CHAPTER 34: [34] BLOOD MOON!

Levi, meanwhile, found his own secluded cave far from Ivory’s. He activated the ’Veil of Shadows,’ and covered himself with the cloak, its light-absorbing properties rendering him completely invisible to any outside surveillance.

He was finally safe to check his own rewards.

"System, use a spin."

[Better Luck Next Time! Please Try Again!]

He sighed. As expected.

"Again!"

[Better Luck Next Time! Please Try Again!]

Levi’s face twitched slightly.

It seemed his luck with the lottery ran in extreme streaks. He shrugged it off. He had one spin, the one he had earned from killing the Stone-Shelled Titan.

"One last time," he muttered. "Use the spin."

[Congratulations! Ranked Technique: Divine Asura Cooking Art]

Levi stared at the notification speechlessly.

’Cooking?’

What was he supposed to do with this? Open a restaurant? He was about to curse his luck when he saw the description.

It was a cooking technique that allowed the user to cook the flesh of dimensional beasts to not only create food of unparalleled taste but also to perfectly extract and preserve 100% of the creature’s Astra energy and special properties, infusing them into the meal when cultivated to the highest level.

The Blazewing rabbit he had just eaten probably only gave Ivory one-hundredth of its true essence. With this art, he could actually create meals that were as good as ranked serums!

Levi let out a dry laugh. It was a strange prize, but an incredibly useful one. He still had one more spin, the one from killing the dark cultivators.

He decided to use it now, while his luck seemed to be on a weird streak.

[Congratulations! You have won a High-Grade Prize!]

[Tier II Relic: Sky Piercer Spear]

"Eh? A weapon?"

Levi was slightly surprised. This was the first time he was getting a weapon. It would have been good if it was a cleaver though.

He opened his hands and the spear materialized above his palms.

It was a beautiful dark, two-meter-long spear.

It’s body seemed to have been made of out ir a strange, dark metallic material and the spear tip made from a silver iron like material.

It was flexible and strong at the same time.

Levi stabbed at the cave wall and with little force, the cave wall was easily pierced through like hot knife to butter.

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Deep within the dimensional zone, just at the center of the entire event, far from the students fighting dimensional monsters, a crazy scene was actually taking place!

At the very center of the forest, in a clearing, a few people wearing the Tier II Cloak ’Veil Of Shadows’.

They were the members of the Ancient Ground of Dark Matter, the dark cultivators who had snuck into the trial.

Their leader, a tall man whose face was hidden by hood, stood before an altar. The altar was made of black bones and was covered in foul-smelling, dark-red blood.

Around the altar, his followers placed the materials for their ritual which were pulsing monster hearts, still warm, that beat with a sick rhythm.

There were precious gems, bones, herbs and a few other materials.

The leader raised his hands, his voice was gruff as it sounded through the entire clearing.

"It’s time for payback. Today, we will burn their garden to the ground. We will cleanse the future of these pests before they have a chance to grow."

"Cleanse them before they grow!"

"Cleanse them before they grow!!"

"Cleanse them before they grow!!!"

His followers suddenly began to chant. The leader took a sharp dagger and sliced his own palm, letting his dark, thick blood drip onto the altar.

The moment his blood touched the stone, the ritual began.

"BOOM!"

The monster hearts on the altar exploded like fireworks. The blood-inscribed gems shattered, releasing a sudden wave of dark red energy that went up into the sky, transforming into a beam of red light.

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Across the entire dimensional zone, the students that were busy fighting for their lives, suddenly felt something as the area energy within the environment surveyed like a flood. They all suddenly looked up at the sky.

The three moons that were both two silver and a single one red, suddenly began to change.

At this moment, the silver moons started to bleed, their pure silvery color started to change color first from pink and then started to change to red.

Soon, all three moons were the color of freshly spilled blood. There were in the sky like three blood red eyes glancing down at the world.

The sky itself followed, as the moon turns everything red blood.

The Blood Frenzy Moon.

It was actually the Blood Frenzy Moon.

It was a rare and terrifying event that happens once in a hundred years. And the last one that happened was twenty years ago so this wasn’t supposed to happen.

But this one was not natural. It was actually been forced.

The gravity of the entire world suddenly increased, actually becoming fifty percent heavier than before.

A student who was in the middle of a leap suddenly found himself pulled down with immense force, and as he landed, his legs actually fractured under the unexpected pressure.

Another student, who was already tired, felt the pressure and his body slammed to the ground, unable to even stand the sudden pressure.

But that was only the beginning. The world itself woke up, and it was filled with hate for humans.

The massive, ancient trees, which had been quiet all along actually suddenly began to move.

Their branches suddenly twisted and sharpened, becoming weapons that lashed out at any student nearby.

Their roots tore through the ground like massive snakes, wrapping around the legs of anyone who stood still for too long. The tall grasses became a field of sharp, spiky vines that cut and tore at flesh.

But that wasn’t all at all, the beast had significant changes.

The dimensional monsters, which had been fighting with animal-like instinct, suddenly went berserk.

Their eyes began to glow with a furious red light. Their muscles bulged, and their bodies grew slightly larger.

A wave of pure, mindless rage washed over them, and their strength instantly tripled. They no longer felt pain. They no longer felt fear as their strength increased by a significant amount.

A Rank 2 beast now had the power of a peak Rank 3. A Rank 4 beast now fought with the overwhelming strength of a peak Rank 5.

And an ordinary powerful Rank 5 beast was now a terrifying monster with the strength of a peak Rank 6.

The entire food chain had been thrown into chaos, and the students were now at the very bottom.

Worst of all, the beasts began to move together 1’d actually didn’t attack each other.

Driven by a single, mindless command that resonated in their brains to kill all human beings without hesitation!