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Chapter 869: Chapter 869 – Trial

The bone prison was the highest level priest spell for controlling an enemy . It was also the most draining in regards to death qi .

The priest did not keep attacking . The bone spears he threw landed perfectly on the invisible monster, and it almost did nothing .

After he decisively threw out the bone prison, he sped towards the entrance . He no longer had the excitement he had when his aging curse first affected the invisible monster .

The solid bone prison trapped the invisible monster in a cage, and the priest did not look back as he ran . He then heard a familiar bone-cracking sound .

His bone prison had broken . It did not even last for a second .

Half-elf Leon had arrived at the center of the lake . He did not hesitate and directly jumped in the center . That place did not look too special, but a big whirlpool suddenly emerged in the water, and he was sucked in .

“Wizard Abel, make sure you jump on this exact spot!’ Barbarian Ruin yelled as he roared and jumped in as well .

Abel was a little hesitant, but he soon decided to jump as well . Both half-elf Leon and Barbarian Ruin had jumped, so it should be safe .

He couldn’t wait for the priest, and he was still a little worried . He couldn’t trust a priest .

In a flash of white light, he appeared in the center of the lake . The whirlpool emerged again below him, and he sensed a suction force below .

He couldn’t help but sigh as he entered . The owner of this ancient sight must have immense knowledge in magic circles to set up such a strange entrance .

By the time he reappeared again, he had realized he had entered a giant space .

It was like a giant oval battleground . He landed right in the center next to half-elf Leon and Barbarian Ruin .

Above him was some kind of magic circle reflecting a star map with countless little stars .

Although the individual stars were not shining too brightly, they were enough to light up the space .

The ground of this battleground was flat and sturdy . There were not any objects, and Abel sensed it was made out of the hardest rocks .

There were some seats on a platform around this oval . It was meant for an audience .

There was no one on those seats . Abel was in the spotlight, and he didn’t know what could happen next .

His sharp eyes soon spotted a staircase towards the seats above . It was the only staircase to the platform and the structure above .

That structure was made out of rocks as well, but it did not look as rough as the other ones . Instead, it was etched with patterns .

“Wizard Abel, we still have one minute before a training beast appears . We will only be rewarded if we win against the training beast . If you can’t win, pay attention to this!” Half-elf Leon said, pointing at a rock below his feet .

Abel could see it was a little magic circle, but it was extremely complex . For a person who didn’t know much about magic circles, there was no way Abel could figure out what it does .

“It’s a retreat circle . All you need to do is to ignite it with your power of the will, and you’ll be thrown out of the ancient sight!” Half-elf Leon explained .

“According to my speculation, this is a colosseum, and we had just entered from a passage where people used to throw the beasts in here!” Barbarian Ruin added .

“Why is the priest so late?” Abel asked in a strange tone .

The priest was not far from the entrance when they jumped in .

However, a second after Abel asked this question, a beat-up looking priest appeared beside them .

His mood was awful . The invisible beast targeted him suddenly before he jumped in . He was almost attacked . If it wasn’t because of the iron monster on him, he might not even make it .

His iron monster was not only blasted into pieces, but the priest was hurt as well .

Mud monsters and skeletons could be killed, and it wouldn’t bother the priest much, but not an iron monster . Those things were treasures .

Every priest needed to purchase large amounts of iron weapons to ensure the power of their iron monster .

And the one by this bighorn priest cost him more than 1000 intermediate gems .

Getting his iron monster destroyed was like getting 1000 intermediate gems destroyed . His heart was aching, but he also realized how powerful that invisible monster was .

If he knew how powerful that thing was earlier, he might not even go on this adventure .

“Wizard Abel, last time we had 7 members in our team . In the end, only us 3 could escape . Be careful,” Barbarian Ruin lowered his voice .

He wanted to warn Abel long ago, but he had signed a contract with the priest promising he would not say anything about the entrance or anything that happened in the ancient sight before they arrived .

This was why the priest never replied, even though Abel had asked along the way .

Abel’s face looked gloomy . Only 3 of them had survived . How dangerous was this place?

The priest never told him the dangers of this adventure when he invited him . It seemed like the priest tricked him . He could also see that Barbarian Ruin and half-elf Leon had their reasons for not warning him earlier .

Abel didn’t know since he was a new adventurer, but in the Central Continent, all adventure team members needed to sign a contract agreeing to how they would act during an adventure .

Abel worried the most about his team’s backstabbing him, but it would never happen if he had signed a contract .

