【Attention all contestants: A team has acquired the hidden treasure, the Holy Grail. Its location is now public. You may proceed to contest for it.】
【The team that continuously holds the Holy Grail for 30 minutes will obtain ownership of the Holy Grail for this challenge tournant, win the hidden reward, and this challenge tournant will directly conclude.】
The Fire Thief's announcent echoed in the minds of every contestant across the island. For a mont, everyone halted their original actions, expressions of disbelief spreading across their faces.
A long arrow materialized on the ground before each of them, pointing precisely in the direction of the Holy Grail holder's location.
"The hidden treasure, the Holy Grail?!"
"The challenge tournant has hidden content too???"
"And there's a hidden reward!"
While most were still marveling, so teams had already sprung into action.
"The Holy Grail? So that's why this island is called 'Holy Grail Island'. Holding it for 30 continuous minutes ends the match... not bad. I was starting to get a little bored anyway... This Holy Grail should belong to , Lucifer."
At the island's central region, a tall, solitary man looked at the arrow at his feet and, without hesitation, began moving in the direction it indicated.
In a town on the island's northern side, a squad that had just finished clearing the town's supplies saw the Fire Thief's public notice and imdiately grew restless.
"Boss, the Holy Grail! Sounds powerful! Let's go snatch it!"
"I'm in!"
"Agreed!"
The team mbers were enthusiastic, but their leader refused in a leisurely tone, "Snatch what? Do you think you can snatch it from those monsters? Besides, our points are already plenty. Why take that risk? Who knows how many teams will swarm over there after this announcent. What if we run into a national team and get wiped out? We wouldn't even have a place to cry. So, everyone, stay put!"
On the island's western side, a well-trained five-person team grew excited upon seeing the ground indicator.
"Captain, it looks like the Holy Grail holder's position isn't far from us! This is a heaven-sent opportunity!"
"The team that secures the Holy Grail should get the hidden grand prize of this challenge tournant. We can't miss this!"
The captain nodded. "As a team backed by official investnt, it is indeed our responsibility to secure the greatest reward. Let's move out!"
On the island's southern side, a massive contingent of over a hundred people followed behind a robust man.
Anyone else seeing this would be astonished, considering it illegal teaming. Since the team limit is a maximum of 5 people, over a hundred people from at least twenty different teams moving together was clearly unreasonable.
However, the leader didn't care about such things. As the alpha wolf selected by the Tulip Federation's "Operation Wolfpack," he held absolute command authority over other teams within the Federation.
Therefore, even before the challenge tournant began, he had ordered all Federation teams to gather at the southernmost point of their respective landing zones imdiately after teleportation, to assemble and follow his unified command.
His strategy as the alpha wolf was simple: first, unite all Federation teams to form an overwhelming nurical advantage through "illegal teaming," and crush teams from other countries on the island.
Once only Federation teams remained on the island, they would then separate and fight amongst themselves to determine the top ten rankings.
This plan had been progressing steadily. The Federation had already eliminated most foreign teams on the southern part of the island and was planning to advance towards the center when the Fire Thief's sudden announcent disrupted everything.
Now, this pack of over a hundred wolves halted, awaiting the alpha wolf's decision.
"Head to the western part of the island," the alpha wolf quickly decided. "Seize the Holy Grail and eliminate all other contenders."
Countless teams across the island were now advancing westward.
So powerful teams had a very clear objective: to seize the Holy Grail.
Other teams with less competitive strength mostly harbored a "pick up the pieces" ntality, hoping for a scenario where the strong beat each other senseless, allowing them to luckily snatch the Grail away.
There were also teams with enough self-awareness to know they were no match for the elite squads. They weren't interested in the Holy Grail itself, but were very interested in the teams going for it.
Just like rchants selling shovels to gold diggers—whether the diggers strike gold and get rich is unknown, but the rchants selling shovels are guaranteed to profit.
These teams planned to set up ambushes along the likely routes, targeting weaker teams bold enough to join the Holy Grail frenzy, thereby earning points.
Finally, there were teams with a very clear understanding of their own capabilities. They knew perfectly well that the Holy Grail would only end up in the hands of either elite civilian teams or various national teams. It wasn't sothing they could snatch.
Rather than going over to beco cannon fodder, it was better to take advantage of everyone heading west to search for more supplies elsewhere on the island. They might even stumble upon sothing good. Once the elites finished fighting, they could pick up so scraps and points.
And at this very mont, Guan Tong, the true holder of the Holy Grail, knew the mont he heard the Fire Thief's prompt that today was his lucky day!
...
Almost the second after hearing the Fire Thief's words, "While holding the Holy Grail, you will possess unlimited Mind Power," Guan Tong opened his Personal Terminal.
He quickly glanced at his Mind Power status while simultaneously converting a Type 3 round.
【Mind Power: 132 (132) (330)】
"So that's it. The so-called 'unlimited Mind Power' doesn't raise the Upper Limit to the maximum; it just allows unlimited usage within the current Upper Limit."
