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Hiding in the shadows
At that time, the participant that camera number 41 was filming was…
“Heo-eok, heo-eok, heo-eok!”
It looked like he was sprinting so hard that he was out of breath.
He ran while constantly looking back, and stopped only after reaching the edge of a certain cliff.
After running for a while, he sighed.
“Whoa… “How much mana is left?”
After checking the MP value on the status window, he immediately entered the shadow at his feet.
Afterwards, the place it popped out again was inside a small cave in the middle of the cliff.
It was a place that could be reached only after going down about 20 meters from where he was standing a moment ago.
“Phew, it’s arrived.”
Only then did the man feel relieved and slumped down in his seat.
This was a place I found by chance last night and spent the night.
“No one will follow you here, right?”
This was a cave located in the middle of a cliff, so no one could approach it. It wasn’t easy to find in the first place.
If he didn’t have his own unique skill that allows him to use shadows, he wouldn’t have even dared to come in here yesterday.
“All the items inside will be fine, right?”
He immediately opened the door of the oversized bag he had secretly stolen from the supply box.
At the same time, his expression brightened.
Filled with food and various potions…
“Tsk tsk tsk, yes this is it!”
Sigh!
“···!”
The sound of something being deeply penetrated is heard in his delighted ears.
Someone’s sword had pierced his heart.
A participant slowly turns his head back with his eyes wide open.
The owner of the sword was none other than Kim Jin-seong.
“···how···?”
Kim Jin-seong did not respond to the participant’s words, who were looking at him with an expression of disbelief.
He simply pulled out the knife again and coolly swung it towards the participant’s neck.
Suddenly! He muttered briefly only after the participant’s head was cleanly blown off.
“It’s too long to explain.”
In fact, Kim Jin-seong had been following him for a while.
Kim Jin-seong, who was scouting out the battle for a supply box from atop an old tree, soon discovered the figure of a participant fleeing right at his feet.
As soon as he saw the oversized bag he was carrying, Jinseong Kim immediately followed behind him.
It wasn’t difficult to chase it up to the cliff. Because they chased each other by jumping on tree branches like ninjas, there was no need for them to be caught by the participants.
The problem started from the top of the cliff…
[···huh?]
At that time, Kim Jin-seong was slightly embarrassed by the sight of the participant suddenly disappearing into the shadows.
However, he soon came to his senses again and went down to the cliff and began searching underneath.
By using the ‘Wall Climbing’ skill.
▶ Wall Climbing (Permanent Storage Skill): Makes both palms sticky for 5 minutes, allowing you to stick to the wall. Consumes 50 mana.
Kim Jin-seong, who clung to the cliff and went down to search, was soon able to discover the cave where the participant was hiding.
Jinseong Kim immediately jumped into the cave.
While using the ‘Sneaking’ skill.
▶ Sneaking (permanent storage skill): Removes the sound of the user’s footsteps for 5 minutes. Consumes 50 mana.
Thanks to this, he didn’t make any footsteps when he landed inside the cave, and the participant reacted naturally, eliminating the possibility of an annoying situation.
‘Thanks to that pretty sister, I was able to assassinate him with ease.’
At that time, Kim Jin-seong realized that the skills he gained through the comprehensive trait ‘Born Thief’, which he acquired after killing Lee Young-eun, were much more useful in this chase situation than he thought.
‘Anyway, what was the skill this person used?’
Jinseong Kim carefully read the notification window that appeared right in front of him.
▶ You have defeated the wicked.
▶ Obtained 25 Vis Creama points.
▶ You can acquire the opponent’s skill ‘Shadow Hiding’.
▷ Shadow Hide: Upon activation, it hides in a nearby shadow. If there is another shadow nearby, you can move while hidden. Consumes a steady amount of mana while active.
▶ Would you like to delete the existing skill to acquire the ‘Shadow Hiding’ skill?
‘ah···. It was such a skill.’
As soon as he read it, Kim Jin-seong was able to understand the entire situation that happened in front of him.
This participant probably used the ‘shadow hiding’ skill near the supply box to hide under another participant’s shadow and approach the box.
When everyone was distracted by the battle, he would have moved to the shadow inside the box and grabbed his bag. Afterwards, they safely escaped to a safe area using the shadows of other participants.
Afterwards, Kim Jin-seong must have spotted him rising to the ground and running away.
‘It was possible to move under this cliff because the terrain was shaded by shadows.’
When I thought about it, this entire cliff was a terrain that did not receive sunlight. This means that you can move around the entire cliff by ‘hiding in the shadows’.
‘This skill will be very useful, right?’
Isn’t this forest a terrain where more than half of the shadows are cast by the leaves even in broad daylight when the sun is high in the sky?
In this fight for survival, where tracking and escape are very important regardless of the environment, this skill seemed almost like a scam.
Of course, you absolutely have to get this.
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‘But what should I throw away…?’
This is where Kim Jin-seong’s worries began.
He currently possesses a total of six skills.
Among these, ‘Stealing’, ‘Sneaking’, and ‘Wall Climbing’ acquired through the ‘Born Thief’ trait are excluded as they are permanently stored skills.
You must discard one of the three remaining skills, but ‘Unobstructable Charge’, which makes you immune to status ailments and increases your agility, is an S-class skill, so you can never discard it.
‘Indomitable Fighting Spirit’, which increases the speed of physical recovery, is also a very necessary skill in emergencies, and ‘Single Strike Special’ has been so useful in every battle so far that it would be a waste to throw it away.
