☯Night Drop☯

The atmosphere gradually turned heavy as these young participants had their ears directly pointed towards the second old man whose explaining the rules inside the event.

Because rules are the most significant thing on this event and their lives will depend on these rules.

"The very first rule is, using your cultivation on this game are extremely prohibited. Once caught, watchers from all areas will not hesitate to bring you down, you will not be disqualified, but killed on the spot.

Mind you that the entire central continent is covered by spiritual arrays that block your mad qi if one of you participants have entered on the path of cultivation. However, participants that have significant background might have a hidden treasure that neglects the effects of the arrays inside the central continent. That's why we made that a very first rule on this event to protect the poor ones." The old man explained slowly and carefully for everyone to understand.

Hearing this, many people here don't have significant family backgrounds, and hearing such rule made everyone sighs gratefully.

"For the second last rule, bringing things inside the event is also prohibited-"

"What!?" Everyone gasped when they hear the last rule, someone immediately asked, "Great sir, how we will survive in the wilderness if we don't have weapons?"

"What do you use your hand for? Cleaning your shit when taking a dump?"

"..."

"Anyway, let me explain first before you idiots can react... Ahem, like before, there are people with high backgrounds joining this event, and they will probably bring high graded weapons to increase their chance of winning this event. So, to make fairness for you poor people, we decided to prohibit such things to give you guys a chance." The old man strokes his white beard as he explained.

Hearing this quickly calmed the hearts of these youths and even felt grateful to the rule maker of this event if, by chance, they learned the name of this person. They would be willing to lick his/her boots because everyone knows inside their heart that fairness in this world is hardly achievable.

"Now, I will be explaining the mechanics of the event in simple words, because we are running out of time. First thing first, you will be randomly dropped off in the skies along with your teams, if you have one... Secondly, weapons and supplies are scattered anywhere on the battlefield, it will be in your own luck if you can find these things. Third, there will be a ten supply drop each month, and these drops have better equipment for your own survival.

Fourth, the area of the battlefield will shrink each day, and by the last month before the end of the event, the area of the battlefield will be precisely in the center of the continent where you will be met by participants from other regions.

Fifth, when there are only ten remaining participants in each region, you will be quickly transported in the arena to fight for your glory and to win the event to reap the rewards." His voice echoed in the vast plain, soon the once quiet area has now turned noisy once again.

Some teams are worried, some are excited, some are already planning, and some are leaving those team for some reason.

Only the three-man group of Ray are calm like a serene lake, the three of them are already planning their own responsibilities. However, the common thing they have on their mind is to maintain great teamwork!

...

When everyone finally had settled, the two oldmen looked at Saint Rose before nodding at her. Seeing this, she stepped forward, and soon, her aura exploded, creating a red supernova effect.

Everyone still gasped in shock after seeing it again. However, they noticed that this aura didn't seem terrifying like before, it has a soft pressure feeling from it.

"I'll teleport you brats above the ancient flying rays with my spiritual energy." As soon she said that she didn't give anyone a chance to react as they all turned blurry before vanishing on the spot.

Above the skies, thousands of figures appeared then fell on the back of the ancient flying rays.

"Waah!" Everyone was shocked as they fell, they couldn't believe it they would be dropped off like that instantly.

"Geez, truly a mad ability." Mark wiped his cold sweat on his forehead... I thought I'm gonna die for a second.

"So this is the power of spiritual energy?" Ray was staring blankly on the air before the lights on his eyes burned with passion, "Truly madness! I will definitely cultivate my spiritual energy!"

"Okay, Ray, chill for a second, you're acting like a child." Kate rolled her eyes before looking at the surrounding, finding something.

"Tch, I'm still young, and I can dream whenever I want." Ray crossed his arms, before turning to Kate seriously, "So, did you find something interesting?" He asked silently.

"Might be, I think saw someone familiar that shouldn't be here," Kate responded with a serious tone.

"..." Ray was thinking for a second before asking her, "Do you think it will be a problem for us?"

"If that person is definitely the person I know, then it won't... probably... However, we will inevitably encounter him in the future.

"Okay, for now, we shouldn't overthink about that person for now." Ray calmed down as his serious expression turned soft once again before smiling at Kate as she tapped her shoulder to calm her down.

He noticed that Kate seemed turned stiff suddenly when she saw something is not right. However, her stiffness softens when she saw Ray's warm smile before nodding her head then turned away from the crowd.

Just away from them, two eyes were looking on Kate's figure before turning around dwelling his figure with everyone else.

...

*Bzzt*

Three figures appeared on the skies, the youths turned their heads towards these three figures, and everyone gradually became quiet.

"Okay, we will go now. We will arrive there at night, and naturally, once we got there, we will immediately drop you off." Saint Rose casually said before facing a specific direction then flew together with the two oldmen behind her back.

The two beasts didn't make a sound as they turned around and follow Saint Rose with high speed.

Everyone turned quiet before gathering with their teammates then sitting down.

...

Night gradually fell, in the sky, the air was chilly combined with the wind slapping against their body, making everyone tremble and grew tense because of the cold.

"Damn bro, look at those three, they are steady as if the cold wasn't much." One of the youth looked at the three small figures sitting while facing each other.

