“Looks like you can’t escape!”
Chen Shu smiled faintly and said, “But I have a question, where are your other two contracted spirits?”
Upon hearing this, Martin’s anger surged, and he even lost a bit of his reason.
Roar, roar!
His two contracted spirits were also affected by their master and began to attack frantically, looking like they didn’t care about their lives.
“Huh?”
Chen Shu’s expression was startled, and he said, “You seem to be in a hurry…”
“Could it be related to me?”
His eyes moved, and he had a guess in his heart.
“Unfortunately, it’s useless even if you unleash your inner potential, if you can’t win, you can’t win.”
Then, he shook his head and stopped guessing Martin’s situation.
The Spatial Rabbit also joined the battle, even pulling out a two-meter giant carrot.
He was lucky enough to unlock his innate weapon. Although it was only level one, it still possessed offensive power.
Under Chen Shu’s all-out combat, Martin was once again at a disadvantage, finding himself in perilous situations.
“I’ll be back sooner or later!”
Martin roared, mounting his injured black dragon and preparing to make a hasty escape.
“Trying to run?”
Chen Shu didn’t hesitate, returned to Xiao Huang’s mouth, and began to pursue.
“My combat power is suppressed, it’s so uncomfortable…”
Chen Shu shook his head. The Spatial Rabbit currently had no skills and could only rely on the Slime’s running to give chase.
Ten minutes later,
The two arrived at the edge of the giant pit.
By this time, Martin’s two contracted spirits had worsened injuries. If they were to delay any longer, they would likely be forcefully eliminated.
“Chen Shu!”
Martin turned his head, giving Chen Shu a venomous glare, his heart filled with extreme unwillingness.
But at this moment, Chen Shu’s previously calm expression changed drastically. He actually turned his mount and fled towards escape.
“Huh? Another scheme?”
Martin was slightly stunned, unable to react for a moment.
“Could something have happened?”
His expression was puzzled, but he didn’t think too much about it. After all, he didn’t have to be eliminated.
“Kid, you’ll regret this…”
Martin muttered to himself, preparing to lead his contracted spirits away from the area.
But at that moment, a faint white mist appeared before his eyes, looking rather peculiar.
“This mist…”
Martin reached out his hand and was once again stunned.
The white mist gradually thickened, increasingly limiting his vision, making it difficult to even see the giant trees in the distance.
“Is the elimination starting so soon?”
Martin immediately thought of the rules of the checkpoint. It was indeed mentioned that a white mist would shrink their area.
“I’m still eliminated?”
He murmured to himself, his previous excitement cooling down.
No wonder Chen Shu had stopped pursuing him.
As he waited for the ruins to teleport him away, no starlight appeared, only the all-encompassing white mist.
Roar!
Instantly, a terrifying roar erupted, nearly shattering Martin’s eardrums.
His expression changed drastically, and then his two contracted spirits regained their Golden-tier combat power.
“Huh? The restriction from the ruins is gone?”
Martin became even more confused, not understanding what had happened.
Boom!
At this moment, a massive claw slammed down from the depths of the white mist, carrying a trembling might.
“What’s going on?! Am I going from the frying pan into the fire?”
Martin’s expression changed drastically, and he quickly had the black dragon unleash its skills to counterattack.
A stream of black flames erupted, emitting intense heat that even dispersed some of the white mist.
This was a reward from his family, a King-tier skill, and one of his trump cards.
However, the black flames struck, but they couldn’t even breach the defense of the massive claw.
“How could this be?!”
Martin’s eyes were filled with astonishment, and he froze on the spot, only able to watch as the massive claw descended.
Boom!
The giant claw slammed down, instantly killing Martin and his two contracted spirits.
Then, the white mist surged over, devouring their remains.
And this was the first beast tamer to perish within the Starry Sky Ruins…
“What the hell?! What’s going on?!”
Chen Shu stood on a giant tree, not even daring to search the supplies in the pit.
His eyes still held a lingering fear, thankfully he had escaped quickly.
When he saw the white mist in the distance, he had thought it was just the white mist responsible for shrinking the area in the ruins.
But when the system options appeared, he didn’t hesitate and decisively fled.
[Option One: Charge into the spatial forbidden mist and eliminate the creatures within! Completion Reward: Promotion to Golden Beast Tamer! Note: Gain favorability from the Starry Sky Ruins.]
[Option Two: Save Martin and escape the forbidden mist together! Completion Reward: Skill ‘Thunderous Impact’ +1.]
[Option Three: Ignore everything and escape alone! Completion Reward: Large amount of Beast Taming Power.]
It was the appearance of the system options that made him distance himself from the danger.
He hadn’t considered anything at the time and had directly chosen the third option.
The first option was something only a person with a serious mental illness would dare to choose…
As for the second option, it was clearly even more severe than the first…
“There’s a forbidden mist in the ruins, specifically designed to harm people, right?”
Chen Shu’s expression was grave. It seemed the ruins were truly in serious trouble.
“Could my nuclear bomb have attracted the forbidden mist?”
He muttered to himself, and at the same time, without hesitation, he rode his contracted spirit and moved away from the area.
Now that there was the forbidden mist, he had lost all interest in the competition and only wanted to leave this place as soon as possible.
The white mist, like a monster baring its fangs and claws, continued to spread forward, devouring everything in sight.
And at this time, the Starry Sky Ruins remained oblivious.
The center of the Star Sea was dim, while the edges were extremely resplendent, all its power focused on defending against something. It didn’t even have the attention to monitor the checkpoints.
But what the ruins didn’t expect was that during the previous great battle, the forbidden mist had silently infiltrated the interior of the Star Sea.
At the same time, it coincidentally arrived in Chen Shu’s checkpoint…
…
“But what does this ‘favorability from the ruins’ mean?”
Chen Shu rubbed his chin, having grasped another key point from the system options.
If he could kill the beings within the forbidden mist, he would gain the ruins’ favor. This also implied that the ruins genuinely possessed intelligence.
“A ruin cannot possibly develop consciousness on its own, right…”
Chen Shu gazed at the sky, his eyes filled with contemplation, and muttered,
“Unless there’s some creature controlling the ruins, acting as a sort of administrator…”