Which of these three should I throw away?
Jinseong Kim was lost in thought for a long time with a serious expression.
* * *
[Ah, Lee Do-hyeon, I let my guard down! I guess I never expected that someone would chase me all the way to the cave at the bottom of that cliff!]
[I would like to praise Kim Jin-seong’s persistence in chasing after him up the wall. Actually, I also thought it would be difficult to find a cave.]
[But wasn’t your wall-climbing skills just amazing? Did you ever learn climbing professionally when you were young?]
[It looked like a skill to me…]
[Ah, skill! But then, doesn’t Kim Jin-seong have too many skills?]
[Hahaha, that’s right. I think I’ll have to check again in detail later.]
Soon the caster gave a commentary summarizing the situation.
[In this way, we can say that the first supply box battle was won by Kang Min-hyuk and Kim Jin-seong.]
[Kang Min-hyuk’s battle was impressive, but Kim Jin-seong, who took the bag almost like a fisherman, made a very smart decision.]
[That’s right. Now, shall we check the second supply box?]
For reference, the supply plane that took off in the morning dropped two supply boxes in the forest.
Immediately from the monitor room, TV began broadcasting the area where the second supply box had fallen.
[Ah, the situation appears to have ended here as well. There seem to be fewer deaths here than in the first box, right?]
[It ended with a little over ten people. But, who took the items?]
[It seems like it’s been a while since the situation ended… ah! The screen has changed.]
In the newly changed TV, a participant was seen hiding in a dark place and wearing armor from a supply box.
It was a very familiar face to the commentators.
[Fade! It’s a fade! Fade ate the second supply box!]
[Unlike Kang Min-hyuk, this participant obtained all the items?]
In fact, Fade was now wearing all the weapons and opening the oversized bag to check the items inside.
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‘Three recovery potions. Three mana potions. Two status recovery potions. Beef jerky, combat rations, water…’
Fade counts the numbers as he takes out each item from the oversized bag.
Soon he took the last item out of the bag.
It was a full body protective suit.
At first, I thought it was a ghillie suit because it was green, but upon closer inspection, that wasn’t the case.
‘Fire retardant suit?’
The three words ‘Fire Retardant Clothing’ are clearly written on the label on the back of the head.
‘Have fire protection suits ever been provided during the Colosseum preliminaries?’
As far as I can remember, it has never happened.
Fade was puzzled for a moment and then put the fire protection suit back into his bag.
‘There will definitely be some use for it.’
Giving something that has never been given before means that there will definitely be a place to use it until you reach the top of the mountain.
Fade soon packed up all the items and stood up carrying an oversized bag.
‘I’m sure you haven’t forgotten any items.’
His eyes turned to the corpse lying next to him.
The way Fade monopolized the supplies in the supply box was similar to Kim Jin-seong.
After winning the battle for the supply box, he chased after the participant who was running away with the supplies and assassinated him.
After checking the participant’s body again, Fade immediately disappeared from the spot.
The stealth skill was used.
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Kyaaa!
A huge monster that looked like a crocodile opened its mouth and rushed at Kim Jin-seong.
Kim Jin-seong, who easily dodged the biting attack, accurately cut the neck vertically.
The monster was cut into two pieces with a clean cutting sound, and a notification window appeared right in front of my eyes.
▶ You have defeated the monster.
▶ Obtained 15 Vis Creama points.
▶ You have already acquired the opposing monster’s characteristic ‘Leather Skin’.
Kim Jin-seong jumped right back without even checking the notification window.
Almost immediately, something fell from above onto the spot where he was standing.
A monkey-shaped monster fell from under the tree and struck down its spear.
When the monster was trying to pull out the spear stuck in the ground, Kim Jin-seong rushed at him.
The monkey monster hastily took out a spear and took a defensive stance,
Suddenly.
The monkey monster’s head was cut off along with the spear.
▶ You have defeated the monster.
▶ Obtained 10 Vis Creama points.
▶ You have already acquired the opposing monster’s characteristic, ‘Tree Climbing’.
The familiar notification window that came up next came to mind, and Kim Jinseong threw it away from before his eyes without even checking it this time.
‘I’m tired of catching the same monsters every time.’
It has already been three days since the survival preliminary round began.
Except for yesterday morning when a supply box fell on my head and I had to run away, there have been no more crisis situations since then.
I just steadily moved towards the top of the mountain and steadily killed the monsters I saw in front of me.
These are familiar monsters that I have encountered consistently since day one and are nothing new anymore.
‘I don’t think the production team will let us keep catching the same monsters like this.’
Baek Jun, the representative of the Colosseum, is famous for planning a solid travel route so that there is never a dull moment even before the preliminaries.
It is certain that other additional elements, such as supply boxes, will appear within today at the latest.
‘What new elements will be added? First of all, seeing as the radio was quiet today, I guess something was dropped from outside, like a supply box…’
Kim Jin-seong continues to walk while making various predictions in his mind.
That was when I walked for about 10 more minutes.
Taang!
“!”
Jinseong Kim instinctively bowed at the sudden sound of a gunshot coming from the front.
Kim Jin-seong immediately activates his magic energy just in case, and then approaches the direction where the sound is heard as carefully as possible.
After a while, he was able to determine the source of the sound.
‘···What is that?’
At the same time, he was embarrassed.
Why is there a high iron wall, perhaps 10 meters high, built in the middle of the forest?
Besides, what are the guards standing densely above?
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