WHOOOSH!!!
It didn't take even a split second before the fire reached Felix and completely engulfed him!
The cameras weren't able to capture exactly what happened since the fire ruined the image.
Meanwhile, Flame Bearer didn't pause breathing fire for even a millisecond!
He was already lost in his fury, making his rational judgment get affected heavily.
"You guys are strong, but you are still a defective product of real dragons."
Out of nowhere, Felix appeared behind Flame Bearer's head and whispered the most sinister insult the dragon-lings could even hear.
'Defective product...'
'Defective product...'
The moment it entered Flame Bearer's mind, it kept repeating itself over and over again like a broken record.
He didn't think about Felix who was so dangerously close to him...He didn't respond to his instincts that were screaming at him to get away...He simply gave in to his emotions, making them cloud his rationality even further.
Right at this moment, he was even lesser than a beast. At least, beasts respect their instincts.
Alas, even if he did something now, it was already too late for him...
Felix snapped his finger and transmuted into electricity then teleported to one of the silver nails that were attached to the walls by the thin wires grid.
When he appeared, the camera automatically placed him in the frame.
The viewers didn't know how to react as they saw him leaning against the wall with his hands in his pockets while staring nonchalantly at Flame Bearer.
As they glanced at Flame Bearer reflexively, they were met with a shocking image that sent chills down their spine.
"He is, is melting!" Letomar's graceful demeanor was completely ruined as he screamed with a horrified high-pitched voice!
Even the primogenitors were left surprised by the sudden turn of events.
They saw how Felix created a solid pitch-black tiny needle and dug it deep within Flame Bearer's skull by penetrating his reversed scale!
That tiny needle was made out of corruption inducement but potent enough that it had been solidified!
it was so deadly, Felix had decided to call it *Death Sentence* since no one had ever survived it in his practice runs in the UVR!
Everyone gets turned into black ash almost immediately if it got into their system!
Yet, Flame Bearer's physical defenses were so tough, the needle merely made his flesh meltdown even though it hit him internally!
The heat had also played a huge role to protect him from getting instantly killed since the poison kept getting burnt before causing serious damage.
If it wasn't for Flame Bearer already losing his mind over his emotions, the hellish pain would have been enough to wake him up and use countermeasures to survive.
Alas, the moment Dragon-lings lose their shit to their fury, only destructive thoughts fill their minds.
'I am not a defective product!'
'I will show you all! I am also a proud dragon!'
'Stop calling me that! I will kill you all!'
'DIE DIE DIE!!!'
"DIEEEEEEEEE!!"
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!
With one final maddened roar, Flame Bearer's body exploded!
'Crap!' Scared shitless, Felix instantly transmuted into electricity and coursed through a wire that was connected to the furthest nail in the grid.
When he showed himself again, only tainted black metallic walls and ground were left behind.
Flame Bearer thoroughly went out with a bang.
'F*cking lunatics.' Felix cursed as he dropped to the ground.
Everything was within his plan from preparing an invisible grid of wires high above to delivering the final attack at Flame Bearer's reversed scale, the only weakness to his overpowered scales.
Yet, he didn't expect that he would actually blow himself up!
To do so, he really needed to be mental!
'You kept striking his mental weakness over and over again.' Asna rolled her eyes, 'What did you think will happen?'
'I only wanted to make him lose it for a few moments so he wouldn't defend against my poison.' Felix coughed as he walked back towards the explosion zone.
When he reached the center, he found a small pouch. Felix lifted and opened it. Then, clicked his tongue in irritation after finding only one weak bomb was left behind.
"What a f*cking waste of time and energy." Felix kicked the pouch away in annoyance and started sprinting towards another giant brown box.
Meanwhile, the viewers could only stare at him with dumbfounded expressions, not knowing how to react to the end of the battle.
A few seconds ago, Felix was noticeably getting his ass handed to him. Then, a moment later, Flame Bearer was gone without a trace while Felix was left unscathed!Everything happened so fast, their mortal eyes and mind couldn't keep up at all unlike the primogenitors and some exceptions in the audience.
"Truly a marvelous strategic mind." Erebus complemented highly.
Besides the Darkin Faction members, who had a somewhat displeased expression, the other primogenitors nodded their heads in agreement.
