Chapter 205 – 205 Survival Assessment (7)
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As we entered the fourth day, the difficulty of survival gradually began to rise.
In the beginning, it was relatively easy to hunt, but as monsters gradually appeared, it became difficult to obtain food through hunting.
There was a nearby river that could be used for fruit or drinking water, but it seemed insufficient to satisfy hunger.
In a difficult situation to survive alone, the cadets with poor skills began to unite among themselves.
Concentrating all one’s efforts in a given environment, and creating a coalition if one cannot solve it alone is one way.
It doesn’t matter as long as they can trust each other, but if they unite with strangers, there are times when they hit the back of the head.
However, the cadets who needed an alliance ended up in the lower ranks, and the gains from betrayal were not so great.
In addition, even if we fall here, we will see each other face to face anyway. At first, the union creaked, but now it felt like it was slowly taking its place.
One of a large coalition of over 30 members, they stopped just beyond the perimeter.
“Supplies are falling over there…”
“I’m falling over there…”
“Isn’t there anyone who went there and came back alive?”
I don’t know who they were, but because they had all sorts of trap magic installed around them, there were not one or two cadets who went near and got eliminated.
Seeing that magic was installed in that range, it was probably a cadet belonging to the highest rank.
“There should be food in the supplies…”
“You mean what you ate when you got lucky?”
The mid-ranking coalition swallowed their saliva as they watched the falling supplies.
I was lucky enough to get supplies. The cube in it was taken by the cadet, who was the leader of the coalition, and shared the rest of the food.
As they recalled the taste of the food at that time, saliva began to form without their knowledge.
Kimchi jjigae with hot steam and hot rice.
Patience began to run out as I recalled the supplies containing various types of food, including Korean, Western, and Japanese.
“Ah… It wasn’t really a big deal outside…”
“I want to have chicken..”
“Just fried and crispy…”
“Stop talking about food. I’m hungry!”
Did they say that a healthy person could survive for one to two months just by drinking water?
As hunters, it wasn’t that hard to endure a week, but it was difficult to endure even a day, perhaps because they had little experience like this.
As the tuition is expensive, it was not easy to suddenly adapt to this environment after living without lacking.
I can’t sleep comfortably, I can’t eat food, I can’t even wash properly, it’s an extreme situation.
Even though there were a lot of people, they were succeeding in hunting monsters, but it wasn’t easy to cook in a situation where there were no special cooking utensils.
A unique fishy taste that can’t be caught there.
Because of the fishy taste, there were also cadets who succeeded in hunting but only filled their stomachs with water.
“I can’t stand it! I don’t know who it is, but how many of us are!!”
“So, no matter how good you are, it must be burdensome to deal with everyone?”
“No. The risk is too great.”
Choi Seung-tae, the leader of the coalition, began to calm the cadets.
In the beginning, they were cadets who followed Choi Seung-tae’s opinion, but as the stress piled up, they began to change.
“How can a person live on only water!!”
“If you think about it, aren’t you just talking like that and secretly eating something behind your back?”
“That’s not it. Don’t make weird assumptions.”
“You can’t accumulate points by being in an alliance anyway.”
Since there were so many people, it was not easy to distribute the points.
I don’t know if there was a system that distributed the amount of damage inflicted, but it was a structure in which all points were accumulated to the person who delivered the final blow correctly.
I’m hitting the last hit in turn, but it took a long time for more than 30 people to accumulate points.
“Isn’t it better to fight than to continue to suffer like this?”
Compared to the top scores that are released every day, their scores were terrible.
Even if you live this hard, if you can’t accumulate points, isn’t it just suffering?
When such opinions began to emerge, the coalition began to crack.
‘Is this the reason why there are no restrictions on the alliance…’
There was no advantage to being united.
“Anyway, I have to go over there!!”
“If I stay still, I’ll just suffer and be in the lower ranks!!”
“So if you’re lucky enough to knock it down, won’t you be able to rise to the ranks right away?”
“Hey wait!!”
Despite Choi Seung-tae’s dissuade, the cadets began to cross the boundary.
“You’ve already taken down another guy!”
“Yeah, that bastard was careless and went to the goal!!”
As the number of people increased, I felt that courage was born.
They began to explore the surroundings and enter the area, and the moment they crossed a certain range, the trap magic began to work.
“Kyaaaaa!!!”
“What is this again!!”
Suddenly, the ground under my feet went green, and fireballs flew from the surroundings.
Raising the shield, he hurriedly succeeded in defending, but no great damage occurred.
“Is it worth a try?”
“Are you scared for nothing?”
The moment I muttered that and tried to get out of the swamp, I felt something suddenly activate under my feet.
“Something under my feet… Gurgling…”
Sparks so intense that you could see them flew in all directions. The cadets who were stranded were unable to resist and were electrocuted and passed out.
