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As Hwang Yun-taek entered the valley, numerous nearby participants all turned to look at him.
Hwang Yun-taek, who instinctively felt a threat to his life in their eyes, immediately drew his sword.
‘Damn it… Is there anyone nearby who knows my identity?’
For no reason, he was bothered by the fact that he ran away to live alone during the fight with his ex, Kim Jin-seong.
What if the defense force recognizes him when he runs away? Hwang Yun-taek is worried and looks at everyone.
‘First of all, it looks like no one has any intention of attacking…’
In fact, most of the participants who looked back at him looked away again and were concentrating on running towards the upstream side of the valley.
Hwang Yun-taek soon joined the procession of participants running along the valley water at a certain distance.
‘Everyone’s first priority is survival.’
Well, there is no benefit to fighting here to reduce competition.
I was wondering if there were people who had consumables such as food that could be taken away. As I looked, I noticed that all the participants were wearing former defense force uniforms, and most of them did not even have bags on their backs.
‘If we do this, there won’t be any bloodshed until we reach the ridge.’
Hwang Yun-taek was relieved in his heart and focused on continuing to run along the valley.
To prevent unexpected situations, we maintain a constant distance back and forth.
The participants, including Hwang Yun-taek, ran diligently without stopping until evening.
Thanks to this, they were able to reach the ridge just before the forest was completely engulfed by forest fire.
‘Phew! I think I’m finally going to live a bit.’
Only after reaching a safe area where there was no forest fire, Hwang Yun-taek breathed a sigh of relief and stopped the bridge.
Although I had used up a lot of mana after running all day and couldn’t feel my legs, I still escaped the danger zone.
We were really lucky, and we didn’t fight once on the way there.
‘by the way···.’
Hwang Yun-taek looked straight ahead.
The place where he stands is at the edge of the cliff.
A cliff so deep that you couldn’t even see the bottom was welcoming the participants who ran down the valley with it.
‘How do I cross this?’
Hwang Yun-taek’s feeling as he looked at the cliff on the other side, far away, was one of perplexity.
Even excellent ranker hunters whose physical abilities are said to be superhuman-level can never run over that distance.
‘If you cross quickly, you will completely escape the forest fire…’
Hwang Yun-taek looked behind him.
I could see a forest fire covering the forest in the distance, moving rapidly towards the trees on the cliff side.
Looking at the speed, it seemed like they would definitely move to the nearby area within an hour at the latest. Inside, you must go over this cliff.
‘···huh?’
At that time, something strange caught the eye of Hwang Yun-taek, who was looking to his right.
I saw a scene where one of the participants held out both palms and spewed out something that looked like a blue thread.
The appearance of a blue thread flying at high speed to the cliff on the other side…
‘Where did you see that? ···ah!’
Soon Hwang Yun-taek recalled the memory and shouted in a loud voice.
“It’s a mana thread!”
When defending the area 2 barrier, the mana thread helped many players safely cross the magic circle.
Looking closely, I saw that the current participant’s face was identical to the participant’s face on the wall back then.
“Mana thread?”
“Is that the guy from the District 2 wall back then?”
Several defense force participants who recognized his identity shouted in surprise,
“Tsk!”
Unintentionally attracting attention, he climbed onto the connected mana thread at just the right time.
Afterwards, the participants near the cliff went into an uproar as they saw them sprinting at full speed.
“You can ride that and go!”
“I come first!”
“Move!”
By the time the participants rushed to the direction where the mana thread was connected, the man who ran first had already crossed more than half of the cliff.
It was then.
Caw!
A roar similar to that of a pterosaur heard from overhead.
Everyone’s heads turned to the sky.
The appearance of a huge black bird with a beak the size of a human body.
Hwang Yun-taek opened his eyes wide when he realized its identity.
‘Black Hasid?!’
The Hasid, commonly known as the ‘man-eating bird’, was descending towards the man who had run exactly to the center of the mana thread.
“Oh, no!!”
The man screamed, but he was in a situation where he could neither escape nor fight on the thin mana thread.
Sigh!
Soon, with a crunching sound, Hasid snatched the man and flew high into the sky again.
Crash! The sound of bones crunching and a desperate scream were heard simultaneously from the sky.
‘Heeik…!’
‘There were man-eating birds?!’
Participants looked at the sky in a moment of contemplation and felt relieved.
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Now I see that there are more than 10 Hasids flying in the sky. In other words, all the participants who tried to cross the mana thread just now could have been eaten.
‘Wow, Mr. ‘It almost happened.’
‘Is there a colony of man-eating birds nearby?’
‘Anyway, what should I do now?’
The participants looked at the cliff on the other side, feeling at a loss once again.
Now that we have realized that this is a situation that cannot be crossed by connecting a string or something, we need to find another way.
‘But there’s no other way? Well, it’s not like there’s a road under the cliff… huh?’
At that time, Hwang Yun-taek’s eyes widened at the sudden behavior of a nearby participant.
He suddenly jumped down the cliff from where he was standing!
“Huh?!”
“Is this crazy… suicidal?”
It was a time when other participants were also surprised and shouted in astonishment.
Suddenly growling! A burning sound was heard from right under the cliff, and then a huge fireball erupted.
The participants, including Hwang Yun-taek, were very surprised.
‘what?! Is it a fire bomb?!’
Hwang Yun-taek was horrified, wondering if the production team might blow up this cliff as well.
But when I looked closely, it wasn’t.
‘It’s a bird…?’
To be exact, it looked like a firebird whose entire body was covered in flames, leisurely flying towards the cliff on the other side.
Hwang Yun-taek just blinks at the completely unexpected and, in some ways, unexpected scene.
