[The Roc has been killed by The Philippines' National Team. They are awarded the equivalent points for killing an SS rank monster. Congratulations!]

The Roc's body vanished and became ancient writings like what happened to all of the defeated SS rank monsters.

"A disaster that has two heads." Apolaki muttered as he read out the sentence that he can make out from the ancient writings.

The other teams were disappointed that they could not finish off the Roc. They are actually in shock that a monster that has a health percentage of thirty or so died with just that. The skill that Apolaki used is actually a damaging skill that stacks all the accumulated damage that the marked enemy received.

He already secured victory the moment that he planted the kris inside of the Roc. This would not have been effective for an enemy that has high spiritual sense though. This is the reason why Apolaki did not use this skill on the Blood Hungry Crimson Tiger as it would immediately sense something wrong with its soul.

Apolaki and Dupe's teamwork also played a big part in them securing the area. They are now much more wary when it comes to the person that claimed the MVP title in the second event than they were. They thought that they can easily defeat her in a PVP setting but her skills in utilizing traps is almost at the level of a mage.

In fact, Dupe has debated whether to choose a mage character or a scout character. In the end, she chose the latter but managed to find a job class that has two of the qualities. Apolaki and Dupe immediately left the scene as soon as they saw the ancient writings as they needed to gather more points.

The United Kingdom national team is currently leading the score due to them killing all SS rank and S rank monsters in the marshland area. The mountain area that had strong winds and mighty looking peaks started to lose its majesty as the SS rank monster has already died.

The strong winds became a soft gentle wind that cannot even bring down blades of grass. The mighty and majestic looking peaks started to lose their grandiose as if something made it look ugly. The monsters in the northern area also dispersed as soon as the SS rank monster died.

"Should we aim for the south?" Anastacia asked the disappointed Sveto.

"We will not make it if we start now. We should kill the S rank monsters here instead. It seems that they did not kill the S rank monsters and instead focused on killing the SS rank monster." Sveto stated as the two of them searched the S rank monsters in the mountain region.

The other teams pulled out their Companionship Crystals and summoned their mounts. They wanted to have enough time to at least have a chance to kill steal the last SS rank monster. Some of them just searched for the A rank monsters for points as they knew that the SS rank monster in the desert should already be dying at this point.

It seems that they have severely looked down on their opponents' time in dealing with SS rank monsters. They thought that they would have a difficult time taking down an SS rank monster, but it is actually easier if they all worked together like what they have been doing now.

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The Sand Apparition is not an easy opponent by any means even if they can visibly see the weakness which the red core is floating in the middle of the sand tornado. The Sand Apparition is a being that makes use of other people's desire, thoughts and fear.

The real power of the Sand Apparition started to manifest when a lot of people in its vicinity. Its ability to charm other people is limited but its ability to use the things inside the heads of others is almost omnipotent. With the sand as its canvas, the Sand Apparition started to utilize all the things that individuals around it hold great fear.

This fear is actually limited to the game as the developers will not shamelessly expose someone's trauma from the real world. At first, it was the female genie but the next thing that manifested is a dragon that slammed the aspect of Vepar away with the other Ukraine team members.

The dragon's face is familiar with Vepar as he knows this dragon as it was one of the shames of the dragon kind. The dragon is one of the spawns of the Dragon of Gluttony that devoured not only that of the lower species but also its kind.

For a player to have this fear engraved into them means that they must have visited its tomb. Vepar knew that there is no one that utilized this dragon's power here which means that they must have lost their life fighting it. Fortunately, the Sand Apparition's sand illusions have a distinct weakness.

"The beings that are turned into sand illusions are subjected to the victim's idea of it. Which means that the abilities that these Sand Illusions use is limited to what those that encountered have seen. The illusions are also not as powerful as the original, but they are almost unlimited." The aspect of Vepar stated as he erected a barrier that protected them from the attack of the Sand Dragon.

The sand illusions are of different qualities and creatures. There are even some sand illusions that are similar to monsters in the starting village, Genesis. It must mean that one player must have a horrible experience in the starting village for there to be monsters from the starting village here.

The definition of fears used by the Sand Apparition is a broad term as it might only be what they do not like to what killed them in under a second. As the Sand Apparition is not capable of complete autonomous thought, it used whatever it could pick up from the living beings around it.

A legion of sand illusions now stands before the contestants as they tried to aim at the red core that the Sand Apparition has. Vayu is the one that came the closest to the red core as he managed to slash it with his katana. His figure of stepping in invisible wind looked like that of a superpowered samurai.

As a half wind elemental, Vayu could predict the flow of the wind and use it as an optimal chance to get close to his opponent. The Sand Apparition is no different as he is faster than it could create Sand Illusions. He only had difficulty the moment that the dragon sand illusion joined the fray. Even if the dragon is made up of sand and is just a copy of the original, it should still have something that can copy from the real dragon.

The good news is that the Sand Apparition seemed to stop creating more Sand illusions as soon as it created the dragon. It must have reached its capacity in controlling its creations. The number of sand illusions is not decreasing though as a new one would immediately formulate as soon as the cut down one of the Sand Illusions.

The developers would not purposely make a monster this powerful unless it has a weakness. The players soon noticed that the Sand Apparition's health would decrease by 0.01 % every time that they defeated a normal small size sand illusion. The bigger the sand illusion defeated then the higher the health that is reduced upon the monster.

The only problem is that they would need to defeat multiple sand illusions to just defeat the Sand Apparition. It is not great because they rather go away and hunt other monsters. They wanted to aim at the core, but the dragon sand illusion is basically safeguarding it from enemies.

Even the aspect of Vepar cannot approach easily as he is also conserving some of his strength. The summoning that Cersei used is the 50% health and 90% mana summoning which means he unlimited time in the real world but will be released if either Cersei dies or the aspect of Vepar dies.

The aspect of Vepar is also protecting Cersei at the same time as there could be snakes hiding in the sands. Cersei also knows this which is why he also has one of her team members beside her always. It is then two large spells of different elements could be seen forming from above and below the Sand Apparition.

The magic circle that appeared above it contained the frost element while the magic circle that formed below it contained the fire element. They looked at the person using the spell and saw Merlin floating in the air chanting as her eyes became white with just light. They wanted to stop her as she could kill the Sand Apparition but she is being protected by Pendragon that stood just below her.