The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

The group consisting of other superpowers of the same realm were doing alright. The clans and sects that had gathered together all had good relations with one another so it was easy for them to co-operate with each other. But the loose alliance of cultivators from various weaker sects were having a lot of trouble as the unity between them was non-existent.

But still there were a few people in the group of weaker powers who were vastly superior to the other participants. These genius disciples grouped up together and called themselves the elite of this group and decided to lead the other.

Obviously quite a few disciples were not happy with this arbitrary decision and they were also unwilling to be led by piers they did not know about. But those elite disciples took a ruthless course of action and decisively killed all the disciples who tried to go against them. This scared the other disciples and they did not try to resist this anymore.

This was definitely a crude plan to maintain the unity of the group but it actually worked. With proper leaders, this group of mismatched disciples finally started to work together and co-operated with each other to complete the trial. So even though there was some serious problem with this group, at the end they were able to work together. But the same could not be said for the next group of people.

This group was the group which was with the royal family. The people who had joined this group were all here because they wanted to butter up the royal family. Not all of them had good relations with each other and quite a few among them were even enemies.

This problem had a very easy solution and the key to that lies with the person who was the one and only leader of this group. It was obviously none other than the prince himself who was here to represent the royal family. If the prince took his leadership seriously and ordered the other disciples around, they would not be able to disobey him and a pseudo cooperation would be established.

But that did not happen here. The prince who was here was completely incapable of leading. He was quite a talented person and had reached the realm of Divine Palace at a very young age. At the same time he was not a very arrogant person and that was also a good point about him.

But even with all these good qualities, he was lacking a lot of things. Specially he was extremely naive and simple in his thinking. If anyone said anything that he felt like was even remotely disrespectful, he would punish the person thoroughly.

For example, once in the forest, he ordered everyone to keep on going even though most of the disciples were extremely tired. So one of the disciples tried to make him understand that at the current moment, they badly needed a break. But the prince found this to be disrespectful and punished the boy by beating him up with a special whip.

The whole body of that boy was still hurting badly after all the beating he had to endure.

This was the reason why the atmosphere of the group was very tense. The prince liked to stay in his own world of thinking and did not communicate with the group members that much. This made everything much more awkward among the other disciples.

There were also people from sects that were enemies. Obviously those disciples hated each other and all of them were fighting behind the prince's back. Obviously they did not fight directly and instead were they were secretly getting in each other's way. This was even more troublesome than direct fighting.

If these people had co-operated well with one other, they would have very limited loses while climbing the mountain. But that was not the case and many disciples fell prey to the demons during that time. The current trial also should have been very easy for them with their large numbers but they were a lot of trouble completing it.

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Rien's group was the first to find all the seals and keys. Then they created a special formation and readied various methods before releasing the seal. Then as soon as the demon appeared, it was covered with powerful attacks from all the disciples, so it died almost immediately. This was the way how Rein's group was the first to finish this trial.

They were able to advance to the best stage after that and all the other groups were told that one of the groups had already managed to clear this trial. At this time, the trial ground also declared the fact that only five of the group among the eight would be able to go to the next stage and three other groups would be eliminated. So everyone needed to clear this round quickly.

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After clearing the first stage, the second stage started immediately for Rein's group. In this stage, they were told to go through a very difficult obstacle course and they had a limited amount of time to reach the next stage.

After clearing this round they all would be able to get a treasure and the quality of the treasure would depend on how quickly the disciples were able to finish the obstacle course.

Rein was the first to finish followed by Colinde and Lu Shi. Lan was obviously slower because of her limited cultivation base. The most amazing thing was that the disciples were not blinded by the greed of getting better treasure and helped each other out in the obstacle course even if it made their chance to get the best regards lower.

Rein was also happy after seeing how well this team was working together.

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The rewards they got turned out to be dependent on the time of the person who was the first to finish the race. And if that person's time was way superior to others then he would not be getting rewarded from the trail ground. So it looked like this trial ground really wanted the participants to have very good teamwork to take on the challenges.

After completing the second stage, Rein's team was advanced to the third stage. So far three more teams had qualified for the second round and they were notified about the success of Rein's team. The other four teams which included the royal team were still trying very hard to be qualified for the next stage.

The team of weaker power disciples had already managed to qualify with their significantly large numbers. The royal team did have even more members but their cooperation was way too poor. That was the reason why they had still not managed to qualify.

All in all, this trial was getting interesting.