The survivors froze on the spot, not daring to move even when the fog was slowly creeping closer.
The comment section of many challengers and ordinary people dragged into the ruin had already exploded.
[Sh*t! Is this really a league 3's ruin? Shouldn't they be at most a level 3 ruin? This one doesn't look like a level 3 ruin!]
Most challengers directly awakened as level two, so even if there was a level difference, the challengers who had awakened their abilities wouldn't die so easily— they could at least keep their lives at the cost of some injuries.
But the challenger just now died within seconds!
[Did that guy not awaken his ability? But looking at his attitude, he's definitely an awakened challenger!]
[Guys, since when does league 3's ruin have so many participants? Only league 2's ruin can pull so many people in!]
[I think this ruin...is a level four ruin...]
[What?? A level four ruin where the weakest entities inside are at least level four? Don't be kidding!]
The viewers, especially those who lived around the same shopping mall that existed in reality panicked, all thinking that there was an anomaly, until a certain number one hater chimed in.
[Leinster Slayer:
Calm down, everyone. This is indeed still a league 3's ruin, but it's a special large-scale ruin. It's not a level four ruin, just a pseudo level four.]
[We usually call this kind of ruin, a "stepping stone"]
By just clearing this one ruin, the challenger could enter a promotional match and advance to a higher-level league— league 2.
More rewards, more life votes to live in the real world without having to enter the ruin for life votes and a privilege to open a livestream even outside of a ruin, freely gathering life votes with no risk!
For veteran challengers, this kind of ruin was a God-send but for ordinary people new challengers who had just joined the league this season...
Leinster Slayer didn't send the rest of the words but the viewers in Leinster's livestream understood.
[Detective Conman:
Damn. This Leinster guy is either super lucky or super unlucky.]
Leinster caught a glimpse of Leinster Slayer's comment and his face instantly darkened.
Damn. Is his bipedal body so unlucky?
A pseudo level four ruin? Don't be kidding!
Even he didn't dare to say he could kill the level four Elevator Monster back then.
Leinster felt like pulling out his hair when the people around him suddenly buzzed noisily.
"W-what to do? What to do? We can't enter the building but the fog is getting closer!"
Those at the back of the group turned pale with fright.
Some people at the back were this season's new challengers and league 3's veterans who had awakened their abilities.
Seeing that the crowd stopped moving, they started to use their own abilities to make their way.
"Move! Move!"
Someone's hand turned into a long rubber and whipped the people around, pushing others dangerously close to the fog.
"Ah— "
Another person quickly buried into the ground like a mole and popped up directly at the front of the group.
"Ouch! What the hell— "
Another person turned into a ghost-like state, their body easily bypassing the other people's bodies.
"A-ahhhh! Ah! Ah!"
The ordinary people in the group were scared silly by these people's supernatural power.
Another chaos erupted and Leinster almost whipped his red tongue robe to silence the foolish bipedals.
Can't they just stand still and think of something??
Just then, the woman next to Leinster suddenly poked his waist and whispered in a low voice,
"It is so dark outside of the mall too, but why are we fine? Is it because we are in the parking lot?"
Is it some kind of safe zone?
Leinster quickly looked around the parking lot and noticed that outside of the parking lot, it was indeed as dark as inside the shopping mall.
Wait, no, it's not the parking lot.
Leinster's crimson pupils were full of the yellowish light that everyone subconsciously ignored.
Looking closer at the street lamps, they weren't your usual street lamps because they grew like a tree with an old hand-carry oil lamp hanging from each branch.
It was these oil lamps that emitted the yellow light, shining upon the entire parking lot.
Something clicked inside Leinster's mind and he almost jumped three feet high.
"Good job, female bipedal!"
Leinster patted the woman's back excitedly as he hurriedly went to the nearest street lamp.
When he found one, he quickly climbed the super tall street lamp and picked up two oil lamps— the ones at the lower "branches".
Not knowing that he looked like a funny gecko and not a cool spiderman, Leinster hurriedly slid down the thick pole without caring about the pain in between his crotch and hurried over back to the woman's place.
Clank. Clank.
The two oil lamps in his hands swayed, the flame inside the murky glass flickered, as if it was about to die down.
The smell of something rotten and mushy drifted for Leinster's nose but he paid no mind.
The sharp-eyed veterans noticed Leinster's strange actions and they immediately copied whatever he was doing.
Grab the oil lamps!
They're likely the key to entering the shopping mall without dying!
The slower new challengers and ordinary people were confused for a split second but people always wanted to follow the crowd.
So they immediately ran after these veterans, all climbing the street lamps and snatching the oil lamps.
"Grab the oil lamp!"
"Hurry! Hurry!"
With almost a hundred people rushing to dismantle oil lamps, the number of oil lamps that were not inside the thick fog's zone quickly dwindled.
As more and more lights were taken away, the parking lot lost its light and descended into the darkness.
Even Leinster, who already had an oil lamp shining on his body, suddenly felt a creepy feeling as his surroundings dimmed, so dark that he couldn't see anyone who didn't have the oil lamps.
His gut feeling was always right.
The moment the light was gone, the darkness immediately moved, swallowing those standing outside of the yellow light.
"A-ahhhhh— "