When Anthony open his eyes all he saw were extremely tall trees and grass with sand, mountains on the side, Anthony didn't know how to explain it but, the whole forest looked out of order.
Anthony didn't know which part of the forest it was, which he didn't care about since he's never been here.
As he was walking, suddenly an ape dropped from the sky landing directly on him, but he dodged and the ape landed on the ground causing a mini-earth quake and a deep ravine
*BOOOM*
He looked at the beast that tried to drop such weight on him, the beast rushed towards him and punched at his head, it was fast for its size but to Anthony, it was too slow.
He sidestepped and swung his sword horizontally cleanly taking the head of the beast. He left like he wasn't the culprit
He started running at a simple pace, then he spotted a pack of wolves, he changed directions, starting running towards them, he jumped and landed in their midst, there were 9 of them.
The wolves immediately howled
*Awooo* *Awooo*
Anthony let them call the remaining packs so he could clean them once and for all
Once they all arrived, they were 30 in total, he looked at them and said "let the party begin"
As if on cue, the first wolf rushed in, but before it could even attack, it's head was separated from it's body, Anthony was already near the next wolf before the first wolf even hit the ground, he swung his sword, slicing the wolf in half, before he could move to the next victim, a wolf appeared behind Anthony and slashed with it's claws, though Anthony was facing forward, he had the All seeing eyes that granted a passive 360 perfect view, so he already saw it coming.
He increased his speed, ducked and turned and *slice* decapitating it, blood hit the floor.
*Splat*
Anthony looked around, the wolves moved each with the claws, Anthony then increased his speed to the speed of a B rank, he blurred and flashed repeatedly for a second, when he appeared again, he was standing with his sword sheathed, then he walked away.
As he took the first step all the wolves hit the ground with their heads separated from their bodies with blood flowing forming a a bath.
*VVIP AREA*
The Vice President who was watching the battle looked at Null family and said to collins
"It seems your family seems to have given birth to yet another genius after your son Michael"
Null Collins smiled, he looked at a particular vampire girl, who was controlling blood and killing monsters, she was literally killing them with the blood of their kin, he said to 'The blood Empress'
"You seem to have found a disciple"
She smiled and nodded and replied
"She still has a long way to go, but with her talent she can overcome"
Collins then said "I wonder if she can defeat my grandson in the next battle"
'The blood Empress' frowned, remembering how strong Collins's son Michael was to be ranked second in his year through out, even the first ranked couldn't hold him down as they always fought to a draw, and now that monster has given birth to another monster, his wife was ranked third and was a year lower than him in the academy.
They were simply the first of their kind as humans don't normally make it to the top 10.
She looked at Anthony's direction sensing his F- rank aura as usual, she tried seeing through it forcefully but failed.
She shook her head and continued watching.
**On another side of the boran forest**
It's been an hour and half since the beginning of the second round.
A vampire girl could be seen running through the forest, occasionally killing monsters along the way that weren't worth her time.
Her name, Terpes Tiara
A vampire with a Royal rank Bloodline which made others jealous, some in praise, some were in awe but she never paid any attention to them, for she knew, the moment she lost it all, all those who flocked her would turn on her
As she was making her way through the forest, she heard sounds of blood, then she turned and moved in that direction, she climbed trees and maneuvered her ways through them in a way that would even put the monkey bloodline to shame.
Then she saw her target and landed directly in front of the monster, it was an A+ rank Hobgoblin, she looked at her enemy and gauged it's strength, she was at the minor A rank, while her opponent was peak A rank, two minor ranks above her, but if she can't even cross minor ranks to defeat an enemy, she might as well just stab herself with a stake to the heart
(The vampire aren't afraid of stakes or have it as a weakness in this novel, this was a popular misunderstanding and they didn't bother correcting it, why correct your enemy about your weakness, besides during a fight who has time for stake, just cut the head or stab the heart every fighter knows this)
The Hobgoblin was holding a gaint sword, it also assessed its enemy, Tiara unsheathed her sword, and held it on her right hand.
They both moved at the same time, their weapons met sending off sparks of light as they moved, strength for strength speed for speed.
*Clank* *Clank* *Clank*
In a matter of three minutes they have clashed over 500 times, they left destruction in their wake, nearby monsters ran away, those who couldn't died.
They created ravines as they moved.
The Hobgoblin swung it's gaint sword vertically, Tiara dodge and swung her sword diagonally across the monster chest while using her sword art
[Sword Art: Blood reaper]
Blood gushed out of the monster chest into the air then it hit the ground
*Splat* *splat*
Tiara appear some meters away from the Hobgoblin, panting and sweating, her sword dripped of the monsters blood.
The Hobgoblin was quite for two seconds, before it's aura shifted, it emitted a thick red aura that nearly suffocated Tiara.
But she smiled and said "It's too late, it was nice while it lasted"
She raised her hand and controlled the blood on her sword and the one that came from the Hobgoblin body and monsters that died from their collision, she created thick blood chains with it and chained up he Hobgoblin before it completely entered 'The berserk state' then she moved, she appeared in front of the Hobgoblin and cleaved creating a faint red line
*Swish*
*Thud*
The monster's head fell
*Thump* it's body followed.
Tiara breathed a sigh of relief and sat down to recover for 5 mins.
Five minutes later she stood up, smiled at her victory then looked at the ranking, expecting herself to be at the top
*Ranking*
1/ Null Anthony/ Human
2/Terpes Tiara/ Vampire
3/ Von Bryan/ Dragon
4/ Blaze Patrick/ Phoenix
5/ Fares Fare/ Fairy
6/ Storm bringer/ Titan
7/ Storm rider/ Titan
8/Akesh woodveil/ Elf
9/Von keron/ Dragon
10/Blaze Lilian/ Phoenix
She was speechless, she has been hunting for 2 hours now, but she was on rank 2,
'Could there be a mistake' she thought
'A human at that' she doubted what she saw but she had no choice but to believe it.
She sighed then decided to increase her hunting speed in other to take her rightful spot, she channelled mana into her feet and increased her speed, and ran at her top speed, leaving after images, she only has an hour left and she must seize it.