BXBX NOVEL Chapter 140: Chaos Race: Checkpoint 1
[Welcome to the Chaos Race.]
Everyone saw huge letters in the sky before they got information about the event.
[Event: Chaos Race]
-An event spanning five checkpoint races. Each next checkpoint will be revealed only once you pass the current checkpoint.
—> Checkpoint 1: There are five hundred Golden Turtles deep in the ocean below, and the checkpoint gate is five kilometers high in the sky above the floating island. Kill the turtle, earn a Turtle Shell on your back, and enter the checkpoint gate. Only five hundred participants wearing the turtle shell may pass.
If the turtle shell is attacked by another participant, it will transfer to that participant.
—> Checkpoint 2: —
_Rules:
—> You can collect Chaos Gadgets by destroying Chaos Beacons that would randomly spawn during the race. Chaos Gadgets can be used to store an active skill, and only they would hurt other participants. Otherwise, you wouldn\'t be able to hurt other participants, be it any other means. You can also buy Chaos Gadgets using Chaos points.
—> Every ten seconds during the race, X-number of chaos monsters would spawn. X = number of participants. Killing chaos monsters would grant you Chaos Points, which can be used during the 10-minute break after each checkpoint race.
--> Chaos Beacons wouldn\'t spawn in the first checkpoint race.
[All participants have entered. 1248/1248]
[The race will begin in 1 minute.]
[ 59:00 ]
"You all!!"
A group of one hundred men wearing a dark green crystalized armor-sets arrived. Some had worn leather armor, some had worn light metal, and some had heavy armor, but all of their designs had green crystalized patterns and designs.
"This event is held by Lord Amber Jaw, the guild leader of Savage Maw House! The first place will be one of us, and if you dare to get in our way, you must get ready to be buried six hundred feet under the abyss!"
Although many were intimidated, there were some who were not.
"You red bald-ass joker! If you got guts, try to stop me from getting the first rank!"
A voice echoed from everywhere, making it impossible to determine who spoke and making the man who spoke livid.
But he calmed and faced the other ninety people who were members of Savage Maw House and said, "All of you must pass this checkpoint!"
"Raaaah!!"
The army bellowed, causing the whole island to tremble as they infused their mana in their voice and enhanced the effect of the synchronized shout.
"Let\'s remain low and act swift," Erix murmured.
"Yep. Our goal is only one. First place," Rin grinned.
The countdown neared zero, and everyone was revving their internal gears as they stood at the edge of the island, ready to swoop down into the ocean.
\'Erix, hello? Can you hear me?\'
Erix suddenly heard Rin\'s voice in his head and was startled. However, he also understood how he heard the voice, and his eyes lit up.
\'Spirit!\'
Erix used his Spirit sense towards Rin and sent his thoughts to her.
\'This is great.\'
Rin readily heard Erix as her spirit senses sensed his thought message.
\'Rin, I\'ll open a portal into the ocean since the ocean surface is only seven hundred meters below the island.\'
\'Yes. Also, We haven\'t fought underwater, so I don\'t know if it will affect my lightning attacks.\'
\'It\'s fine. I\'m sure you\'ll adjust accordingly when you feel how it affects your lightning attacks underwater.
\'Alright. Let\'s go. If we spot turtles, we can swiftly kill them by using your Wormholes from a longer distance.\'
The countdown hit zero, and over a thousand people immediately rushed forward using various flying means.
On the other hand, Erix simply coated Rin and himself with Space Matter before he teleported from his location to underwater below anyone else.
However, they didn\'t see any turtles, so Erix readily teleported again, arriving into the darker, deep waters before they finally saw two-meter-tall and four-meter-long giant golden turtles!
\'Wtf? I thought they would be cute little turtles,\' Rin wryly smiled.
\'Get it,\' Erix opened a Wormhole before Rin and behind that Turtle.
*Zaaaap!*
Rin released Blade Sheen as her Blade Eater in Katana form gleamed with condensed neon lightning bursting out tiny tendrils as he pierced into the Turtle\'s back.
On the other hand, Erix\'s right fist was covered by a Spring Shock Gauntlet before he executed his Sling Shot Punch that headed into a wormhole before him.
*BOOM!*
The punch entered a wormhole and connected to another turtle\'s back from the second wormhole above it!
