God of Tricksters

Ten minutes later, Theo and the others arrived at the finish line, finding more than twenty people inside.

He couldn't use his Blink immediately, so he required nine minutes to get all his teammates inside that right path and during that time, other countries also had reached this place.

Obviously, the moment they reached this place, 25 points were added to their score, claiming the throne from Indonesia Team.

The other teams only watched them without thought, believing they were just one of the teams who couldn't finish it fast enough and relied on their sheer number alone to get an advantage. Five people gave them 25 points after all.

However, Indonesia and Australia teams' expressions turned serious because they remembered exactly who came out of that door earlier. It was none other than Alea, who hurriedly approached them as she didn't have any friends during the past ten minutes.

Due to the number of doors inside this room, they believed the door for those who took the left path was different than those who took the instant one. Hence, they realized Thersland actually had all their members crossing the right path.

They simply couldn't find a way to do such a thing, making Thersland more mysterious than they thought.

"It seems there is another team we need to reconsider in this round." A black-haired guy from Indonesia Team whispered to his teammates. Australia seemed to be discussing a similar thing as all their attention was focused on Theo's group.

The others soon realized that Theo's group was actually not a nobody. It was shown by the score on the screen.

Due to the long path, Indonesia and Australia teams were still lacking two members of their teams, allowing Thersland to claim the first position.

The other teams began to pay attention to them, but Theo had led his teammates to another corner to discuss their condition.

"Alea, do you know anything about the two teams?" Theo asked with a serious expression.

Alea thought for a moment and shook her head. "I am not sure since they don't talk too much during this time."

She pointed at the black-haired guy from Indonesia Team and another guy with long hair tied into a ponytail. "Those two guys are their leaders. I can see that they are trying to investigate us."

"I understand. Just make sure not to show anything to them."

"Understood." She smiled and asked, "What are we going to do right now? There are approximately twelve minutes to spare."

Theo looked down and fell into deep thought before it was broken by the sound of a door opening. Two people emerged from the path, looking very exhausted.

Their body and face were covered with sweat, but those two didn't hesitate and walked to Indonesia Team as 10 points were added to their team, allowing them to regain their throne.

"Uah, I am thankful that Theo is carrying us." Phyrill made a weird expression, knowing that their performance would be lowered greatly in that state.

Those two could barely match up to one of them from his perspective. In other words, their country still had six men while the others only had five, giving them an absolute advantage.

"In any case, there's nothing I can say regarding the next round. We can only deal with it after seeing the test." Theo shook his head. After acknowledging his overanalyzing mistake, he decided to stop doing it excessively and only focused on the test.

After several more minutes, eight doors were opened as eight country names appeared above them, showing that three countries had been eliminated in the first layer.

Theo and the others entered their own doors respectively, going through the hallway and arriving in another white room. The white room made them wonder what it would throw at them next.

"Theo, look." Alea pointed to the door in their front. Unlike the previous one, this one was several times bigger.

"Hmm?" Theo narrowed his eyes and looked at the screen that happened to be instilled on the wall instead of the middle of the room.

"Something is wrong. I can feel it." Phyrill commented as he walked to the screen, wanting to see the next instruction.

However, all of their expressions turned serious when they saw the description for the next hurdle.

"For the second layer, you are going to hunt monsters to get the key to the next layer. The time limit is also sixty minutes, but you can only challenge one monster every ten minutes, so choose the monster right.

"In this screen, you can find a hundred Level 300 Monsters. One monster is the key to the next round.

"Hint for the key: All I see is darkness and within me is the key."

Reward:

Successfully retrieving the key is 50 Points.

One wrong monster choice is (-5) Points.

"It's indeed a hunt, but they're also incorporating the riddle. Yeah, great…" Theo rolled his eyes and looked away.

"A level 300 Monster won't be too much for us and we should be able to kill it within three minutes. But we can't get another monster for ten minutes, so we need to carefully choose it. They will also deduct our reward for every wrong choice." Alea crossed her arms.

"All I see is darkness. That's the most important hint to know the monster." Laust decided to open his mouth for the first time. "The other half is simply to rip that monster apart to retrieve the key."

"Indeed." Theo nodded in agreement and turned to the screen, finding Sihan had started touching the screen to add some filters. "What do all of you think about this monster?"

"It's saying something about Darkness, so maybe a monster that is active during the night or a monster that possesses Dark Element Skill?" Phyrill raised his hand.

"Probably Dark Element Skill Monster." Ellen agreed with Phyrill since it was the most logical one.

"Yes. How about searching for a monster with Darkness Affinity?" Alea asked Sihan.

Sihan then proceeded to add the filter, leaving only two monsters. "This is the result."

The first monster was a tiger with black wings on his back. It was known as Bat Tiger that used Dark Element Skill. The other was a Black Snake that could camouflage itself during the night, making it a quite troublesome predator during the night.

"Doesn't this mean we only need to choose the right one among them?" Alea asked Theo for confirmation.

"This…"