Thunder Mountain?

"Yaah, the day is finally here" Felix said as he yawned and stood up, he had been preparing for this day for a long time, but now that it was finally here, he didn't feel any rush.

"Well this is boring" Felix said as he went to prepare for today. He did some exercise, meditation and went to take a bath.

"Time to blow their minds" Felix said with a plan as he dressed up, after dressing up, he looked like a different person. He then left the room and went to have breakfast but he didn't find James, after eating he still didn't find James so he left.

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At the Martial grounds, where every tournament was held, crowds of people could be seen walking around, some were chatting with each other, others were boasting about their progress.

"Line up and sign up for the tournament" An old voice sounded as sounds of running could be heard, the large crowd suddenly raced towards the source of the voice in excitement, but amongst the crowd, there were some who maintained their composure.

"These fools are behaving like a pack of hyenas towards food" A rough voice sounded as several of the people who were rushing suddenly turned in anger, someone even rebuked the person but soon turned pale at the sight of the person.

"Do you have a problem, if you do just step up and tell me straight to my face, I don't mind using you as a warmup" Cloudcrusher said fiercely as he cracked his knuckles which sounded for everyone to hear.

"Hey you, don't cause trouble or you will be banned from the tournament" The old man who was registering said to Cloudcrusher who snorted and walked away.

"Hmm, mind your business old man" Cloudcrusher said with disdain as he walked away.

"Hmm, the youngsters of today just don't have respect for their elders anymore" The old man said to the esper before him as he shook his head.

'This old man, why do I feel such power coming from him, I don't think I can defeat him, wow, this man is definitely stronger than the city lord, who knew there was actually such a powerhouse here' The esper thought to himself in shock.

"Name?" The old man asked the esper.

"Shadow Walker" The esper answered.

"Hmm, hahaha, what a domineering name" The old man laughed as he heard the name.

'Is he this lively with everyone' The esper thought to himself.

"Hey old man, could you speed up, you are wasting too much time" The man behind Shadow Walker said with arrogance.

'This fool doesn't have any sense, couldn't he even ask himself why this old man was left here alone without any guards' Shadow Walker laughed in his mind.

"Hahaha" Instead of saying anything, the old man just laughed.

"Age and rank" The old man said with a smile.

"25, E+ rank" Felix answered calmly.

"Hmm, E+ rank okay" The old man said as he scrutinized Shadow Walker.

'Did he sense something?' Shadow Walker asked himself as his heart tightened.

"Okay done, next person" The old man said casually as Felix relaxed.

Several minutes later, the registration process had been completed and the Martial Stands had been occupied by spectators.

"Silence" The City lord's voice echoed across the stands as everyone kept quiet from respect and fear.

"I welcome you all to this year's White Jade Seal Tournament, I can see that a lot of people have progressed well, there is nothing that makes me more happier than to see the youth surpassing us the old" The city lord said as he examined the crowd of participants with a smile.

"This year I hope to see everybody giving it their best" The city lord said once again.

"As you all know, around a month and a half ago, there was an incident with the F rank beast forest which caused the major powers to venture into it to personally take care of the situation, and after that incident, they stayed back to observe the situation since then and I am happy to declare that they will be personally observing this tournament, so I urge you all to give it your best because if you luckily catch their eye, they may decide to take you to the capital to nurture you to become powerhouses like them, they have also declared that there will be a special reward for the champion of the tournament" The city lord said as he paused to let the information sink in well before continuing.

"This year's tournament will start with the B'east hunt' and end with the 'Martial tournament', and because of the incident, we are unable to use the F rank beast forest and coincidentally this is also the 100th year since the founder created the continent so this year we will be opening the Cage Dimension for the beast hunt..." The city lord explained as he observed the changing expressions of the contestants, which of them didn't know the Cage Dimension, it was a dimension that connected with the Beast continent, it was a very dangerous dimension because danger existed everywhere but with danger comes opportunity.

"As you all know, we only open the Cage Dimension every 10 years, this is because it is very unstable, you should know how dangerous it is so be careful out there, you should all know the rules of the beast hunt..." The city lord said as he explained a lot of things to them.

'I wonder what James is doing' Shadow Walker said to himself as his mind wandered elsewhere.

"In the name of the founder, I hereby declare that the White Jade Seal Tournament shall officially begin" The city lord said as the contestants all rushed towards the large portal that had prepared by several D and D+ rank Espers as he was talking.

"I need to be careful not to get killed in there, I still have much to do" Shadow Walker said to himself as he also followed the crowd.

"Hmm they don't know the harsh truth, every time the Cage Dimension is opened, half of the contestants that enter end up dead" The city lord said to himself quietly as he shook his head.

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"Hmm, where are the others?" An E rank esper asked as he appeared in front of a cave. He was alone and didn't even know where he was.

"What a bad start, I had to be the one to get teleported away from the others" The E rank esper lamented with an annoyed look.

"Huh, what is that..." The E rank esper said then froze as he stared at the interior of the cave

where thousands of red eyes were staring at him from within.

"Wh..what...arrg" The E rank esper said in fear as the red eyes rushed towards him.

RAWR

SWOOSH

As the red eyes rushed out, they were revealed to be thousands of bats that rushed towards the E rank esper and circled around him for sometime doing who knows what as the esper's screams echoed, when they finally left and went back into the cave, all that was left of the esper's were his bones, there wasn't a hint of meat on his body.

