Day 230

During the night, children who would participate in the event "Road to Hell" didn't get much sleep as nervousness flood their entire being. Thinking about the upcoming event in the morning, thoughts flood their minds on what will happen to them by the time they were dropped off in the central continent.

Thoughts like dying, betrayal, and surviving, they just couldn't help it.

However, things are different from Ray. The way he sees this event is an opportunity and a challenge. He thinks this event is exciting, but he knew the dangers of this event, and just like everyone else, he was also nervous before and was scared of death.

But after hearing the inner thoughts of his friends, he was determined that he would protect his friends, and the three of them would leave that place alive and well.

However, to do this thing, he needed strength to support his desire.

Fortunately, the event would have their cultivation restricted, and every participant is no different than average humans. Because of that, he temporarily stopped his cultivation and spends his time with his father.

Ray constantly inquired his father on how to survive in the wilds, what strategies, and what needed to be done to survive every day. As he was treasured by his father so much, Jordan imparted the knowledge he had on surviving carefully.

...

"Since I've taught you how to make simple traps, everything is settled."

On the lightless family camp, on the main tent, two figures are sitting while facing each other. Jordan had been explaining and pointing out important things that needed to be considered by Ray.

"Thank you, dad, I will definitely remember these words," Ray said seriously when he was about to kowtow to his father he was immediately stopped by him.

*Pak!*

"What the hell are you doing! That's so lame!" Jordan slapped Ray on the head.

Scratching his head, Ray laughed dryly before looking at his father. Despite being slapped, he didn't mind it as he was used to it, in fact, he was glad that his father remained the same without worrying about him.

Looking at his father, he noticed that he was smiling softly.

"Son, take care of your friends." Jordan faintly said, he did not need to tell his son to take care of himself, he is a man, and he should know his responsibilities as a man.

He trusts his son that he would definitely survive till the end, and would reap the rewards by the time he returned home. He didn't need to doubt his son, because he is HIS son, he knew him well.

And Ray, understand behind the words that his father told him as he nodded.

"Don't worry Dad, I won't disappoint you."

"I will never be disappointed to a mad lad like you," Jordan smirked as he stretched his hand, then rubs Ray's head.

Savoring the last bit moment with his father, he nodded before slapping Jordan's hand, "Hehe, Dad, When I returned, I will definitely beat yo' ass!" Ray laughed while pointing at his father.

"Ho? Then I'll wait for that day, just don't blame me if your ass exploded!" Jordan accepted the challenge while laughing.

"Excuse me, sir. lightless." A faint female voice startled the two before looking towards where the sound came from.

Both Ray and Jordan noticed two small figures standing at the entrance of the tent, they were naturally Kate and Mark. The two of them are standing outside with a faint smile on their faces.

Kate respectfully bowed at Jordan before fiercely looking at Ray, "Ray, we've come to pick you up, the time is up, people are already assembling outside." She said.

"Ah, right..." Ray nodded before looking at his father.

Jordan nodded then looked at the two small figures outside the tent, "You guys be careful out there, the crucial thing to remember is 'teamwork is the most important in group survival.'"

"We will remember this, sir. lightless." Both Kate and Mark gratefully bowed their heads.

"Also, If this brat misbehaves, feel free to beat the sh*t out of him!" Jordan laughed as he pats Ray's shoulder as he pushed him towards his friends.

Ray gawked when he heard this, but he didn't refute and just let it pass.

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"Oh, we will, sir!"

...

Away from the vast encampment area, there's another large patch of grass fields. On this area, countless children, mostly teenagers, stood in place waiting for something.

Many are still coming towards this area, and when Ray and his friends arrived, they couldn't help to get stunned on the number of people in here.

Multiple colorful banners can be seen, these were the group of factions that had been recruiting members to increase the chance of surviving the event. Although it was a good plan, it will never work, for two reasons.

One, these group of factions are all inexperienced children. Two, their leadership skills are lacking, they established these factions with the help of adults as such when the group went disarray, it will doom them.

Ray also knew these, that's the reason he continually refuses to join any factions because of those two reasons.

"What are we waiting here?" Ray asked Kate.

As for the three of them, Kate has the most significant influential character while Ray on the bottom. As such, Kate naturally knows the whats and whens.

"Father said that sovereigns of Mad palace will arrive here with two ancient flying rays," Kate's blue eyes blink while looking on the sea of people as she explained, "Those two ancient rays were said to be the size of a large lake, so it's undoubtedly gigantic." Kate tucked her blonde hair behind her ear before pointing on the specific direction above the skies.

