Chapter 160 – Thanksgiving Round 1 (3)
Follow the staff’s guidance and walk down the hallway.
Before entering the arena, the staff handed me an armband.
It was an armband representing the party leader.
Seo Soo-ah smirked as she put on the armband.
“Junior, you’re in good shape.”
“… Aren’t you being sarcastic?”
“Why would I be sarcastic about something like that? Considering your position among us, you should wear five armbands.”
No matter how much I listened to it, it seemed sarcastic…
As he is the party leader anyway, he had to be in the lead once he entered the arena.
Considering that the tank or main dealer is usually the party leader, it is very rare to see a supporter wearing an armband and taking the lead.
He gripped the handle of the lead string around Katrin’s neck.
Then she spread her wings and flew higher than me.
I purposely made her do it in order to clearly show the whole nation that she is not a normal human being.
“Then Article 16, please enter.”
“Yes.”
My heart was beating fast.
I haven’t gotten used to standing in front of a large crowd yet.
Moreover, all matches held during the Thanksgiving Day will be broadcast live on TV.
It is an event watched by the majority of the people, recording ratings comparable to those of the Olympics or the World Cup.
I straightened my back and walked, paying attention to my stride, not too fast or too slow.
Even if it is an Thanksgiving match, it is not held in a special stadium.
It is the place where I first experienced virtual space and faced Da-Hyun Choi during my entrance exam practice.
“”Wow—!!””
Cheers emanated from the crowd, which were packed so tightly that no gaps could be seen.
I wondered if it was cheers for Team 15, our first round opponent, who was walking from the other side of us, but all the eyes of the crowd were focused on us.
Rather, the 15 party members shrank as if frightened.
I felt a sense of alienation, or even a strange feeling.
Maybe this is the place to practice for the entrance exam.
I still remember that the reaction of the students who saw me and Choi Da-hyun’s sparring during the practice test was not very good.
-Article 15. Party leader 3rd year dealer—.
An announcer’s announcement came from the stadium speakers.
Starting with the party leader, I introduced the grades and names of the party members.
The 15th group had a total of 7 people just like us.
Well, I even had my familiar Katrin, so there were actually 8 of us.
-Article 16. Party leader: 1st year support Dae-seung Kong, 1st year tank Ayeon Hwang, 1st year dealer Choi Da-hyun, 1st year dealer Lee Rin, 2nd year dealer Jegal-Smith Rachel Siege Ji-ae, 3rd year support Seo Su-ah, 3rd year healer An Hye-bin.
… When the announcer memorized the name of Jegal Ji-yeon, he stuttered for a moment.
Group 15 and we faced each other with the instructor in charge of the referee in the middle of the arena.
The face of the 15th group had a look of despair.
Well, since I faced a strong candidate from the first round, I can’t feel good.
The instructor looked at us and group 15 alternately and shouted.
“Shake hands with both players.”
First of all, it is basically a sport, so you have to keep some manners.
That’s why we shake hands before the game starts.
After greeting each other with the other party members, the instructor instructed them to put their hands on the machine in the virtual space.
When we and the opposing party members all raised their hands, we were immediately transported to the virtual space.
The location is also random.
Not know in advance
For a while, my eyes went dark, and then the city area, like a shopping street, came into my field of vision.
… It’s really similar to when I was practicing for the entrance exam.
It was a city map like this back then.
[30]
Like the status window, a window indicating the countdown popped up.
The seconds hand went round and round, and the number decreased by one.
– I will briefly explain the rules of the game.
I heard the guidance voice of the voice actor, which seemed to have been recorded in the machine in advance.
[20]
-The victory conditions for this match are one of the following. First, neutralize the opposing party leader. Second, annihilate the opponent’s party. Third, when the match times out, more surviving party members than the opposing party.
In fact, the rules are really simple to call it a full-fledged sport.
Because it’s just a deathmatch.
It’s a virtual space anyway, so you can kill your opponent no matter what means you use.
A taboo activity is playing with another person mainly for fun.
Torturing without intentionally killing, not touching to subdue but molesting or raping, etc.
In a word, it means that you should not commit inhumane acts that would amount to war crimes.
[5]
-Please keep in mind that failure to comply with the above may result in a referral to the disciplinary committee.
You just need to do what you discussed with Instructor Siyoung Kim and Professor Najeong Jeong in advance.
Even Shizu Nawakura, who is at the S-class level, was defeated by me, so there is no need to be afraid.
[START]
***
In Seok-woo watched the students fight on a dedicated monitor from the VIP seats at the stadium.
But he was infinitely boring.
Seeing hamsters fighting each other seems a little cute only at first, but it’s annoying to see it all the time.
The prime minister and vice ministers next to him laughed loudly while watching the game.
Instead of watching the battle properly, they just said that that girl was pretty and that boy said that her calves were amazing.
‘Why do I have to follow these rotten politicians?’
