The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 17 - Adjustment (Patreon)

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The Void Stream

“And there it is folks!!! The end of the first Centurion Quinzel!!!” Mikaela shouts, his voice echoing throughout the entire viewing room as both void creatures and users of all sorts fill the bleachers. Albeit with the users sitting far away from the void creatures. “And it ended in a raaather surprising way, if I do say so myself.”

“I wonder how His Excellency feels about this…” the void creature who joined him not too long ago in commentating the Void Stream mutters as the black-scale-covered humanoid lizard  with pitch black eyes stares at the screen. “With this the pseudo progenitor may blast his way through the next several floors with ease.”

Mikaela nods his head in agreement as he watches Wolf and Sapphire both appear within another arena for the two hundred and ninety-second floor. Where he appears alongside thousands upon thousands of lunar winter beasts, each of whom serve his will thanks to their mutations.

Then the commentator within the stadium there starts talking just like the commentator for the two hundred and ninety-first floor. Which has Mikaela feeling ever so slightly weird at the sight.

“It feels weird to be commentating on a commentator commentating on the competitor,” Mikaela finds himself muttering, to the amusement of the audience who laughs at him.

“To all of you who have cleared the First Centurion Quinzel, congraaaatuuullaaaaatioooonsss!!!!!” the crab-spider hybrid creature shouts as he floats high above all of the competitors of the Quinzel. “But if you think the Second Centurion Quinzel will be just as easy to clear, you’re dead wrong!”

After his words, a notification appears in front of Wolf, visible to everyone in the viewing room.

“Now go!!! Go and begin your hunts!” the commentator declares before everyone inside of the arena is suddenly teleported away. Following which the viewing room’s livestream moves to where Wolf was teleported.

“Looks like he wasn’t separated from Sapphire,” Mikaela comments as everyone finds Wolf and Sapphire standing inside of a large cavern covered in crystals. With monsters already flooding into the cavern they’re in from tunnels on the walls. “And the monsters aren’t even going to give them a moment to take in their surroundings either.”

The monsters in question have varying appearances, with some of them looking like large crystal spiders, others large crystal crabs, and some of them even like large crystal versions of different mammals. Like bears and wolves.

Some of the monsters have varying amounts of crystals as well, with a few of the species being made one hundred percent of crystals, and others just being regular monsters with crystals growing from their body.

But the biggest difference the vampire commentator notices about the monsters is the color of their crystals, along with the element they’re emitting.

“It looks like the crystals on their body influence the element they use,” he mutters while crossing his arms.

“Doesn’t matter,” the void creature mimics his position on the other side of the large screen. “They don’t stand a chance against a pseudo progenitor.”

Mikaela feels himself numbly nodding his head in agreement as he watches Wolf simply wave his hand once, instantly causing a wave of pale blue light to shoot out from him that freezes everything inside of the cavern. Whether it’s the cavern walls, the crystals on the walls, or the monsters. Regardless of what element they were using.

Then Wolf and Sapphire begin to take in their surroundings as if those monsters weren’t there.

“Yeah, I’m curious if any of the regular monsters in this place will even pose a threat to him,” Mikaela says, feeling rather amused by the situation in general. Then he blinks and glances at the audience as he asks, “Anyone wanna bet he’ll break a record for the Centurion Quinzel?”

Laughter fills the viewing room as Mikaela grins, only for his grin to fade ever so slightly when he sees the stone-cold look on the void creature’s face. Along with the faces of the void creature half of his audience.

Damn. I’m still not sure how to cater to the void creatures in here…

The laughter of the System users continues while the void creatures stay silent. Meanwhile Wolf and Sapphire begin to move around the cavern to check its walls. Only to find nothing of interest and leave the cavern in different directions.

“Looks like they’re splitting up,” Mikaela says while floating a bit closer to the screen.

“It’s the best way to go about this,” the void creature commentator declares, still with his arms crossed.

Mikaela nods his head at that before smirking as he says, “I wonder how the new lunar winter beasts are adjusting to their strength?”

From what he remembers, it takes weeks for a newly turned lunar winter beast to fully adjust to their new body. Which is nowhere near enough time for this event.

They should at least be able to move around, but will they be able to clear the monsters and search for their crystal?

Part of Mikaela is curious about how it’ll go down for them, but another part of him doesn’t care. Since the other competitors of this competition are just copies of the real ones outside of their universe.

So they don’t matter in the long-run and won’t likely even exist after the Winter Wolf leaves this floor theme.

With that, he simply focuses his attention on Wolf as the man roams the caves of the first fifth of the Second Centurion Quinzel.

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Welcome to the Second Centurion Quinzel!

Unlike with the First Centurion Quinzel, the first fifth of the Second Centurion Quinzel is a fully solo event.

All competitors will compete on their own with no assistance from anyone as they race to find a particular crystal linked to their soul within an enormous set of caverns!

Every cave system is unique to each competitor, and the competitors will not be in each other’s caves.

And within each cave system are monsters of all kinds, all guarding the many different crystals scattered throughout the caves.

The victory conditions for this fifth are as follows:

Find your linked crystal

Survive for the seventy-two hour duration of the fifth