The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

These were the most basic rules but there were also a few other extra rules that the participants needed to be aware about. Defeating a fellow participant in battle would allow the winner to gain 80 percent of the total points collected by the loser. But killing someone was not allowed.

If any of the participants killed another one then it would cause an international incident. So there were very strict laws regarding the killing of a UR grade. Only the Council of Nations or CoN were able to give death sentences to an UR grade powerhouse.

Teaming up was also allowed in the second round and before teaming up, the participants needed to decide the way they were going to distribute the points. But carrying someone by giving them easy points or marking others to work for you to gain points quickly was not allowed. A few judges would also be keeping an eye on the whole situation.

So if anything like that was discovered then the related participants would be disqualified.

Actually the most straight forward way for them to gain points was to go solo and kill as many monsters as they could within the time limit. Teaming up and quarreling would just be a waste of time. But still there was a need for everyone to be aware of all the rules.

After the organiser told the participants about all the rules thoroughly, it was finally time for the second round to start. All 256 of the candidates would be sent to a random area close to the Ashen Barrens. From there they would enter the danger zone and would start killing monsters.

Sophia was going to enter the Ashen Barrens from the south eastern side and Rein would be entering it from the north. Both of the areas were already scouted by Sophia in the past three days so the map that she made would be very useful to them. Just like that, finally the second round started.

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Rein followed the map that Sophia had made and started killing monsters. For the first few hours, the map was accurate and Rein was able to find monster groups again and again following it and killed all of them. But after this much time had passed, the monsters had started to notice the intruding humans and had started to change their habitats to counter it.

So now Rein would not be able to use the map to quickly locate the monsters anymore.

Finally he started to use his newly created technique of emotion sensing to find his prey. In the last two days, he had actually tried this technique out quite a few times and it was successful in locating monsters every time. So Rein had a lot of trust in his newly developed technique.

Just as Rein had expected, immediately after using the skill, Rein was able to sense the presence of a few monsters, just a few kilometres away from his current location. Most likely, the monsters who were living in the area where Rein currently was had went to the place where Rein located the monsters.

Even though his emotion sensing technique was very good and powerful, there were a few problems with it. The monsters had simple emotions where humans had very complex emotions. So depending on that Rein was able to differentiate between human and monster presence. But he had no way to judge the strength of those monsters.

It was not like the emotion of the monsters changed depending on their strength. Both strong and weak monsters had nothing but destructive thoughts toward humans. So Rein could not really differentiate between strong and weak monsters with this technique of his. So there was a good chance that Rein might find a lot of monsters but all of them turned out to be weak or just born.

That would definitely not give him a good score.

But Rein did not really worry too much about it. Instead of thinking too much, if he just kept on killing as many monsters as he could, his score would naturally go up.

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While Rein was making progress at a decent speed, Sophia was just killing it at her end. After she became familiar with this area after all the scouting she did, she was clearing out monsters at an insane speed. In just a few hours, she had already completely cleared out the area where she started and went to the other areas.

She did come across quite a few other participants but she defeated them in no time. But that did not really boost her points gain as it was way tn early and most of those people had not managed to gather any points.

Sophia did not mind that and continued with her unstoppable run in the second round. At the pace she was going, she might even clear out most of the monsters living in the Ashen Barrens before the three days were over.

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Chris did not really have any skills in his arsenal that were useful for detecting so he used a simple strategy. With his complete trust in his own physical defense, he recklessly roamed the whole Barrens and killed any monsters he came across.

He had also managed to get his hands on a map from a few other blessed who were good at scouting so he was doing decently fine at the beginning but later on his speed slowed down quite a bit when the monsters started to move away from their previous location but still he went doing better than most.

As Chris was not really worried about any of the monster\'s strength, he was able to take this reckless approach which was impossible for others to do with how risky it was. So he was doing fine and should have no problem getting to the final round.

Among the other participants, some whose abilities suited this place were doing fine and the people whose abilities were restricted here were having a lot of trouble. So after just a few hours, small and big teams started to appear. Small teams only had two or three members while the big ones had six or seven.

With this the second round was getting more and more interesting even though the first day was not over yet.