Twin Reincarnation: Epics Of The Worldline



[El's POV: ]

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[Rankings]  [Points]

1. Morexis  120,663

2. Catherein  119,987

3. Hel  115,665

4. Ragasage  114,993

5. Lux  112,443

6. James  111,345

7. Agnes  109,245

8. Olkea  108,663

9. Lucifer  106,332

10. Kuruk  107,193

11. Blazer  105,639

12. Auriel  105,369

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"Hmmm, not bad actually. It's better than I had thought. I've almost caught up too, hehe."

I wasted almost two days in this death zone of mine, watching the scene of creatures appearing or walking here, coming into contact with my strings, and getting chopped into pieces.

It was fun, but now that the fourth day of the exam has almost ended, I have to leave this fun place.

"This is getting boring anyway. Haaa…"

The ground was filled with too much blood now, the walls of this cave area were painted in red, blue, black, and green colors as well, so this place had become disgusting.

"Hmmm, let's wrap things up."

I had my fun, killed many creatures of many kinds and types, gathered a few good materials and stat stones, and played with the creatures that were cute. But, I didn't come across a single creature that I could take with me… sad life.

"Haaaa…"

Jumping down from my observation point to the ground, I glanced towards the summoning circle that was glowing as it had been since its rebirth.

It was pretty, but the things that it summoned weren't that pretty.

They were mostly goblins and creatures of usual rank, and sometimes it summoned some bigger things but whenever that happened, all the Mana from the Mana crystals was depleted and I had to insert new ones.

'I'm almost out of my stock as well.'

I still had enough to keep this thing up for a few weeks at a moderate pace but, there was no need for this little summoning circle after I was gone.

It wasn't what it used to be anyway so its efficiency would just die compared to how it normally worked. So, I was planning to destroy this thing before I was gone anyway.

But, before doing that, I had one last use of this pretty thing.

-Ooooooooong.

"Another bunch of goblins, haaa. Just die you miserable ones."

It had summoned thousands of goblins in this brief time of its activation. I was almost on the verge of getting the title of 'goblin slayer' now. Which was not a good thing since I was hoping we could have that thing together while hunting in the 'southern marshlands', tsk.

"KREEEE-"

"Shut up, jeez. Just go join your dead brethren."

There were four and they weren't the hobgoblins that were summoned before I modified this summoning circle. 

They were just your everyday horny gobs who even had clothes on this time, but they were still the same disgusting gobs as the others.

-Swish.

They were around the strings so their bodies were chopped into pieces soon and the clean-up magic circle was activated so their body waste was pushed to the other side as well.

"Hmmm, well, let's finish this."

It was fun watching everything happening here. It was, at least for the first few hours, but then it started getting boring. And as the blood covered the ground, the stench in this place became so unbearably strong that the nearby creatures coming here started hesitating, so it became more and more unfun.

'I had to put a filtering barrier around the cave to stop the stench from getting out, haaa.'

But the blood was still a problem. There was so much now that my entire feet could submerge into it if it weren't for my magic.

'Yak.'

This was disgusting. But since it was blood created through my great efforts, I couldn't just let this go to waste.

-Snap.

Using [Telekinesis], I lifted and gathered as much of the blood covering this cave area as I could, made it into a ball, which was too big apparently as I expected, and after freezing it all in a thick layer of ice, I stored the giant ice ball of blood in my prism space. Perhaps we might need it in some absurd and unexpected situation.

"Hmmm. Blood cleared. Area prepared. All that remains now is this summoning circle."

I was going to use most of the Mana crystals on me to summon the strongest thing possible by this summoning circle. If I do it that way and control it while applying a little more Mana than its inherent limits, then, I might just be able to summon something pretty interesting.

"The strongest it could summon is a (Level-120), <A> rank creature anyway. That much is manageable for now."

I couldn't have been able to defeat a <A> rank creature of a higher level than me until a few weeks ago but now that I had my personal title, things had changed. 

I am now strong enough to defeat beings of higher rank who are several levels higher than me.

'I could just use my authority as someone of higher rank than them so until the thing that appears isn't some kind of higher species, I'm pretty sure I can handle the smaller things that come here.'

It shouldn't be that difficult of a task anyway. What can this mere summoning circle could possibly summon?

The best I had come across in the past was an infant holy wolf. I can just tame it if something like that appears.