"Yeah, those three have already entered qi condensation stage, such a temperature wouldn't affect them. Gladly their cultivation will be restricted so they wouldn't be different than us when they came to the battlefield." Another youth casually said.

"Yup, lucky for us... However, those three are said to be one of the excellent guys here, especially in combat."

"Pff, who cares about that, they are like us in there. They will be powerless when we overwhelmed them at the same time."

"I dunno man, I feel threatened by those three."

"Whatever you say..." He shrugged his shoulder before focusing on warming himself and try not to be bothered by his companion again.

The three small figures were sitting crosslegged as they faced each other, Ray's eyes abruptly opened before staring at Kate. He had sensed something different before looking on Mark with even more surprised look on his face.

Soon, these two opened their eyes slowly, and a wild wisp of red aura scattered silently.

"You two have already built your foundation?" Ray asked before smiling.

Kate smiled before nodding her head, "I guess I won this time again Ray."

"Don't worry Ray, this breakthrough wasn't much help on the battlefield," Mark said while smiling at Ray.

Hearing this, Ray shook his head before smiling again, "Well, I only have average talent compared to you guys. And I can also try building my foundation, and the chance of success isn't that slim. There's something I would like to try." He explained.

Getting the gist of what he's saying, Kate carefully looked at Ray before saying, "Ray, I think I know what you're doing, however, experimenting with your cultivation won't help you but lag you behind with your peers like us."

"Hahaha, don't worry Kate, I will not do something that will make my parents disappointed." Ray laughed.

"Yeah, just be careful not to stay behind." Kate reminded.

"Kate, just let him be, he's enjoying this," Mark spoke while shaking his head. When he looked towards Ray, he noticed something behind Ray's back.

He pointed towards it, making the two turned around, "Look at those mountain ranges, they're higher than the clouds." Mark said in amazement.

Just in front of them, a towering mountain ranges covered the view making everyone unable to see what's the other side of the mountains.

Soon, the voice of a woman rang out in everyone's mind.

"Okay, everyone prepare yourselves we will start in a few minutes now!"

Hearing this made everyone turned awake as they quickly stood up and formed in teams. If before, groups were scattered and pretty much friendly to one another, however, this time, it's like everyone didn't know each other as they move away from them afraid that they will get attacked.

The old man appeared above the two ancient flying rays, they waved their hands, and soon lights flew out from their body.

A fiery light turned into multiple beams before stopping on the face of each youth.

"This is a feather of legendary rok, this is a one-use type treasure, and the purpose of this is to slow down your drop so you wouldn't be able to die on such fall. Just wave this towards your foot, and it will gradually dissipate. You only have thirty minutes before the effects fade out." The old men explained.

Ray, Kate, And Mark grabbed the feather then looked to each other.

"We're approaching! We'll enter the border of the spiritual array that will disable your cultivation in ten... Nine... Eight.."

As the countdown continues, Ray looked to his friends, "We'll let everyone jump first before we do... And follow me."

Kate and Mark looked at Ray's eyes before nodding their heads.

"Three... Two... One! Entering the spiritual array!"

*Bang!*

A loud explosion occurred when they hit something. However, they didn't slow down a bit, but the trio felt something different.

Just like they have explained, their circulating qi suddenly stopped!

"OKAY, EVERYONE THE ROAD TO HELL BEGINS, GO, GO, GO! MAY THE MADNESS BE WITH YOU!" Saint rose shouted, which made everyone quickly tensed.

And because of her shout, they got terrified, those individuals that don't have a team or group already jumped off the flying ray.

Soon, groups of faction one after another jump.

While Saint rose was looking at these children jumping out of the flying ray, she noticed three small figures watching the scene like her.

"Hey you three, when will you jump? You all are nearing the restricted area where you can only jump!" She shouted.

"Ray, what do we do?" Kate looked at Saint Rose before turning to Ray as she asked carefully.

"Let's wait a bit..." Ray looked down at the skies.

He was finding the right spot where people are few and wouldn't be killing each other immediately.

Soon, his eyes twitched before jumping immediately, "Now!"

Both Kate and Mark quickly followed Ray as they fell on the skies.

Looking on those falling figures, Saint Rose smiled, "Those three..."

...

As gale of wind constantly smacking his face, Ray spreads out his hands, suddenly his fall slowed down, he sweeps his hand on his waist, making speed and fall incredibly fast.

While learning this, the two figures behind his back were quickly discovered as they realize this while watching Ray.

Stabilizing himself, Ray smiled before sweeping his hand behind then turned around to glide towards a certain lake.

The central region is full of lush trees, winding rivers, lakes, it's really a jungle.

As the three of them glide at extreme speed, they had passed countless trees already, they have also seen children running, and worse, some are already killing each other.

When the three of them are nearing the border of another region, they finally slow down. The three of them opened their arms wide, creating a massive drag.

The three of them made a pencil dive position then waved the red rok feather on their foot.

Soon, red particles covered their foot, and they fell on the skies, towards a great lake.

Three shadows streak the skies before splashing on the water, creating a massive explosion of water, creating an enormous wave.

*BANG!*