However, the monster was too weak to require his help. A simple stomp from either Ning or Derel is enough to do the job for now.

As the timer ticked down to 0, something white appeared underneath them. It was an armadillo or at least a monster than looked like it. It was still in the realm of cute, but not as cute as the rabbit.

So, without hesitation, Ning brought up his legs and slammed them onto the beast. The armor of the beast did nothing to protect it against Ning’s strength.

As such, the shell cracked and the beast was smushed. However, before Ning could see any gore, the beast turned into a bunch of white light and disappeared.

Next to his foot floated two sets of words. ‘Defeated’ and ’18 Points’. He was fast, but not fast enough.

”Someone still beat you huh? Maybe I should do it next,” Derel said with a smug smile. She had been the only one here that had managed to get 20 points out of all of them.

Ning wondered if he should just bring out his spear and attack.

He started up at the clock and saw the timer at ’26:11′.

It had gone down an entire 3 and a half minutes. That was on average two spawn timer changes amongst the lot of them.𝗈𝚟𝐿xt.𝗇𝓔t

Someone had also improved upon the monster’s level. Twice at that too.

It had changed from a rabbit to a spider, to an armadillo type of monster.

Ning opened up the upgrades and stared at the monster side of things.

Reduce Spawn Rate by 10 seconds: 20 Points

Increase Monster Level: 20 points

He looked at the total points and saw that they had 198 points to work with. That felt like a good number, but he still wanted more.

Ning sat back down on the grass, a little bored from the competition. It wasn’t just his thought as even the rest of the group showed signs of boredom.

After the first round of competition, where they had to go through intense fights amongst themselves to prove that they were worthy of the system, they had expected a bit more of the 2nd round.

Even if not more difficult, they expected it to be of about the same difficulty. But this had been way too easy. Not to mention only one person even got to do anything, to begin with.

”Do you think there’s a reason why the time between the monsters appearing was kept to such a large gap?” Drake asked while thinking of something to himself.

”They’re trying to mess with us is what it is,” Issi said from the side. “Look at the price between spawn rate and monster level. They want us to willy-nilly spend all our points on spawn rate, then when the monster level had to inevitably increase we will be in trouble as way too many strong monsters will spawn way too fast.”

Ning thought at that point. “That sounds about right,” Ning said. “And our boredom doesn’t help either. I’m sure by noon tomorrow, we will be spending our points like we’re buying lives to get more monsters to fight with.”

”That sounds fun though,” Derel said from the side.

Drake kept a thoughtful look to himself. Somehow, even in the darkness, his pale face didn’t seem to hold any blood.

’He should be feeling better now that the air has chilled a bit after nightfall right?’ Ning thought to himself.

”Are you hungry?” Ning asked him.

”Haha,” Drake gave a slight chuckle. “I’m most definitely hungry. But don’t mind me, you don’t have what I want.”

Ning turned around and asked, “do you guys want something to eat?”

”Uh… sure,” Issi said.

”Ooh, do you have some meat?” Derel asked excitedly.

”Uh… let me check,” Ning said as he closed his eyes and looked into his storage. He did in fact have some food from when he was back in Vilmore.

He brought them out and handed them to the two of them. Derel gave a sigh for some reason before eating the meat she was handed.

Ning ate some too.

Soon, they continued with their task of killing a poor little animal before it even gets to see where it had arrived.

Before any of them knew it, the sun rose up on the horizon.

”Well, I’m going back to the shade. Have fun,” Drake said as left back to the tower.

None of them said anything at all and instead just focused on the monsters that would spawn anytime now.

Over the night, the monster had been upgraded twice over again, and the spawn rate was now down to 24 minutes.

The thing that appeared now was a skeleton with a bone sword that took a single slash from Ning or the others to destroy it in one attack.

”It should be able to last more than a second in a couple of upgrades,” Issi said from the side.

”Finally, things will be more interesting,” Derel said.

Ning looked at his nearly 600 points and asked, “Should I spend 20 points on improving this monster then?”

”No, hoard it more,” Derel shouted from the side.

”We have enough to buy another turret right?” Issi asked. “Should we perhaps…?”

”No!” Derel shouted. “No spending. Hoard it.”

Ning chuckled a little. “Yeah, I think we should do what she says.”

”Yes, little worm,” Derel said from the side. Ning shook his head and waited for more of the time to pass.

As they fought the monsters once again, slowly the day came to become noon and exactly 1 day had passed.

At the exact same time, Genesis appeared in the sky and looked down below to the 10 different openings in the forest below, and shouted, “Great job, all of you. It’s great that you lasted so long.”

”However, I can see that you are all very bored, so why don’t we make it a little interesting, eh?”