'Swoosh'

'Swoosh'

'Boom'

'Boom'

Soon the sharp stone in the air rushed towards the ground at an incredible speed, and every time a stone hit the ground, a small explosion would occur.

'Swoosh'

However, the bug warrior was very fast as he dodged one stone after another and tried to rush towards Master Valen.

"You can never reach me until the skill 'Meteor rain' is over."

Master Valen moved in the stone rain with a slight smile on his face at a slow pace; however, no stone fell on him.

Moreover, Master Valen moved so that the bug warrior couldn't reach him anytime soon.

'I need to enter into the grandmaster realm. As long as I reach that realm, I can save my city from any invasion.'

Master Valen needed at least 10 minutes to breakthrough through the grandmaster realm; however, it was almost impossible for him to focus on his breakthrough with the bug warrior who was aiming at his vital parts.

Even his powerful skill 'Meteor rain' doesn't have much effect on him. So, he was racking his brains to think of a way to kill the bug warrior.

"Really? Do you think I can't reach you?"

The bug warrior mocked Master Valen as he stopped in his tracks before shouting, 'Golden umbrella'.

As soon as he said that, a small gold-colored umbrella appeared out of nowhere and increased in size before covering the 100-meter radius.

The golden umbrella successfully stopped all the sharp stones from falling on the ground.

"What is that?"

Henrick was surprised to see a huge golden umbrella in the distance stopping all the sharp stones.

'Ding,

Artifact name:- Golden umbrella

Grade:- Rank 5

Effects:- 1) can stop all the attacks from the cultivators below the grandmaster realm

2) All types of energy attacks can be absorbed by it before sending it back to the target where it came from.

Note:- It can't absorb the energy from the physical attacks.

More information:- It can be sold in the soul store for 500000 crude souls (original price:- 1000000 crude souls).

'What? It can block all the attacks below the grandmaster realm?'

After seeing the 'Golden umbrella' information, Henrick was shocked to the core because he didn't expect the golden umbrella to be a rank 5 artifact.

'If I can get it, I can have great confidence in completing the future trials.'

Even though he could sell it to the soul store to get enough crude souls, he didn't want to sell it in the soul store because the soul store will only give him half price for the item.

Moreover, Henrick can make good use of the item.

'As long as I reach closer to the bug warrior, my chances of killing him will be increased; however, at the same time, my chance of getting killed will also go up.'

Henrick thought for some time before coming to a decision.

'I can't continue to hide forever. I need to take the risk to become stronger.'

That's right!

He chose to take the risk because he was fed up with hiding while others fought.

However, he didn't run towards them carelessly as he thought of various ideas.

In the end, no idea seemed to work for him, which made him sigh.

'Ding,

Congratulations, Master, your fire vine reached rank 4.

Suddenly, he got a system notification which made him reveal a slight smile on his face; however, he didn't think much, and he was not at all surprised by it.

Because he gave the fire vine the full permission to absorb the pure internal fire energy from his dantian even before he entered the battle, and it's been more than seven hours since the second invasion started.

So, he was not surprised by the breakthrough of the fire vine.

'Ding,

Please check the newly awakened skills of the fire vine.

However, the second system notification made him a little curious.

Previously, the fire vine was only at rank 2 with two skills; however, after entering this world, the fire vine was drowning in the continuous supply of pure internal fire energy, which allowed it to break through two stages in a single go.

Two stages mean two new skills. So, of course, he will be curious to check them.

'I hope it has the skill to help me in this situation.'

Henrick hoped for a skill that could help him in his current situation as he opened the information about the fire vine.

'Ding,

Battle companion name:- Ivy (Fire vine)

Length:- 10 meters.

Strength:- Rank 4

Skills:- Bind, energy ingest, rapid regeneration, Mysterious fruit.

As expected, there are two new skills in the 'Skills' section, and he hurriedly focused on the two new skills.

