Cultivating Through The Game-Chapter 592 - 330: The 1st Wave of the Mind Flayer’s Attack

The crowd saw the look of disappointment on the faces of the Fire Wolf Squad members and the battle scars left on their mentors. It was clear that the Fire Wolf Squad had failed their promotion trial.

The two mentors, observing the battlefield from the sky, saw the devastation: craters and cracks were everywhere, leaving no doubt that a fierce battle had erupted here.

The traces of the demons had vanished. It was unclear if they had fled or been killed; further investigation was needed for definitive answers.

The scholarly-looking mentor stepped forward and said, "Give me your squad's Demon-Breaking Cones."

Wei Long and Ye Qingzhou handed over the Demon-Breaking Cones to the examiner, who, after examining the usage records, appeared quite astonished.

These two Demon-Breaking Cones were actually pinned on the same demon. The final results from both cones indicated that the demon was slain, leaving the examiner bewildered as this was the first time he had encountered such a situation.

Though there had been instances of teams competing for the same target before, typically, only one team's Demon-Breaking Cone would show the information indicating the defeat of the demon.

The fact that both Demon-Breaking Cones issued the same information confirmed that the two squads had teamed up to kill a Core Formation Realm demon.

The examiner was about to announce the failure of both teams in the trial, as the promotion trial required a squad to individually tackle and defeat a Core Formation Realm demon for a pass.

Lu Yu quickly interjected, "Our two squads encountered two Core Formation Realm demons at the same time and managed to defeat both together. Does this count as passing the trial? I have the event recorded here."

He produced the Memory Stone for the mentors to view. The scene captured at the start was of the Black Snake Squad seizing the Minotaur demon, but the distance was so great that the Memory Stone didn't record any of their voices.

The crowd could only see the Black Snake Squad fighting with the Minotaur demon, and later, another demon resembling an ostrich appeared. It was only later that people realized it wasn't an ostrich but a three-headed vulture.

Lu Yu had informed the others that it was a three-headed vulture, because in the recording, only two heads were visible, while the third head that he had eliminated wasn't captured.

Lu Yu preserved the footage to prove that the Black Snake Squad had initiated the confrontation. If anything else happened later, and the Black Snake Squad tried to blame them, he had evidence.

The two mentors, after reviewing the Memory Stone and surveying the surrounding environment to ensure the authenticity of the scenes recorded, decided after some discussion to declare both the Green Peng and Black Snake squads as having passed the trial.

Just as they were about to speak, a subtle fluctuation occurred somewhere in the sky, unnoticed by all present.

"I announce that the Green Peng Squad and the Black Snake Squad have successfully passed the trial. Congratulations on becoming members of the Celestial Tier intermediate squads," the scholarly-looking mentor said with a smile.

The members of the Green Peng and Black Snake squads exchanged glances and cheered happily, especially those from the Black Snake squad, who felt a little more uncertain in their hearts.

In the midst of the cheers, the smile on the speaking mentor's face suddenly froze as a gaping hole appeared in his chest, his beating heart gone.

His expression turned rigid as he lowered his head with difficulty, the Spiritual Power within him instinctively covering the wound in an attempt to stop the bleeding.

The mentor's eyes turned vacant, as if his heart had been taken, and with it, his consciousness too.

Typically, even when a Core Formation Realm Martial Cultivator loses their heart or suffers critical damage, they're still able to maintain combat power for some time.

Yet the current scene was extremely unusual; the instant the mentor lost his heart, it seemed his very soul was lost too, and his combat capability vanished in an instant.

The cheers ceased abruptly as the crowd looked at the mentor's body fall, heartless, fearfully searching around for the killer.

The other mentor quickly became alert, clutching his Divine Soldiers, his eyes darting around with cold sweat dripping down his forehead, completely unable to detect the assailant's whereabouts.

In an instant, the previously joyous atmosphere turned tense and murderous.

Lu Yu glanced around, walked to the fallen mentor, checked his injury, and looking up at the others, shook his head and said, "His cause of death wasn't his heart being torn out; it was his soul being extracted."

He could feel the dissipating Spiritual Power around the corpse, quickly diminishing, indicating that the mentor was irretrievably dead.

"Gulp~" The sound of swallowing echoed as everyone's hearts pounded loudly in their ears.

Everyone was highly tense, still unaware of what creature had slain a Core Formation Realm mentor.

Plop~ Another person fell down, and Lu Yu turned to see that it was the captain of the Fire Wolf Squad.

His hands still held his Divine Soldiers, and only the captain in their squad was a Core Formation Realm Martial Cultivator.

"It's attacking the Core Formation Realm, aiming to keep us all here," someone said.

In fact, as the Fire Wolf Squad captain fell, the three Core Formation Realm members present realized they were the true targets of the killer.

The attacker aimed to eliminate the biggest threats first, before dealing with the rest.

"Damn, what on earth is that thing?" Wei Long activated his Sun Flame Form, his whole body enveloped in protective six wings, ready to counter any attacks from any direction.

At present, his situation was more dangerous than the others. It wasn't that he didn't want to protect the other members of the Green Peng Squad, but including them in his protection might actually endanger them.

After all, they still had no idea of the assailant's appearance or abilities.