Apocalypse: Master of Soul Beasts

Chapter 423: Chapter 42: Bizarre Challenge (For you, you can call me Brother Ma and reward 50000 more 3/5)_1

Just as Wen Yu was feigning sleep with his eyes half-closed, a massive toll of a bell echoed in the distance. At the same time, a magnificent yet genial Spiritual Fluctuation transmitted into the minds of every professionist in the Eternal Sky City!

”The Sequence Member-Ranking Battle has officially begun!”

As this Spiritual Fluctuation slowly dissipated, countless beams of white light flashed past the perimeter of the skill competition arena—these were all professionists qualified to challenge the Sequence!

The very next moment, white light flickered over the positions from Sequence Number 91 to Sequence Number 100. The professionists holding these Sequence Ranks had already been pulled into the Challenge Space.

...

Seeing this, Wen Yu abruptly swallowed hard.

The fervor of the professionists outside far exceeded his imagination.

According to the rules, while non-Sequence members could challenge those in the Sequence, Sequence members could also challenge each other. For those from Sequence Number 91 to Sequence Number 100, their best option was to challenge those from Sequence Number 81 to Sequence Number 90 before they themselves were challenged. Only then could they extricate themselves from the myriad of waiting challenges.

Unfortunately, the professionists outside were quicker...

It hadn’t even been three seconds when ten more flashes of white light were seen—the challenges had already ended. This might be because the flow of time inside the skill competition arena was different from the outside world. Seeing the professionists sitting in the positions from Sequence Number 91 to Sequence Number 100, Wen Yu’s eye twitched violently.

All ten people had been replaced.

In other words, all ten Challengers had succeeded!

From this, one could see just how inflated the current Sequence rankings were!

...

Then, before these people could even get comfortable, white light flashed again.

The newly promoted professionists from Sequence Number 91 to Sequence Number 100 disappeared once more. At the same time, Sequence Number 87 was also engulfed by a beam of white light.

A newly promoted Sequence member had challenged Sequence Number 87!

Three seconds later...

Another round of old faces was replaced by new ones. Watching the rapidly changing faces below, Wen Yu had a foreboding sense of how tragic the fate of those in the lower Sequence Ranks must be.

With over fifteen thousand people, they had a long series of battles ahead of them.

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The white light flickered ceaselessly, like countless light bulbs shaking before one’s eyes. Not only did it signify the intense competition of the ranking battle, but it also meant that a large number of professionists were being eliminated.

However, this had nothing to do with those sitting in the top ten of the Sequence.

To challenge the top ten of the Sequence, one had to first reach the top twenty! And the Sequence members ahead of them were not to be trifled with!

In fact, up to that point, the positions of the top fifty in the Sequence had not been replaced even once.

One reason was that many battles were intercepted by those from Sequence Number 91 to Sequence Number 100, so not many new Sequence members reached the front. Another was that the quality of the top fifty in the Sequence was indeed much higher than those ranked lower!

Moreover, there was hesitation among the Sequence members themselves.

The rules of the Ranking Battle allowed for only one challenge per member. If a Sequence member challenged a higher-ranked member and succeeded, that was fine. But should the challenge fail, they would have to passively accept challenges from others and forfeit their opportunity to advance further.

Hence, unless they were stuck in a predicament, the Sequence members sat still, unmoving like statues.

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The battles below were heating up. Even Kasu, who was usually engrossed in the Bible, couldn’t help but look up, staring at the ever-flashing white light below, his eyes shining, seemingly deep in thought.

Wen Yu was also quite bored. The challenge matches were held in an unknown space, not in the circular arena below. Therefore, Wen Yu couldn’t see the battles at all. He just sat there, idly counting the number of people who had been eliminated!