was just Hamilton’s ego speaking. In reality, they might not be a match even in a one on one battle. The Dark and Light Magicians were especially terrifying!

The two continued running forward without caring about anything else. Without realizing, the wind stopped, and then Hamilton felt his surroundings empty. He turned around, but Noa was gone.

“Noa? Noa?” he called. There was no reply.

…

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. The Red Dragon Queen’s group also arrived. Eugene sniffed the air and cackled. “Those two aren’t far from us. Go, we’ll catch them soon.”

The other three could feel this two and naturally started chasing. After a while, the four were all in the strange territory, separated by the strange force.

Suddenly, the icy tundra had nine Legendary figures and the legendary Eliard trapped. These ten were facing the test of a certain ancient figure.