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Bounce
Inside the main castle, the waiting room of the taggers.
[We would like to inform the participants who played the role of tagger. There is one minute left until the game starts. After checking the equipment for the last time…]
A voice guidance was heard from the speaker hanging on the ceiling.
At those words, Deoksu Lee, who was standing in front of the main gate, spoke even faster.
“Now, let’s check the equipment one last time! Be careful, thieves may attack as soon as you open it! “Did you know?”
That time when he was urging his companions to pray in a loud voice.
The time remaining on the large electronic clock in the center of the waiting room decreased to less than 10 seconds, then changed to 0.
Ah~!
With a loud siren sound, the waiting room door slowly opened upward, and the outside scene came into the eyes of the taggers.
“···First of all, I can’t feel any mana around me.”
Soon Deoksu Lee looked around and spoke with a concentrated expression. I just used the radar skill.
“There may be traps, so keep an eye on your surroundings and move forward!”
Just like that, about 60 taggers, including Deoksu Lee, disappeared outside the waiting room.
The remaining 180 taggers watched in excitement.
Faces were seen everywhere, worried that they would lose the opportunity to catch the thief by not starting quickly.
“don’t mind!!”
At that time, Yang Jung-geun shouted in a loud voice.
The heads of the remaining participants turned to Yang Jung-geun. Yang Jung-geun shouted one after another in a confident voice.
“It actually worked out well for us! “I will assume the role of the advance guard.”
“······!”
“If you attack your body without any information like that, you’ll have to be really lucky to survive half of the time! “Do you think I’ve conquered a top-tier dungeon once or twice?”
Yang Jung-geun speaks without hesitation in a confident tone.
“Do you want to bet with me? Do you think more than half of them survive? I’ll bet it’s not! “Who’s going to bet that he’ll come back?”
“······.”
“Hey, king dumplings! Do you want to bet? The loser gets to gouge out an eye. how is it?”
“I don’t… And my name is Han Minsu…”
Yang Jung-geun shouted once again, completely ignoring Han Min-soo, the fat young man who answered in a slurred tone.
“There’s no need to rush! Take your time! 24 hours is longer than you think! Even if you catch one person every two hours, you still have four hours left. “It’s enough to move strategically!”
“······.”
“Now, as I said earlier, we will move systematically according to my instructions. Understand? “Before that, everyone, lift your smartphone again!”
Yang Jung-geun shouted and raised his left hand, which was also holding a smartphone.
It was one of the items provided by the production team to all taggers during the second round of this preliminary round to help them communicate with each other.
“You have a smartphone and earphones, right? “When talking on the phone outside, always remember to put in your earphones!”
“······.”
“Just put the phone in your ear so all the thieves can hear! “The moment I get caught, I’ll burst your eardrums!”
At a time when Yang Jung-geun was shouting to everyone like that.
Yang Jung-geun caught the eye of one participant in the corner slowly walking toward the entrance to the waiting room.
“Finally, I wonder if the ‘Hunter Code’ program is working well… hey! Where are you going if you don’t listen to me? hey!”
Even though Yang Jung-geun raised his voice, he disappeared out of the waiting room without even responding.
Blue veins rose on Yang Jung-geun’s forehead.
“That shameless bastard is talking to an adult… who is this? “That bastard!”
“It’s Seoldown.”
Yang Jung-geun, who was standing next to him, flinched slightly when he heard Han Min-soo’s answer.
Since he was one of the few who made his name known in the first round of the preliminary round, Yang Jung-geun also knew very well who he was.
“Seoldown?”
“yes.”
“···Tsk.”
Yang Jung-geun frowned and licked his lips.
A hunter of Seoldown’s caliber was difficult for even Yang Jung-geun to tell him to do this or that.
Yang Jung-geun, who knew this, soon shouted at his companions again as if he had no choice.
“Now, check if you can hear me! Everyone put your earphones in your ears!”
While Yang Jung-geun gathered everyone together and shouted in the waiting room.
“Haam~.”
