Chapter 539: Battle Tower Ranking (Part-2)

[The third battle will begin in ten seconds...]

The voice rang out once again as Apollo remained calm. He had already seen through the progression of strength of the opponents.

If the first one was just an ordinary, transcendent peak, then the second opponent was definitely an elite one. So, the next one should be a true genius at the peak of the transcendent realm.

And it could be said to be the beginning of the true challenge. Just like that, ten seconds passed, and the final third opponent appeared.

The figure materialised, and this time it was a beautiful elf. Her aura was different from the previous two opponents, and the aura around her was more ethereal.

But Apollo immediately understood why she was a bit different. She could be said to be a very troublesome opponent, as she was a transcendent who focused on the spiritual sense and soul.

Her spirit and soul seemed to have reached a half-step supreme level, making her many times stronger than an ordinary peak transcendent.

She also made the first move without waiting. Her eyes glowed brightly, and then immediately an invisible, terrifying sense attack came towards him. It might be troublesome for others, but who was he? He was someone who had a body and physically and spiritually reached a supreme level.

And even at the supreme level, it wasn’t, so how could a spiritual attack from a half-step supreme work on him?

Boom!

The invisible spiritual sense attack directly attacked his spirit, but the outcome was as expected. The powerful spiritual sense attack seemed to affect the physical world, and space around him seemed to shatter, but in Apollo’s spirit was like an unbreakable wall.

No matter how the elf tried, it was like hitting a mountain with a pebble and did no damage at all.

Apollo already knew from the beginning that it would be the result; even if it was a divine, transcendent ability of spiritual attack, it didn’t change anything.

"Now, you also take my spiritual attack," and he immediately attacked. His spiritual power was like infinite waves of a tsunami.

It broke her spiritual defence with terrifying power, but it didn’t stop and, in a matter of a second, crushed her spirit and mind, destroying her without moving an inch.

The third battle that was supposed to be the most difficult out of the three seemed to end the fastest. And with this, he finally had proven the strength to challenge the rankings of the Battle Tower.

He could finally meet the geniuses of the sub-ranking in the Battle Tower.

[Challenger has completed three battles and can now challenge the sub-rankings.]

[Do you want to proceed with the challenge?]

The voice of the battle tower spirit rang again, and this time it felt a bit more humane.

"Yes," he naturally said, yes without hesitation, as the reason he came here was for this.

[Please select your opponent.]

And immediately hundreds of names appeared in front of him like a floating system screen, which he was familiar with.

He could choose to challenge any of the warriors ranked within the bottom hundred positions of the Sub-Ranking.

In other words, he could begin by challenging the geniuses occupying positions between 999,901 and 1,000,000.

These were the lowest-ranked warriors on the list, but even they were far stronger than the countless Transcendents who had failed to secure a position.

Apollo examined the names with interest.

He was curious to see just how powerful the geniuses of the Human Realm truly were.

He didn’t choose the last one but chose the 999,901st one in the sub-ranking directly. Although challenging only with a difference of a hundred is quite slow, since it’s the rule, he can only do that to climb the ranking.

The one at the 999,901st place was called Damian, and choose him.

Boom!

And instantly, a young-looking human with blond hair appeared right in front of him. Both sides remained standing and watching each other.

Apollo immediately felt a difference, as this wasn’t a simple mindless projection but had an individual personality. Instead of a projection, it can be said they were spiritual clones of the geniuses of the human realm.

"Oh! You seem to be a new guy, but you dared to challenge me directly. You had some guts, boy." Damian spoke, looking at Apollo.

He was a bit surprised, as normally the new guys usually challenge the lowest one in the ranking, but then there are always some cocky and confident ones who challenge the highest one they can directly.

But after receiving a thorough beating, most of them would eventually understand the difference between themselves and the geniuses listed in the rankings.

Passing the three preliminary battles meant very little in comparison.

The gap between those who could complete the qualification tests and those who had actually earned a place in the rankings was simply too enormous to overcome easily.

"Get ready, kid. I’m going to teach you what the true difference between rankings means." He smiled and then swung his hand steadily like a sword.

Scch!

Instantly, a golden sword-like slash attacked Apollo with terrifying speed, tearing through space like nothing.

Apollo’s eyes, for the first time, showed a surprised expression, and immediately the space in front turned into thousands of layers of space walls.

Bang!

The golden sword energy was very powerful and shattered hundreds of layers of space before it finally stopped.

Apollo looked at Damian with a trace of surprise.

It seemed there really was something special about the geniuses listed in the rankings.

The sword slash contained the Rule of Metal, which had reached the peak of the third layer. It was already on the verge of breaking through to the Fourth Layer.

In addition, the attack contained the Rule of Light, which had reached the Third Layer, although it hadn’t yet reached its peak.

The combination of these two rules had produced an astonishing level of destructive power.

Even without breaking through to the Fourth Layer, their combined might had pushed the attack beyond the level of an ordinary, transcendent peak. Its power was even greater than that of Half-step Supremes, almost touching the strength of Supreme.

He was now even beginning to feel excited, as this was just the lowest-ranking genius; what about the top one in the thousand hundreds or the one in the true transcendent rankings?