Both Ray and Mark looked at the direction where Kate was pointing at.

Surely enough, both of them can see two giant shadows behind those big clouds.

Because of the size of these shadows, the two of them gawked loud enough to make people around them to notice this.

Soon one after another, people began to notice this, and so the noises started to intensify.

As these people looked towards the giant shadows, these two shadows were approaching extremely fast. Soon enough, the wind vortexes that it created immediately wiped away the clouds on the surrounding showing the true size and appearance of these two giant flying beasts.

"Woaaah!"

People screamed in amazement with their eyes bulging out. Even the three couldn't help to get stunned with their smiles twitching.

"Madness, that's so cool... I want to own one." Ray shook his head in amazement.

"Madness indeed, I feel the same." Mark nodded his head while staring at those two giant beasts.

"Aren't we all wanted to own one?" Kate scratched her head helplessly as she sighed.

...

Above the skies, just above those two giant flying rays, three figures are flying as they guide these two flying rays.

Of these three figures, one is a woman wearing beautiful red robes, her age was in the middle age, but despite the age, her appearance was still young and fresh.

She has a black ponytail hair, and her lazy eyes are crimson in color. The aura she releases was terrifying, it was visible on the surrounding if one gets close to her. If she were to be compared to Jordan, it would be like comparing the size of an ant to a moon.

Behind her back were two old men, both have already white hairs, and both wear grey robes. Their status compared to the woman on their front is visible, their aura is considerably weak compared to her.

"Saint Rose, we're almost there." One of the two old men notified.

The woman in red, called, Saint Rose, nodded before lazily said, "Good, let's finish this quickly and drop these kids on the battlefield."

The two oldmen nodded their head. The three of them disappeared in the skies.

...

Soon, these three figures appeared above the crowd of children in a blink of an eye as they float.

Seeing them not only shocked the children, they retreated back quickly, letting these three powerful beings land on the ground.

These three figures quietly land on the ground, as soon as their foot touched the ground, the woman in front suddenly released a massive amount of aura as she scanned the area.

Her aura was terrifying to the point that people who already cultivated mad qi, have their knees limp, making them fell on the ground. Leaving those who had not cultivated standing.

Even the adults far away had their wits collapsed and some barely standing because their spiritual energy is weak.

The trio, Ray, Mark, and Kate had already cultivated mad qi and is already on the verge of forming their foundation, and thus the amount of their mad qi they have absorbed in their body was already significant enough to turn them crazy if their spiritual energy is weak.

They had almost passed out, only to withstand it because the swept of aura earlier was extremely fast, but that small amount that they had sensed had actually can make them passed out if they weren't prepared!

Cold sweats appeared on the many, although her actions are somewhat provoking, they were still consumed by their amazement.

"Madness, so this is the realm where true mad qi is being cultivated." Ray wiped his sweat while staring on the woman before them.

The woman who released her aura closed her eyes before nodding in satisfaction... Good, there's some acceptable amount of talent on this group of children.

Her lazy and beautiful eyes opened, "Let me introduce myself to you damned brats, my name is Rosalia Redwoods, titled Saint rose, I am one of the eleven hands of the God of Madness, and I am the region lord of this region, and I will be the one sending you brats in the central continent. But before that, these two old dudes will explain the rules and the event itself. That's all!" She introduced before closing her eyes once again with her arms crossed.

When people heard her name, title, and power, all of them are shocked! A true sovereign!

To think this young looking, and hot woman is actually a true sovereign!

Now knowing her true identity, everyone looked up to her as if she was their hero, eyes full of reverence.

The two oldmen behind her back stepped forward and began explaining.

"As all of you know, this event is the order of the god of madness himself, not because for fun, well, he does seem to enjoy this, but he has other reasons, such reason is classified and will be explained by the end of the event.

This event is necessary for the future of our world because of reasons, the event is called 'road to hell.' It is called like this because one of you will fight to one another to obtain points which can lead to deaths or if you don't want to kill someone you can try killing beasts instead and each beast have five points each.

One can give up, by shouting, "I am a disgrace to my ancestors!" however, you'll only be allowed to give up when you obtain twenty points.

The purpose of points that you have obtained can be exchange for materials, such as divine weapons, cultivation methods, techniques, heavenly pills, and etc. that will provide excellent benefits for your cultivation once the 'road to hell' is finished. Of course, you can only transact these points for items by the end of this event five years from now on. Also, you won't be able to transact with items when you give up.

Now, I will be explaining the rules and how the event will play out."