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rope battle
Fade quickly ran to the top of the mountain using his stealth skill.
The scene that unfolded before his eyes when he arrived in an instant was truly gruesome.
‘This is hell.’
Numerous participants were competing fiercely on the landing pad directly below the helicopter, which was gradually descending.
Fade shook his head slightly as he looked at the center of the landing pad, where the vivid sounds of weapons being driven into flesh, the ear-ringing sounds of gunfire, and shouts and screams could be heard mixed together.
‘As the helicopter approached, everyone got so excited that they lost their temper.’
Actually, it wasn’t that I didn’t understand. How many people can keep their cool in a situation like this where the difference between survival and death is just a few minutes away?
It will be difficult unless you are a Fade who has been mentally hardened while working as an assassin for a long time.
‘Now it’s time to slowly descend…yeah.’
Just in time, Fade saw the Magic Circle helicopter, which had slowed down, begin to slowly descend to the landing site.
When there were approximately 20 meters left on the ground, the rear door of the helicopter suddenly began to open.
‘…is it too high to drop the rope?’
Fade’s puzzlement was immediately resolved.
This was because something huge jumped out from inside the open door and onto the landing pad.
Wow!
Wow!
As soon as they landed, giant monsters started attacking the participants with screaming sounds.
There were two minotaurs and two twin-headed ogres.
‘Such perverts…!’
Fade cursed inwardly at the production crew without realizing it.
It was hell enough even without dropping something like that, but now they’ve raised the difficulty level to another level.
‘As rumored, it never ends as normally as it should.’
That was when Fade thought that far.
Before I knew it, a strong and thick rope was thrown from the back door of the helicopter, which had come down about 10 meters from the landing pad.
At the same time, an employee inside the door shouted while holding a loudspeaker.
[I’ll give you 5 minutes from now on! The helicopter takes off in 5 minutes!]
The loudspeaker was loud enough to be heard by everyone at the top of the mountain.
Although it may have been heard by the participants fighting bloody near the rope.
‘Now is your chance.’
Fade remained hidden and began to approach the place where the rope was.
In a chaotic situation, Fade’s high agility value showed great strength.
He safely reached the rope, avoiding numerous skills, weapon attacks, and the rampage of giant monsters being used from all directions without getting hit even once.
It was a scene that showed that he did not make a name for himself as a veteran assassin in the back alleys for over ten years for no reason.
‘I guess I can jump now.’
Fade immediately jumped with all his might and grabbed the middle part of the rope.
It was a very safe place where there was no need to worry about attacks from other participants, as it was located far above the bottom of the rope, which was already stained with blood and flesh.
‘If this is the case, then I am number one!’
Sigh!
‘······!’
At that time, I felt a cold sensation on the left side of my chest.
As I opened my eyes, I saw a long sword piercing through my heart.
Fade immediately turned his head back.
A very familiar face was standing right behind him, looking at him, holding the rope with one hand.
“you you···!”
“It was you, after all.”
Jinseong Kim looked at me with two eyes covered in thin flesh and spoke in a low voice.
“I don’t know about others, but I really wanted to acquire your abilities.”
Sigh! Wow!
At the same time, Kim Jin-seong pulls out his sword and swings it towards Fade’s neck.
Fade, with more than half of his head cut off, fell helplessly to the floor with his eyes wide open.
Immediately after he fell to the floor, a notification window appeared in front of Kim Jin-seong’s eyes.
▶ You have defeated the wicked.
▶ Obtained 115 Vis Creama points.
▶ Acquired ‘Veteran Assassin’, the opponent’s overall characteristic.
▷ Veteran Assassin: Gain the following characteristics and permanent storage skills.
– Stealth: When activated, the entire body becomes transparent. The skill stops when damage is taken. Consumes mana steadily when activated.
– Neck Cutter: The damage of the first attack after using the skill increases by 200%. The skill can only be used when using a short weapon such as a dagger. Consumes 50 mana.
– Hidden Expert: When using hiding-related skills such as invisibility, burrow, etc., mana usage is reduced by 1/2.
– Agility value is permanently increased by 45.
‘···This is the highest point I’ve ever gotten from a person.’
I can’t believe I got more Vis Crimea points than the combined points I got from killing Kang Min-hyuk and Yoon A-ram.
