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Patience is too bitter to bear fruit (1)
[Viewers from all over the country…no, all over the world, who love Colosseum Survival! hello!]
8 am.
As soon as the caster in charge of the morning class changed, he started speaking brightly.
[Today is the 5th day of the first round of Group A of the Season 12 Preliminaries! Hello to all viewers~!]
– Ha 2
– hello
– Colha
– Call ha call ha~
[Kolha~ It means Colosseum Hi! Commentator Kim Jin-cheol, who always sits next to me in the morning class, was there next to me.]
[Nice to meet you. My name is Jincheol Kim, and I am here to greet you today as well.]
[It’s already day 5! Time really flies, doesn’t it? It seems like just yesterday that Kim Jin-seong was fighting Twin Head Ogre for over 20 minutes!]
[Hahaha… Jinseong Kim is now considered the strongest participant in group A of the preliminary round, right?]
[That’s right! Then, before we start broadcasting, we will summarize the current status of survivors.]
Immediately, a status table of survivors appeared on the TV screen.
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Total participants: 672 (322 players, 350 defenders)
Defense force passed: 100 people
Survivors by day 4: 102 (25 existing players, 77 former defenders)
Survivors as of day 5: 78 (21 existing players, 57 former defenders)
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The commentators continued their broadcast while looking at the status table.
[Um…there were 102 survivors yesterday and 78 survivors now. In other words, there were 24 deaths yesterday.]
[I asked the production crew yesterday, and they said most of them died from suffocation due to the forest fire.]
[ah! okay. Looking at it, 5 times more defenders died!]
[Unlike the defenders, who did not have any survival equipment, the players were able to easily obtain gas masks in the early farming section.]
[That’s right. On the first day of this preliminary round, weren’t there a lot of players who found gas masks in a building near the start? There was a reason for everything.]
Shoot…!
[ah! As I speak, a huge amount of water is pouring from all over the forest!]
[It looks like the production crew is spraying it for fire extinguishing purposes. Thanks to this, the forest fire is being extinguished quickly.]
[That’s right! There is no problem because the entire island is owned by the Colosseum, but it is not a good sight for the production team to leave the forest fire for a long time!]
The commentators continued to broadcast while watching on the TV screen the torrential rain-like water that covered the entire sky of the island where the preliminaries were held.
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‘Hey~.’
At that time, Hwang Yun-taek, who was hiding somewhere in a corner of the mountainside, was also inwardly admiring the water flowing throughout the forest.
‘Are the drones in the sky pouring out water right now?’
Although it was hard to see because of the water flow, it was clear that the cause of this huge amount of water pouring down was the numerous drones flying very high in the sky.
‘In order to pour out this much water, you would have to have a really good magic stone… After all, it is a Colosseum.’
While Hwang Yun-taek was admiring the capital power of the Colosseum, the forest fire that had been covering the forest all day seemed to have almost completely disappeared.
‘Still, I’m glad they had good sense and didn’t spray water on the side of the mountain where the participants were… Wow~!’
Soon Hwang Yun-taek yawned so loudly that his mouth widened. Without making a sound so that the people around you can hear you.
‘Ah, I’m sleepy. ‘I stayed up for two nights.’
Hwang Yun-taek rubs his puffy eyes from lack of sleep.
Yesterday I couldn’t sleep until sunrise because of the repechage match, and today I couldn’t sleep at all because I was worried that someone would attack me while I was sleeping.
‘When I think of all the remaining participants on the mountain, I feel so nervous that I can’t sleep…’
When I came here in person, I realized that the entire area of the mountain was not as large as I thought.
In fact, didn’t we encounter close to 10 survivors yesterday while moving to find a safe place?
Even if it is really far away, there will definitely be one participant hiding within a 30m radius. That’s what Hwang Yun-taek was expecting.
‘For now, let’s not move until we hear the others shouting. There are still more than two days left.’
Looking at it, it seemed like I could reach the top of the mountain where the helicopter would land three days after the preliminary round ended in just an hour if I ran fast.
Therefore, you can stay stuck here until the helicopter flies.
‘The problem is what to eat… Ah, I’m hungry.’
