Goblin Dependency

At present, he was just like before, searching for a target.

But strangely, under his Perception, the two points of light symbolizing the adventurers had already converged, yet after circling around repeatedly, he still couldn’t find that adventurer.

"Could it be above, or perhaps possessing some kind of invisibility ability, or..."

As if sensing something, the Earthworm looked at the soil beneath its body.

Perhaps the target also had the ability to move beneath the ground like himself, thus staying hidden deep underground all this time?

If that was the case, the overlapping points of light that never revealed the opponent would make sense.

Having wasted much of his precious hunting time, this Earthworm adventurer seemed somewhat irritated and instinctively let out a fierce, beast-like screech.

With its sharp mouthparts drilling downward, stirring the surrounding soil, its long worm-like body twisted and disappeared deep under the ground, leaving only a dark hole at the surface.

Three minutes later.

"Anglong..."

An intense orange-red flame flickered and vanished deep within the Mysterious tunnel left by the Earthworm, and from deep underground, the high-pitched cry unique to a giant dragon could be faintly heard.

In his Perception, of the previously overlapping two points of light, one silently extinguished.

Only the point that fell here at the beginning and remained unmoved despite the changes in the Secret Realm remained.

Still, just as before, it stayed in place, solitary and harmless.

...

The duration of the Secret Realm, compared to the number of adventurers drawn into it, wasn’t actually that long.

Especially after experiencing the events of the Life Energy air drop, the appearance of Elite Demons, and the shared positioning.

The progress of the ritual was greatly accelerated.

The ones who gained the most from this were, besides the Black Wolf, which crazily hunted to strengthen itself, and the Dragon Cub, peacefully developing by its parent, naturally the orchestrator of the ritual "Algae Scale" Dodd.

"Chirp boom! Chirp boom!"

Sharp, sturdy stone spikes intersected and rose from the ground, piercing through the massive bull-like Demon creature on the open ground, blood and viscera spilling everywhere.

It died instantly, with Blue shimmering Life Energy floating up, absorbed by the now even larger Crystal Unicorn Lizard nearby.

You could see a trace of slight disappointment on Dodd’s face, soon replaced by satisfaction and the excitement of nearing Transcendent level.

As time reached the present, he increasingly felt grateful and impressed by his wisdom.

The unlocking of the final authority was undoubtedly the most correct decision he made since entering the Secret Realm!

The Life Energy he missed due to the air drop, over the past few days, was completely made up for in one go.

Starting from the initial excellence of his race, after four evolutions, those adventurers in the Secret Realm who only experienced two or three evolutions were almost as fragile as dry rotted wood.

In just a few days, accompanied by relentless hunting day and night.

Now, the adventurers in the entire Secret Realm were already scarce.

As for him, after absorbing the Life Energy of this Bull Beast Demon before him, he was just a step away from his final fifth evolution.

All he needed was a little more Life Energy, even from the ordinary beasts that hadn’t undergone any evolution at all, it would be enough to take him to the pinnacle.

By then, ascending to the highest point at the life level during the ritual and becoming the last surviving individual in the Secret Realm, he could perfectly assume the role of [Scale Changer], becoming "Transcendent".

For this moment, he had waited far too long.

Even now, as the ritual neared completion, just the thought of the beautiful future made his body shiver uncontrollably.

"Huff... huff..."

With six short, stout limbs on the ground, he took several deep breaths, almost forcing himself to calm down.

Then he focused again, using Perception Ability to observe the situation in the Secret Realm.

Currently, including himself, there were only four forces left in the entire Secret Realm.

Among them, group formations existed with two teams, one of which he had already observed before, consisting of a team of four adventurers.

The other was a relatively smaller duo team, they...

Focus concentrated, Dodd’s heart unexpectedly froze.

In the brief seconds of him observing the situation, the two teams of adventurers, a total of six points of light, collided and overlapped.

Then the two points that actively went up suddenly extinguished, leaving only the four-person team.

Upon seeing this, Dodd’s expression became a bit unsightly.

It seems... the combat power of this team of six was stronger than he imagined?

After all, those who survive to the final stage of the Secret Realm, unless exceptionally lucky or extraordinarily hidden, are generally not to be underestimated.

From his observations over time, these two teams rarely stayed in one place, obviously having fought other adventurers.

Based on this premise, their Combat Ability would likely not be weak.

Under such circumstances, when they collided and exterminated the other in such a swift manner, it proves the other party’s strength.

However... honestly, given Dodd’s nearing perfection after four evolutions at the life level, there’s no need to overly worry.

Even if the opponent’s strength exceeds expectations, when he arrives at their front post five evolutions, regardless of how many they are, they could only obediently become the stepping stone for his advancement to Transcendent considering the vast power gap.

The reason Dodd was so confident in advancing his evolution stage to the fifth before meeting this adventurer team, lies fundamentally in the last force remaining in the Secret Realm.

Like him, it was also a Lone Wanderer.

And its position was relatively close, situated right at the center of the current Secret Realm map.

Honestly, Dodd had been paying attention to the opponent early on.

Given the strong randomness of the ritual itself, even though he enjoyed significant convenience due to being the orchestrator, it couldn’t prevent other adventurers from performing excellently for various reasons and catching up to his progress.

In this situation, naturally, he noticed this mysteriously performing Lone Wanderer.

Over the past two days, Dodd frequently saw other adventurers overlapping with it.

But mysteriously, only a few were killed and dispersed.

Most of those colliding and overlapping with it, merely paused briefly in place, then circled around the point of light a few times before leaving dejectedly.

Initially, Dodd found it strange, not knowing the reason.

But after a little thought, he discerned the truth.

Evidently, this Lone Wanderer, facing the Secret Realm’s final stage, instead of actively going out to search for prey to enhance his plans like Dodd, chose to stay put.

Using the characteristics of the Demon it inhabited, it hid in an incredibly concealed yet not entirely unreachable place.

This led to the situation he perceived among the adventurers drawn over.

This implies that, even though surviving to this point as a Lone Wanderer, its evolution level likely isn’t high.

Maybe it hasn’t even reached the Third Evolution!

Limited strength, purely by utilizing the benefit of its position and concealing ability, it barely held on till now.

In this context, as long as he can locate it, he could easily turn it into absorbable Life Energy, bringing himself to the stage of five evolutions.

Then, dealing with that four-person team wouldn’t pose a concern.

Contemplating an action plan in his mind, seeing the small team in the Perception eager to move, seemingly shifting this way.

To be safe, although Dodd was confident that even with their numerical advantage they were not his match, yet he still didn’t actively approach.

Instead, he changed direction, moving toward the other Lone Wanderer who had remained in place, using his six small legs to quickly rush over.

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