Kailen glanced at Evangelo.

Evangelo stared into Kailen Darkhaven’s void-like eyes. He felt like he was falling into some abyss. This fellow was simply too terrifying.

Kailen merely turned and started walking away. Evangelo was shocked. Everyone watching the stream was quite surprised. Was he going to spare his enemy?

Then, something Evangelo and the people watching the stream did not expect happened. Evangelo felt an extremely hollowing feeling at his upper, middle, and lower sections of his body.

What the hell was going on?

Those watching the stream saw the void rippling and bending across the upper, middle, and lower sections of Evangelo’s body. Evangelo was in shock, wondering what was happening. Very soon, a large bout of pain encumbered him as he saw the rest of his body in his line of vision.

His waist, abdomen section, and chest section had been hollowed out from one another. Evangelo realized what had happened. Kailen Darkhaven did not spare him. He had used the principle of space to kill him in a gruesome manner.

What a ruthless fellow.

These were the last thoughts of Evangelo, before his vision blanketed and he died.

****

Julian Sier took a glance at the rankings. The ranking list included 500 people. He was currently sitting somewhere at the bottom of the ranking. But he didn’t care. There was no reason to rush. He had to get used to his environment first.

He checked to see where Kailen was ranked. Kailen was currently ranked 498, a rank higher than him. Julian knew that it was only a matter of time before Kailen climbed to the first rank. As for him, he would also do his best.

Anyway, the first-ranked person was naturally Jiang Chuxian, the fellow who had been rumored to win the competition this time around. He was also a member of the Insidious Assassin Syndicate.

Speaking of those bastards, a couple of them were advancing towards him from different directions. Julian simply obscured himself, blending into the environs by making use of the principle of darkness. The moment they appeared, Julian was like a grim reaper. Chains of darkness maimed them before they could even move, turning them into husky corpses. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

They died before they could even attack him. Several watching the stream paid attention to him, sucking in breaths of cold air. After this, Julian stared in the direction of a chaotic beast he had spotted. It was time to climb the rankings.

****

Kailen appeared in a region where a fight between several transcendents was ongoing. He hid himself well on a treetop. There was a wounded chaotic beast they had fought hard against. Now, only one of them could claim the final kill for the chaotic beast.

This naturally meant that they had to fight each other until only one person remained. At this point, they had been wounded by one another severely after fighting the creature and fighting one another. As the transcendents were engaged in a fight against one another, a large spatial sword appeared and delivered the final kill to the creature.

Kailen did not even make a personal appearance. Before anyone could even notice the spatial sword, it disappeared. However, they realized someone had somehow sneaked in and killed the creature.

The group cursed and stopped fighting, staring at the principle fragment of the creature floating above its dead body. All their efforts had been for naught. As for the principle fragment, none of them used the principle of lightning. It was of no use to any of them. And, even if it would have been of some use to any of them, they had just one month in this competition. There was no way anyone would spend their time trying to comprehend the profundities of a principle fragment.

One of them, an elf with the principle of space, frowned. She felt some spatial fluctuations earlier. But it disappeared as soon as it appeared. The person who killed the chaotic beast had the principle of space. She activated her principle of space and tried to search the vicinity. She saw a figure on a very tall tree, hiding himself.

However, before she could make a move, the fellow melded with the void and disappeared.

"He has void-like hair, void-like eyes, is tall, and was wearing some long coat, jeans, and sneakers. Does anyone recognize him?" she asked the others. They had to kill this guy for letting them work in vain, even if it was the last thing they did.

"Not really."

"Nah."

"Wait..." Someone said, "I recognize him. A few days ago at a hotel restaurant, he was there. He’s called Kailen Darkhaven. The first and second ranked on the rankings currently, Jiang Chuxian and Tyrexis, were all paying attention to him."

"What? Seriously?"

"It means this guy is a threat. He can secure a spot on the rankings that can make things difficult for any of us, since we all want to get the first rank. Let’s not pursue him. Although we are all about to go our separate ways, if anyone encounters him, we need to kill him; plus, he stole our kill, so he deserves to die. The bastard is now ranked 490 on the rankings," someone said coldly.

Everyone nodded.

"Indeed."

"I agree. This is very sound reasoning."

"Yeah."

"Let’s do that."

"Mmm."

"Why not?"

"It’s the best course of action."

This fellow had used them as stepping stones to climb the rankings too. It was natural for them to hate him. Plus, he was also a threat to them. As for why they didn’t kill each other, they were all injured now from their battle earlier.

Even though they were all threats to one another in the competition, no one wanted to take a risk to fight with another person when they themselves were injured and needed some time to recover.

At this moment, their temporary alliance crumbled. Each went their separate ways, but if they saw Kailen Darkhaven, they would not hesitate to kill him.