There was little time left to grow stronger.
Many contestants had come to that realization. The closer they came to the moment when the crazed Aiona would be unsealed, the more reports of killings arrived. For the sake of final victory, for the sake of surviving, the contestants had begun to stop at nothing.
Some contestants had no desire to kill, but others set their sights on them, leaving them no choice but to strike back and kill their attackers.
Others successfully killed fellow contestants and seized their items, gold coins, and equipment, only to suffer grievous injuries themselves and ultimately hand the spoils to the oriole lurking behind them.
Slaughter was everywhere, yet there was a certain restraint to it. Some contestants alternated between cooperation and hostility, and even some lone wolves were forced to join forces.
The closer they came to the final zone, the more likely players were to collide. Everything was quietly changing.
Staff in hand, Zorn strolled through a forest formed from countless enormous vines. As a summoner, he was surrounded by countless "invisible" beasts. Any attack aimed at him first had to get past his summoned beasts, so although he was a lone-wolf contestant, he was more terrifying than many teams.
In the cultivation world, Zorn had a very famous title: the "Invisible Legion Commander." Its meaning was obvious. An unseen army always surrounded him, and he was its supreme commander.
Several minutes later, he saw a black monster frantically attacking a contestant. The contestant's skin gleamed like metal. He glanced at Zorn, then devoted all his strength to dealing with the monster.
The closer they came to the center, the stronger the monsters became, and the more useful the gold coins and items they dropped were.
They were now only four or five