Author’s Note: Unedited Chapter

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Underneath his armpit area were two Viondur Eggs which he held with a slight look of dissatisfaction despite being unbothered about his injuries.

“I ran into some trouble,” Gustav voiced before turning to face Aildris.

Aildris nodded and handed the storage button in his possession to Gustav. As Gustav made use of Gravitational Manipulation, the eggs in his grasp floated while he passed Aildris storage button back to him as well.

Zing! Zing!

The two Viondur Eggs vanished from sight at the same moment all of Gustav’s burns and cuts healed up completely.

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“All captains are required to place the eggs they have acquired into any of the Flaming Cauldrons for proper calculation,”

Handler One’s voice reverberated across the entire vicinity as flaming cauldrons began rising from the ground at the corners of the arena.

Each cauldron was as large as a full grown human so there wouldn’t be any issues with putting the Viondur Eggs in. The captains began heading to the cauldrons to place their eggs in.

At the moment, the screens floating above displayed the scoreboards without scores. Only the planet names were visible.

Each time a captain placed a Viondur egg in one of the cauldrons, scores would appear before their planet name on the screens and their position would move up.

In a couple of minutes about three hundred captains had emptied the contents of their storage into the cauldron and the calculation of scores was still ongoing.

Some captains didn’t move from their standing point since a lot of planets didn’t manage to acquire a single Viondur Egg at the end of the challenge.

Besides this, some planet groups also lost their eggs to the Phixiq participants before the end of the Viondur Challenge. Their animosity was currently fueled as they glared in the direction of the Phixiq captain who was walking over to one of the cauldrons.

It almost seemed like the captains who were suspected of holding the highest number of Viondur Eggs by the participants finally decided to move at this point.

As Gustav stepped forward with his storage button in hand, so did Ozious, Oxlrkik, Xionsi, Draconets and a couple other captains as well.

Captain Strum glared at Gustav from the corner of his eyes as the animosity in the air grew higher at this point. Gustav’s face remained expressionless as he stepped forward, ignoring the stares from everyone.

Bolstron the captain of the Phixiq plamet happened to be structured like a mechanical red upper humanoid body and the lower body of an arachnid like creature with thirty two legs.

The number of participants glaring at him in animosity happened to be way higher than others but the mechanical like creature didn’t seem to care as a black metal liquid appeared before him.

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Viondur Eggs began to phase out of this floating black liquid metal which he placed in the flaming cauldron one after the other.

-“That bastard!”

-“They robbed you too?”

-“My group is a victim as well and we only acquired two eggs,”

-“I’ll make sure he pays in the next challenge,”

Some of the participants seemed to be triggered as they stared at the number of eggs that kept phasing out of the black liquid metal. Seeing so many of the eggs, the other captains who had placed their eggs in a cauldron already lost all flicker of hope they initially had.

“Hmph, We may lose this one but our great planet will remain on top,” Captain Strum scoffed as he placed the last egg from his storage into the egg.

Staring up at the scoreboard, his eyes widened a little as he spotted the current situation.

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1. Planet Phixiq – 30 Viondur Eggs > 12,000 points

2. Planet Diaporonian – 22 Viondur Eggs > 8800 points

3. Planet Draconet –  21 Viondur Eggs > 8400 points

4. Planet Ozious – 20 Viondur Eggs > 8000 points

5. Planet Hixto – 17 Viondur Eggs > 6800 points

6. Planet Diov – 17 Viondur Eggs > 6800 points

7. Planet Tronvida – 15 Viondur Eggs > 6000 points

8. Planet Earth – 15 Viondur Eggs > 6000 points

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Ths scoreboard was still counting since the captains were still inputting their eggs which was why Captain Strum was shocked when he noticed a considerably weaker planet was currently first position.

He couldn’t fathom how this was possible especially since he had dropped every egg in his position into the cauldron already.

While he didn’t expect to have the first spot anymore due to his suspicions about earth after the scoreboard was displayed at the ending of the second week.

