Chapter 689: Chapter 466 The Last One Standing is King_2
As Dong Tianyu used the small wooden boat to absorb the cores of those mysterious ships, he discovered that the seemingly cataclysmic floods had actually left humanity a glimmer of hope.
That large mysterious ship they encountered on Leaf River Yun’s vessel, it’s hard to say whether they were unlucky or lucky.
According to what Dong Tianyu now understood, during this period, the number of large mysterious ships was exceedingly rare, even more so than the River Dolphin population before the disaster.
Normally, it wouldn’t just be about stumbling upon them by chance, even actively searching for one might not yield any findings. The fact that Dong Tianyu had encountered two large mysterious ships in a row could only mean that his luck was defying the heavens,
Under normal circumstances, the ones wandering on the water’s surface were mostly small mysterious ships, with the mysterious realms they carried not being very strong; survivors with a bit more strength should be able to break through the mysterious realms and obtain the mysterious ship cores.
For survivors who had never come into contact with mysterious ship cores before, whether it was the large mysterious ship core Dong Tianyu initially acquired or the small mysterious ship cores obtained by the vast majority of survivors,
after using them they would all gain a small wooden raft akin to a Companion Spiritual Treasure, and these rafts were all in their initial state; and in the early stages, there was hardly any difference in the number of Mysterious Cores needed for upgrades or the amount of bizarre energy.
The only difference between the two might be the gap in their upgrade limits. Using the cores obtained from small mysterious ships, one could only upgrade their small wooden raft to a small wooden boat at most.
Even though the boat’s body could still grow and expand after being upgraded to a small wooden boat, it had a limit and couldn’t evolve to the next stage. To continue evolving, one would have to obtain the cores produced by higher-grade mysterious ships.
Since Dong Tianyu was using cores from a large mysterious ship, there would be no restrictions whatsoever until the small wooden boat upgraded into a large mysterious ship.
Apart from information regarding survivors, Dong Tianyu also discovered that when these mysterious ships got close to a certain extent, they would actually attract each other. Lower-grade mysterious ships would ’actively’ approach higher-grade mysterious ships and merge into them.
Once a higher-grade mysterious ship absorbed a certain number of other mysterious ships, it would then evolve to an even higher grade.
Moreover, Dong Tianyu also stumbled upon how micro mysterious ships appeared on the water’s surface.
Just as Dong Tianyu had dealt with a small mysterious ship and was about to leave on his Sword Control, he was surprised to see the water nearby churn, and before he could get closer, he saw a micro mysterious ship shoot out of the water like it had been ejected from beneath.
After witnessing this scene, Dong Tianyu specifically expanded his Divine Sense to the max and then paid attention to the situation on the water’s surface, finally observing the same phenomenon several more times.
Having confirmed the mysterious ships’ spawning pattern, Dong Tianyu then dove directly into the water, following where they had appeared, wanting to explore the underwater situation.
Unfortunately, even when Dong Tianyu reached the bottom, he found no anomalies. It was as if those micro mysterious ships had emerged from the water, almost as if they had appeared out of thin air.
Unable to grasp the thread of understanding, Dong Tianyu ceased to overthink it and continued the process of feeding his little wooden boat.
However, Dong Tianyu’s seemingly busy and hard work ultimately didn’t yield the desired results. Despite upgrading and expanding the small wooden boat several times over, the tonnage of the boat had hardly increased at all; not to mention reaching the level of ten-thousand-ton vessels, it hadn’t even touched upon the unit of "ton."
Seeing this situation, Dong Tianyu couldn’t help sighing, "I still need to find a bigger boat to make it work. Relying on a small boat alone, even if I wear myself out, it will be hard to evolve the small wooden boat again in the short term."
Having realized this, Dong Tianyu stopped paying attention to the small mysterious ships on the water surface and began searching for medium to large mysterious ships.
After searching for three consecutive days, Dong Tianyu finally discovered another medium mysterious ship. Though it wasn’t a large one, it still thrilled him.
But unlike the dark aura that usually surrounded other mysterious ships, this one emitted a red aura.
Looking at this distinctive vessel, Dong Tianyu had a tinge of apprehension in his heart. After a long contemplation, he finally made up his mind, stepped onto the mysterious ship, and went to see what the mysterious realm inside was really like.
When Dong Tianyu first stepped onto the Mysterious Ship and was drawn into the Mysterious Realm, he found himself still standing on an arena, which was surprisingly only as large as the ones on the smaller Mysterious Ships within the Mysterious Realm.
Just as Dong Tianyu was feeling puzzled, he noticed that the arena under his feet was slowly expanding, while he cautiously observed his surroundings.
To his astonishment, although his Divine Sense was confined to the arena beneath his feet, Dong Tianyu could still see the scenes beyond the edge of the arena.
However, when Dong Tianyu carefully examined the situation outside of his arena, he was surprised to find that around his own, there were also other arenas, each with a survivor on it.
These survivors also noticed their surroundings, and many of them shouted in attempts to greet the others, but all the arenas were like fully enclosed spaces.
The survivors on the other arenas could only see the gestures and movements of the survivors on adjacent platforms, but could hear no sound at all; only a few survivors who knew sign language could manage to communicate with difficulty, but the vast majority of the survivors were unable to contact others.
Just as Dong Tianyu felt puzzled about his current predicament, he suddenly noticed a red glow emanating from outside the surrounding arenas, and those standing on the arenas could no longer observe other arenas.
As Dong Tianyu remained on full alert, an ethereal voice resonated from above the arena.
"The Blood-Colored Battlefield is now open, and this battle mode is a selection process where only one out of a hundred will prevail.
The number of participants in this round: one hundred.
The rules of combat, at the start of the battle, a very fragile skeleton soldier will appear on each arena, and when anyone kills the skeleton soldier on their own arena, one of the same level will be simultaneously refreshed on the other ninety-nine arenas.
The skeleton soldiers on the arenas can devour each other, and when a skeleton soldier devours a hundred of its peers, it will evolve to the next stage.
When the number of survivors remaining in the Mysterious Realm is less than or equal to one, the battle will end and the victor will receive the ultimate prize."
Upon hearing the rules, the complexions of the majority of the survivors on the arenas instantly turned pale.
Most of the survivors, before entering the Mysterious Realm and seeing the red aura emanating from the Mysterious Ship, assumed it to be a unique hallmark of the mid-sized Mysterious Ships. However, they never anticipated that upon stepping onto this ship, the enemies they would face in the Mysterious Realm would no longer be monsters but other survivors.
In the grips of inner panic, they watched a skeleton, so frail it struggled even to walk, shakily appear before them.
All the survivors refrained from attacking as soon as the skeleton appeared; watching it tremble towards them, none of them made a move right away.
It was clear to everyone that if no one acted, the skeleton in its initial state would be completely harmless to them.
However, if someone attacked, that immediate action would spawn countless other skeletons on their own arena, a prospect of multiplication that was terrifying just to contemplate.
Thus, even though they could no longer see the other arenas, instinctively, everyone chose to evade.
They all understood that if someone chose to attack, the survivors on the other arenas would certainly not sit idly by.
Even though there were no others on their own arenas, not a single person was willing to initiate the battle. Although the confrontation was inevitable, people are creatures that deceive themselves.
After the battle began, they could fight without restraint, but the one to start this fight could absolutely not be themselves.
