Neo kept his eyes on the host for a while, while the host maintained his smile. He then walked back toward Selene and sat next to her, waiting for the first round to start. The leader of rock folks also came out of his daze and went back to his seat, still trembling by what he experienced. His companions were the same as the Fear Aura enveloped everyone of them. They didn't utter a word, in case it irritated the devil and he would use that skill/ability on them again. Neo looked at the participant and saw the arena trembling. He found the area of the arena increasing as the walls rose and a giant maze formed. 'Space Expansion?' {I would say Space Distortion.} Whatever it was, the arena expanded to a mile long and a mile wide as for the height. It was hundreds of meters high, but the participants and spectators outside could see everything like it was happening before their eyes. It was like they were walking alongside the participant. ๐๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ "๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ" ๐ค?
"Let's add some fire into the mix." Blaze walked toward the hurricane, carefully to not get swept by it, but still got swept by, so he activated [Technomantic Shield.] It swung him around more and more up. The crowd was stunned by this act of recklessness. He voluntarily entered the hurricane, which was strong enough to shred everything in that arena to pieces. Just then, they saw the wind hurricane slowly turning bright as it got caught on fire and the next instant, the wind hurricane turned into a fire tornado as everything in the arena got incinerated. Not even leaving the stones, as they also had become so hot that it felt like lava was flowing. The tornado stayed there for a while, but the host couldn't take it anymore and just harrumphed. The tornado went out like a candle as everything became clear to the spectators, and they saw the culprit standing in the "eye of the storm," his clothes regenerating, making females blush and males envious as they saw his physique. But Bl
But Neo didn't give it a chance to take a breather, as he arrived next to it, putting his head on the back of his head and smashing it into the ground. The host felt its vision blurring, and everything dizzy as it tried to make sense of things and tried to retaliate. It stood back up with a roar and attacked but only got gifted with a punch to the face, which should've broken the bones, but then even if it was weakened; it was a high rank evolver, so it could take some beating and Neo was counting on that as he kicked the guy away. The host finally got some time and roared once more before it attacked Neo. It punched, the target being his face, but alas, its whole life was built around magic skills and tricks, so it had little experience when it came to close quarter combat. Neo dodged and grabbed its arm in a lock and punched it from under the arm, an uppercut. The contact made its teeth clung together, because its tongue in between those teeth; it got cut as blood started coming o
{Might be!} 'How so?' {My knowledge of people's thought process is as good as taking a bucket of water out of the ocean to reduce its water level} Neo sat down as others were still going through their turns. He could feel the ground tremble as people unleashed their most powerful attacks to finish the other person. They were finally done as the wall covering him from all sides vanished, and he could see four more other than him, but their condition was not that good except a cloaked figure who was just standing there like this was nothing new to it. ๐๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐ข๐ฅ๐ท๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐น๐ต ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ. The host was doing his job extraordinarily, as he made the contestant feel the pressure. ๐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ด๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ?
The host wondered how they even survived till here."Well, whatever. There are many talented faces in this batch."It saw other people building shelters as they had brought water with them, which might be because they were well-informed of the pattern. And hunters were also good at their job as they had already started their hunt.One of them was even closing in on the duo, which made it shake its head. It knew that those two would soon be either miserable or dead.It set the game in such a way that the hunters would've 10% of their stats kept from the start and if they find the item, it'll unlock it further to 20%.Neo stopped walking, he looked to his left and could see two figures closing in on them."Time to warm up a little."The two beings, both of them, had blue skin and a jaw so wide that you can fit a watermelon in it. With rows of teeth, their eyes slit like a snake, they looked at the two menacingly as they stopped before the duo.Neo saw a red triangle over their heads, li
Thud* A dear-like monster struck the ground, minus the head. Neo had beheaded it cleanly, the head still in his hand. {Food for today has been secured.} 'It should have been enough for 5 days butโฆ' {Yeah, the bastard of a host is stimulating it to rote faster.} Neo dragged the missing head corpse away from the river, not before making sure that it was drained of blood. He doesnโt want to host a party for the monsters at his house. After a while, he arrived at the foot of a small treehouse, made from wood and leaves. They couldn't use anything from the inventory, and he didn't want to use anything from the chamber. He had a strange feeling that there was more to this quest than it was letting on. He started dressing (butchering) the monster and discarded the rest far away, again; he didn't want monsters to congregate near this area. Selene appeared as the red mist took her form. She saw Neo putting the meat in an ice container she made and said, "No suspicious activity today as
He laid her down on the makeshift bed gently, looking at her one more time before starting looking for the problem that he had delayed for a long time now.He wanted to find out what was causing his pain receptors to be inactive. This was really proving to be an issue, especially in a fight where even a single mistake would be life-threatening.{I almost got banged up in the Sixth Fable because of this.}He remembered when a large group of bipedal rhinos cornered him, making him shiver.'Let's see.'Neo scanned his body as he had almost exhausted his mana, leaving a little behind so that he wouldnโt fall in to the depravity state. This made it easy for him to navigate through, as the mana he had before was like a traffic jam. Now there were only 2 to 3 cars on that road, looking around without getting hit has become easy now.'What's this?'Neo, after searching, was looking at the blockage that he found when he traced a nociceptor to the spinal cord but just before that signal reached
Days passed quickly, at least for Neo and Selene.The survivors survived, and hunters hunted. And with each passing day, it became a nightmare for survivors, as many felt like they were being herded like helpless sheep by the hunters as they were getting more and more cornered.During their โvocations,โ Neo and Selene received many visitors, some went on their merry way while some met their maker. Even the host checked the list to make sure they were not wearing sheep skin to eat the tiger. They looked more like hunters than the hunters themselves. Others were just weak little prey that trespassed into their territory, not a good ending for many.The host also learned of Neo's track record in its free time.โA territorial couple.โIt muttered, even more vigilant against him. Not everyone would waste a favor from the boss just to have a host for breakfast.The game kept ongoing until the last day arrived, and the host's voice sounded.Ahem, I would love it if everyone moved in the poin