‘I think I roughly understand the reason… Anyway, it was worth ambushing for a while.’
Jinseong Kim looked satisfied after checking the contents of the notification window again.
In order to catch this assassin, he hid in the shadows under the helicopter and waited for the strong invisible energy to be detected.
There were a few crises due to chaotic situations, but in the end, it was worth the wait.
‘Okay then, let’s escape as the first one.’
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Jinseong Kim immediately started climbing up the rope towards the helicopter.
* * *
The moment Jinseong Kim defeated Fade,
[Huh?!]
[Kim Jin-seong! This is Jinseong Kim! Jinseong Kim has appeared, everyone!]
[Wow…hahaha! oh my god!]
Both commentators jumped up and looked excited. Commentator Kim Jin-cheol was even applauding.
There was no need to mention the chat room.
– and!
– It’s Jinseong Kim!
– He was really alive?!
– Crazy! It turned!
– Wow, the rumor was true… I’m really glad.
– shit! I believed it~!
The monitor room staff, who already knew about the survival, were also shouting in excited voices.
“The ratings are starting to soar! “I think we’ll soon break the all-time high score!”
“They say the Colosseum’s official site has exploded with excessive traffic!”
“Solve it quickly! Even the official broadcast room is starting to lag now! “Take action quickly here too!”
The employees were forced to move busier due to the sudden explosion of viewers.
Baekjun, who was standing behind and watching the scenes with a pleased expression, soon looked at Jang Seungwook and raised his right hand.
Jang Seung-wook also raised his left hand, and the two were even! I high-fived so loudly that I could hear it.
“It was a huge hit.”
“okay.”
The two looked at Kim Jin-seong on the monitor with smiles on their lips.
Before they knew it, the figure of Kim Jin-seong, who had come right up to the back door of the helicopter, was coming into their field of vision.
* * *
“Put down your weapon!”
“Put your hands up!”
As soon as they boarded the helicopter, four employees armed with state-of-the-art clothing pointed their mana guns and shouted menacingly at Kim Jin-seong.
Jinseong Kim obediently raised his hands and looked around.
The first thing that caught his eye was the magic circle drawn on the floor and walls of the helicopter.
‘Is it a mana suppression magic circle?’
The reason Kim Jin-seong thought so was because as soon as he entered this helicopter, the mana in his body suddenly stopped moving at all.
‘Or is it a skill-banning magic circle? There are two drawn, so maybe it’s both.’
While he was thinking that, the employees put special handcuffs made to restrain hunters on Kim Jin-seong’s wrists, then groped his body and took out all the items.
“Go sit in the corner.”
At that time, Kim Jin-seong obediently went to the place indicated by the employee and was about to sit down.
“ah! what a waste. “I’m in second place.”
“······!”
Kim Jin-seong was startled and turned around when he heard a voice full of regret coming from right behind him.
A handsome young man who appeared to be in his 20s was looking straight at himself with a regretful expression.
“uh?! what?”
“When did you come in? “Put down your weapons and raise your hands!”
The employees hurriedly approached the young man, holding out a mana gun.
“Okay, okay.”
The young man raised his hands as if he had no intention of resisting.
Afterwards, he went through the same process as Kim Jin-seong and sat down next to Kim Jin-seong while wearing handcuffs.
“congratulation! “They both survived without any injuries.”
A young man with a bright expression extending his hand for a handshake.
Kim Jin-seong thought to himself as he suddenly shook hands.
‘I didn’t even notice it until it approached right behind me. ‘Maybe it’s the handcuffs?’
Special handcuffs for hunters that block the use of mana, skills, and characteristics within the body.
Kim Jin-seong predicted that he did not notice this young man approaching because he was wearing this.
“But why aren’t other people coming up?”
The young man muttered while looking towards the back door of the helicopter.
The young man, who was looking towards the door where there was no sign of a new participant coming up, soon asked the employee next to him.
“How many minutes are left?”
The employee looked at the young man, then checked his watch and answered.
“2 minutes.”
“you’re close? “If this is the case, won’t even 10 people be able to board?”
“That’s not it.”
Hearing Kim Jin-seong’s answering voice, the young man turned his head and looked at him.
“I can no longer hear the sound of fighting below. “It means that the situation has been roughly sorted out, so now all the survivors will come up.”
