Fate Reignites: My Rampage in a World Where Time Stops

[Triggered a District Spiritual Beast Challenge, Opponent: Hall Rank Lv36 Blue Shell Water Turtle]

[Number of Challengers: 2/10]

[Challenge Rules as Follows]

[1. The District Spiritual Beast cannot harm players nor be killed.]

[2. If players exit the territory, the District Spiritual Beast will cease its attack, and the challenge will fail.]

[3. Once the challenge ends, the District Spiritual Beast will lose memory of the challenge process.]

[Challenge Starts]

Seeing the incredibly powerful opponent before her, Red Leaf's forehead was suddenly drenched in cold sweat.

District Spiritual Beast!

As her own strength was not yet sufficient to encounter a District Spiritual Beast, her knowledge was minimal; even residing in Area 5149, she was unaware of the location of the local District Spiritual Beast.

However, upon seeing the text before her and piecing together snippets from the Dream Realm Forum, Red Leaf quickly regained her composure and identified the key point.

Territorial radius!

The territory of the District Spiritual Beast in front of her was clearly centered around this lake and its shore areas; they had triggered the District Spiritual Beast challenge simply by straying into its territory. All they needed to do was to step back slightly and exit this area, which would automatically end the challenge.

Understanding this, Red Leaf grabbed Evelyn and attempted to retreat.

She didn't budge.

Evelyn turned around, her light blue eyes flashing with excitement and anticipation, pointing to a creature behind her.

It was one of Evelyn's two Elite Rank Spiritual Beasts, the Water Attribute Blue Abyssal Python.

Red Leaf's eyes widened as she realized something.

Could it be that this District Spiritual Beast exactly corresponded to the resources needed for Blue Abyssal Python to advance?

"I want to try!" Evelyn whispered gently, with a pleading look in her eyes.

Although Red Leaf did not understand her words, she grasped the intention.

"Alright!" Red Leaf clenched her teeth and pointed fiercely at the Blue Shell Water Turtle.

A flash of light burst forth simultaneously from the Blue Shell Water Turtle and the bunny in her arms.

Talent Effect of the spiritual scale, activated!

Simultaneously, Red Leaf did not forget to leave a message in the guild channel.

[Red Leaf (5149): Trouble! Evelyn and I encountered a District Spiritual Beast!]

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"Ah!"

In a Level A, 1-star Secret Realm, Yue Li, who was clearing the realm's spiritual beasts with Qin Chuan, suddenly exclaimed, "Red Leaf and Evelyn are in danger!"

"Hmm?" Qin Chuan raised an eyebrow, tapped on the guild channel, and realized, "Oh, they encountered a District Spiritual Beast. Don't worry too much."

"How can I not worry?" Yue Li frowned slightly. "District Spiritual Beasts are not easily defeated."

"Did you forget Red Leaf's talent?" Qin Chuan tapped Yue Li's forehead with a smile, "Area 5149's Spiritual Beast is Hall Rank Lv36 with a Race Value of 30000. Under the second Talent Effect of the spiritual scale, it will drop directly to 15000."

"Evelyn has two maxed out Elite Rank Spiritual Beasts; two 10000s versus one 15000 is not without hope."

"Moreover, Iron Hammer mentioned to me before that Evelyn's talent is for enhancement, which increases their chances of winning."

"Right, I almost forgot about the spiritual scale," Yue Li realized.

Her tension was mainly due to recalling her and Qin Chuan's first attempt at challenging a Hall Rank Lv36 Rapid Freeze Bird, where they had been defeated, making her subconsciously feel that Evelyn, accompanying the Official Level Player Red Leaf, would be at an even greater disadvantage.

However, their actual situation was different.

Their talents had distinct effects.

Back then, she and Qin Chuan could only rely on their luck-based talent, while Red Leaf and Evelyn had talents to suppress their opponent and enhance themselves.

As she pondered, new messages popped up in the guild channel.

[Red Leaf (5149): We won!!!]

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Iron Hammer stared at the message that popped up less than ten seconds after the previous one. He deleted the long speech he had been about to send, and his tense body relaxed rapidly.

Winning was all that mattered.

But in the next instant, Iron Hammer thought of something, and his expression slightly darkened.

Yesterday, he had chatted with Evelyn about her Spiritual Beasts leveling up to Elite Rank and the Advanced Resources needed for advancement.

At the time, Evelyn mentioned that one of the formidable local beasts she needed to challenge was in zone 5149, while others were quite distant.

Iron Hammer had even joked that once Evelyn leveled up her third Contracted Spiritual Beast, Ascension would make challenging a local beast not too hard, allowing her to save some specific resources.

Today, the two girls who went out looking for Contracted Spiritual Beasts happened to encounter the local beast.

This was no coincidence.

Because just yesterday, Evelyn had asked him where the local beast of zone 5149 was.

From Red Leaf's reaction, it seemed she didn't know about it.

Iron Hammer couldn't help but sigh.

Evelyn, forgive me for not having the chance to teach you about friendship yet.

It's meant to be pure, sincere, and devoid of utilitarianism.

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"How powerful!"

Watching the giant aqua turtle smash heavily back into the lake, creating a massive wave, Red Leaf's eyes sparkled as she admired the petite girl in front of her.

After the Array took effect, she watched the two Spiritual Beasts' powers soar, giving her the impression that either could defeat the aqua turtle alone.

And indeed, as she had sensed, the two Elite Rank Spiritual Beasts quickly overcame the aqua turtle.

The thought that she had participated in defeating the game zone's most formidable local beast filled Red Leaf with joy at that moment.

It was just a pity that not many people knew of her in-game identity yet, so she couldn't boast about it in real life.

But no matter!

It would be just as good to share it with Uncle Iron Hammer back at the camp!

Even though she had already mentioned it in the Guild channel, there were still plenty of details to share.

Evelyn picked up the aqua blue Advanced Resource that had dropped and embedded it into the Blue Abyssal Python's Advanced Array. Watching a fifth of the Array light up, her face also showed excitement.

It was a success!

Defeating the aqua turtle had saved her an optional Advanced Resource.

She was now one step closer to Hall Rank.

But her excitement faded slightly when she felt Red Leaf's gaze.

A tinge of guilt surfaced in Evelyn's pale blue eyes.

She had intentionally chosen the direction where the local beast was.

But she hadn't told Red Leaf about it.

Evelyn didn't fully understand what exploitation was, yet she could almost see Iron Hammer's reproachful gaze.

She pursed her lips, looking at Red Leaf who showed no signs of anger, her feelings of guilt grew stronger.

"Evelyn, let's head back to the Guild," Red Leaf said as she grabbed Evelyn's hand, eager to tell Uncle Iron Hammer all about what had just happened.

The word "Guild," now familiar in Chinese, sent a shiver through Evelyn's heart.

She hesitated for a moment, shook her head, then broke off a branch from a bush by the lakeside, and wrote a "C" on the ground, with five "★" after it.

Lifting her head to meet Red Leaf's surprised eyes, the little girl waved her arms solemnly.

Your C-level Secret Realm is in my hands now, Evelyn!