Note:- It can control its size from one meter to 10 meters without any difficult

'Ding,

Skill name:- Rapid regeneration.

Effect:- As long as an inch of its vine survives an attack, it could regenerate itself back into its original form.

Note:- Even if there were multiple pieces of the vine, only one piece of the vine could regenerate back into its original form.

'If only I have this skill, it would have been great.'

Looking at the skill information for a moment, Henrick then looked at his missing arm and sighed, but he couldn't do anything regarding it.

'At least, I have a hope of getting my arm back.'

Henrick didn't think much about it as he looked at the next skill.

'Ding,

Skill name:- Mysterious fruit.

Effect:- When the fire vine consumes the dead bodies of any cultivators, it will bore a fruit that can be consumable by anyone. It can bore various types of fruits from different beings consumed by it with various effects.

'Woah'

Even though both skills can't help him much in his current situation, the last skill is a good one where he has to feed the fire vine with various beings he killed, and he would get fruit with a special effect.

'If worst comes to worst, I will just escape from here. The trial is about surviving in this world for 24 hours. Since I have enough strength to survive, I will try that.'

Henrick wanted to kill the bug warriors to get crude souls, reputation points and to help Master Valen since he had given him various cultivation resources.

And Henrick had done more than enough as he killed nearly 10000 bug warriors in the second wave and almost 1000 in the first wave.

So, there is no need to give his life for a city which he got to know a dozen hours ago.

'Wait for a second.'

Henrick thought that the fire vine's new skills were useless; however, he suddenly thought of something.

'I can use the fire vine as a meat shield and close up the gap between the bug warrior and me.'

'Since he is busy with Master Valen, he will not see whether I am alive or not after his first skill.'

Soon, Henrick decided to use Fire vine's regeneration skill to its fullest and slowly moved towards the bug warrior and Master Valen.

"How dare a bug attack Valen city when I am not around?."

Just as Henrick took a couple of steps, an arrow pierced through the bug shell on the bug warrior's back.

Soon, a group of silhouettes appeared from a distance.

"Captain Kale?"

Since Henrick didn't know anyone from the Valen city, he could not recognize the newcomer; however, Master Valen and the other soldiers who were watching from the city wall recognized the newcomer.

Soon, Henrick saw a middle-aged man with a muscular body with a crossbow in one hand and a heavy sword on his back.

Moreover, there were many short swords and daggers all over his body.

Judging by his appearance, it was very easy to say he is either a hunter or a mercenary.

'Since Master Valen discussed Mercenaries earlier, this Captain Kale must be a mercenary.'

Henrick stopped in his tracks as he didn't move forward and waited for captain Kale to do something.

'There is no need to risk just to gain some bloodline points and other rewards.'

Soon, Henick removed the thoughts of killing the merged bug warrior and just watched.

"Huh?"

The bug warrior could not sense the arrow released from the crossbow because it came without a sound.

Nevertheless, the arrow didn't enter very deep. It just pierced the shell and slightly entered his body.

"More cultivators? Haha...good. I will kill as many master realm cultivators as possible before I die. So, my king will have an easy time destroying this world."

The bug warrior removed the arrow from his back as he started laughing before rushing towards Captain Kale.

Compared to Master Valen, Captain Kale was a little weaker. Also, there was more than three level 2 master realm humans beside Captain Kale and 22 peak energy transformation realm cultivators.

Since it is a group of 26 humans, the bug warrior thought killing them will be easy because as long as he jumped into the middle of the group and slashed his six blades, he would kill at least six cultivators.

As for Master Valen, the bug warrior intentionally gave some hope for him; however, the bug warrior decided to come back at the right time to kill Master Valen because no one should be interrupted in the middle of a breakthrough.

Otherwise, their dantian would blast, and before the bug warrior could kill him, Master Valen would die on his own.

'Die'

'Everyone, be careful.'

Captain Kale ordered his subordinates as he unsheathed his heavy sword and waited for the bug warrior to jump into their group.