"He cleverly created a trap in the sky with wires and baited Flame Bearer to use his dragon breath by evading his attacks continuously." Siren disclosed.
"Thor's transmutation ability played a huge role as well."
"Still, his timely ambush wouldn't have worked if he didn't keep taking advantage of the Dragon-lings' low self-esteem by striking down on his fragile ego."
"Those poor little things. They were born with Dragons pride making them unable to accept being a mixed race. This made it pretty easy to attack their mentality."
If Felix did so to any other hybrid race, they probably would have been merely pissed and not lost total control.
Alas, Red Dragon-lings' strength depends on their fury. So, their emotions were already unstable as they could get angered quite easily to gain a boost in strength.
This was a good ability on its own if it wasn't possible for Dragon-lings to completely fall into a frenzy and lose their rationality.
It was actually rare for this to occur since Dragon-lings were taught from birth to keep their emotions in check all the time.
Unfortunately, that was possible only against equal peers in the eyes of the Dragon-lings.
While the viewers were watching a slow replay of the battle with astounding expressions, Felix had already bombed his way through two more boxes.
When he reached the 3rd brown box, he sighed in relief, 'Finally a treasure chest.'
He could easily see the outline of the chest that was placed within the brown box. Unfortunately, its color greyed out while its size was the same as all rarities of chests.
The game made it like this so players wouldn't know what rarity they would be getting before blowing a brown box.
After all, if they could see its rarity, they could target only rare chests+.
Felix placed a bomb on it and retreated away.
In a few seconds, it blew up, exposing a blue-colored medium-sized chest!
'A rare one? Not bad.' Felix smiled as she sprinted towards the chest.
He kicked it wide open and glanced inside.
"Neat!" He grinned in delight after seeing two items within it.
A pouch with a blue explosion logo and a ring.
After putting them inside his inventory, he started reading their details while continuing his sprint.
'Three Strong freezing bombs and a high-grade spatial ring.' Felix ignored the ring as he didn't require it or care enough to sell it.
However, the bombs intrigued him thoroughly.
That's because strong bombs were capable of blowing up two brown boxes at once in four directions.
This meant, he could utilize them to clear his path even faster.
Three of them could do the job of six weak bombs.
Nevertheless, he was hesitant about doing so since strong bombs could actually cause some serious injuries to most players in the game.
Adding the freezing effect to the mix, they could be used in key moments to switch a fight around!
'Sigh, I don't have much of a choice do I?' Felix shook his head and decided to use them since he was left with only one weak bomb.
'I guess it's time to switch to treasure hunting to fill in my inventory first.'
Treasure chests were truly the key to winning this game since one could not move forward without bombs.
What's worse, even if someone reached the center, he would require five superior bombs or a nuclear bomb to destroy the black box.
This entailed that aiming for the center wasn't really the key to winning the game but hunting either treasure chests or other players.
Every player had already realized so.
That's why when the camera switched to show Disfigured Beauty, WowefxNero, The Traiter, and the others, they were all aiming at locating chests instead of heading in the general direction of the maze center.
Since they all had sensory abilities, they were able to spot the treasures hidden with the brown boxes just like Felix.
"Goddess of Fortune is truly favoring Disfigured Beauty today." Letomar commentated, "She already opened two rare chests and one epic, finding two superior bombs in them!"
Her gains were an exception as the rest of the players were also broke like Felix, finding only common or rare treasure chests in their journey.
Still, those findings were enough to keep them in the game for a while.
....
Twenty minutes later...
Felix could be seen squatting next to a white chest with an irritable expression. He kicked it wide open end took the white pouch from within.
As he expected, he found three weak bombs.
The bare minimum amount to be found in any chest.
In the past ten minutes, he managed to open only seven treasure chests and six of them were common.
Sure, they provided him with various amounts of weak bombs to fill up his inventory but he wasn't pleased a bit.
That's because he could hear other players popping strong bombs and even superior bombs left and right like they were candy.
The difference in noise was too glaring to not spot.
Plus, he saw even some fireworks congratulating players for opening epic chests!
'How the f*ck am I supposed to compete against them with those firecrackers?'
Felix massaged his temples to regain his composure while walking away from the chest.
