The Ultimate Evolution - Chapter 736

Chapter 736: Both sides suffer

Zi then added .

"Guys, don't ever forget that both Skull and Zeus are just beginners of this phase . If Skull can upgrade his ability to a higher level, he'll transform into a metalloid; substantially reducing damage dealt to himself and possibly buffing every member with a dark metal armour!"

"If Zeus's ability can be upgraded to the highest level, he'll turn into a golem himself . Perhaps, he'll be able to shoot out eight rays of gravitational rays that encompass 500 square metres . He can easily envelop opposing parties in gravity zones or abruptly remove gravity to cause opponents to float up! An incomparably master of displacement . "

Reef was currently spectating silently, and finally spoke after hearing Zi's speech .

"Looking at the situation now, Skull's MT ability can only be used on his own comrades while Zeus can use his both offensively and defensively . Delving deeper, Skull's ability also requires a permanent equipment sacrifice . Seems like Zeus's ability is stronger . "

Zi shook her head in response .

"Not necessarily, even though Skull sacrifices an equipment, he may not need to spend anything else . Furthermore, the better the equipment consumed, the longer the MT ability will last . Perhaps, the quality of armour he bestows onto his comrades is related with the grade of equipment consumed; sacrificing a dark-gold grade equipment in exchange for a dark-gold metal armour . Moreover, you'll realize this after crossing hands with the contestants enhanced by Skull; the metal armour he conjures actually strengthens all aspects . The greatest strengthening is survivability, followed by movement speed, attack speed and others . "

"In comparison, Zeus's MT requires achievement points, utility points and potential points to activate once . The wastage of both side is nearly identical but Zeus's ability is more focused towards agility only . "

"Thinking in this perspective, both abilities have the same starting point despite their immense differences . The reason you guys think Zeus is superior is due to the narrow area skewing more to his advantage . If that was a broad battlefield, Zeus's gravity influence would minimally be reduced by half . "

Sheyan doubtfully surveyed the fight before abruptly inquiring .

"What, you are saying an MT's path… . . is chosen by the realm when one advances to an Awakener?"

Zi hesitated slightly before softly answering .

"In most cases . . . . yes . "

"Meaning there are some rare cases that differs?" Sheyan captured the underlying meaning beneath Zi's words .

Instead, Zi kept quiet and continued sipping from her coffee mug . Evidently, she wasn't willing to delve more into this topic .

At present, subtle deviations were occurring throughout the battle scene . After Zeus's appearance, his gravity zones effectively guarded his subordinates and prevented the two metal armoured, close combat Growth-Hunters from achieving anything .

As for combatants utilizing arrows or darts, their barrages of projectiles were undoubtedly slowed by the sphere of gravity and failed to threaten .

If Skull Party had more powerful extremely longe-range combatants, they could still bomb indiscriminately into the gravity zone of Glory Party and perhaps achieve some success . Alas, Glory Party possessed the redoubtable Aziz!

After assassinating the blowdart male, Aziz had redirected his focus and unexpectedly managed to suppress three members of Skull Party; leaving 'markswoman' Tristana, 'unpredictably vanishing' Plague, and Patrice gasping for breath!

Furthermore, he still managed to manifest his existence to other fighting members of Skull Party once in a while .

Under the terrifying shadow of Aziz, how formidable could the long-range combatants of Skull Party compare with?

As he witnessed his scene, Sheyan inscribed two names on the coffee table – 'Finarsih' and 'Aziz' .

To him, only those two could be hailed as Zeus's left and right arms . In order to strike down Glory Party, both individuals must definitely be eliminated . It was hard to tell if they were fortunate or unlucky to have their names noted down by Sheyan . . . . .

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Time swiftly trickled away .

Even though both parties were focusing fire on the MTs, the Skull Party actually occupied the manpower advantage . Thus, after seizing a wonderful opportunity, a five men combined assault succeeded in slaying another contestant of Glory Party .

However, in that same instance, two bullets from Aziz whizzed in with a phantom of colossal snow-wolves .

The first bullet rampantly chewed Plague out from her hiding void, while the other directly shot Tristana into a near-death state . Thus, members of Skull Party had no choice but to deviate their attention to aid them .

Zues quickly ordered the Metals Professor to unleash her horrifying 'Metallic Tempest' upon identifying this opportunity . With this move, he succeeded in breaking through this 'execution ground' and fled the parking area .

In this situation, the Glory Party now had ample space to escape while defending .

