Vanguard of the Eternal Night (BL)(Complete)

Chapter 131

Chapter 131 - National Competition - Druid 1

Sure enough, this competition was very distinctive right from the start.

Of the two contestants, one was an assassin, and the other was a druid. The system had arranged them to be at the furthest corners away from each other, and the width of the temple made of those eight pillars covered in carvings was between them. Without exception, they all held an oil lamp that lit up the dark space for a few yards around them.

However, the temple was too tall, and the scene was too dark. Except for the total of nine lights, almost everywhere else was covered in shadow. The high ceiling could barely be seen.

The druid stood in the innermost part of the temple beneath the statue of the sea god. Odin stood at the entrance of the temple beneath a mermaid carving.

At the end of the countdown, the druid immediately transformed into a cheetah--the cheetah transformation had innate concealment skills. He jumped into the darkness in the corner of the temple and disappeared immediately.

Odin, who was at the entrance, went into stealth at the same time.

Both contestants disappeared at the start, leaving only a draught of air pouring into the temple. A few of the oil lamps on the pillars shook, and the quivering, dim lighting flickered in the dark temple, occasionally leaving hoarse crackling sounds.

The commentators were prepared. They'd known that the assassin and druid would start the fight like this and held their hot tea. One of them spoke slowly, "Alright, we see now that both players have gone invisible and made their way to the walls on both sides of the temple."

"Now, there are two kinds of situations for the first encounter. One is that one player will first discover traces of their opponent, then make an instant move in order to obtain the advantage. Another is that both players will feel around blindly like elephants, and there won't be any fighting until 30 seconds from now, when the system uses a yellow card warning for 'negative performance' and deducts 10% of their health, forcing them to show up at the same time."

"Coincidentally, the routes they've chosen are the furthest distance from each other. It might take them more time to meet."

After such a leisurely commentary, the first ten seconds had already passed.

The audience had already started to feel an unknown premonition and spoke on the public screen, "This kind of waiting game is really not fun to watch..."

"Damn it, it's a complete contrast with Lord Four's fast and direct style!"

"To hell with this 'all for the sake of survival', this is clearly 'muddling along and waiting for benefits'..."

At this time, the two oil lamps on the two outermost pillars went out simultaneously.

"......" The commentators expressed, "Oh, there is only a 5% chance of having the lights go off in the first wave. This... Well, it's quite rare."

There were seven lights left, and the corners of the ruined temple had darkened further. The cold of the deep sea outside seemed to be slowly soaking into the hall from the entrance.

At a distance of about 15 meters away, Odin had discovered Green Dumpling's trail first. He had snuck closer extremely accurately up to a distance of 10 meters--Green Dumpling had detected that something was wrong in the next second, but there had been no time for him to react!

What had arrived in front of the druid in cheetah form was a dart.

He had leapt up into the air to dodge the dart. At the same time, he adjusted his claws and charged directly at Odin in his beast form. In terms of his ability to react and aim at his enemy, it could be said that he had a solid foundation in transformation--not all human players could adapt to a beast form.