The person who needs to know the world more than anyone else does not know the world.
Inseok-woo opened his eyes thinly.
He thought that the people who allowed these people to sit here in the name of liberal democracy were also a problem.
All power comes from the barrel of a gun.
Regardless of whoever said it, he really liked it.
After all, the reason why these politicians have power is because they monopolize the violence of the military and police.
He looked at the Prime Minister and raised one corner of his mouth.
‘Yeah, let’s laugh and talk to our heart’s content now.’
Because sooner or later you won’t be able to do that.
The summoning of the demon king was not far off.
After another boring game, the next players entered.
Articles 15 and 16.
As the players entered the field, the crowd cheered in unison.
‘A great victory.’
As a result of more recent searches of the Hunter Association’s internal data, he cleared all the simulations despite being in the first year.
He was two years older than that Robert Matthew.
Of course, the important thing is the actual subjugation performance, not the simulation.
Even if you get good grades in the simulation, there are quite a few students who are mediocre in real life.
Still, Gong Dae-seung looked like a person who would become at least S-class in the future.
But even so, In Seok-woo had confidence.
‘Even if they’re S-class, they’re not all the same S-class.’
Even for monsters of the same rank, the lower ranks and upper ranks are distinctly different.
Same with Hunter.
Even if they are hunters of the same rank, their skills are different.
In Seok-woo has always been described as the best ever in Korea.
Although unofficial, he has never lost in sparring with other S-rank Hunters.
Ambassadors from hunter superpowers such as the United States, Japan, China, Russia, England, Russia, Germany, etc., Who have SS-class hunters, came and offered immigration in person.
‘Where should I see my skills?’
Of course, the opponent is not very strong.
But even so, he will show you what kind of ability he has.
Even if he looked down on winning the engineering college, he still had skills of the S-class level.
In Seok-wu was well aware of the saying that if you are a Jiji, you will win a hundred times.
[START]
As soon as the match started, the 15th party started running towards the Gongdaeseung party.
However, the Gongdaeseung party did not move and remained still.
A twin-tailed female student named Rin Lee, belonging to the Engineering College winning party, tugged at her bowstring and she lightly let go.
Then, about 20 arrows were created from the tip of the bow and flew away.
Lee Rin repeated it 5 times in a row.
Approximately 100 arrows rained down on the 15 trillion party.
-Ahhh—!!
The tanker of the 15th party member raised his shield with a bewildered gesture.
However, he was unable to protect the main dealer, the party leader.
An arrow pierced the party leader’s heart and died.
One of the victory conditions in this game is when the opposing party leader is incapacitated.
In other words, as the party leader died, the party won this game.
In just 3 seconds.
Gong Dae-seung didn’t do anything.
All I did was stand there.
Of course, since I’m a supporter, I may not have stayed quiet.
‘Well, there are still many games left.’
I won’t stay still
In Seok-woo was optimistic.
*
Two days passed.
I didn’t know about other games, but I watched all the games where there was an engineering victory.
In no time, the Gong Dae-seung party has reached the finals.
‘I don’t know.’
Did he leave everything to the real party members and didn’t do anything himself?
While the other party members ran, he walked alone with his familiar.
Even so, the game was over in less than 20 seconds, no matter how long it was.
With the victory of the air-to-air party.
Considering that the average game time was 10 minutes, it was overwhelming.
‘If…’
Suddenly, a possibility popped up in In Seok-woo’s head.
Looking at the internal data of the Hunter Association, those girls’ skills improved significantly as they got involved with the engineering majors.
To the extent that I wonder if it was a reawakening.
There was one thing I learned from watching this match.
All party members in the Gongdaeseung party use magic.
Hunters who use magic are rare these days, when skills are the norm.
‘Does it have the ability to buff magic power?’
If you have a skill that increases the amount of magic power, such as fantasy, you can understand that the skills of the party members have risen sharply while being involved in the engineering victory.
As well as the active use of magic.
The reason why he summoned his familiar is to protect himself.
The fact that Engineering University Seung is just standing still is not because he deliberately hides his power, but because he really has nothing to do.
Clearing the simulation was also the result of increasing the magical power of the familiar and allowing the familiar to attack instead.
In Seok-woo felt like all the puzzles had been put together.
‘Then, Daeseung Gong himself is nothing special.’
The original supporters are like that.
However, there was some confusion because of the information that the simulation had been cleared.
That familiar who now protects the body of the high priest is probably a succubus.
As a succubus is good at handling magic as a species, the more magic it has, the stronger it becomes.
Perhaps that succubus was a low-middle to low-class entity.
Upper-middle to upper-level objects already have a lot of magical power, so even if a high-ranking individual was summoned with magical power, they could not make a contract.
Because high-level objects don’t really need the magical power buff given by Gong Dae-seung.
‘It won’t be very difficult to kill the gong daeseung.’
In Seok-woo smiled.