They had only managed to acquire four more eggs than what Earth acquired at the end of the second week when the challenge finally ended so he wasn’t very optimistic.

“Planet Phixiq…” He growled while turning to stare in the direction of their captain.

Captain Bolstron still happened to not have finished dropping all the eggs in his possession into the cauldron.

The spectators were going bonkers at this point as everyone seemed to be hinged on the fact that Planet Phixiq had won.

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After a few more seconds the rankings on the scoreboard had undergone change once more.

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1. Planet Phixiq – 41 Viondur Eggs > 16,400 points

2. Planet Earth – 40 Viondur Eggs > 16,000 points

3. Planet Diaporonian – 22 Viondur Eggs > 8800 points

4. Planet Draconet –  21 Viondur Eggs > 8400 points

5. Planet Ozious – 20 Viondur Eggs > 8000 points

6. Planet Hixto – 17 Viondur Eggs > 6800 points

7. Planet Diov – 17 Viondur Eggs > 6800 points

8. Planet Tronvida – 15 Viondur Eggs > 6000 points

9. Planet Oxlrk 15 Viondur Eggs > 6000 points

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-“Planet Phixiq won…”

-“Earth was came very close. If they had one more egg it would be a draw,”

-“The statistics are unbelievable, how did this happen?”

-“I did not even expect to see the earth in top three… Who knew they gathered this much,”

Chatter! Chatter! Chatter!

The entire place had turned noisier as Captain Bolstron could be seen heading back to where his other teammates were positioned.

‘If earth’s captain had not taken two back out of the four we stole from him we would have gotten totalled 17,200 points but the current statistics isn’t bad either,’ He thought as he walked back to his teammates area.

This undoubtedly meant that he had inputted all the eggs in his possession into the flaming Cauldron. However, Gustav still seemed to be standing before the cauldron in front of him unmoving.

The spectators as well as other participants felt that he must have been shocked by the results above as acquiring such a number of eggs would make one believe they had definitely won.

While the environment was extremely noisy, Gustav was in his thoughts.

‘I really wanted to experiment on some and see what makes it so important… I guess i can’t do that now,’ Gustav was internally at loss as he reached for his storage button.

Tap!

He singled out two sphere shaped objects that were emitted in holographic format from his storage button and right before everyone’s eyes, an unexpected scenario played out.

Zing~ Zing~

Two multicoloured three feet large eggs appeared before Gustav.

-“What? He had two more?”

-“How in the world does he have more?”

-“This is unbelievable,”

-“Why did he stand there all this time if he still had more?”

The spectators areas lit up in a frenzy once more as this unexpected occurrence took them completely by surprise.

At the position of the handlers, they had a look of relief as they watched Gustav drop these two eggs into the flaming cauldron before him.

Planet Ozious were fifth place currently, yet the handlers seemed to be relieved when Gustav relinquished the last two Viondur Eggs in his possession, putting earth at the top.

If Gustav had noticed them, he would definitely have found this suspicious, however, his mind was currently elsewhere.

‘What a loss… oh well,’ Gustav decided to stop being bothered about it and turned around at this point.

He had wanted to keep the last two eggs he stole back from the Phixiq group to himself but he eventually had to drop them or earth would have lost.

Chatter! Chatter! Cheer! Cheer!

While there were loud voices of confusion and displeasure all across, the cheers coming from the earth spectators area happened to be very loud as well.

“You sure gave us a scare there Gus,”

“Looks like you were taking your time to cause this type of reaction,”

Everyone began voicing out one after the other upon Gustav’s return.

“Yeah I wanted to keep an egg for myself but I guess I’ll just have to let things be,” Gustav shrugged as earth completely became the centre of attention at this point.

“This isn’t possible? How?”

On planet Phixiq area they were plenty shocked as to how they still lost the first place despite how many groups they stole from.

After a couple more minutes went by, the final result of the Viondur Egg challenge was on display for everyone to see.