The powerful punch specialized in dealing powerful piercing damage in straight impact broke the turtle\'s shell before Erix\'s fist pierced inside.
*Splat!*
The turtle was blasted into pieces before it turned into motes, and a golden turtle shell appeared behind Erix.
Rin\'s sword also pierced the turtle from behind, where it was not covered by its shell in case her lightning-attributed attacks weakened in this high pressured deep waters of the ocean.
"How the fuck did those two arrive before anyone else?!"
"They also got turtle shells!"
People who dived down soon saw Erix and Rin and shouted underwater by using mana to enhance their voices.
Erix and Rin quickly turned back to look at the faces and imprinted them in their mind.
After all, these people were the first ones to dive deeper, which meant that they were likely more powerful than average people.
\'Let\'s go,\' Erix said as he grabbed Rin\'s waist and disappeared a second later.
"What the fuck?" A braided blond-haired guy narrowed his eyes. He was a level 200 Noble-order powerhouse, one of the most powerful participants. He had level 2 Flame Affinity and level 1 Wind affinity, so his Flame power was extremely destructive when aided by his Wind.
"He has space affinity, Marco."
"I can see that," Marco turned to his left and saw a woman with a nun outfit and red eyes. The two fangs on her mouth and a pair of arched pointed ears indicated that she was a pure-blooded vampire.
Another level 200 Noble-order powerhouse, having a level 2 Blood affinity.
"It looks like we might have a dark horse in this."
"As long as the winner is not from Savage Maw, I am fine," a middle-aged man wearing a gentleman tuxedo suit said as he killed a turtle with a swift strike of his rapier. A pure human with a level 2 Light affinity and level 2 Pierce Concept.
This powerhouse was one feared by almost all peak Noble-order powerhouses in the Inner Domain.
A deadly assassin with 100% kill rate of peak Noble-order powerhouses and even having a record of killing a newly ascended Royal-order powerhouse.
Gentle Death.
"Go and ascend already, old man," spoke a muscular black-haired dwarf man wearing a black and white karate-like outfit as he chopped at a turtle with a pitch-black burning fist, cleanly cutting the turtle into two.
Lex Blake.
Gentle Death narrowed his eyes upward before a burst of golden light shone from him, and he shot out of the ocean with a beam of golden light.
He entirely ignored Lex and left.
On the other hand, Erix and Rin had arrived before the checkpoint gate by teleporting, and that was also the time when chaos monsters spawned around the checkpoint gate.
Rin and Erix were startled. They didn\'t think the chaos monsters would all spawn around the gate.
A second later, Erix quickly teleported away from the gate, appearing one kilometer away from the chaos monsters that were simply a meter big wisps with exotic and demonic and weird features.
"Erix!"
Rin exclaimed, and Erix\'s eyes also slightly widened as he and Rin saw a beam of golden light speedily crashing through chaos monsters, killing over twenty and arriving before the gate.
"Powerful," Erix muttered. "His skill is super refined and powerful. He is using his Elemental Form of light if I am right."
"Yeah, he must have refined his body with the Light element completely," Rin nodded with an excited glint in her eyes.
"We can\'t get behind. Others are coming," Erix grinned as he spun his hand, quickly forming a two-meter big portal before them.
"Rin entered inside after transforming into her Lightning Elemental form for a brief moment as she arrived among five chaos monsters and spun after reverting to her human form.
Her shining and sleek blade condensed with neon lightning released a circular wave of lightning, instantly killing surrounding chaos monsters.
Erix also arrived, unleashing a five-meter huge energy Whirling Punch from his Whirling Fan Gauntlets that killed six chaos monsters.
Each chaos monster gave 100 Chaos points each.
Without resting, Rin and Erix killed a few more before several hundred attacks soon shot towards the gate. The owners of those attacks had only one intention.
Killing Chaos Monsters.
A countdown of 2 minutes also appeared in the sky since all five hundred turtles were killed.
However, these people who got turtle shells were trying their best to run and defend their turtle shells from those who couldn\'t get them.
"We are done. Let\'s go before someone hits our turtle shells."
Erix and Rin quickly teleported to the Checkpoint gate and entered inside.
After a skirmish that lasted two minutes, and a small amount of turtle shells changed owners, the first checkpoint race was finally finished as five hundred winners arrived at the second checkpoint area, which also marked the start of true death race as participants would be able to hurt each other using Chaos Gadgets starting second race.