"THE CHALLENGE HAS BEGUN."
The barrier that kept them from jumping off the platform vanished. Lara immediately summoned her eagle Nen beast and attempt to fly around the obstacle.
However the moment the eagle Nen beast reached the top of the pillar, which is around 30 meters tall or about 10 stories building, it hit some kind of barrier and was absorbed into it.
Lara lost her nen beast and started falling.
She pointed her desert eagle down and charged a shot. When she was 5 meters into the ground, she fixed his arms straight tightly to hold from the coming recoil. She started firing to slow her descent.
*bang* *bang* *bang* *bang*
After dropping, she rolled forward to further lessen the impact.
"Ughhh... No flying higher than these pillars then. And I felt Aquila 'died' after hitting the barrier. It will take 30 minutes before I could summon her again."
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"I felt something off with these pillars since earlier." Silver closed his eyes and let his spider sense, which is also now sensitive to auras do its thing. "These pillars are absorbing Nen/Aura from the top of the pyramid as if it is powering them. But what for?"
He approached one and touched it. "It is absorbing other Nen/Aura as well if they get out of your control. It is not similar to the Zoldycks testing gate where I lost all senses to my Nen. On top of that, these Pillars are somewhat absorbing the noise and limiting my hearing down by half." Silver looked at the 30 meters tall pillars and decided. "Let try jumping above the pilar."
He focused aura into his feet and jumped on a pilar. Then he stuck himself to it then he jumped again to reach the top of the pillar.
"I bet only I can do th-"
*bang*
Silver's head hit some kind of a barrier that stopped him from ever going higher than the pillar.
Feeling he would get hurt from falling such a height he used his web shooter to a pillar and swung himself down.
"FORGOT TO TELL EVERYONE, NO ONE CAN GO ABOVE THE PILLARS. HAHAHAHA"
"O.K. No going higher than the pillar then."
Let's go eastward first where Bradford was." Silver decided to go after Bradford as well. He deduced everyone will be going in that direction.
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"Well, at least that slows Lara down." Marco sighed in relief.
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"Niyahahahahaha... The heavens are helping the Trinity." Himiko.
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Lara felt sorry for her Nen beast. "Guess no shortcut this time. En." A detection sphere spread out from her as the center 1m, 5m, 10m then it stopped expanding after hitting one of the pillars. "Tsk. No En either. What is with this place?"
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"Bradford is in the east, I should be the first to get to him." Marco said in determination.
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"Grylls is the nearest to my left." Slade thought back on their positioning.
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"Why did I have to be so macho earlier. Fine, I'll tango with Slade keep him away from others." -Grylls.
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"Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit." Bradford running to who knows where.
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<10 minutes of running later>
"What!" Silver dodged to the right as a huge arm came out of nowhere and tried to hit him. "Where did you come from? I'm pretty sure I didn't hear you come near me."
In front of him is a war-gorilla twice the size of the first war-gorilla he fought in the jungle.
"No matter I don't have time for you." Silver again dodge to the right from a fist and he dashed forward to escape.
*bang*
Silver found himself flat faced in a barrier preventing him from running away.
"Owwww... That hurts." Silver touched his bleeding nose. And while disoriented Silver was swat away by the Gorilla.
"Ughhh. Is this part of the challenge? We have to beat this Monster before we could proceed?"
All around everyone is trapped with an enemy of their own.
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"I don't have time for you, burn" Marco straight forward burned the Gorilla in front of him.
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*waaaarrr-*
*Bang* -Lara
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"Too weak." Slade walks out of the now open barrier.
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"Have you heard? Cast wraps tend to... harden." Grylls said as he broke the Gorilla's neck with a bat made of cast and enhanced by Shu.
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"No monster can breathe in my poison and live." Himiko announced as the Gorilla fell down without any physical wounds.
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"Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit..." Bradford keep running. Being the dagger holder he was spared from facing any monster.
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"I can't get delayed in here, big sis Lara needs my help." Silver activated his Sharingan and rushed to the war gorilla. He dodged another swing of the fist and used the fire bender ability once he is on the side of the Gorilla.
"Fire thrower!" Fire came out of Silver's palm and burned the Gorilla to death. "Yup, shouting your attacks are a thousand times better."
After the Gorilla burned to death, it disintegrated and vanished as it tranformed into Nen. "So it was a Nen beast similar to cookie-chan. No wonder it came out of nowhere."
The barrier keeping Silver vanished as he too continued his way to Bradford's general direction.
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"Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Who do I go to?" He tried escaping from the map but he found out that a force is stopping him from going through any exits.
"Nellie, no Himiko is a no go. From what I've heard she is here to kill all of us. Lara should be the safest and nearest but the chance of meeting Himiko is high. Marco seems to only want the dagger, I can give it to him but there is a chance he'll kill me to get the dagger stuck to my hands. Grylls and Silver are the furthest to me so I can't go to them directly. Plus the chance of meeting Marco and Slade are are even higher if I go to Grylls." Bradford contemplated as he run.
"Why is this all happening to me? I am just a bystander here!!!"