'This is just a summoning circle focused on the creatures anyway. It's nothing like the Worldline summoning circles we will use to summon our familiars during the next part of this entrance exam.'

This was pretty safe anyway-

"KHOOOOOOOOOOA!"

"Just when I was about to start."

I knew these bastards would come, but they had to arrive just when I was preparing to finish things here.

"Haaa… it's better, I guess."

This labyrinth currently had twelve major as well as thirty-six mini boss-monster-like strong creatures. And, around the area I was in, there were around three of those minor bosses and one major one that mostly stayed in their designated houses and only went out to hunt when they were hungry.

"KHOOOOO!"

They were stronger than the other creatures that had come here to die after sensing this essence, but they were here. And, from what my detection magic told me, all four of them were now here at the same time.

-Ktktktktktktkt…

-Kat. Kat. Kat. Kat.

-Dhum. Dhum. Dhum. 

-Srerrrrrrrr.

"Why are all of them together though? Shouldn't they be in their own places? Why are they even here, and all at the same time too?"

This was the first time something like this was happening and the only reason for this that I could think of would be intentional or perhaps unintentional actions of the other people giving this test with us.

'Even the smallest unique actions could create unexpected outcomes. The butterfly effect sure is quite something, huh.'

I can check the reason for this if I reverse calculate all the things but there was no need to do something that tedious. 

Things were going on, so flowing with it was better than doing useless things like that.

"KHRRRRRR…"

Four creatures entered the cave from four different directions and stood at the entrance, without taking a single step forward.

The cave area still reeked of the blood of hundreds of creatures who had died here in the past few hours so, their senses must have screamed at them that this was dangerous.

"Smart bastards. But if you were smart enough, you would have just stayed in that house of yours and starved for a few more hours instead of coming here."

There was a giant purple spider here that resembled a tarantula, a giant bat that had steel-like claws and legs, a mole-like creature with a star-shaped nose that was too big and bad smelling that the stench of this cave paled before him, and lastly, the boss monster of this area, a large black centipede-like creature.

'A simple (Western underground three-hundred legs). A <C> rank creature and this one is (Level-102) only, so he wasn't that big of a deal.'

He was the strongest among the four of them, but, he was still weaker than that troll hero Lucy had defeated back then. So of course, regardless of their strengths, they were just dead meat for my strings.

"Come here you four."

Releasing the ice on the glass bottle in my hand, I lifted up the bottle, the reason all the creatures had rushed here previously, and opened its lid. And as soon as I did that, a unique smell overwhelmed the entire surroundings.

"KHEROOOOO!"

"KTKTKT!"

"SRERRR…"

"SKAHIII!"

All four of them almost lost their minds the moment they sensed that unique smell and their bodies rushed forward without their wills, and, they touched the red strings that decided their fates.

"Ba-bye dumb ones~."

-STRRRRRRRR…!

-Putchak.

-Putchak.

-Putchak.

-Putchak!

-Shhhhhhhhh…

"Oi, no no no. Not on me."

Just like every other creature, just like the lowliest goblins, these four rulers who terrified the other creatures of the cave and ruled over them met with their ending and were cut into hundreds of pieces, leaving behind their body parts, as well as a rain of blood that painted the cave with a new batch of red, green, and black.

I was on the ground this time too, so the blood could have splashed on me as well, but thankfully, I quickly summoned a wind-water shield to protect myself from this new blood rain.

"Alright, haaaa… let's finish this."

I was too bored for some reason. Was this because I missed my bastard too much? Or was this because I was parting ways with this sweet place that could be used as something more than a simple death zone?

"Haaaaa… whatever."

Perhaps it was because I had taken a liking to this place, but it didn't matter for now. We were going to visit this place in the future anyway. I can do 'that thing' with him at that time.

'It is a little dirty so convincing him will take time anyway, haaa...'

So we can do that later. For now…

"Ok, little summoning circle. Prepare for your death."

It wasn't necessary to destroy this thing, but, well, I was bored anyway. Might as well destroy something.

-Ooooooooooooong!

"Gimme something good since you are dying anyway. Oh. Right."

Luck was an important factor during this kind of random summoning as well and mine wasn't working for now.

[ "Oy, Lucy bastard." ]

But I had a walking-talking, luck enhancer. It was better to use him for this instead of going commando.

An unexpected problem was the last thing I wanted when I was wrapping these things up…