Chapter 820 - Enemies Often Cross Paths

It was a B-rank secret realm. Most newcomers hadn’t explored a secret realm before, but there were various resources that could provide you detailed information about secret realms in the Holy City. There was only one Dimensional lifeform called the Tide Fish Monster inside the secret realm, and it possessed around 2,000 Grassos of power, equivalent to the Middle Phase Heroic Soul Stage. They weren’t considered to be strong, but the scary thing about them was their sheer numbers. The entire secret realm was filled with narrow canyon passages like a maze. You had to be very familiar with the layout of the secret realm to be able to exit it, and you couldn’t avoid running into Tide Fish Monsters at all.

It was only the first day since the assessment content was released, and most newcomers were dumbfounded. Putting those who were weak aside, even the strong people who possessed above 5,000 Grassos of Soul Power wouldn’t be able to succeed easily. Their only chance of succeeding in this task was to form a team. The problem was that, although the Holy City didn’t prohibit them from forming teams, everyone entered the secret realm through a solo transmission channel that would randomly drop them off somewhere. Their Skylinks would be confiscated so that they couldn’t contact others; so even if you teamed up with someone beforehand, you had to be able to find them in the maze-like canyon. Unless you got really lucky, you might as well get through the canyon by yourself rather than waste time searching for your teammates… Forming teams were an unfeasible option. Unless you really thought that you were that lucky, you had to rely on your own power ultimately.

This sort of people appeared to be weak and lacking in confidence, but in reality, they had made a wise choice. Slow and steady wins the race. In every year’s Holy Disciple rank-advancement competition, most of the people who were promoted weren’t the newcomers from that year’s batch but the leftover people from previous batches. After all, it was just the title of a Holy Disciple; you had to be alive to claim it. Of course, those people had to endure other problems. Who knew how they survived in the Holy City after the novice protection period without gaining the title of Holy Disciple…?

Lan Daier wasn’t worried about Wang Zhong’s level of power, but she was afraid that Wang Zhong would take this matter too lightly. If he missed this test, that would bring about detrimental consequences.

The evaluation center was the most crowded place during the Holy Death Day period every year. Not only did people come to evaluate their Soul Power, there were also many who came for their subsidiary job evaluation. Newcomers only took up a very small fraction of the people here; most were Holy Disciples who had been refining their skills for numerous years. Some Holy Disciples were there to be promoted to an official apprentice of a subsidiary job. It was considered normal to only be accepted after seven or eight years, and there were plenty who spent more than 10 years too.

During this hell-like period, Leo reflected deeply, thinking about where he went wrong. His downfall was all because of that damned newcomer, but the problem was, Leo didn’t know why Murphy was angry. Was it because of that newcomer, or was it because of him? Did he want the newcomer dead, or did something about that newcomer attract him?

At the moment, he really didn’t dare to speculate what was going on in Murphy’s mind. If he guessed wrongly, it would be game over for him. However, the problem now was that he needed to find this bastard who seemed to have disappeared.

Leo sighed and rubbed his temples.

Leo knew what Domoto thought of him too and was very unhappy, but there was nothing he could do about it. A teacher would be paired up with an apprentice to supervise the newcomer evaluation tests; that was the rule.

In the Holy Land, if you dared to violate rules openly during formal occasions, you could be dealt with on the spot.