If the bracelet hadn’t dampened the shock, he would have died.
In one moment, seven cadets were eliminated. The moment the shield was broken, it began to warp out of the artificial dungeon.
Everyone was silent about what had happened in an instant.
I didn’t even notice the trap until right before it was triggered. A difference in skill that can be said to be overwhelming.
“Electric attack…”
“Could it be Lee Da-eun?”
“Maybe it’s just magic…”
Seeing the 7 of them disappear in an instant, everyone seemed to be calming down.
“Yeah…Wasn’t that too much?”
“Haha, that’s right…”
By the time they realized how different their level was from the top-level cadets, they felt people from behind them.
“Who are you!”
“I heard an explosion, so I came here… Why are there so many people?”
A manly face that looks like a lot of playfulness, a charming voice with a deep bass, and a look that even men can’t admit.
“Kim Si-woo..?”
“You’re handsome, you’re handsome…”
“Is that what you’re going to say now?”
Choi Seung-tae scanned Kim Si-woo with a look of caution.
He got a cube like himself with enhanced equipment.
‘It’s on a different level from my sword…’
It had a much better looking appearance than his own weapon reinforced with cubes. A bracelet that looks a little different there.
“What’s going on here?”
The leader, Choi Seung-tae, came forward and talked to Kim Si-woo.
Kim Si-woo didn’t care too much because it was obvious that he was trying to buy time for the cadets around him to prepare for battle.
Even if all the guys around him attacked, he had the confidence to knock them down.
“I’m gathering supplies, did you see where they fell?”
Since supplies no longer fall in the snowy mountain area, they had no choice but to come down to the center.
As the last day of the exam approaches, they must be planning to gather people to the center.
“If it’s supplies, it fell over there.”
“Is that the place where you heard the explosion earlier?”
“Yes.”
Choi Seung-tae pretended to be calm and began to roll his head quickly.
Although 7 people were eliminated, there were still about 30 people.
Compared to that, Kim Si-woo is one person, and if you compare the rankings, he is higher than them, but wouldn’t it be possible with this amount of people?
Haven’t you already experienced defeating a few people?
“The forest over there is dangerous, do you intend to enter?”
“Dangerous?”
After repeating the hunt a few times, the situation came to a certain extent.
‘I’m not a cadet like Lee Da-eun, but I can defeat Kim Si-woo.’
If you move in the direction of dropping the cadets starting this time, you might be able to get rid of your competitors and take a high ranking.
‘It takes the video I saw recently… But if 30 people attack at the same time, at least the shield…’
Everyone seemed to have similar thoughts and started exchanging hand signals without saying a word.
He slowly began to embrace Kim Si-woo. Choi Seung-tae started talking as much as possible to attract Kim Si-woo’s attention.
“I don’t know who it was, but they plastered the surroundings with trap magic. We tried to get in too, but we got hit by a few people.”
“Hmm?”
As if hunting a monster, they secretly began to settle down. Choi Seung-tae deliberately raised his voice so that he could attack at the best possible timing.
“Yes! You’d better not go in.”
“Why are you telling me that?”
“Right.. I’ve been keeping an eye on the usual performance! That’s why I don’t want to see you drop out so ridiculously.”
“That’s right…”
Kim Si-woo muttered that and burst out laughing.
“Me too. But…”
Everyone noticed the change in the playful face and the sudden heavy air.
‘Did you already know..?’
Actually, it was more than 30 people.
No matter how dull they were, there was no way they wouldn’t notice even if they saw 30 people moving.
‘But he was too conceited.’
Although the opportunity for a surprise attack was over, the situation was already in place.
The formation created while hunting monsters, each of them had already decided what their role would be.
In a situation where the retreat is already blocked, can you defend against attacks from all directions?
There was no need for a strong attack.
Breaking the shield was not an issue with an attack that had a wide range and was difficult to defend against, such as a fire attack.
If he sends a signal, the cadets around him will move at the same time to hunt Siwoo Kim.
In the midst of the tension, the names of the top cadets began to emerge with a notification sound on the field.
1st place Yoon Seo-ah.
2nd place: Hyeji Park.
As the names went up one by one, the confrontation continued without doing anything as if they had promised each other.
It would be enough to attack right away, but for some reason I couldn’t give an attack order because of the pressure.
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Lee Da-eun in 5th place.
Unlike Choi Seung-tae, who was all nervous, Si-woo Kim began to check the list above with a relaxed expression.
Being in the top 30 out of over 1000 cadets meant that he was a ridiculous monster.
“Did Seo-ah suddenly jump out?”
“…”
“Did Minji go down?”
24th Kang Min-ji.
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30th Kim Si-woo.
“30.. 30th place? ?”
Kim Si-woo, who was in front of me, smirked and laughed.
“Go… Attack!!!!”
