Inhuman Warlock

Malin could only last for an hour. An hour was already up, and she was struggling to keep the barrier up. Her body had grown weak.

Crack~

Crackle started developing on the barrier. The cracks kept getting bigger and bigger before the entire barrier shattered.

The impact of her barrier breaking was so powerful that Malin felt extremely weak. She was about to fall on her back out of weakness when she felt a warm hand resting on her back. Lucifer prevented the fall of the young lady since he didn't want her to be out. If she fell, she was going to be eliminated.

Cold winds rushed at all three of them, sending both the ladies shivering.

Lucifer also felt the cold. Without the barrier obstructing them, he could feel just what the extent of the cold was.

"You two should give up for now," Lucifer calmly stated. He removed his hand from the back of Malin, changing his mind. "Leave everything to me. I'll get the points."

It was better to do it alone from what he felt. The other team member of his also gave up immediately.

The Moderators came and took the two ladies, but they didn't forget to ask Lucifer if he wanted to give up as well. Lucifer rejected the offer without even considering it.

Both the ladies stared at Lucifer in confusion. Just what was this guy planning? How could he resist the cold without anything? Could he really stay like this here without seriously harming himself?

The two ladies were escorted off the mountains as the trial was over for them. That left only Lucifer here from his team.

Lucifer didn't cast any barrier at all. Instead, he stood up. Since he was allowed two five-minute breaks in a day to get out, he took the first one this instant.

He walked past all the other teams to check just how cold his surroundings were in comparison to them. Just as he expected, the difference was like day and night. The cold around him was like twice powerful as what others faced. It was the same for the three seeds. It appeared as if the equality was only for the other members. He and his team didn't come, but that's exactly what he wanted.

That's the entire reason he had poked the moderators. Firstly, this made things interesting for him. And secondly, this worked as a distraction for the moderators, so their entire focus was on them. He didn't want any of them to find Gabriel.

Each of his steps was perfectly calculated, even though he seemed like a reckless person to others.

After making sure of what was happening, Lucifer returned to his own place and decided to get the game started.

He sat in his old place under the extreme cold, but it was just the start for him. His eyes shone momentarily before returning to their original color.

An invisible barrier of time appeared around him, which trapped his surroundings in time. Even the cold winds couldn't harm the barrier of time. They couldn't even pass through the barrier. After casting a barrier in his surroundings, Lucifer created a small flame in his hand to warm his surroundings. There was still some cold air trapped inside the barrier, which he tried to warm up.

Seeing the small flicker in the hands of Lucifer, Mander rolled his eyes. As a Prince of Flames, he found that flame really embarrassing. It wasn't even close to the intensity of his deep blue flames. He didn't believe that fire could warm him up in the face of increasing cold.

Unfortunately for him, there was no increasing cold. He had warned his surroundings with just that flame alone, and the cold winds couldn't even get close to him because of the barrier.

He had safeguarded himself. It didn't matter what the Moderators did or how much cold they tossed at him; it couldn't pass through time without getting stuck. The strength just didn't matter to him.

Another hour passed. At the start of the trial, almost all the participants had assumed that they could last for days in a place like this. Unfortunately, reality had set in within two hours.

More than ten teams were out now, leaving only seven teams.

There were only two of the remaining seven teams that had only one participant in the team, and it was the team of Raayi and Lucifer. Mander still had all three participants. It was also the case for Ron.

Two more hours passed, and more teams were out.

In the starting four hours, thirteen teams were out, even the ones which had top ten participants.

That left only four teams for top rank.

Back in the Headquarters where the participants stayed, the ones who were disqualified watched the trial on a big screen.

The team of Lucifer was the most stunned out of them all since Lucifer was sitting without any barrier. He was the only person on the mountain whose team didn't contain a single Seed, yet he was still in the competition. Moreover, he seemed completely unphased as well.

It was as if the cold wasn't even a concern for him.

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Moderator Li was in-charge of this specific trial. He was the one who controlled the temperature on the mountain, and he also selected how and when to increase the cold.

He was accompanied by a few more Moderators. All of them had camped on the mountain itself as they were responsible for taking the participants back who were out.

"Li, I can understand how three Seeds have resisted your cold so far, but what about Lucifer! Are you going easy on him? X

"Easy? If you think that's called going easy, then I don't know what to tell you. He's facing more cold than the others. Yet he just refuses to give up. I'm not sure, but it might be because of his bloodline? He might have something similar to what Raayi has. That would make sense."

"Does that mean no one is gone to eliminate anymore?" One of the moderators asked. "It's impossible to stop the flame of Mander. Similarly, cold can't affect Raayi, and the lightning Armor of Ron is also a hassle. And now even Lucifer can't be eliminated?"

"We can't say for sure. I've not used the full extent of my cold on anyone before. I don't think I'm even allowed to, but who knows. I might get the permission to use it if there are no winners. All of them are really young, so they might not resist. Even the Bloodline of cold could fail. When push comes to shove. So let's see."