However, just as he wanted to take another step, his instincts screamed at him about an incoming danger.
Felix hunched his back swiftly, not spending a single millisecond overthinking.
Phew Phew!!
Thank god for his quick reaction as two extremely thin invisible wind blades wheezed right past his hunched back and collided with the wall!
Szlzlzllzzl!
Felix didn't stand right back up but actually rolled forward while opening up all of his tiny holes, allowing his stored lightning to cover his body!
WHOOSH!!
In that exact spot, a mini condensed grey white tornado emerged!
If he didn't move, he would have been thrown in the air uncontrollably.
Knowing that he wasn't safe yet, Felix used an electrical arc to pull him to the nearest wall.
This position provided him with a better vision of his surrendering.
Even though Felix didn't see who ambushed him, he already knew who he was.
'The only wind Elementalist in this game.' Felix called out with a suppressed tone, "Executioner, come on out and let's have a friendly talk shall we?"
Felix narrowed his eyes like an eagle as he surveyed the area with infra-ray vision.
In a short moment, he spotted a humanoid red aura entering his radar in a slow manner.
Step by step, he crossed twenty meters and entered the path, where Felix was staying in.
When Felix turned off his infra-ray vision, he was met with an image of a humanoid lean white owl, who was wearing a black samurai-like outfit with a Kabuto1.
He had two long katanas' sheaths attached to his belt on both sides. He was donning a wooden Warajis1 on his feet.
They were supposed to make clacking noise with the ground but nothing of such had been heard.
This was the appearance of The Executioner.
A proud warrior of the Exonian Race.
"I believe there is nothing to discuss." The Executioner narrowed his large pupils at Felix as he placed both of his palms on his katanas' handles.
"Don't be like that. You will need an ally sooner or later." Felix's eyelids twitched at his indirect rejection before he even proposed a partnership.
"Not interested." The Executioner got into his battle stance and said calmly, "We the honorable Hagakis will prove our strength and dignity to all by relying only on ourselves!"
'F*cking Exonians and their wounded honor.' Felix was truly pissed at his luck in this game.
From treasure chests to players. He always got the short end of the stick.
"Unfortunately for Landlord, Exonians will rather die proudly than receive help in the games." Letomar shook his head in disapproval at Exonians' antics.
Seeing that some viewers were left confused by his statement, he enlightened them with a short history lesson.
The current Exonians were actually descendants of deserters from the great civil war between the Exonians and Ionians.
Those deserters had escaped with their families to a remote planet within the main galaxy of the Metal Race.
For hundred of thousands of years, they were hiding there and receiving protection from the Metal Race and the SGA Alliance against the Ionians after their race got almost wiped out in the civil war.
Since they lost the war, the deserters should have been hunted down and executed as well. It was within the rules of the Alliance and no one could change that.
However, the pacifist Metal Race didn't want anyone to start a fight in their galaxy ever again. They also didn't want to kick them out from their galaxy.
Hence, they proposed that the Exonians would be considered as a subsidiary race of theirs under the condition that they would never have more than 20 million population.
The Ionians could only agree since they didn't want to disrespect the Metal Race.
Although they couldn't wipe them off completely, they made sure to humiliate them in public every single day by mentioning their origins.
They were the sons and daughters of deserters.
This made them ashamed of the view of other races. Especially, when everything was connected in the universe, making it easier to know about their origins.
Hence, the newest generations always participate in the games to prove their strength and reclaim honor to their race.
They would never allow someone to help them. So if they won a game, no one would spin it that they leeched off their ally.
"In conclusion, Landlord better prepare himself for another tough battle." Letomar finished his summary in merely a few seconds.
Felix and The Executioner were still in a stand-off.
"If you don't want to fight, throw your loot to me and leave at once." The Executioner offered composedly.
He wasn't stupid to understimate Felix and force a random fight. But, if Felix refused to hand out his bombs, then he would be left without a choice but to do so.
Just like Felix, his luck in his treasure chest hunt wasn't going well, making him desperate to seek other methods.
"Bro, I really don't have anything good on me."
Felix really didn't want to fight another battle so soon.
His previous fight with Flame Bearer might have ended in a few seconds but the energy he used to make his plan work had exhausted 40% of his tank at once!
