Dimensional Descent

Leonel's expression changed. This was the last thing he could have possibly expected to happen. However, after a while, he understood why such a thing would happen.

The Merlin Trials were set up with the utmost transparency. With the exception of hiding what happened within the Special Store, everything else was laid bare for all to see. Whether it was one's performance and grade or even the skills one chose to unlock, everyone saw it.

Beyond this transparency, one could watch everyone battle. This was especially so in single participant trials like trial 1 and 2 had been. In that case, even when one waited to unlock skills after using a Special Store Ticket, it was more likely than not that whatever improvements one made would become very obvious, very quickly.

As though this wasn't enough, everyone shared the same physical root skill tree. In addition, all those who used the same weapon shared the same weapon root and special root skill trees as well. This meant that even if one wanted to hide their skills and did a good job in doing so, the kind of skills one had unlocked could be deduced just by observing someone else with a similar weapon!

What did this all come to mean? It essentially meant that this set up made it very easy to distinguish who was powerful and who wasn't, in addition to who was improving faster than others and who wasn't.

In such a situation, a small group of individuals becoming the target of many was very possible. One could even say that it was inevitable. The only question was of when.

Understanding this, Merlin would have definitely made some plans accordingly. Or, maybe this was always Merlin's intention to begin with.

'It feels as though everything is suddenly moving quicker. Whether it was the sudden Elimination Round or this Random Event, both were triggered by something that should have only begun to happen much later in the trials...'

After thinking to this point, Leonel became several points more serious. Though the voice had said that he had 10x the rewards to claim, he knew that doing so wouldn't be so easy.

Before Leonel could think anymore, he felt the world warp around him. When his vision cleared, he found himself in a familiar throne room. Except this time, rather than kneeling before it as he had done last time, he was sitting on its cushioned seat.

'King Arthur's Throne Room?'

Leonel frowned. He felt that this positioning wasn't much of a coincidence.

After a sweep of his senses, Leonel realized that though he was within Camelot's castle, it was completely deserted. In fact, for as far as he could stretch his Internal Sight, he didn't spot a single person.

Leonel was pleasantly surprised. He hadn't thought that he would gain something like that. This made things much more convenient for him.

After a while, Leonel understood the Random Event.

a flag in this very throne room. In fact, it was waving above the throne he sat on at this very moment. His role was to protect it,

to this is if there was less than ten minutes remaining to the end of the trial. In that case, they only had to protect

too bad of a position was because he could move the flag if he wanted to. The only restriction was that since the chosen location was Camelot, he couldn't leave the city walls.

'Run?'

curled, a cold light

or 1000 skill points. This way, most were filtered out. However, it also guaranteed that all who dared to

who participated, the better

"Yip! Yip!"

Leonel was being treated and had even wanted to charge out to face their enemies directly. However, Leonel had stopped the little guy from doing so. Though the little mink was powerful, Leonel was sure

Mage time to prepare their own terrain? They should expect to

just an Earth Mage... He was an Earth Magus who also happened to be a

he began to use the over 3000 skill points he had

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timer ran its

their gaze toward the Segmented Cube Leonel had left behind. However, none of them had the ability to cross the skies like Leonel had. Or, maybe some of them did, but had yet to unlock such an

for them, there wasn't much time to think about just what this treasure was or how it worked. They were all given the same

elites made their

found themselves within the walls of

the trials for the last few months, seeing such a sight was actually quite refreshing. But, after a few moments, they grew serious. This

within a hundred meters of one another. Now, they

strong their own were, they all at least had Internal Sight capable of covering a few tens of meters. The more

from their search. After all, that was how he had

he didn't feel that it was necessary. At least not for now.

his slaughter points immediately. From being worth 100 skill points, they were already worth 1000. If

elites looked for Leonel, they seemed to realize that this might have become more

Umred frowned. The action made his already sinister