Chapter 342: Chapter 341 : A deal with the emperor!

Alex ran and ran non-stop for three days… 

Zoe also ran after her…

74 other men and women ran behind them…

About 50 rabbits followed. Hopping peacefully with blood-red eyes, spelling doom to any who stopped and watched.

“I had enough!” one blond man said as he turned to the side and tried to go in another direction.

The next moment, a rabbit appeared from his side and grotesquely devoured him.

It happened in a split second, but everyone saw it.

“RUN!” Alex screamed as she took an energy bar and ate it, disregarding its shitty taste. She needed the energy.

Zoe did the same with tears in her eyes. What’s wrong with her luck? She had been running for three full days and now this turned into some kind of a group hunt, and she was a part of the prey herd! She didn’t dare to try and escape the herd like that guy… He was not the first to try it, and would probably not be the last!

It is not like she didn’t consider fighting, but she saw it when a group of dark-skinned men tried to band together and attack… They died miserably! 

What a group of good guys, they gave the others some time to rest as the rabbits ate them!

Her only hope now was for either some miracle to happen or for Victor to clear this dungeon… Wait… A sudden thought struck her as she took the jade from her bag. Victor did say something about this!

“Can this be used?” she wondered.

DO YOU WANT TO USE THE JADE?

LEVEL OPTIONS :

1. TELEPORT TO A RANDOM LOCATION IN THIS LEVEL

1. STOP ALL MONSTER ATTACKS FOR SEVEN DAYS (UNLESS YOU ATTACK FIRST)

1. ESCAPE THE DUNGEON (DISABLED UNTIL 25 DAYS LATER)

“Ahh!” Zoe was shocked, why she didn’t think of this earlier.

She quickly used the second option and in a blink of an eye, she was covered with a green light… She was forced to stop by a strange force for a second as the rabbits passed her. She knew that they would not attack her. It was as if they couldn’t see her anymore.

“USE THE JADE!” she screamed to Alex who was already a mile away.

Alex, hearing her, quickly took out her Jade, and so did some of the players who followed. Only 8 of them noticed it on the first floor and had it…. they activated it one by one except for one. He didn’t understand the language Zoe used.

Alex, like the others who had it, smiled as the jade shone in her hand then broke a moment later… For the others, nothing like this happened!

WTF?

Was this fucking dungeon rigged against her?

…

“So… If I got this right, you were brought here from your swimming pool and had been running around the forest for two days naked without getting eaten by some monster?” Tulip asked the man, who sat opposite her on the picnic table and enjoying his steak. He was dressed in a bed sheet that Victor donated to him. He was wrapping it around his giant body with a rope.

Victor and Tulip had already heard his story and invited him to join their meal. The poor lad was starving for the last couple of days.

“Yes! Exactly!” he nodded.

“Why weren’t you eaten?” she asked rudely. "Aren't you appetizing enough?"

“I kept running, and they didn’t follow me!” he said, not caring about the way she talked.

“Did you meet any other groups?” Victor asked, carefully watching the young man.

“Ah… Yes, some dark-skinned men attacked me earlier!” he said, pointing to a cut on his cheek.  He tried to talk to them and promise some money, but those guys only spoke a foreign language.

"And?" Tulip asked.

“Thankfully, some of those wide rabbits seemed to have attacked them, allowing me to run!”

“The rabbits didn’t follow you?” Tulip asked. For some strange reason, she didn’t like this guy at all!

“No… When I looked back while running they disappeared, but I was attacked by a boar right after, and had to change course, so I am not sure…”

“Oh…” Victor smiled. This fat guy probably used the Jade and was planning to use this info for some exchange later.

Anyway, Victor was pretty sure by now that Rabbits didn’t attack scions or those who proved to have very pure or awakened bloodlines during the stairs test. They only attacked those weaklings with mixed and impure bloodlines to extract their blood essence.

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Only poor Alex was getting played by whoever was behind this place, probably because she was a dark scion.

And yes, Liam was a scion!

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