170: Chapter 170, First Place on the Points Ranking
"Holy crap! Captain, this... this is just too fucking... godlike, right?!"
Shi Lei stared at the Armored Earth Dragon Beast that had smashed itself to death, looking miserable, his mouth hanging wide open, unable to close it for a long time.
He felt his worldview had been refreshed once again.
Separated by an unknown distance, just by moving a thought, he could make a powerful Fifth Rank Peak monster "commit suicide" on the spot?
Is this something a human can do?
This is even more outrageous than the legendary feats of immortals!
"More than just godlike..."
Lei Qian's face was also filled with shock and awe. He looked at the massive corpse, his voice trembling.
"I feel like the Captain isn't even competing."
"He's just playing."
"In his eyes, everyone, including those monsters and the geniuses from other academies, might just be... toys."
As this thought emerged, Lei Qian couldn't help but shiver.
Too terrifying.
This man is truly too terrifying.
His power has completely exceeded their understanding of the word "genius."
The two looked at each other, seeing a glimmer of relief from surviving a disaster in each other's eyes.
Fortunately... fortunately, they are on the Captain's "side."
If they were his enemies...
Just thinking about that ending makes one shudder.
Meanwhile, in every corner of the Thousand Illusions Maze, similar scenes were playing out constantly.
Two tough guys from Ba Huang Academy were being besieged by three Fifth Rank Peak "Purgatory Three-Headed Dogs" and were in critical danger.
Suddenly, they discovered that the three vicious dogs, which had been baring their fangs at them, began to infight without warning.
They tore at each other and attacked one another.
In the end, after both sides were battered and exhausted, the two dumbfounded tough guys from Ba Huang Academy picked up the spoils.
An "Iron Can" from Tianshen Military Academy, wearing silver power armor, was preparing to use the high-energy particle cannon on his shoulder to blast a Sixth-Rank Early Stage "Void Predator."
But before he could even fire, that terrifying monster, known for its speed and stealth, jumped out of the shadows on its own.
Then, with a posture full of tragedy and resolve, it smashed its head into his cannon barrel.
At this moment, the entire Thousand Illusions Maze fell into an extremely bizarre atmosphere full of absurdity.
Those virtual monsters, which should have been full of danger and slaughter, all acted as if they were possessed.
Some would suddenly go crazy and kill each other.
Some would inexplicably smash into walls or jump off cliffs, playing themselves to death.
Others would even voluntarily bring their precious "life crystal core" to contestants who were struggling in bitter battles.
Then they would look at them with eyes full of begging, as if saying, "Hurry up and kill me, I don't want to live anymore."
This left those contestants who were still struggling to survive collectively stunned.
They felt as if they were dreaming.
A bloody, bizarre, yet... surprisingly delightful dream.
They didn't know that behind all of this, it was just because there was one man.
He was leaning comfortably against a corner, in a posture of toying with all living things, treating the entire Thousand Illusions Maze as his own playground.
Time passed second by second.
Two-thirds of the twenty-four-hour competition time had quickly passed.
The battles within the Thousand Illusions Maze gradually shifted from initial chaos into a white-hot stage.
Those who lacked strength or luck had long been eliminated in this cruel "Battle Royale."
Those who could survive until now were all true elites, true powerhouses.
And at this moment, in the central control room of the maze, the huge holographic screen displayed a real-time leaderboard that made everyone's heart jump.
The names on the leaderboard were jumping and changing crazily. The competition was extremely fierce!
"Look! That Xiang Kunlun from Ba Huang Academy just killed another Sixth-Rank Early Stage monster! His points have broken through 200,000! So fierce!"
"Newton from Tianshen Military Academy isn't bad either! He single-handedly wiped out a Fifth Rank Peak monster nest! His points are right behind!"
"And that Moonlight Yao from Guanghan Palace Academy! Although her points aren't high, her ranking has been steadily rising!"
The technical experts in the control room were discussing excitedly, as if they had been injected with adrenaline.
Their gazes were focused on the names of the top geniuses in the top ten of the leaderboard, names they were all too familiar with.
However, the Galaxy Emperor never looked at those people.
His deep gaze had only landed on one position on the leaderboard from beginning to end.
First place.
The name that had climbed to the top in a completely unreasonable, bug-like manner within less than an hour of the start of the competition, and had been leaving second place far behind with a speed that terrified everyone.
[First Place: Wang Pingan]
[Points: 2,754,380]
Two million seven hundred fifty-four thousand!
That's more than ten times that of the second place, Xiang Kunlun!
"Gal... Galaxy Master..." The project manager asked with a dry voice, looking at the number that had already made him feel somewhat numb. "This... Wang Pingan... how... how did he do it?"
This question was also the biggest doubt in the hearts of all the technical experts present.
They couldn't figure it out. They really couldn't figure it out.
How could a person, without cheating, get such terrifying, astronomical points in just over ten hours?
This could no longer be explained by "genius" or "monster."
This, goddammit, is a miracle!
"Want to know?" The Galaxy Emperor wore an inscrutable smile on his face.
He slowly extended his finger and tapped lightly on the small independent holographic screen in front of him.
The next second, Wang Pingan's personal perspective, full of "pixels" and "mystery," appeared in front of everyone again.
But this time, the scene was not that sea of purple stars filled with strange and destructive aura.
Instead, it was a... peaceful and joyful... Fight the Landlord... scene?
In that perspective, three huge virtual monsters with auras comparable to the Sixth-Rank Peak were visible.
One was the "Nine Nether Demon Snake" with nine hideous snake heads.
One was the "Abyssal Flame Demon" with black flames burning all over its body.
And one was the "Crystal Diamond Tyrannosaurus" made entirely of the hardest diamond.
Any one of these top-tier BOSS-level monsters, if taken out alone, would be enough to make top geniuses of Xiang Kunlun and Newton's level bite the dust.
At this moment, they were sitting obediently like three little kittens, gathered around a virtual card table made of energy.
Each of them was holding a hand of virtual playing cards, also made of energy, in their claws.
And opposite them, a lazy, annoying voice full of "the loneliness of a master" sounded leisurely.
"A pair of threes."
"Can't beat it."
"Rocket!"
"Hahaha! Pay up! Pay up! Won again!"
All the technical experts in the control room who saw this scene petrified collectively.
In their minds, only one thought remained, echoing with absurdity and disbelief.
What... what the hell is... this monster?