To Guan Tong, it felt like using a ga trainer to activate an "infinite health" function. It locked the value at the current maximum, not maximized it.
This discovery brought a slight tinge of regret. If there were no Upper Limit requirent, he would have imdiately unlocked and filled all the remaining pages of his greatest asset, the [Wordless Book]!
But with the Upper Limit locked, the [Wordless Book] could probably only...
While taking out the [Wordless Book], Guan Tong placed the [Corpse Whistle] in his mouth and blew it continuously.
Three by three, living dead erged from the ground in an endless stream, quickly filling the entire church.
He wasn't just multitasking now; he was triple-tasking, quadruple-tasking!
Because the Fire Thief had made it clear: his location was now public to the entire island. This ant countless teams would co attacking, trying to seize the Holy Grail.
Alone, to protect the Holy Grail, Guan Tong had to go all out. He couldn't afford the slightest relaxation, couldn't waste a single second.
Fortunately, many of his items could benefit from this "unlimited Mind Power" buff, allowing him to enhance his combat power through continuous conversion.
If it were other Ascendants without similar items, even if they obtained the Holy Grail and had the powerful buff of "unlimited Mind Power," they probably couldn't hold onto it and would quickly lose it to other teams.
Therefore, Guan Tong now had to both use this buff to strengthen himself and prepare ample defenses. Otherwise, if a strong team killed him and took the Holy Grail, all his efforts would be for nothing.
Right now, he was blowing the [Corpse Whistle] in his mouth to continuously summon living dead, using his left hand to hold the Silver Hunt and constantly generate Type 3 high-explosive rounds and Type 4 smoke grenades. anwhile, part of his Shadow ford full-coverage Shadow Armor enveloping his entire body, while another part of the Shadow extended all the way to the church entrance, ready to deal with incoming enemies at any mont.
But his right hand holding the [Wordless Book] was the key. He flipped to the fourth page and wrote down sothing he had previously considered and wanted to obtain.
"Fully-Functional Shelter."
That's right. Back when he saw the large-scale demolition on the streets, Guan Tong had thought about obtaining a shelter through the [Wordless Book].
Because constantly moving around, living without a fixed place, was troubleso. How convenient it would be to have a portable shelter he could set down wherever he needed to go.
But he definitely had requirents for this shelter: sturdy enough, secure enough, with filtration systems, water, electricity, etc... Originally, he thought it would take a long ti to achieve.
But now, with the "unlimited Mind Power" buff, he could write it out imdiately!
And as he expected, the Mind Power consumption for the fourth page was utterly terrifying. The mont Guan Tong wrote a single stroke, he felt a tremor throughout his body—he knew that was the feeling of his Mind Power being drained completely. In other words, just one stroke consud all the Mind Power up to his Upper Limit.
But thanks to the buff, that feeling vanished in an instant. He quickly continued writing the second, third, fourth strokes... Within re seconds, the six characters for "Fully-Functional Shelter" were completely written on the fourth page.
Guan Tong spent one second trying to materialize it. An unremarkable small house instantly appeared, and he once again felt the bodily tremor of his Mind Power being completely drained.
So, materializing this shelter consud all the Mind Power up to his Upper Limit in one go. But being able to succeed was enough!
Guan Tong continued flipping to the fifth page of the [Wordless Book], placing his pen down with a hopeful heart—the next mont, his hand was directly repelled by the page!
"...I knew it."
If writing a single stroke on the fourth page consud all his Upper Limit's worth of Mind Power, then trying to write on the even more demanding fifth page was simply impossible.
Because the consumption per stroke exceeded the Upper Limit threshold. Even with the buff, it was useless. It was like using a ga trainer to lock "infinite gold," but you only have 100 gold in your backpack, and the rchant's item costs 200. No matter how much your gold is infinite, you still can't buy it!
Suddenly, the roars of living dead rose and fell outside the church. Guan Tong's heart tightened. "They're here already?"
Less than a minute had passed since he obtained the Holy Grail, and a team had already found him. Quite efficient!
"But if you want to enter the church, you'll have to get through the few hundred living dead outside first..."
While thinking this, Guan Tong casually raised his left hand and blasted a bunch of Type 4 smoke grenades towards the church entrance to confuse and delay the enemies' entry.
Then he hurriedly flipped the Wordless Book back to the first page.
Actually, after writing the characters for "Fully-Functional Shelter" on the fourth page, Guan Tong felt: This trip was worth it!
Originally, writing a single stroke on the fourth page would have been extrely difficult. One could imagine how much ti it would take to write those six characters. But now, he did it in seconds. Saying it saved him months of ti was no exaggeration!
This made him feel that even if he died the next mont, he hadn't co to this challenge in vain. So, since he had already "broken even," the next step was to expand his gains.
Strengthening Shadow, strengthening the Silver Hunt, storing Mind Power... All these could continue to aid him after the tournant ended.
Especially Shadow. Guan Tong planned to use this once-in-a-lifeti opportunity to deeply strengthen it once again through the thod of adding characters!
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