'What the heck?' Shadow Walker thought to himself as his legs went cold, he had appeared close to this location and heard the man's screams so he had come to see what was up, he had arrived just in time to see the man getting devoured alive.

"So this is the cage Dimension" Shadow Walker said as he moved away from the location.

"Arrg, arrg" Screams rang out some distance away from him as he rushed over again.

"A pack of wolves?, this is too much" Shadow Walker said in disbelief as he watched a pack of wolves ruthlessly devour an esper group of five.

"I haven't even been here for up to a minute and several people are already dead, the name truly suites it, never mind that, time to start hunting" Shadow Walker said as he scouted his environment for an enemy to kill. but after scouting for sometime he still hadn't found any lone enemy, all the enemies he found were in groups.

"What is good on?, why are all the beasts in groups?, what sort of place is this Cage! Dimension?" Shadow Walker asked himself with wonder, it seemed like the beasts here had a little amount of intelligence.

"Well then guess I will just hunt them all at the same time" Shadow Walker said with an evil smile as he rushed towards the pack of wolves who were all E+ ranks.

"Hey Stupid, all of you come at me together, I don't have time to fight you one by one" Shadow Walker said with disdain at the pack of wolves who were still eating the group of espers they had killed earlier

HOWL

The wolves howled as they all approached Shadow Walker out of anger, they surrounded him on all sides as they glared at him fiercely.

"What do you think you are doing?, is this supposed to be some sort of formation, I have to say though, you have a certain level of intelligence for you to not attack me blindly but it's still useless when facing me" Shadow Walker said calmly as he observed the actions of the wolf pack with Interest.

HOWL

One of the wolves howled which caused the wolf directly behind Shadow Walker to track him as it jumped towards him with the intention of slashing his back but Shadow Walker turned so suddenly that it caused it lose focus as Shadow Walker threw a punch towards its head which destroyed it immediately.

"Never attack someone the back especially me" Shadow Walker said with a reprimanding smile.

HOWL

Another wolf howled as they turned around and scattered in all directions causing Shadow Walker to stare on shock at the cunningness of these wolves.

"What the?, hey get back" Shadow Walker said as he punched towards the ground as his hands became covered in a golden glow, as his hands touched the ground, instead of breaking apart, several strands of mana were infused into the ground that travelled through it towards the locations of all the wolves.

"3..2..1, boom" Shadow Walker said as he calmly counted down while walking towards the location of the nearest wolf and as he said boom.

BOOM

Several locations around him suddenly sounded with a boom as mana bullets emerged from the ground and struck the wolves, killing them immediately.

"After engaging in the system's 100 levels of training, this seems like a walk on the park, huh one survived, I guess it's just luck" Felix muttered as he sensed that one of the wolves survived even though it was severely injured.

"What sort of core is this?" Shadow Walker said with surprise as he stared at the core he just dug out of the first wolf, the core wasn't normal in a sense that it didn't have just a single colour, every beast and esper's core had only one color which represented their element but there were some rare cases where some espers had more than one colour but they were so rare that they were basically myths, even with this he had never heard of a beast with more than one element.

After thinking it over for sometime, he decided to check another wolf to see if it was just a coincidence but after checking, he found out that it was the same which shocked him even more and made him wonder what sort of dimension this was.

"System, what do you think of this?" Shadow Walker asked the system, during his stay in the system's origin dimension, he only had the system as his companion so he had grown closer to it and also learned so much from it.

[At first I was slightly doubtful when you first entered this dimension and I sensed it's aura but now after seeing this, I am certainly sure that I was right]

"So what is it?" Shadow Walker asked after seeing the system's dramatic pause.

[I think this is Thunder Mountain]

"Haha, haha" Shadow Walker laughed with a strange expression on his face.

[Author Note: If you have heard a stammering laugh before, this is how it sounded like]

[What are you laughing at]

"You are joking right?" Shadow Walker asked as his breath quickened.

[Why would I joke about something like this you idiot]

"Oh shit, no wonder the beasts here are so strong, this changes everything" Shadow Walker said with widened eyes.

[Yes it does, you have an advantage above the others, you have some pieces of the map, take it out]

"This is great" Felix said as he waved his hands causing the pieces of the map he had gathered so far to appear, immediately they did, they suddenly glowed then disappeared but a smile soon appeared on Shadow Walker's face.

"I have the map in my head and it includes this part, this part is called the badlands, ohhh, let's make plans" Shadow Walker said with a grin as he and the system made plans to find treasure.

Meanwhile the wolf that Shadow Walker had almost killed was rushing through the forest towards it's base and as it reached a large cave, it suddenly stopped and bowed before howling towards the mouth of the cave, some minutes later, a large wolf with red eyes suddenly appeared from the cave with an angry expression, at this moment the wolf was trembling in fear, anyone who saw this wolf wouldn't be intimidated by it because of its frightening appearance, it was a big as a house, it's red eyes made it even more menancing.

"Why have you disturbed my slumber" The huge wolf said angrily to the wolf who howled in fear.

"Huh, you encountered a human who wiped out your pack easily, huh, which human with a death wind dares to offend me, this means war" The huge Wolf said in anger as it released an earthshaking roar that made the entire forest tremble.

As the howl echoed across the forest, all the wolves that were either fighting or doing any other thing suddenly stopped and looked towards the direction of the before heading there, meanwhile the perpetrator of all this was busy making plans to plunder the forest.