This is something I only realized after reaching the mountain using an old tree trunk that I was lucky enough to find yesterday.
The point is that I haven’t been able to eat a single meal for nearly two days.
They have been protesting for food since last night.
‘In the end, one person must be hunted before escaping…’
No matter how much I thought about it, I didn’t think I could survive on an empty stomach for three days like this.
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[Ah, this is Hwang Yun-taek. Is it the same place I saw on TV last night? It looks like it hasn’t moved at all since then!]
[Most players are behaving similarly to Hwang Yun-taek. The idea is that if you run to the top of the mountain, you will get there quickly, so you can stay safely hidden until then.]
[But is that really possible?]
Just when the caster’s meaningful words were finished, the TV screen showed the end of the sky in the distance.
Ugh-!
The sight of an airplane flying there with a loud engine sound is very familiar to viewers.
– supply?
– It’s a supply plane!
– Nice timing haha.
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The caster raised his voice along with the enthusiastic response from viewers.
[This is what the supply plane looks like flying in today as always! From today, supply boxes will always fall near the mountains, and when they drop, red smoke and a delicious smell will be released!]
[There are probably many participants from the defense force who are currently public servants. Can you bear to see that supply box full of groceries?]
It was then.
The TV, which was broadcasting images of almost all participants turning their heads in the direction of an incoming airplane, suddenly began broadcasting a different screen.
The caster looked at the screen and immediately knew what kind of place it was.
[As I speak, the image of one player, who is the only one among all the participants living in a different environment, is shown on the screen!]
[This is Kim Jin-seong. Are you still in the secret passage?]
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“Haaam~!”
Unlike Hwang Yun-taek earlier, Jin-seong Kim is openly making noises and stretching out.
“It’s been a while since I slept well.”
In fact, his face looked very refreshed after a good night’s sleep. This was also the exact opposite of Hwang Yun-taek’s tired expression from earlier.
‘The only thing in the cave was plant monsters, so I was able to sleep without worrying about being attacked.’
The biggest weakness of plant monsters is that they are rooted in the ground and cannot move to another place.
In other words, if you know the location of the monster and settle down as far away from it as possible, you will never be attacked while you sleep.
‘Okay, my mana has been fully recovered overnight, so let’s just grab a meal and move on.’
Kim Jin-seong took out a sealed lunch box from an oversized bag.
It was a food product equipped with an auto warmer system that automatically warmed the lunch box inside when you pressed the button on one corner of the package.
‘Hmm~! It’s so nice to eat something warm in a cold cave.’
Kim Jin-seong eats leisurely, fully enjoying the warmth of the food.
Kim Jin-seong, who created a scene that Hwang Yun-taek would have been jealous of, ate every single grain of rice and drank water before shaking his butt and getting up.
‘Now shall we go conquer the secret passage again?’
Kim Jin-seong walks inside the cave again to explore the secret passage that he had put off last night due to drowsiness.
The sight of him walking seemed particularly lively today.
After a while.
Going further underground, Kim Jin-seong was once again engaged in battle with plant monsters.
Suddenly!
When I cut down the central stem of one plant monster, the rock-colored plant monster on the wall right next to me spewed out petrified powder from its stamens.
At that moment, Jinseong Kim used the ‘Shadow Hiding’ skill to hide at the bottom of the cave.
‘If you do this, you won’t get hit with powder.’
It was one of the know-hows I gained while defeating countless plant monsters yesterday.
Kim Jin-seong, who completely dodged the powder and soared up again, leisurely cut down the central stem of the plant monster.
After killing two of them so neatly, this notification window appeared in front of me.
▶ You have already acquired ‘Poison Powder’, an attribute of the opposing monster.
▶ You have already acquired ‘Petrification Powder’, an attribute of the opposing monster.
Kim Jin-seong, who had already opened two new skill slots yesterday, had inserted ‘Poison Powder’ and ‘Petrification Powder’ into the empty slots.
‘Now that I think about it, there really were a lot of monsters in the secret passage.’
Considering that 30 Vis Crimea points are given for each plant monster in front of you, you must have killed at least 67 of them yesterday.
