Monster Paradise - Chapter 1318

Chapter 1318: 1318

After defeating Sword126, Lin Huang hurried towards the next possible Sword Servant location with Warlord .

Lin Huang no longer considered hunting down other competitors .

Currently, all the competitors’ accumulated points were still rather low and their Sword Dao was not as strong as Lin Huang’s . The Trial would only last for ten days, so Lin Huang refused to waste his precious time on them . He would rather fight the Sword Servants, no matter what his accumulated points were . His priority right now was to ensure that he learned something from every fight .

After the hour-plus fight with Sword126, the number of potential Sword Servant locations had increased to thirty-one .

Lin Huang followed the route that Warlord had laid out and arrived at the next location in no time .

This time, the Sword Servant was located in a rundown double-story building . He was a lanky man dressed in a grey robe by the name of Sword33 .

After hearing the number of his name, Lin Huang knew this fellow was much stronger than Sword126 .

Lin Huang’s assumption was proven right after they engaged in combat .

Sword33’s Sword Dao path was very simple—if one move was all it took to solve the problem, never make a second move . If a straightforward attack was all it took to settle things, never deviate .

The only aim of his swordsmanship was to use the simplest move to achieve the best result .

His methods were unlike Sword126’s more circuitous methods whereby her moves did not vary greatly and were executed in simple sequences .

The foundation of Sword33’s Sword Dao was much stronger than Lin Huang’s . Despite their simplicity, Sword33’s moves were distilled from the essence of countless other sword moves . They were wildly versatile and had no set sequence .

To Lin Huang, this fight was much more difficult than his first two fights . All of Sword33’s moves were terrifyingly efficient; it seemed as if every slash from him could end Lin Huang’s life . Moreover, almost all of Lin Huang’s attacks were countered by Sword33 in the most direct manner .

This fight continued for an entire six hours . As Lin Huang’s cumulative points were static during that time, Unrivaled Combat God once again overtook Lin Huang on the leaderboard . Lin Huang’s position dropped to first runner-up .

However, Unrivaled Combat God was only able to celebrate his victory for three minutes before Lin Huang’s accumulated points surged ahead with another one hundred points, taking the lead once more .

After more than six hours, Lin Huang had nearly exhausted all of his Sword Dao moves and won by a hair .

The fight with Sword33 made Lin Huang realize his own weaknesses . His moves were not efficient enough; there were many sword techniques that he had yet to master, and he needed to be much more proficient in driving his Sword Dao with his will .

After the fight, Lin Huang sat on the rooftop of the double-story building with his legs crossed and used up three full hours to review the fight he had with Sword33 . Then, he sped over to the next location with Warlord .

After encountering Sword33, Lin Huang bumped into Sword47, Sword163, Sword159…

He challenged all of them, one at a time .

In fact, he totally forgot about his accumulated points as he was on the road twenty-four hours a day, fighting, and assimilating everything he reaped from the fights . He would not waste a single second . He had no time to think about eating or sleeping; he had not even taken a single sip of water .

To further increase his travel speed, he summoned Thunder .

The first half of the Trial passed by in the blink of an eye .

Five days had passed already out of the ten set for the Trial .

Xie Lin’s name remained on the top of the leaderboard no matter what, with a high score of 8937 .

Other than defeating 89 Sword Servants, he had bumped into other competitors too during the last five days . Lin Huang had immediately cut them down so his time on the road was not affected . Read more chapter on NovelFull

As for the first runner-up, Unrivaled Combat God, the points he had accumulated were not so few either . He had 3341 points . Even though he tried his best to catch up, the gap between him and Lin Huang widened further and further .

Other than Unrivaled Combat God, there were still another four people who had earned more than 3000 points . The disparity in their cumulative points was very small . Three others obtained more than 2800 points (including one who got more than 2900 points) . Fallen Star from Death Sickle was obviously among them .

Among the top ten—other than Lin Huang who scored a runaway win—the competition between them was extremely close .

The difference between their points ranged from the lowest— 17 points—to a maximum of only 81 points .

On this day, Lin Huang was on the road as usual when a push notification popped up before him .

“Competitor Forbidden Lamella defeated BOSS, points accumulated: +100!”

Lin Huang was startled when he saw the announcement . It was the first time he had seen another competitor successfully take down a Sword Servant .

‘I’m not familiar with this name . Perhaps he’s a local from the Great Heaven Territory?’

Lin Huang had not looked at the leaderboard since the first day . If he had, he would have noticed that this fellow named Forbidden Lamella was the previous second runner-up . Due to the sudden 100 point increase from beating the BOSS, he had overtaken Unrivaled Combat God to become the first runner-up .

However, this Forbidden Lamella was not local to the Great Heaven Territory .

It was understandable that Lin Huang had never heard of Forbidden Lamella . In fact, other God Territory competitors who joined this Trial in the Great Heaven Territory had never heard of Forbidden Lamella .

This was because Forbidden Lamella was the Sword Dao super-genius secretly trained by the grade-7 organization, Divine Clapnet .

Most God Territory competitors did not know what was going on with him, but some of them had formed at least some assumptions about his identity .

As the second runner-up, Forbidden Lamella had already been conspicuous since the beginning . Now that he had defeated a BOSS and risen to number two, he attracted even more attention .

Many people started to notice the anomaly in the push notifications too .

Previously, whenever Xie Lin defeated a BOSS, the message in the push notification had always referred to him as a “participant” . After reading that 89 times, everyone had gotten used to the term “participant” . Those who initially suspected Lin Huang’s identity had almost forgotten about this anomaly .

However, the push notification that popped up after Forbidden Lamella’s defeat of a BOSS specifically referred to Forbidden Lamella as a “competitor”, which was clearly different from Lin Huang .

This spurred a lot of speculation among the competitors .

“Whenever Xie Lin defeated a BOSS, he was called a “participant” 89 times continuously but Forbidden Lamella was called a “competitor” instead . Something’s going on with Xie Lin!”

“I always thought that participants and competitors refer to the same thing even though different terms were used . Now, it seems like a participant is a special designation . ”

“What makes him a participant while the rest of us are competitors?”

“Now that I think about it, five days ago, a notification popped up suddenly and asked if I’d join this Competitive Trial . Could it be that Xie Lin’s the one who initiated this Trial?!”

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Lin Huang did not know the “global” announcement triggered by Forbidden Lamella had spurred such great suspicion among the competitors about his identity . Lin Huang had only glanced briefly at the push notification, and had noticed the word “competitor” . He did not brood about this Forbidden Lamella either . Lin Huang’s only priority right now was to waste no time on anyone other than the Sword Servants .

Based on his calculations, he would not be able to challenge around two hundred Sword Servants in the five days he had left . Therefore, he had no time to lose . If he could challenge another Sword Servant, he would do it . He had no time to be concerned with other matters .

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