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Survival after a meal (2)
‘Tsk…!’
Kim Jin-seong grimaced as he felt something sharp being stuck in the back of his neck.
However, I also felt at the same time that the wound was not fatal enough to be penetrated.
If he had been stabbed a little more severely, he could have died immediately.
In any case, Kim Jin-seong’s body, which had escaped fatal injury, responded immediately.
▶ Use the skill ‘Special Strike’.
Immediately, he swung the long sword on his waist behind his back as if using a swordsmanship.
Wow!
‘I cut it!’
Sure enough, a small but loud sound of skin being cut could be heard.
But that was the end.
There was no one behind the sword swing. It was the same when I looked around.
Seeing as there was no bloody smell that would have been present if he had just been cut with a knife, it seemed certain that there was no one around.
‘Where did you run away? ···Ugh.’
Kim Jin-seong kept turning his head without letting down his guard, and suddenly felt pain on the injured side and touched it with his hand.
There was a wound so deep that there was a dent on the back of the neck. Blood was flowing to the point where the hand touching the wound quickly became wet.
‘Ugh… it was really dangerous.’
As the feeling of relief emerged, one more thing came to mind.
‘If I hadn’t caught the ogre and gotten its characteristics, I would have died.’
‘Mutant Ogre’s Tough Skin’ trait obtained by killing Twin Head Ogre at dawn.
If it hadn’t increased my skin defense by 30, I would have been instantly killed in the surprise attack just now.
‘As expected, it was the right choice to go through the trouble and catch it at that time.’
While praising his choice a few hours ago, Kim Jin-seong used the ‘Recovery’ skill to heal his wounds.
▶ Use Vis Creama Points to use the user’s unique attribute, ‘Recovery’.
▶ HP has been restored to 100%.
▶ Current remaining Vis Creama points: 245
‘I used up my precious Vis Creama points again.’
It’s unfortunate, but these points are saved to be used in emergency situations like this.
Above all, the point is to catch and collect monsters. Isn’t this forest truly a monster paradise, with more monsters than trees?
‘But let’s hunt as far away as possible. ‘There could be another surprise attack around here.’
They may still be lurking around here. In addition, it was a situation where you couldn’t even check the other person’s face.
In a situation where the other person knows me and I do not know the other person, I must be as careful as possible.
‘Anyway, how did you approach it? I didn’t even feel it…’
Kim Jin-seong didn’t climb this high tree branch for nothing.
I deliberately chose a location where I could easily spot enemies even if they came after me.
But aside from the fact that I didn’t see it until it approached, I couldn’t even feel the slight shaking or energy of the surrounding leaves.
‘As expected, there are a lot of monsters in Colosseum Survival. I’ll have to be more careful in the future.’
After making up his mind, he put on his backpack and tried to pick up the envelope that had been placed on a tree branch.
At the same time his actions stopped.
‘···Where’s the envelope?’
The plastic bag has disappeared. I looked down to see if it had fallen to the floor, but that wasn’t the case either.
In this case, there is only one conclusion.
‘Ah, sir…!’
Jinseong Kim raised his head and closed his eyes tightly.
I got a real kick out of it.
* * *
[Ah, Kim Jin-seong! Now that I realized it, my expression hardened! I guess he never expected that his groceries would be taken away!]
[I was caught off guard because I was up high. There is no safe place in the Colosseum.]
At that time, the commentators were continuing the broadcast while watching Kim Jin-seong’s embarrassed appearance on the monitor.
The narrator continued.
[Still, isn’t it nice that you survived? When I was first attacked, I thought I was going to die.]
[In fact, isn’t this the first time Fade has failed to assassinate?]
[you’re right. Since the start of the preliminary round, there have been 11 assassination attempts, and except for this one, all of them were successful in one go.]
As the commentator explained, Vice President Jang Seung-wook asked Baek Jun subtly.
“how is it? “My picks are useful too, right?”
Baekjun, who received the question, was looking at the profile in his hand.
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Name: Fade (pseudonym)
Age: 26 years old
Height: 174cm
Status: Forced laborer
Special Features: Former assassin belonging to the contract killing company ‘Red Moon’. Responsible for a total of 34 contract killings.
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“···so so.”
Baekjun answered only after reading the entire profile.
Jang Seung-wook chuckled at that dry answer.
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“You’re giving me high praise, which is unbecoming of a CEO? “I guess I picked a good talent.”
“···.”
Baekjun did not answer.
I just thought to myself.
‘At this point, his skills are much stronger than Kim Jin-seong’s.’
Honestly, Kim Jin-seong was lucky just now. It wouldn’t have been strange if he had died in a single blow in the scene where he gave up his previous position perfectly.
Certainly, the fade is strong now. This is an undeniable fact.
‘But you won’t know anything after a week.’
After thinking that far, Baekjun focuses on the TV screen again.
[So, how does Fade, who failed to assassinate, feel now?]
After hearing what the caster said, the PD in the monitor room pressed button number 6.
Then, the image of Fade being filmed by camera number 6 began to be broadcast on TV.
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A place far away from where Kim Jin-seong was.
A young man in his mid-20s wearing a black mask, hiding under a dark rock.
He was a player who competed under the pseudonym Phaedra.
‘Damn it…!’
He frowned and opened the palm of his right hand, which was holding his side.