After hearing Kim Jin-seong’s words, the young man looked out the window next to where he was sitting.
“···Really?”
The young man muttered with his eyes wide open.
The landing pad where the battle has already ended.
Amidst the monsters and the corpses of the participants, the young man could see the survivors climbing up the rope one by one, looking at each other.
Looking at the survivors who had made compromises on their own, I checked to see how many young people were left.
“20 people… “At this rate, everything will be uploaded within 2 minutes.”
Perhaps the survivors don’t fight anymore because they know they have plenty of time left.
When the last survivor got on top of the helicopter, the watch on the employee’s wrist beeped that 5 minutes were up.
“take-off!”
The employee looked toward the cockpit and shouted, and immediately the helicopter began to rise vertically.
One of the employees who closed the back door of the helicopter reported to the PD in the monitor room using a microphone attached to his ear.
“It took off.”
[yes. Has confirmed. I will press the operation button in 30 seconds.]
“yes.”
The helicopter continued to ascend vertically until 30 seconds had passed.
It was a time when the landing pad that could be seen outside the window seemed very small to the survivors.
Quaaaang!
The survivors saw a huge explosion sound and the entire landing site covered in flames.
All of the survivors opened their eyes wide in surprise.
“Hwiyu~! Everyone who was still alive must have died. “Right?”
The admiring young man even whistled and looked back at Kim Jin-seong next to him.
But Kim Jin-seong did not answer.
All I could do was look at the landing pad engulfed in flames in silence with eyes that could not tell what was in my heart.
Soon, the Magic Circle helicopter carrying Kim Jin-seong and others began to move away from the island where the preliminary round was held at a high speed.
The island gradually became smaller and soon completely disappeared from the survivors’ sight.
* * *
[Finally, the long first round of Group A preliminaries has come to an end! Then, we will tell the viewers how many people survived at this point.]
The caster began reading the numbers written on the document delivered by the production team.
[A total of 672 people participated in Group A. Of these, 100 people passed as part of the defense force, 66 people passed the repechage round, and 22 people passed as players, for a total of 188 people.]
[I think this is the lowest number of people who passed the first round of the preliminary round in history. I’ll have to look up the details.]
[Among those who did not pass, there were many unexpected people, right?]
The commentator nodded to the caster’s question.
[you’re right. Players such as Kang Min-hyuk, Fade, and Yoon A-ram, who had high expectations from many viewers, were not included in the final list of survivors.]
[but!]
Caster raised his voice.
[Kim Jin-seong, the most popular star in Group A of the preliminaries, and Seol-daun, who emerged as a new star after the repechage match, both passed safely!]
[They passed in 1st and 2nd place, right? In addition, there was also participant number 7-49, who performed amazingly as a member of the defense force.]
[That’s right! I am really looking forward to seeing what kind of performance these three people who have left a lasting impression on viewers will perform in the second round of the preliminary round!]
Soon the caster began to give a comment concluding the program.
[Thank you so much to all the viewers who loved the first Group A match of the Colosseum Season 12 Preliminary, which has been held for 7 days so far. We will greet you again with the first Group B match of the preliminary round starting tomorrow. Thank you to the commentators for their hard work.]
[Thank you for your hard work.]
[We will greet you again tomorrow morning. Hello everyone!]
After the commentator’s greetings, the live broadcast from the Colosseum, which had continued continuously for 7 days, was stopped.
Of course, starting tomorrow, another long live broadcast will continue for 7 days.
* * *
That evening when the group A journey of the preliminary round ended.
Baek Jun, the representative of the Colosseum, was seen getting out of the car and entering the players’ accommodation building with his escorts.
After going straight down to the basement, I walked along the passage for a while and soon stopped in front of a door.
Two employees standing guard in front of the door marked ‘Interview Room’ saluted him.
Baekjun asked.
“Is there a problem?”
“doesn’t exist.”
“open it.”
An employee opens the door to the interview room under Baekjun’s instructions.
There was a table in the room, and on the chair opposite to it was a familiar face looking at him wearing handcuffs made specifically for hunters.
Baekjun said hello as he sat down on the chair across from him.
“nice to see you. Mr. Yang Jung-geun.”
It was Yang Jung-geun, the former Dream Gold Master, maintaining a stern expression without answering.
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