These Familiars Are Strange

There weren't many that arrived after these five top contenders arrived.

It seemed that they had aimed to arrive at a time where they would be able to make the biggest impression. Which was why they arrived right when most people were gathered so they could suppress them with this display of might.

It really was a smart move if one looked at it from an objective point of view.

Though being the ones that were being suppressed wasn't a good feeling.

But there wasn't time to think about this since there were other people that arrived.

Unlike the ones that gathered in the hall, the aura that they released was completely different. They were not a part of the younger generation like the ones that were currently in the hall.

They were the ones from the older generation, the ones that had set up this competition.

The moment that they appeared, everyone stopped focusing on the five top contender groups and focused on these elders.

After all, the reason that they appeared was most likely to announce the start of this competition.

Even if they were wary of these top contenders, that didn't mean that they lost sight of their true goal in this competition. They were all focused on the dungeon that they were supposed to enter for this competition.

Once these organizers appeared, they didn't waste time as one of them took the lead.

This person came out to say, "I'm sure that all of you already know what you have been gathered here for, so there's no need for me to say anything else. You will now enter the special dungeon that we have prepared."@@novelbin@@

With a wave of his hand, there were energy fluctuations that came from the center of the room.

Those that were there quickly moved away from where the fluctuations came from.

In no time at all, there was a portal that appeared in front of everyone.

This portal was different from the space gates that had been used to bring them all here, this portal was the entrance of a dungeon. However, everyone could tell that this wasn't just any normal dungeon with the pressure that was coming from the gate.

At the same time, they knew that this wasn't a normal gate.

Since the dungeon gates first appeared, humans had much more information on the dungeons and how they worked. They were able to use their technology to interfere with the entrances of dungeons.

Though it did take a lot to actually interfere with the dungeon gates.

So this was only done on high ranking dungeon gates by powerful people who were authorized to use this kind of technology.

It would control when the dungeon gate opened and where one was dropped in the dungeon. If one could be dropped right by the boss and the dungeon core, it would mean being able to save quite a bit of energy clearing the dungeon.

One wouldn't have to slog through all of the weaker mobs that would be in the way to fight the dungeon boss.

But in this case, it was being used for something different.

After the portal appeared, the person in charge waved his hand again and there were pieces of paper that suddenly appeared in the air. These pieces of paper just floated all around this hall without any pattern.

However, anyone that looked closely at these pieces of paper could see that there were things drawn on them.

It was hard to tell exactly what was drawn on them since they were floating around like this, but those with sharp eyes were able to see a few things.

Those that could recognize the lines that were drawn on the pieces of paper could tell that these lines made up something special. They could tell that the lines that were on the paper were actually a part of a map.

So that meant that each of these pieces of papers most likely represented a part of the dungeon that they were about to enter.

What they were drawing for was most likely where they would start in the dungeon.

There wasn't much information on the dungeon that they were about to enter since this was a strictly controlled dungeon. The only thing that they knew was the name of the dungeon which was Castle in the Sky.

Based on that name, they knew that it was a very large dungeon that they were entering, so it would be important to have a good starting position.

So this became a draw of where one would start in the dungeon.

After all of the pieces of paper appeared, the person in charge said, "Draw the one that you want."

As soon as his voice fell, there were some people that suddenly flew out to grab at the pieces of paper that were flying around them. Among them was the Fire God Team, one of the top contenders.

Only the Fire God Team acted differently from everyone else.

They weren't just out for a single piece of paper, they were out for multiple pieces of paper. It seemed like they already wanted to start knocking people out of the competition this early.

But that didn't happen.

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As soon as one of their members grabbed a piece of paper, there was something that stopped the rest of them from grabbing anything else. It was a faint layer of light that stopped them from making contact with the rest of the pieces of paper.

So in the end, they weren't able to grab more than a single piece of a paper and knock others out.

The person in charge didn't say anything about this, but it was clear that this was arranged by them.

They didn't allow people to knock each other out until after they were in the dungeon.

So everyone was able to grab the pieces of paper that they wanted…well, not everyone since there were a few people that wanted the same pieces of paper and they were allowed to fight over them.

As long as one didn't take it too far, the organizers didn't interfere.

As for us, we just grabbed whatever was left in the end.