“Wizard Abel, this is not where the danger was . Last time we knew we couldn’t win, so we retreated . But as we were leaving, we were attacked by some unknown creature, and 4 of our teammates were lost . It was most likely the invisible monster!” Half-elf Leon quickly explained as he saw Abel’s expression .

They learned their lesson from last time, so they brought along a lot of move in a flash scrolls with them . This could increase their retreating speed . Then they wouldn’t be attacked .

“Are you sure that invisible monster won’t come into the ancient sight?” Abel lowered his voice a well . Abel’s words made the other’s heart drop . They looked around . There was nothing, but the atmosphere grew tense .

“Can we go to the audience area?” Abel asked again .

“No, we have to go through the examination . There is a protection shield there . It is very hard . We tried to strike it last time it did nothing . ” Half-elf Leon lowered his voice as well and replied .

“Commander spirit, do you know the spirit here?” Abel did not care . Instead, he focused his power of the will on his headmaster identity card and asked the commander spirit .

“Headmaster, this is a colosseum . The spirit here is not too intelligent . Just a normal spirit!” The commander spirit replied .

Abel’s eyes began to sparkle . He was not expecting the commander spirit to know about this place . He quickly followed, “what are the dangers is in this colosseum?”

“Headmaster, colosseums are for resolving conflicts . When 2 powerful men have to fight, they need a large open space that they can do so without damaging the environment . The audience can also bet on who they think will win, and that’s how the colosseum makes a profit!” The commander spirit explained .

Abel shook his head . Gambling had been a thing since ancient times .

“The danger of this place mostly comes from the guardian creature . It made sure that this place was not invaded .

“Commander spirit . Since we are at the center of the colosseum, what will happen to us?” Abel asked again .

“Win against an examination beast . It is the only way you can get rewarded and retreat . If not, you will be hunted down by the guardian beast!” The commander spirit replied .

Abel realized why the priest was hunted down last time . They had failed the examination .

He felt his heart lifted . His worry for the unknown was defused .

There must be a problem with this guardian beast, so maybe its power had declined after not fighting for so long . With the power of an ancient guardian beast, no way it could let the priest escape .

Up to this point, an ear-piercing grinding sound emerged .

“Wizard Abel, get ready . Summon Johnson!” The priest yelled .

The reason he had taken Abel along was because he saw Johnson’s power .

Abel nodded and padded his chest . A giant black hole emerged, and Johnson stepped out to bow in front of Abel .

“Johnson . Get ready to fight!” Abel lowered his voice .

Johnson quickly changed its body and put up a fighting pose .

The sound from the ground intensified, and the rocks began to move . Finally, 4 holes emerged from each corner of the colosseum .

A giant puppet monster emerged from one of them . Only a thing like that could still fight after all the years .

Abel calculated for a moment . There were 20 six meters tall puppets in total, and they were all entirely made out of iron—no wonder the priests couldn’t win last time .

Those things were much more powerful than the ones from the dwarfs, and their body was filled with countless patterns, not for decoration, of course, they were magic patterns .

“Let’s fight!” The priest yelled and took some dead corpses of beasts . He then summoned 8 skeletons from them, and then he summoned a mud monster from the ground .

Half-elf Leon also summed the oak sage and a mad wolf . The mad wolf was not for fighting, but it was his mount .

“Wizard Abel, my spell can only support you . They couldn’t do much to those monsters . I’m counting on Johnson!” The priest lowered his voice .

Abel was starting to get irritated by the priest . Along the way, he had already counted on him for safety, but he had not told him anything about the ancient sight’s detail until moments ago .

He began to regret going on this adventure with the priest . Although they agreed that the rewards would be distributed according to the contribution, the commander spirit said this was only a colosseum with some puppet monsters . What good stuff could there be anyway?

The 20 puppets fixed their gaze on Abel and the team . They began to slowly move forward but soon accelerated . In the end, they were even faster than a normal spiritual beast .

“Take care!” Abel said coldly and vanished from the spot . He then reappeared on the shoulder of Johnson .

“Bighorn, you should have told Wizard Abel about this place earlier . We might lose him as a teammate!” Half-elf Leon lowered his voice .

Barbarian Ruin did not make a sound . He had decided to leave this team after this adventure was finished . The priest was too manipulative .

“If I told him earlier, do you think he would come and help us?” The priest coldly laugh .

He did not tell his team that he did not sign a contract with Abel… . because he had more in the works .