Chapter 516: Chapter 516: The Frustrated Kristin
Lin Shen felt that something was not quite right. In just the past hour, they had already encountered three separate teams.
Although they had exchanged covert signals from afar and then parted ways in different directions, a quick glance from Lin Shen revealed a clue.
He didn’t recognize a single leader from those teams.
After pondering for a moment, Lin Shen suddenly burst into laughter.
“Tian, what are you laughing about?” Tian Buluo curiously asked Lin Shen.
“Prince, have you ever played the Snake Game?” Lin Shen asked Tian Buluo in return.
“I played it when I was a child.” Tian Buluo paused slightly, as if he had realized something, “We’ve encountered several teams just now. Could it be that there are now a large number of teams on the Ascension Battlefield, and they have started to devour each other?”
“We need to act quickly, otherwise, once a behemoth of a team appears, we will be mercilessly crushed.” Lin Shen checked the time on his watch, “We have just over twenty-five hours left. This is a bit too much time; it would be troublesome if those teams grow stronger.”
“Rather than waiting passively, we should take the initiative to attack,” said Tian Buluo.
“Do you still remember how to defeat other snakes in the Snake Game?” Lin Shen said.
“A snake can’t function without its head.” Tian Buluo and Lin Shen exchanged a smile.
During their conversation, another team appeared nearby.
Lin Shen’s team had always maintained a number of around a thousand, which was significantly smaller compared to the teams he had sent out.
The newly appeared team had a massive number, amounting to tens of thousands.
Seeing that the opposing team didn’t start their War Song, Lin Shen gestured grandly: “War Song… begin…”
Old Lang and the thousand plus Ascenders immediately began to shout at the top of their lungs, “Sky so vast… land so wide… one’s life at its wildest tide…”
Over and over, but the other team did not seem to have the intention to respond; their Ascenders approached quickly like locusts, surrounding the thousand-man team.
“This is hilarious, he set a trap only to have it snap around his own neck in the end; it’s a case of the biter bit,” Tia laughed so hard he had to hold his stomach, almost unable to straighten his back.
“It might not be that simple,” Catherine said with a slight squint in her eyes.
“One thousand against forty thousand, and the other side is led by Kristin who harbors the grievances of his team and doesn’t abide by any secret signals. If Tian doesn’t surrender, he can only run,” said Tia.
“I always feel that guy is not so simple,” Catherine said slowly as she looked at the scroll.
“Prince Tian Buluo, hand over your points or fight, choose one,” Kristin said, seeing Tian Buluo and mistaking the team as his.
He had been robbed once and then chased by another team for robbery, extremely frustrated. Now that he had finally assembled his own team, he didn’t care who you were; he would rob even a Prince of the Celestial Race without hesitation.
Moreover, the relationship between the Di Man Tribe and the Celestial Race was already very discordant, with constant frictions and wars between the two.
“Tian, what do you say?” Tian Buluo asked Lin Shen.
Lin Shen looked at Kristin and said, “We would like to invite Your Excellency to join our team. What do you think?”
“What kind of dream are you having? Offer up your points, and I’ll allow you to join my team.” Kristin thought his ears were malfunctioning, wasn’t the situation clear? Expecting a forty-thousand-strong team to join their meager team of a thousand was madness.
“If that’s the case, then let’s each rely on our own abilities,” Lin Shen said as he flicked open his folding fan, and countless mysterious light patterns suddenly flew out.
“Damn it, you really think I don’t dare to kill you?” Kristin roared in fury.
He had simply not wanted to trigger a war under the watchful eyes of the entire universe, which was why he had refrained from taking direct action.
Had it not been for the Ascension Battlefield, and had he encountered Tian Buluo outside with such a large advantage, he would have attacked immediately.
He had held back from attacking, yet his opponents dared to strike first, which made Kristin feel extremely frustrated.
“Take action.” Kristin immediately summoned a sword artifact glowing with red light, which, in an instant, transformed into a streak of light and struck at Lin Shen.
Lin Shen threw a punch at Kristin’s sword artifact, while Tian Buluo also moved at the same time, flapping his wings and instantly appearing in front of Kristin.
Kristin swung his fist trying to repel the mysterious light patterns, but they landed on his fist, turning into a brand.
In just an instant, his whole body was marked with light and dark patterns, and he suddenly felt as if he had weakened.
Not only were his strength and speed greatly reduced, but the effects of his skills were also diminished.
Kristin and Tian Buluo were already evenly matched contenders, and when one side suddenly had their power halved, Tian Buluo launched the Celestial Unity Skill. With just two exchanges, he apprehended Kristin.
Of course, Kristin was captured mainly because he suddenly felt numb around his waist and couldn’t move; he had no idea what had happened.
Lin Shen’s fingers hung by his side, his gaze unwavering, as if nothing had happened at all.
The numerous Ascenders who had listened to Kristin’s order had already summoned their Life Bases, but then they found that Kristin had been captured, and they all looked at each other, unsure of what to do.
“Everyone, with battle teams rampant on the battlefield now and many teams outnumbering you, we can only preserve our points by banding together. Those willing to join my team don’t need to hand over any points. We are simply uniting to protect our own…” Lin Shen seized the opportunity to say.
“What are you all hesitating for? If we don’t unite to protect ourselves, do we want to wait to be robbed?” Tian, holding the immobilized Kristin, shouted.
“I am willing to join.” One person took the lead, and immediately others responded; the majority of the Ascenders from Kristin’s team chose to join Lin Shen’s team.
They had already snatched some points, and now it was clearly more important to protect those points than to snatch more.
Having taken over Kristin’s team, Lin Shen did not make things difficult for Kristin. After all, in such a public place, if he were to kill Kristin, the Di Man Tribe would never swallow the affront.
Even for the sake of face, they would inevitably have to wage war with the Celestial Race.
Lin Shen merely required Kristin to hand over his points, and then set him free to choose whether to stay or go.
Kristin left without a word, the battle of Ascenders today had indeed cost him dearly.
He could never have imagined, being one of the very top Ascenders, how he could have fallen to such a state. Weren’t the elimination battles always the stage for the top Ascenders?
The spectators were stunned; they had never seen such a situation before.
In previous elimination rounds, it was a chaotic massacre among the top Ascenders from different races, with each powerful Ascender exhibiting astonishing strengths during the battles and revealing their prowess in the universe.
But in this elimination round of Ascenders, individual combat strength amounted to nothing, any team of a certain size could easily crush those so-called geniuses from the big clans.