Xia Nan felt rather reluctant to see the Secret Realm come to an end.
After all, he had never before encountered a place where he could gain precious Combat Skill Proficiency simply through killing.
If the Secret Realm could continue indefinitely, then with his patience, he could even stay until every combat skill he currently possessed reached max level before leaving. That would be true even if it took him hundreds of days, or even several years, of grinding inside.
The sudden change that had occurred in the Secret Realm a few days ago had given everyone the ability to sense the positions of the other participants. At the same time, the Life Energy left behind after each adventurer's death had increased dramatically.
At first, Xia Nan thought this was pretty good. After all, under such circumstances, the Combat Skill Proficiency he could obtain also increased.
But as the number of remaining adventurers in the Secret Realm dwindled, he gradually discovered the disadvantages.
Before this, he had no idea what the situation was like on "Algae Scale" Dodd's side, but his own team had Sarisa the sparrow, who could sense the positions of nearby adventurers.
This gave Xia Nan an information advantage that the other participants did not possess.
Now, however, the mutation in the Secret Realm had erased that advantage.
It had also caused the adventurers he should have found one by one and helped send out of the Secret Realm to begin slaughtering one another on their own.
This greatly reduced Xia Nan's proficiency gains.
Of course, this survival-of-the-fittest mechanism allowed many participants who had originally evolved only once to advance to a higher Life Energy tier through battle. The amount of Life Energy they left behind also increased.
However, in most cases, the Life Energy absorbed by