Seoldaun came out of the waiting room and yawned with a tired look on his face.
“I stayed up all night talking on the plane and I’m dying of sleepiness…”
Seoldown soon moved to the annex right next to it. It was a space that had been used as a waiting room for thieves until an hour ago.
“Why don’t the ‘weak’ band together and struggle, I need to sleep a little more. “Hwaaam…!”
Raising his hands and stretching, he disappeared into the annex waiting room.
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Lee Deok-gu’s team, who came out of the main castle against Yang Jung-geun, was experiencing a setback in their plan to move quickly and search.
There were too many obstacles to moving quickly.
“Ahh! What is this?”
“Hurry and take it out!”
“what? “I thought it was a swamp, but was it a monster?”
Caw!
“A man-eating bird is attacking from over there!”
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“Use the shield skill quickly… Wow!”
Because of the monsters everywhere, I was moving slower than my normal walking speed, let alone running.
“Kill every monster you see! That way, it will be easier for me to detect thieves with radar!”
When Lee Deok-gu, the center of the team and the core scout, gave this order, the group had no choice but to fight the monster.
Of course, since it was a large number of people, over 60 people, there was no lack of firepower.
If everyone used the skill just once, all the monsters scattered around could be eliminated.
“nice! Now, let’s keep going like this…?”
At that time, a very subtle singing sound reached Deokgu Lee’s ears from somewhere.
Lee Deok-gu, who frowned, saw a hunter shaking his head while holding a bow.
“Ha, hey.”
Deokgu Lee reached out his hand to a teammate who was listening to the song with an expression of annoyance.
When I forcibly pulled out the earphones, the singing became louder. It seemed like he was listening to the song using a smartphone app.
“What are you doing now?”
The hunter holding a bow towards Lee Deok-gu, who touched him, spoke harshly while chewing gum. He was a grim-looking man with scars on his face.
Lee Deok-gu questioned the man with an unpleasant expression.
“How can you listen to my instructions if you’re listening to the song like that?”
“Did you hear everything? “Let’s keep going like this?”
“···Take off one side and carry it around.”
“Nope? “I have to listen to music to concentrate well.”
Lee Deok-gu finally exploded at the sight of the scarred man putting his earphones back in.
“No, hello! “Right now, we’re risking our lives while hunting for a party, and even basic courtesy…!”
Lee Deok-gu, who couldn’t hold back his shouting, was startled, stopped mid-sentence, and turned his head back.
An enormous being approaching them was detected on the edge of his radar.
“Someone is approaching from the north!!”
At Deokgu Lee’s loud voice, everyone’s heads turned towards the direction he was pointing.
It wasn’t long before I was able to check everything.
A giant green slimeball-like entity flying at extremely high speeds from afar in the northern sky.
In less than a second after spotting it with the naked eye, it seemed to have reached the immediate vicinity of Lee Deok-gu’s team.
“Hi!”
“Spread out!”
“Use the shield skill!”
Everyone was astonished at the sight of a monster they had never seen before and reflexively dispersed.
One of them quickly used the shield skill, but that was not enough.
Wow! And with the sound of the window being shattered, the shield was pierced by the monster.
One after another, huge green slime balls flew precisely towards the scarred man who was humming with his earphones plugged in.
The man who had been dealing with a monster on the other side finally turned his head and confirmed the existence of the slime ball.
At the same time, my eyes widened.
“···uh?”
thud!
The scarred man was unable to utter a single word and was crushed ungainly by the slime ball.
Even after the slime ball bounced back, he was pressed down and could not stand up again.
The grim expression had been so miserably crushed that it was difficult to recognize it again. It was just crushed to death.
“It’s flying again!”
“Ahh!”
thud!
The slime ball bounced and hit another tagger.
Chi-i-ik…!
“Aaaah!!”
I managed to move it, but the part I passed over melted horribly.
The sight of that made the companions even more appalled.
“It’s poison!”
“Poison monster, what is it?!”
“First of all, someone stop bouncing that thing!”
thud!