Of course, the actual number killed is much higher than that.
‘I understand that if I hunt a little more, I can open one more skill slot.’
Jinseong Kim continued down the passage again while checking the remaining vis creama points.
The green plant started moving to attack me again right before my eyes.
Kim Jin-seong held out one palm toward it.
▶ Use the skill ‘Petrification Powder’.
Gray powder erupted from his palm and attacked the green plant monster.
…and nothing happened.
puck!
Rather, he seems even angrier as he swings the stem and attacks the spot where Kim Jin-seong was standing.
Jinseong Kim thought as he avoided the attack by taking a step to the side.
‘It doesn’t work either.’
Strangely, the skills I acquired this time did not work at all on the same plant monsters. The same thing happened even if you sprayed poisoning powder on the guy who was spraying petrifying powder.
‘It’s not like the skill is the problem.’
Considering that it worked for Jinseong Kim yesterday, it is definitely not a skill issue.
‘I wonder if it doesn’t work on plant monsters like me…’
With doubts in his mind, Kim Jin-seong swung his sword again like a machine.
One more time! With a cutting sound, the head of a green plant, a huge flower bud, fell to the ground.
After a while.
Kim Jin-seong, who had been walking down the aisle for a while, had no choice but to stop.
A sinkhole with an unknown depth that appears to be about 5m in radius.
There was no other way than to go inside.
‘There’s something inside.’
Jinseong Kim was convinced as he looked inside the sinkhole.
There was nothing in sight. However, it was felt by his senses that he had acquired the ‘position detection’ trait.
Something huge was wriggling 10 meters below.
‘It seems to be a boss monster.’
I saw it on TV. At the end of these secret passages, there is always one powerful monster that acts as the gatekeeper.
This thing I feel right now under my feet is definitely a monster that has been given that role.
‘First, let’s go down using shadow hiding.’
Isn’t ‘Shadow Hiding’ really the best skill in this situation?
Anyone else would have had to risk their lives by diving, but Kim Jin-seong can freely move around in the dark.
Kim Jin-seong, hiding in the darkness, slowly went down about 5 meters.
Whick!
Suddenly, a heavy sound of cutting through the air was heard from ahead.
‘···!’
At the same time, Kim Jin-seong opened his eyes wide.
A plant stem as thick as the body of a twin-headed ogre was swinging towards the direction where Kim Jin-seong was hiding!
Kim Jin-seong quickly moved to the side,
bang!
With a loud crashing sound, the plant stem stuck into the wall on the side where Kim Jin-seong was.
The problem was that there was more than one attacking stem.
‘Heek?!’
Kim Jin-seong was startled by the sight of two plant stems emerging through the darkness.
The speed was too fast to avoid both sides flying exactly in his direction at the same time.
So Kim Jin-seong had no choice but to release his shadow hiding skill and throw himself to the floor.
That was the right decision.
Quagwang! Seeing the fragments of the cave wall falling down with a sound, I felt like I would never have been fine if I had stayed still.
‘But I can’t see the floor… Ah! there is!’
Kim Jin-seong, who was anxious, was relieved to see the floor and activated his magic energy.
Afterwards, Kim Jin-seong rolled around on the floor and landed safely.
bang!
“Wow!”
I had to fly right to the side to avoid another plant stem that was flying towards me.
Only after rolling sideways for a long time in the aftermath was Kim Jin-seong able to see the front.
“···!!”
Kim Jin-seong’s mouth suddenly opened.
There was that plant in front of me… and it was incredibly big.
What plant can grow taller than Seoul’s famous skyscrapers?
The head was also very big. Each petal was studded with sharp, fang-like teeth and was as big as a giant monster.
And wriggling around it, there are at least 100 stems, vines, and flower buds…
‘what’s this···?’
Kim Jin-seong, who tilted his head back as much as possible and looked up at the huge monster in front of him, had an expression of disbelief.
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“It’s finally appeared.”
Vice President Jang Seung-wook, who was watching from behind the monitor room, muttered to himself.
“The strongest plant monster on Earth today, Porgynei.”
fantasy,