He truly didn't want to tap on his emergency tank in the first 30 minutes of the game before he met WowefxNero.
Whoosh!!
Abruptly, The Executioner unsheathed both of his katanas, creating two long white wind blades in front of him.
Upon close look, the viewers were shocked to see that the katanas were actually those long two white wind blades!
They truly appeared like lightsabers instead of katanas.
"Naturally, The Executioner can't use katanas made out of common materials against those players. Since Artifacts were banned in platinum and below games, he could only create Katanas made out of the wind." Letomar explained to everyone.
"Last Warning." The Executioner aimed one wind katana at Felix and said, "You have three seconds."
'I guess I can only do that.'
Upon seeing that negotiation or reasoning with him wasn't going to work, Felix was forced to play his plan B.
"Fine! Fine! Just chillax a little." Felix lifted both of his hands in the air as a way to show his cooperation.This shocked his fans the most as this was the first time ever they saw Felix surrender!
"A disappointing ending but it is the smartest move for Landlord. As long as he leaves three bombs with him, he can still bounce back if he found an epic chest." Letomar shared his opinion.
Alas, the fans still had a bad taste in their mouth as they saw Felix bring out a bag filled with his bombs.
"Are you cool with me keeping a few bombs to survive?" Felix asked.
'If I didn't agree, he will probably try to fight with me since giving all bombs to me is the same as giving up on the game.' The Executioner thought about it and found that his request was reasonable.
'Queen, how many bombs are in his inventory and in the bug currently?' He asked
The Queen asked permission from Felix if she could answer. Felix nodded his head, not caring about revealing such intel to him.
'He has fourteen weak bombs and two strong flammable bombs in the bag.' Queen added, 'He has only three weak bombs in his inventory.'
'Good.' The Excutioneer's mind was eased after knowing that he wasn't being fooled.
"Now throw them over to me." He ordered while returning to a battle stance, worrying that Felix might still pull a quick one on him.
Humans were known to be cunning after all.
"Catch!"
However, he soon realized that his worries were out of place as Felix truly had thrown the bag to him under the disappointed looks of his fans and primogenitors.
Szlzlzlzlzlz!!
While the bag was about to reach its peak velocity in the air, Felix entered his supersonic mode and dashed like the wind in the opposite direction.
The Executioner could clearly see him running away but he didn't think too much about it.
He knew that he would have done the same since it was better to escape while an enemy was occupied.
Knowing that it was possible for Felix to detonate the bombs by using a timer if they landed on the ground, The Excutioneer inspected the bag with his unique racial vision.
It allowed them to see different colors through thin fabrics.
When he saw not a hint of redness was inside, he knew that Felix didn't activate any of them.
'Who would have known, humans can be upright once in a whil...'
Before the Executioner could finish his praise, he was left in disbelief at the sight of Felix suddenly emerging next to the bag!
"B*tch, you thought!"
Felix flipped him a finger in midair and beamed the bag inside his AP bracelet before he disappeared in a flash of light.
The viewers were dumbfounded, the primogenitors were left speechless, and The Executioner was left completely baffled by what he had just witnessed.
"What did just happen?!" Letomar almost fell out of his chair at the sudden turn of events.
He was just as confused as everyone since he could clearly see that Felix's presence wasn't on the same path as The Executioner!
When he glanced at Felix's mini screen, he couldn't help exclaim loudly, "How the f*ck did he get there!"
When he shared the screen with everyone, they were left just as shocked as he was.
Felix could be seen standing before a brown box that was positioned at least one kilometer away from The Executioner!
Since this was a maze, those two miles should be stretched into two kilometers if The Executioner wanted to head there.
"Can he teleport or what?!"
"What is this crap? How can he be in two places at the same time?"
"Is that the same ability from before?"
Not even Felix's fans managed to figure out what had just transpired.
As for the human viewers? They began to feel like Felix was a completely different species from them!
Only a few smart viewers managed to guess what happened in those short seconds.
Meanwhile, some primogenitors were slowly clapping their hands in enjoyment at Felix's smart and somewhat shameless escape.
"Ayio, he really is using Thor's transmutation ability to its full potential with his shamelessness." Siren giggled pleasantly as she clapped her hands.
The other primogenitors chuckled as well as they viewed the slow replay on the screen.
