So in reality, using bows and arrows in this test is useless in hunting beasts. But bows and arrows are very useful in hunting other examinees.
Very few examinees are like him, who has strength at the third transformation of the second mortal coil and a powerful bow at the third rank.
He is three times stronger than the best examinee at the tenth transformation. When the powerful bow is added into the mix, it becomes very easy for him to smash open the skulls of beasts at the first mortal coil with arrows while standing on land.
He has the option to wait for other examinees to gain a lot of points before killing them to earn his own points. But that's putting all of his eggs in one basket.
He has confidence in his strength and believes that he can kill anyone at the first mortal coil easily, but there is nothing he can do if an examinee surrenders and leaves the test with their point intact.
If he catches an examinee off guard and kills them before they can surrender, he will get 30% of their points. It will be easy to do too.
But rather than place all his hope on his fellow examinees, he can earn his points on his own. This will not only secure his first place, but it will also make him attractive to other strong examinees.
He is especially looking forward to that last part. Instead of looking for targets, it is always easier to lure them over. It is even better if he has something that makes them reluctant to give up and surrender.
He chuckled evilly when he thought about this. The sound of his evil chuckle made the people around him feel a chill and avoid him.
It is already frightening that he can kill these beasts as easily as taking candy from a baby. They don't want to consider what will happen to them if they happen to be in the sights of his bow.
As they watched one arrow after another fly into the sea never to return, they saw the cluster of rings on his head become brighter and brighter. The rings went from four to seven and then to ten quickly.
Four rings of light meant performance points of 100. Ten rings of light meant performance points of 10,000.
At this point, the cluster of light on his head has become as large as a wide hat. The light that the rings are producing has also become so bright that it can be seen from islands more than a kilometer away.
It was quite a sight. Anyone who sees the cluster of light on his head can tell at a glance that he is very dangerous. The people on the islands around him don't doubt that he is Arthur Red Mane at all. They can confirm this by checking the ranking and looking at the points that Arthur Red Mane has earned.
But despite the fear that they feel for him and the chill that goes through their bodies when he glances at them, there is still a certain amount of greed.
The greed lay beneath their fear. His strength is incredible, and his outfit is scary. But if they can kill him, they will earn 30% of his performance points.
30% of ten thousand points is three thousand points. With three thousand points, they will reach second place immediately.
Ten thousand points is so large that even if Arthur loses 30% of it, his position as the first will remain unshakable. So how can they not be tempted?
They are all tempted in one way or another. From the lowest of them, who don't dare to dwell too much on killing Arthur Red Mane and can only consider it briefly, to the more daring ones who are thinking of gathering people to gang up on him and catch him off guard.
They all want a piece of him. But no one wants to take the first step against him.
No one dared to take the first step when they suspected him to be Arthur Red Mane. Now they have even less courage to take that first step after his identity has been confirmed and he has limited two people in short order.
They are afraid of death. But when there is a will, there will be a way. Certain people began gathering people to plan.
On the surface, they appeared to be working together to hunt beasts in the sea. But they were actually planning to hunt the great beast in land right beside them.
No one is willing to take the first step since it is certain that they will be eliminated if they do so. They will only die and won't gain anything if they do that. But if they gain something, then they might be willing to take the first step.
If, for example, certain rich young masters and mistresses from powerful cultivation families make promises to other examinees in order to make them sacrifice their lives to distract and hold Arthur back, some of those examinees might be willing to take the first step.
Many of the young masters were working on this. They were pretending to hunt beasts while they schemed against Arthur Red Mane.
Some of them went into the water to hunt beasts. But they couldn't concentrate on doing that because Arthur's cluster of rings was getting bigger and brighter.
He was like a dazzling treasure chest to them. They couldn't help but be anxious to attack him. But they were smart. They decided to wait until he was tired from shooting so many arrows.
While this was going on, the same was happening on other islands. The difference was that everyone wasn't focused on a single person.
The temptation of free performance is a strong allure to the examinees. It made them wary of each other.
Everyone had to be careful not to be ambushed by others. This made them fearful and hesitant in their actions.