“Wow!”
The entire Deokgu Lee team fell into a state of despair due to the huge slime ball that continued to fly in all directions at high speed.
“Just stop moving that thing first!”
Despite Lee Deok-gu’s shouts, no one used skills against the slime ball.
Meanwhile, the slime ball completely melted another hunter and flew towards the other tagger.
“What the fuck…!”
The tagger who saw the slime ball flying towards him gave up trying to avoid it and held out his hands.
At the same time, a white thread-like substance spread out in the shape of a spider web from his hand.
When the spider web that stretched out from his hand completely wrapped the slime ball, the situation that Deokgu Lee had wanted so much was created.
“It’s slowed down!”
“Is it a spider web skill?”
“That bastard should have been using it a long time ago. What did he do until now?!”
When the taggers shout out one word at a time when they see the slime ball noticeably slowing down.
“what?”
A human voice came out from inside the slime ball covered in spider webs. But no one was out of their wits to notice it.
“Now!! “Kill me!!”
At Lee Deok-gu’s shout, the taggers all poured their skills towards the slime ball.
The firepower of the skills unleashed by dozens of hunters was enormous.
After a while, everyone saw the slime separated into four pieces. Quagmire’s body was torn into pieces.
But in fact, it was not Quagmire that was torn to pieces. To the taggers, the greater being is separated into four pieces.
‘It’s actually better.’
Kim Jin-seong, who transformed into Quagmire, grinned inwardly.
Because those separated pieces are going to be played again as is.
▶ Transformed into ‘Quagmir’.
▷ Ability score change: Defense reduced by 30%. All other abilities increase by 20%.
※ When the severed body splits and regenerates, a Quagmire summon with half of the user’s abilities is created. Quagmir’s pet follows your commands.
I checked again the notification window that appeared when Kim Jin-seong transformed into Quagmire.
This meant that three summons with half the abilities of Kim Jin-seong would be created.
At that time, the taggers who cut his body into four pieces all began to raise their voices in confusion.
“···W-what is it?”
“That’s playing right now?!”
“It has grown to four!”
“This is crazy…!”
Quagmire, who had instantly multiplied to four due to his incredible regenerative power, began to rush back towards the astonished taggers.
puck! Puff! puck!
Chi-i-ik…!
“Aaaah~!”
“Fuck, what should I do if this happens!”
“Hey, don’t use your skills carelessly! “There’s another one!”
“Who cut him in half?!”
The entire Deokgu Lee team fell into a state of panic as they saw Quagmire continuously dividing and multiplying every time it attacked.
‘Yes, have more fun!’
Kim Jin-seong, who ordered all Quagmire summons to do so, once again threw a headbutt to the nearby tagger with all his might.
thud!
“Quack…!”
As Kim Jin-seong bounced back after crushing another person to death, he realized one thing.
‘But isn’t this more fun than I thought?’
Is this what it must have felt like to have a bouncy ball bouncing around as much as you want?
Kim Jin-seong was starting to feel that his stress was somehow being relieved.
That time.
There was someone watching from afar as Kim Jin-seong and his summoned beast destroyed Lee Deok-gu’s team.
It was the 9th thief, Pungbitgaram.
“Nonsense···!”
He had been muttering these four letters over and over again with his eyes wide open.
‘I knew he had the ability to absorb, but I can’t believe he can even reproduce all of Quagmire’s abilities…!’
Kim Jin-seong is already incredibly strong, so I doubted whether he would be able to deal with Quagmire if he had the regenerative ability.
‘It’s too strong. You can’t win that thing. You can’t beat that! The moment you meet an enemy in the third round of the preliminaries, you will definitely die…!’
Pungbitgaram looks at the battlefield with eyes full of fear while screaming inwardly.
Soon his eyes changed.
‘I can’t die like this. If you want to survive to the end, you have to do whatever it takes now.’
Pungbitgaram, whose eyes were filled with the desire for survival, began to quickly turn his head.
fantasy,