This time, Letomar and some viewers spotted Felix placing a tiny black nail inside the bag after switching the angle to look from behind.
The black nail was attached with an extremely thin wire!
If the camera didn't literally zoom x10 at Felix's hands, they wouldn't have spotted him holding into a small roll of that wire!
When Felix threw the bag and dashed away as fast as possible, the camera followed him this time, showing that he reached the same brown box as before.
Then, he stuck the wire roll into the metallic wall and instantly transmuted himself into millions of electrical charges before entering the wire!
The moment that happened, the camera instantly switched back to the bag, showing millions of electrical charges turning into a humanoid shape before becoming Felix again!
Felix grabbed the bag, flipped Excutioneer, and returned in the same manner!
By now, even the dumbest viewer understood Felix's ingenious escape plan.
They couldn't help but feel amazed by such a terrific ability.
They had seen Felix use it in a replay against Flame Bearer but they didn't really understand its true potential until now.
"An ability that can allow one to cross distances at the speed of light!" Letomar spoke with a slightly envious tone.
As a vampire, even if he reached the state where he could turn his physical body into blood, he would never reach the same speed as Felix!
Probably no one could do that besides Light Elementalists!
While Felix's fans started cheering thunderously, feeling enlivened after knowing that Felix would never bow down to anyone in a game, the other viewers started clamoring irritatedly.
"How can he use so many lightning abilities? Weren't humans bound to a specific number?"
"Don't forget that he also owns a limited poison manipulation."
"This is too weird! Is he really a human?"
Even Primogenitors started having some reservations after seeing Felix use more lightning abilities than he should possess.
They saw him use electromagnetism, transmutation, and those lightning whips against Flame Bearer.
Since Felix had already demonstrated many lightning abilities in his previous game, doubts were bound to rise.
Though, they didn't say anything since it was possible for primogenitors' bloodline to give more abilities than known.
'It seems like they are still on the fence if Felix is using a limited lightning manipulation or just relying on bloodline abilities.' Lady Sphinx smiled faintly as she glanced at their countenance.
A human using limited manipulation was already an achievement on its own that had never happened before.
But owning two manipulations?
This had never happened in the history of the universe for any race!
Because of this, most primogenitors ignored the other two games before them and decided to focus solely on Felix.
'Maybe Sphinx really succeed in finding a way to synthesize multiple limited manipulations in one person.' Saurous spoke telepathically with a poker face.
'We can only watch the kid closely and see if he create any more unique abilities.' Wendigo replied as he eyed Felix, who was grinning widely in front of a close shut purple chest.
"Finally, something good." Felix rubbed his hands in delight as he kicked the chest wide open.
Whoosh!! Boom!
-Congratulations to Landlord for opening an Epic Chest!-
"F*cking pricks." Felix cursed the game creators, who planned this notification to make the players with a better loot get targeted.
If you found an epic or a legendary chest, good for you. But, if you don't have the strength to keep hold of the loot, then don't bother opening it.
Knowing that his position was compromised, Felix swiftly took the three shimmering items from within the chest and beamed them in his inventory.
Then, he sprinted away, following his original pathing to the center.
A few minutes later...
Two players emerged from the same path and walked towards the chest.
One of them was the Nature Centaur Disfigured Beauty and the other was two meters ripped white furred werewolf.
Soon, another one appeared from behind them, creating buzzing noises as he flew in their direction.
"Bee Official, didn't we tell you to stop flying?" The Werewolf glared at a humanoid yellow and black Bee with a sting and thin transparent wings.
Right now, those wings were flapping extremely fast, creating an irritating noise to the ears.
"For the sake of our alliance, can you please respect Bloodrites' request?"
Disfigured Beauty asked him kindly, knowing that Bloodrites' ears were extra sensitive to low-pitched hyper noises.
"For the sake of the Alliance."
Bee Official repeated with a monotonous tone as he withdrew his wings and landed on his feet next to them. His eyes were grey, appearing like they were soulless.
Why do I have to ally with this creep.' Bloodrites growled to himself, 'If only he wasn't already allied with this b*tch, I would have taken her down and her loot.'
"It seems like Landlord has escaped immediately." Disfigured Beauty said as she looked at the empty chest.
