Dodd's final trump card had an enormous impact on the entire Secret Realm.
By now, with the flow of time halted throughout Stodd Island and the surrounding sea area, the Elite Adventurers had already spent dozens of days inside the ritual where time flowed faster.
A large number of them had either died in various accidents within the Secret Realm or been killed and absorbed for their Life Energy by other participants.
As the ritual entered its final stage, the number of adventurers remaining in the Secret Realm had already fallen to less than half.
Some of them had been fairly lucky and had never experienced battle.
These people had not even figured out the mechanism behind the ritual's killing and evolution. They had merely relied on their experience as veteran adventurers to survive and eke out an existence in the Secret Realm.
Others, meanwhile, had experienced at least one evolution. Some had even reached a species level close to the Third Evolution due to reasons such as airdrops.
Having experienced killing and absorbing other participants' Life Energy, they naturally had a rough idea of "Algae Scale" Dodd's purpose. While exploring the map, they actively hunted other adventurers to strengthen themselves.
However, they were limited by their disadvantage in information. They could neither control the entire map like Dodd nor sense the locations of nearby adventurers like Sarisa.
Thus, even though the map had shrunk considerably inward, their evolution progress remained limited.
----Until now.
When Dodd chose to activate his trump card and grant every adventurer currently in the Secret Realm the ability to sense the locations of other participants.
The battle, which had already grown increasingly fierce as the map shrank, accelerated in an instant and nearly descended into chaotic, uncontrollable disorder.
None of the adventurers who had been