Meanwhile, Skull was exceedingly clear that persisting in pursuit would inevitably lead to a terrible fiasco of a war of attrition . Any party of the nightmare realm definitely wouldn't wish to land into such fighting circumstance, even if their party leader had gone crazy, the members absolutely wouldn't accord .

After several attempts of 'probing' offenses, both Zeus and Skull lost their will to continue battling .

Both leaders soon led their parties, each respectively to the north and south, before disappearing into the distant .

Meanwhile, was Sheyan squinting his eyes with a peculiar glint as he observed them leaving .

Zi glanced at him and insipidly uttered .

"Do you feel extremely dejected? Similar to an MT but unable to stand toe to toe with them . Actually, there isn't a need to undervalue yourself . As a contestant, you are already doing a pretty remarkable job, as long as you have ample time . . . . . "

Sheyan chuckled and abruptly refuted .

"Your words are wrong from the beginning . Firstly, why should I feel dejected? Even right now, I dare to confront Zeus! Perhaps I can't cope against him, but he can't do much to me either! Secondly, you seem to be forgetting who was it that masterminded this double-side defeat fiasco . No matter how indomitable one is, without a brain for resourcefulness, what can power amount to?"

Zi offered an indifferent smile but refrained from arguing with Sheyan . Clearly, she was rather thrown off by his attitude .

Nevertheless, she noticed both Reef's and Mogensha's gaze .

Gazes that shockingly displayed unwavering certainty in Sheyan's words!

Waves of tremor shook Zi's heart as she failed to repress a notion from welling up her heart .

"Could it be he meant what he said???? How . . . how's that possible?! A mere contestant dares to contend against the might of an Awakener MT?!"

A moment later, she realized Sheyan created a surprise in her once again . He was truly an existence that broke common sense . It was like an indescribable bewildering fog enshrouded him . Whenever she felt like she had uncovered a layer of fog to see through the real him, she would soon discover that another layer of fog was still masking him . . . .

"Let's go . ' Sheyan scanned the chaotic plaza once again before gently ordering .

"Our harvest today is sufficient . Oh yeah, for our next step, we need to gather detailed information on Hammond . Although we can now roughly deduce he is residing in Jurassic Park, we must still amass more information to make adequate preparations . Recklessly wandering into that ghost island would be akin to committing suicide!"

Hence, the contestant quartet proceeded to board the elevator down .

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Inside the high-speed elevator .

The sophisticated Zi couldn't resist her urge to question Sheyan .

"Seaman, exactly what ability are you relying on to have such confidence in contesting Skull and Zeus?"

Sheyan burst into jubilant laughter as he answered .

"I was just kidding, you actually believed me a casual joke . Zi, you must've been cheated by others before right?"

"YOU . . . …"

Sheyan's last phrase contained a double underlying meaning . Asking a woman if she had been cheated before . . . . it was truly an inappropriate statement .

Zi's skin was fair and a blush had surfaced on her cheeks that would take one's breath away . Nobody could tell if it was embarrassment or frustration as she glanced away and ignored him .

Three hours later, the gang of four arrived at Stormfold City .

This was a metropolis nearest to the dinosaur disaster zone . There were three airports and the city was flourishing greatly .

Originally, it had been a medium sized city, but when the dinosaurs came ashore, the government rapidly intervened to develop the scale to leverage on the introduction of dinocrystals . Factories for processing dinosaur leather and other dinosaur related affairs quickly sprouted one after the other . Very quickly, the city expanded and became the largest metropolis in this world .

Presently, above 70% of all dinosaur research facilities were located in this city . As for the Hammond whom the gang was looking for, he was previously a vice head engineer of the Sando TeraTech Company and was in charge of the research on cultivating dinosaur hereditary .

The headquarters of the Sando TeraTech Company was a tremendous 43 storeys building .

The first twenty storeys had rather relaxed security but from then onwards the security became insanely tight with various high tech installations supporting it .

According to Zi's report, weaponry such as laser channels that could threaten a contestant's life were prevalent . Moreover, the guards were equipped with special weapons used for dealing with dinosaurs and were extremely hard to deal with .

Thus, attempting to barge in would be out of the question, and wanted to acquire any intelligence would be impossible .

After some contemplations, Sheyan asked if Zi was relatively familiar with any storyline character here . Zi then brought the gang to a Korean BBQ restaurant .

After entering the BBQ restaurant, they took the elevator to basement three .

The basement was actually a black market workshop for dinosaur meat and reeked of an exceedingly rich blood stench . Many workers were chopping dinosaur meat and sprinkling all sorts of repulsive condiments like Meat tenderizers, reused cooking oil, Sudan Red G and others… .