"Since we haven't met him in our way, it only means he went in the other direction." Bloodrites said as he pointed at a straight path in front of him.
"Let's move quickly, we might catch him if he used bombs to clear his path." Disfigured Beauty rushed them as she galloped in that direction.
Bloodrites jumped on his four limbs and followed after her. Bee Official wanted to fly after them but he was reminded of their previous conversation.
"For the sake of the alliance." He repeated like a robot and started levitating without using his wings.
Then, he chased after them closely.
For a race that was known for their superior mental control, making themselves levitate and fly with telekineses was nothing to them!
"Landlord will be in big trouble if he gets caught." Letomar commentated with a serious tone, "They will refuse to add him in their alliance since three of them are already a crowd. So, he will have no choice but to either fight or flee. I wonder if he can repeat the same escape strategy against the Bee Official?"
The viewers understood what he meant. Bee Official mental attack requires only a single glance. No matter how fast was Felix, he could not be faster than a mental attack aimed at him.
...
A few minutes later...
Felix could be seen standing before a brown box with his chin rested on his palm.
He could see a chest thirty meters away from him but he didn't rush and started bombing.
'There are four brown boxes in front of this chest. So, in total, I need to blow up five of them to get it.' Felix sighed, 'I already spent almost all of my stash of weak bombs.'
Felix glanced at his inventory and noticed that he was left with only three superior sound bombs that he got from the epic chest, two strong flammable bombs, and lastly three normal strong bombs.
'Stop being a miser and use strong bombs. This is your path anyways to the center.' Asna scolded him.
'Fine, fine!'
Felix brought two strong bombs and placed one on the brown box. Then, he retreated and blew it up as well as the one behind it.
This left three more brown boxes. Felix used another strong bomb and followed it with a weak bomb to take care of them.
'Final...Holy Shit!'
Felix's eyes widened in disbelief after spotting a shimmering golden light coming from within the rubble.
His heart couldn't help but skip a beat as he knew that only Legendary chests emit such a splendid light!
"Landlord has struck the jackpot!!!" Letomar shouted in excitement as he brought Felix's screen to the main screen, showing the viewers a glorious medium-sized golden chest!
"Unbelievable! He actually found one so soon!"
"Damn his luck is really off the charts. Though, will he dare open it up?"
"Hehehe, he is already being hunted by Disfigured Beauty's squad."
"True, they are quite close to him."
The viewers had mixed reactions to Felix's sudden windfall.
Some believed he was actually going to regret opening it up since everyone would be up to his ass for his loot.
Meanwhile, some thought that if he found more superior bombs or even a nuclear bomb, he would receive a massive boost to his arsenal.
Felix didn't even consider giving it up as he sprinted towards it with a wolf-like grin.
He opened it up and quickly pocketed everything inside his bracelet before running away for his life.
Whoosh Booom!
-Congratulations to Landlord for opening a Legendary Chest!-
The bright golden fireworks attracted everyone's attention, making them glance upward.
When they read the notification, their expressions couldn't help but turn ugly almost immediately.
"Ooo, so lucky!" Wowef commentated with a surprised look. Meanwhile, Nero appeared to have gotten serious at the news.
"We got to amp up our treasure hunt." Nero ordered, "Let's move, we still need a few more superior bombs."
If it wasn't for the distance between them being too far, he would have actually headed straight towards Felix.
Most players could only curse hatefully at their luck and continue on their treasure hunt since they were also quite far away from him.
As for those close by?
They had two reactions.
"GOO FAST!! HE IS ONLY A KILOMETER AWAY FROM US!" Bloodrites roared feverishly as he sprinted at his top speed towards the fireworks position. Disfigured Beauty and Bee Official were slightly lagging behind him.
Meanwhile, a few hundred meters away from the fireworks position, A humanoid giant panda with a monk-like robe scratched his ass as he thought to himself, 'A legendary chest? It will be great if I can ally with him.'
With that thought in mind, the giant panda turned into a massive furry ball and started rolling forward, smashing through walls to change his direction!
"It seems like Landlord is going to get cornered from both directions!" Letomar exclaimed as he highlighted the paths around Felix as well as those aiming for him.
Sure enough, it wouldn't be long before they all meet in one path!!