A thought passed through his mind at that time.
‘Could it be that the contestant who fell off the cliff earlier transformed…?’
Caw!
Soon, several Hasids wandering the sky spotted the Firebird and began descending.
When a total of three birds reached the vicinity of the Firebird in an instant.
The Firebird flapped both wings greatly toward the Hasids.
Then, the flames surrounding the Firebird turned into numerous fireballs and began flying towards the Hasids.
Puff poop!
The Hasids hit by the fireball screamed in pain and ran away, and one began to fall to the ground with its entire body burned.
The Firebird, freed from the threat, appeared to be leisurely flying toward the cliff on the other side again.
“wow···!”
“oh my god···!”
“Ah, I really envy dogs…!”
When everyone, including Hwang Yun-taek, burst out in exclamation, the Firebird, which had safely arrived at the cliff on the other side, transformed into a human again.
“I’m going first~!”
He smiled and waved at the participants looking at him from the other side, then quickly disappeared into the grass.
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– and···!
– stylish···!
– It was so cool to just shoot dozens of fireballs, huh?
– I also covet that ability… It’s been my dream to fly all my life…
All the viewers who watched it were also amazed.
The caster was also broadcasting with his voice raised as he watched the scene on the monitor.
[Ah, Yoon A-ram! Using your unique ability, ‘Transformation’, you can easily cross the cliffs in the distance!]
[This is the contestant who announced his existence to viewers for the first time this morning. A-Ram Yoon, maybe you could make your name more known through this program than I thought?]
The staff in the monitor room were all focused on Yoon A-ram now.
“Keep the camera focused on Yoon A-ram! “Let’s quickly pick up the highlights of the scene we just had, and now replay the scene that was played early in the morning last night!”
At that time, the employees are busy following the main PD’s instructions.
Baekjun, who was sitting behind him, was looking at Yoon A-ram on the monitor with a happy feeling.
‘He’s one of the two people newly discovered this morning.’
A new star was already needed to fill the place of Kang Min-hyuk’s death, and Yoon A-ram appeared just at the right time.
The ability to freely ‘transform’ into the desired animal form certainly had the power to grab viewers’ attention faster than anyone else.
Just look at the scene where he transforms into a firebird. What viewer wouldn’t be captivated by the sight of a huge, beautiful bird with its entire body covered in flames?
‘I think that’s enough to replace Kang Min-hyuk.’
If he shows inaction as powerful as what he showed yesterday early morning a few more times, he can make it so that the dead Kang Min-hyuk will not even be on the viewers’ minds in the future.
‘After all, stars are created by our production team.’
It is continuously captured on camera, broadcast on the TV screen for a long time, commentators constantly mention and show it, and finally, it is edited and shown as a highlight video on iTube.
Among the participants who took this course, none became a star. Of course, only if you survive to the end.
[Huh? Wait. Isn’t that Kim Jin-seong?]
At that time, the narrator’s voice broke Baekjun out of his thoughts and focused on the monitor screen again.
His eyes caught the sight of a man in a fire suit running towards the cliff at high speed through a forest covered in flames near the cliff.
‘It’s Kim Jin-seong?’
[uh? It’s true! Jinseong Kim is suddenly sprinting toward the cliff!]
While the caster was shouting in surprise, Kim Jin-seong had already reached the cliff.
However, Kim Jin-seong’s running speed did not slow down, but rather became faster.
‘You’re not trying to jump over that distance, are you?’
Baekjun continued to look at Kim Jinseong on the monitor with a feeling of uncertainty.
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‘···what?’
Hwang Yun-taek’s head turned back when he suddenly felt a sign of popularity from behind him.
When I looked, I saw a man wearing a fire protection suit running towards the cliff with all his might.
‘What is this guy again?!’
Hwang Yun-taek was startled and moved right next to him.
The man in the fire protection suit who ran without slowing down as if he was trying to jump over a cliff,
“Haaa!”
He stopped right at the edge of the cliff and at the same time threw a rock slightly larger than his head towards the cliff with all his strength with one hand.
At the same time, the figure of the man in the fire suit disappeared from the sight of nearby participants.
‘uh? wait for a sec.’
The sight looked very familiar to Hwang Yun-taek.
It looks like it’s disappearing into the ground… perhaps?
‘Isn’t that the bastard who was hiding under the shadows yesterday?!’
That was when he just realized Kim Jin-seong’s identity.
The rock, which was flying towards the cliff on the other side in a parabola, soon hit a cliff about 30 meters away from the cliff.
“···uh?”
“what?!”
At the same time, the eyes of the participants watching widened.
Jinseong Kim, who had disappeared, suddenly reappeared on the side of the cliff where the rock hit.
Hwang Yun-taek thought to himself when he saw Kim Jin-seong hanging on the wall.
‘You climbed over the shadow!’
Knowing his abilities, it was Hwang Yun-taek who understood everything about the situation just now.
The rock he threw earlier was large enough to create a shadow that could fit one person.
The man must have hid in the shadows immediately after throwing the rock. And it would have traveled to that cliff by riding the shadow that moved with the rock.
Hwang Yun-taek’s prediction was accurate.
“Okay, operation successful!”
Kim Jin-seong is crying out for joy as he clings to the cliff.
He moved to the cliff using the ‘Shadow Hiding’ skill and then immediately used the ‘Wall Climbing’ skill to land on top of the cliff.
‘Now all I have to do is climb up the cliff…’
Caw!
‘···what?’
At that time, Kim Jin-seong’s head lifted up at the sound of a scream coming from the sky.
Two Hasids, man-eating birds, were descending precisely in the direction where Kim Jin-seong was.
fantasy,
