"Beep. Warning: the Echo Demon Team has entered this Examination." "Beep. Warning: entry times for the Demihuman Empire and the Starshatterer Alliance will be determined in fifteen minutes. Examinees, please prepare!"
"Aroro! How much longer do you need!?"
Inside the base, the four of them waited anxiously in front of the main doors for Aroro to open them. He Zheng kept glancing toward the outside.
Damn it!
The Echo Demon Team was already here, but they still hadn't made it into the base.
Four minutes earlier, Aroro had volunteered to open the doors, saying he had redeemed the "Lockpicking" ability.
Aroro could indeed open them, but he needed several minutes!
"Two minutes-no, give me one more minute!!"
Aroro shouted shrilly, sweat covering his forehead.
Knowing how little time they had, he poured every ounce of strength into it. The two crude wires in his hands glowed white as he desperately jabbed them into a nonexistent lock.
As a Goblin, his most important skills were finding things and hiding them, so he had redeemed the cheapest Universal Lockpicking ability. Normally, spending a few minutes might not have mattered, but now even a minute's delay could put them in danger.
"Fuck! Two more minutes?"
"But we should have enough time. We should still have enough time!"
He Zheng reassured himself, clutching the Axe in his hand.
The vortex wasn't particularly close.
Even if the enemy could pinpoint their position, judging by their own speed, the Echo Demon Team would still need six or seven minutes to find them.
Even in the worst case, their strength alone might be enough to kill the enemy. After all, Ye Lin had kept his rating down too.
"Ye Lin, why don't the other two teams have entry times yet? Why does the system