A week went by in the blink of an eye, and Grey, who had only broken through to the Fourth stage of the Elemental Venerable Plane not less than two months was already in the Fifth stage now, and this was with him trying to make sure he didn't break through too fast.
The chaos energy he absorbed on his own, and the one he got from the fruit was enough to shoot his realm to the Sixth and even the Seventh stage with ease, but he didn't want to advance with such speeds anymore, he didn't feel like it was a good idea so he stopped advancing that fast.
Void and the bunny leader on the other hand were in the Late and Mid stages of the Seventh Rank, respectively. Void had gotten to the late stage while the bunny leader was at the Peak of the Mid stages. It would get to the Late stages in a short time.
"Alright, we've advanced well with the fruit. It's time to get to business. First, I need something better than what my father suggested." Grey focused on the bunny leader.
The bunny leader already knew what Grey wanted, and it was something that could heal spiritual consciousness. His father suggested something, but that was all up to luck. Since the bunny leader had come here for a few years, Grey felt that it would know if there was something better than what his father suggested.
'There is, actually. But it's in a place that is more dangerous than where your father suggested, and it isn't a town or anything, rather, it's a well known danger zone.' The bunny leader explained.
"How dangerous?" Grey asked.
If the place was too dangerous, he wouldn't go there. Although he wanted to save Arya's brother, it didn't mean he wanted to lose his life in the process.
After some time, the bunny leader replied, 'With your current strength, you have a good chance at survival.'
"I see, let's go then. I'll access the place when we get there, if it's something I can deal with, I'll get it." Grey said and the group started their journey.
Their current destination was around a month or so from their current location, so the sooner they head out the better for them.
The trio left that day.
….
Somewhere in the Chaos Battlefield.
An arena.
A young man was fighting ferociously with his opponent.
The young man was a pure Fire Elementalist, and he was fighting with a creature that was native to the Chaos Battlefield. Even with the suppression of the eruption, he was still able to defeat an opponent that was a stage above him.
"Is this all you have? Then there's no use in me coming any more." The young man commented when he easily defeated his opponent.
The strength of his flames was far above others.
The crowd staring at the young man in the arena felt their blood boil, but no one stepped up.
During the past month, this young man had come to the arena and challenged people two stages above them, and he had unfailingly defeated all of them. It has been over thirty days, and anyone who stepped forward would be defeated with such ease that some people started to doubt his cultivation stage. But after it was confirmed, most of them could only give up.
"J! One more fight!" The crowd yelled.
The young man referred to as J looked at the crowd and chuckled before walking out of the arena.
…..
Grey, Void, and the bunny leader got to the area the bunny leader suggested. They used around a month to get there and that was all that's to Grey avoiding anything that would hold them back.
When they got to the area, Grey was stunned as to how active the place was. Since it was called a danger zone, he expected very few people to be there, but people from all walks of life and form were there. It was as if this was the place to be in the Chaos Battlefield.
'This is the place to be in the Chaos Battlefield, the Chaos Arena!' The bunny leader introduced.
Grey looked at the place and at the bunny leader again, "A place regarded as a danger zone is an arena?"
'You don't understand, this place isn't like an ordinary arena. Once you come here, your aura will be picked and you would be assigned a battle. If you're lucky, you'll fight with someone two stages lower than you, if not, someone two stages higher. Also, once you're here, you can't leave except completing five battles.' The bunny leader explained.
"That's not hard." Grey didn't see anything dangerous with this.
'You don't understand, the moment you're called up, you must fight all five battles before leaving. Even if you're almost dead from the previous battle, as long as it's not the last one, you can't leave.' The bunny leader elaborated.
"Oh…" Grey turned around and found out that he was unable to leave the area. Even with the help of his space element, he was still unable to go anywhere.
"Why didn't you say this from the start?" He asked.
'I told you with your strength you should be able to survive it. You're the one who didn't ask any more questions.' The bunny leader shirked away from taking responsibility.
Grey didn't bother with him and headed to the arena. He wanted to get with this as soon as possible.
When he got there, he noticed he would have to head over to the place where he would register his name.
When he did, he asked the bunny leader why they didn't need to drop their names. Apparently, both the bunny leader and Void didn't need to drop their names and the bunny leader dropped a reply that irritated Grey.
'Since we're on you, we don't need to drop our names. Besides, we're too small to fight. That's why I like this place.'
Grey gave up on the bunny leader and decided to look at the rewards, his eyes glowed when he saw what the bunny leader told him was better than what his father suggested. Seeing how high it was ranked, he knew it was no joke, this thing was in the top five things to get, the only issue was that the only way to get those items in the top five was after winning hundred battles, consecutively. He must not lose a single battle in those hundred, if not, he loses.
Grey couldn't help but look at the bunny leader.
'It's a good exercise for you to practice your new strength.' The bunny leader said.
Grey shook his head and looked at the leaderboard, his eyes fell on a particular figure that was presently on eighty plus victories. It's the only name on eighty plus victories and that person was a stage above him. There was no way for them to fight against each other. Seeing J, and human close to it, he couldn't help but wonder who this person was.
Of the top five treasures, the only thing that he found important was the plant he needed for Arya's brother, of course the rest things were useful, but he had no plans of increasing his stage anytime soon.
While he was looking around, he got to find out that the person referred to as J, had already fought today but will be coming the next day. According to them, he had been fighting everyday for the past days, and would be coming the next day.
"Alright, I should go see who I'm fighting with." Grey headed to the arena.
His opponent was someone two stages below him, he couldn't believe how lucky he was, but after thinking about it, he knew it would not get better from there since the next opponents he would have to fight would all be two stages above him, unless he decides to show a weak front.
Thinking about it, he didn't have that time so he straight out one-shotted his opponent. With a single attack, he sent his opponent out of the arena, into a coma.
The others were stunned when they saw him. The crowd couldn't help but roar his name out loud.
The four others he got to fight were all two stages above him, but without fail, he defeated all of them with nothing more than a few attacks.
Grey's fame quickly grew in this place. It was very easy to become famous when you can one-shot an opponent two stages lower than you, and even easily overpower your opponent.
The next day, most of the crowd didn't have to wait for just one person to person as brilliantly as J, now, there are two people with such capabilities and they were both humans which made some of the Magical Beasts present a bit angered, some promised to take them down, while others were just watching the fun.
