Free Web NovelChapter 264: Chapter 148: Entering the Secret Realm, the Reaping Performance Begins, the Shura Field Appears
He never imagined that even though he paid others no mind, it didn’t mean they would do the same.
As he flew over a pond on the Golden Eagle, charting a new section of the map, Shen Fei was shocked when someone drew a bow and fired an arrow straight at him.
KAW! KAW!
Facing the projectile, the Golden Eagle tried desperately to dodge, but the arrow—which seemed to have a homing ability—still pierced its wing in the blink of an eye.
WHOOSH!
Like a stalled airplane, the Golden Eagle suddenly dove headfirst toward the ground. The eagle had been captured by Shen Fei while it was flying thousands of meters high, its original purpose to knock people from an aircraft. But now, forced into low-altitude flight, it was shot down instantly.
THUD!
The Golden Eagle plummeted headfirst. Shen Fei had no choice but to pull the ripcord on his parachute.
WHOOSH!
Unfortunately, just as he opened the chute to slow his descent, another sharp arrow shot out. The next moment, the parachute Shen Fei had just deployed was shot to pieces.
BOOM! BOOM!
With the parachute destroyed, Shen Fei and the Golden Eagle plummeted straight toward the ground.
"What the fuck...!"
Utterly exasperated, Shen Fei cursed. Seeing they were only about a hundred meters from the ground, he instantly summoned more than a dozen Defense Towers.
SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH!
The Defense Towers appeared on the ground, and in an instant, an endless swarm of vines surged toward the sky. With two soft thuds, the rapidly falling Shen Fei and Golden Eagle were cushioned by the Vine Towers, which caught and held them suspended in the air.
PLUCK!
A nimble vine split off from the rest and plucked the massive arrow from the Golden Eagle’s wing. Then, amidst a shimmering sound, countless rays of Healing Light washed over the eagle’s wound.
"You think you can run?!"
In the distance, the pointy-eared Caucasian man who had shot the Golden Eagle and torn Shen Fei’s parachute to shreds saw his target summon the special vines and countless enormous cylindrical towers while still high in the air. The man immediately turned to flee.
SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!
But it was no use. Countless massive vines shot out in pursuit of the fleeing, longbow-wielding man.
"This is a misunderstanding—!" the man tried to yell, his Defense Power rather low. Seeing the dense mass of vines twisting around each other like tentacles and lunging toward him, he wanted to beg for mercy.
As the only player among the top ten contestants of the New Olympic Games who had mastered a special archery skill, he had been brimming with confidence. Just moments ago, he had spotted a man riding a low-flying Golden Eagle. He had immediately drawn his bow and shot the bird out of the sky. But before he could unleash a second attack, the falling eagle and the Great Xia native on its back were already being saved by the vines below.
He remembered from the previous New Olympic Games that the Great Xia contestant, Taiyi Zhenren, used this kind of Defense Tower attack. The moment he saw Shen Fei deploy them, he decided to retreat. He had thought he was just shooting down some small fry like the others before, never expecting to run into a leviathan.
"A misunder—!"
But it was too late to beg for mercy. He barely got a word out before the immeasurable tide of vine attacks completely submerged him. Then, with a sickening crunch, the ace player from Xila Country, the Elf King Shooter, was eliminated from the first round of the individual competition by Shen Fei, not long after having entered the Secret Realm.
[Ding!]
[Points possessed by slain character: 97.]
[Individual Competition Points +97]
"Hm?"
Shen Fei had only intended to kill his ambusher; he never expected to get points for it.
You can play the game like this?
The instant he received the points, Shen Fei’s eyes lit up. He only had 131 points himself at the moment. He never thought that killing a single person would increase his score by more than half. Before, he was just exploring the map to slowly accumulate points. He’d had no idea points could be earned this way.
"Then let’s do this!" Without a second thought, his eyes gleaming, Shen Fei immediately deployed his Detection Towers to start searching for people.
The base range of his Defense Towers was currently 500 kilometers.
Now that I know you get points for killing, let the hunt begin!
After leaving the Secret Realm, all the players’ memories would be erased. This time, his goal was to be as fast as possible, with no holding back and no need to hide.
Just as I thought...
After quickly deploying his Detection Towers, Shen Fei saw that their detection waves couldn’t penetrate the fog-shrouded regions—the parts of the map he hadn’t yet explored. Only in the areas he had flown over on the Golden Eagle could the Detection Towers reveal any activity. He could only see the figures of other players on the parts of the map he had already uncovered.
Earlier, when Shen Fei saw on his minimap that this Secret Realm had a fog-of-war exploration mechanic, his first priority had become exploring the map. He never expected his guess to be so accurate. On unexplored parts of the map, certain detection-type items and skills were indeed useless.
Otherwise, an Immortal Emperor whose Divine Sense had a basic detection range of 5,000 kilometers could have scouted the entire island in an instant. Then they could use a Flying Sword to quickly eliminate most of the other contestants. That would be far too unfair to everyone else. The fog, therefore, placed restrictions on all scouting-type skills and items.
"Behave now!"
Having confirmed the importance of exploring the map, Shen Fei turned his head to look at the Golden Eagle, its wound now fully healed after several waves of treatment from the Healing Towers. He wasn’t sure if it was the vine tied around its neck or the healing that had done the trick. In any case, the great eagle, which stood a full five or six meters tall, still had a wild and untamable look in its eyes. Its actions, however, were surprisingly docile.
"Alright, let’s roll! We’ll explore the map and search for that so-called final arena at the same time!"