It was drenched in blood.
Earlier, the target’s counterattack cut him quite deeply.
‘I can’t believe I already have to use the potion.’
It was such a shame, but there was nothing I could do because it was a wound that could not be cured naturally.
He took out a recovery potion from his backpack and began pouring it little by little onto the wound as carefully as he could.
A wound that heals quickly. And the potion liquid disappears just as quickly.
Fade soon saw that only 1/4 of the potion was left and blamed himself again.
‘I let my guard down. ‘I mistakenly assumed that assassination would be as easy as any other target.’
When targeting this enemy, the situation was no different from other previous participants.
After using his unique skill to secretly approach the back, he used all his might to plunge the knife into the back of the neck.
Fade’s assassination pattern so far has been to kill people right away.
However, this time it did not pierce the neck. So the other person immediately counterattacked.
‘Now that I think about it, it felt a bit strange when I sheathed the knife.’
It wasn’t the feeling that pierces the skin of a normal human being. It was similar to the feeling of pricking the skin of a monster with tough skin.
‘Did he happen to have skin-related characteristics?’
In the contract killing industry, he has experienced all kinds of awakening abilities.
Among them, there were some whose skin was particularly tough and strong.
These guys are hard to kill with one hit. As an assassin, Fade is one of the most difficult opponents.
‘Just in case, I should work as far away from that guy as possible.’
Once you have failed to assassinate a target, you should not immediately target it again.
To be honest, I couldn’t kill him even when he was off guard, but it’s even more likely now that he’s obviously on high alert.
‘Let’s be more careful from now on. This is a Colosseum full of monsters.’
Soon, Fade’s figure disappeared from his hiding place.
He was holding the plastic grocery bag he had stolen from Kim Jin-seong earlier.
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[Ah, the fade has disappeared once again! He used his unique skill ‘Stealth’ again!]
[It’s always a really good skill.]
[Actually, isn’t this a tier 1 skill in survival programs like this?]
[you’re right. It is a skill that is very well received in real life.]
Stealth, a skill that prevents others from seeing you.
It is said that even if you have this skill, you will rush in with a blank check in the assassination industry.
An irrefutable tier 1 skill needed not only in assassinations but also in many other fields such as reconnaissance and exploration.
Fade possessed that concealment.
[But where did it go? Did he go back to Kim Jin-seong again?]
[That’s probably not true. When I finally turned around, I looked in the direction that was completely opposite to Kim Jin-seong.]
[is that so? ···ah! It really is like that.]
The caster who immediately looked at the TV screen was convinced.
The PD quickly captured the direction of the body just before Fader used stealth and displayed it on the monitor screen.
[Then I don’t think the two will encounter each other for a while. Personally, I think it’s a bit disappointing that the directions of the two who are currently selected as the most anticipated players in the preliminaries are diverging like this.]
[Hahaha…isn’t there still a week left? I have a feeling that their meeting will not end with this one time.]
[Commentator’s sense! Let me believe it once. In this way, the first meeting between Kim Jin-seong and Fade ends with Fade winning by decision after stealing the grocery bag.]
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Wow!
“Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Another dark wolf fell down helplessly, with more than half of its throat cut.
Without fail, a notification window pops up right in front of Kim Jin-seong’s eyes.
▶ You have defeated the monster.
▶ Obtained 15 Vis Creama points.
▶ You have already acquired the opposing monster’s characteristic, ‘Night Hunting Expert’.
‘Oh, by the way, won’t the sun set soon?’
Jinseong Kim looked at the notification window and suddenly raised his head.
Before I knew it, I could see the sun reaching the horizon of the western forest.
I thought it was getting dark in the forest before I knew it, but time had already passed until evening.
‘Now I have to find a suitable place to sleep.’
If you don’t start looking for it now, you may have quite a bit of trouble in the dark forest after the sun has completely set.
But there is no need to rush.
▷ Night hunting expert: You can check your surroundings even in a dark space without light. Agility increases by 10% when fighting in a dark space.
Because of the characteristics obtained from the dark wolf we just killed, there will be no major problems with vision even at night.
Nevertheless, you cannot let your guard down.
‘If you wander around at night for no reason, you might get attacked by that guy again.’
The experience of almost dying earlier raised Jinseong Kim’s alertness even higher.
In fact, from then on, I moved with as much caution as possible, so I wasn’t able to travel as much distance as I thought.
Compared to the distance traveled from immediately after the start of the preliminaries until noon, the distance traveled after that would be less than half.
But this is the right decision. Rather than letting your guard down and getting killed in an instant.
‘At this rate, getting to the top of the mountain in a week won’t be a problem.’
Kim Jin-seong roughly estimated the distance to the distant mountain and began looking around to see if there was a good place to stay nearby.
It was then.
Wow!
From afar, a loud roar was heard that made anyone who heard it know that it was a very large monster.
Kim Jin-seong’s ears perked up.
‘Is this the first time you’ve heard this noise?’
The voice thickness was similar to that of the Twin Head Ogre, but the timbre and pronunciation were significantly different.
This is a monster that has never been caught before!
Just when Kim Jin-seong was about to move in the direction where the screaming sound was heard.
“Aaaah!! Help me!!”
A woman’s scream was heard from the direction where the scream came from.
fantasy,
