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It’s hunting time
Before I knew it, a red sunset was setting in the sky.
At a time when the sun was gradually sinking below the western horizon, Kim Jin-seong was squatting in a very corner of the mountain ridge.
‘hmm···.’
There, Kim Jin-seong was reading his ability score window in detail for the first time in a while.
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Name: Jinseong Kim
HP: 1800/1800
MP: 892/1490
Strength: 301
Intelligence: 149
Stamina: 180
Agility: 177
Skin Defense: 51
※ Current skills possessed
– Unobstructable Charge
– Shadow hiding
– Transformation and self-immolation
– void
– Baldo
– Poison Powder
– Petrification Powder
※ Permanent skills acquired through comprehensive characteristics
– Stealing (born thief)
– Sneaky (born thief)
– Wall climbing (born thief)
– Confusion (Mentalist)
– Hypnosis (Mentalist)
– Temptation (Mentalist)
※ Current characteristics
– Location detection
– Night hunting expert
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Vis Creama Points: 310
※ Skills that can be used with Vis Crimea Points
– Magi
– recovery
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‘There are so many characteristics that they can’t all be displayed at once.’
Kim Jin-seong wanted to read all the characteristics he had, but soon stopped.
In fact, except for ‘Location Detection’ and ‘Night Hunting Expert’ that come to mind right now, almost all of them are characteristics that increase physical ability.
Kim Jin-seong’s gaze moved again to where the skills were listed.
‘···No matter how much I think about it, I can’t catch that plant with these skills.’
Even though I keep racking my brain, I can’t think of any other strategy that can surpass the ‘transformation clone – nullify – confusion – launch’ combo I used earlier.
Then, there is only one answer left.
‘I need to get another skill.’
Jinseong Kim took his eyes off the status window and looked up at the sky.
Before we knew it, the sun had completely set, and the island where the preliminary round was held had once again turned into a land dominated by darkness.
This is the time when the characteristics of ‘hiding in the shadows’ and being a ‘night hunting expert’ who can distinguish objects at night shine.
‘Okay, let’s go hunting.’
Kim Jin-seong poured another mana potion that he had obtained by killing a participant earlier into his mouth and immediately hid himself in the shadows.
Sigh!
“Ugh…!”
After a while, a short voice was heard from a participant hiding in a corner.
It was the sound announcing the start of Kim Jin-seong’s hunt.
▶ You have defeated the wicked.
▶ Obtained 20 Vis Creama points.
▶ Acquired the opponent’s characteristic, ‘Escape’.
▷ Run: Permanently increases agility by 15.
▶ Agility has increased by 15 due to the ‘Running’ trait.
‘This guy is a loser.’
Jinseong Kim saw the notification window and removed it right in front of his eyes.
The trait that increases agility by more than 10 is certainly a pretty good trait, but it wasn’t what Kim Jin-seong needed right now.
What he wanted now was skill.
‘Where else could it be…’
Jinseong Kim hid under the shadows again and began moving while scouting the surroundings.
Although it is a bit blurry due to the ‘night hunting expert’ characteristic, all surrounding objects can still be seen.
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‘You have to search carefully. ‘Everyone will be hiding in places that are really hard to find so as not to die.’
The participant who had just hunted was also in a hollow hole under a tree. It was a location that I would never have been able to find if it weren’t for the ‘Night Hunting Expert’ trait.
‘Where are you hiding… huh?’
At that time, Kim Jin-seong’s head naturally turned to the left.
The ‘Location Tracking’ feature was signaling that there was someone in the left corner.
‘There’s no one there?’
There was no one in sight, but there was no way the ‘location tracking’ feature was lying.
So he hid in the shadows and moved towards it silently.
Kim Jin-seong was found only after he got completely nearby.
‘and···!’
At the same time, he was impressed.
One participant was squatting between rocks and trying to sleep.
However… the color of the skin and clothes was the same as the color of the rock. Like an insect with protective coloring on a rock.
‘It would be hard to spot this even in broad daylight, right?’
Kim Jin-seong was impressed and at the same time swung his sword mercilessly.
Sigh! And the sword gently pierced his forehead. Thanks to this, the other person was able to meet a painless end by dying in his sleep.
A notification window pops up immediately.
▶ You can acquire the opponent’s skill ‘Chameleon’.
▷ Chameleon: Changes both the user’s skin and the clothing worn to the same color as nearby objects. Consumes 50 mana.
▶ Would you like to delete the existing skill to acquire the ‘Chameleon’ skill?
‘···It’s a very good skill for survival.’
As soon as I saw the notification window, I could see how the participant had survived safely for 5 days.
If you could disguise yourself with such perfect protective colors, it is obvious that you would have passed by without even spotting the monster.
‘But it’s not what I need right now.’
Kim Jin-seong looked around to see if there were any loot he could get from the participants, and then had no choice but to turn away empty-handed.
‘Now, I wish I could show some skills related to combat rather than survival.’
Including the first ability I acquired earlier, escape, they are all survival-specific abilities.
Well, I guess that’s why I’ve survived until now because I have that ability.
‘Everyone is already so good at hiding that it’s hard to find them, so if these abilities keep popping up…’
When I moved there, thinking about it.
He stopped his actions when he felt a sensation on his right side.
…This time too, there was no one in sight. However, ‘Location Tracking’ was clearly telling me that there was someone 10 meters ahead.
‘Are you capable of survival this time too?’
Kim Jin-seong moved in that direction, thinking of the participant who had the chameleon skill a little while ago.
No, I was trying to move.
Jinseong Kim heard clearly when he moved almost a step forward.
The sound of something flying through the wind.
‘Dangerous!’
Kim Jin-seong moved instinctively. He immediately leapt out of the shadows and assumed his defensive stance.
Kang!
With a loud sound breaking the silence in the mountains, the dagger blocked by Kim Jin-seong’s long sword fell helplessly to the ground.
At the same time, Kim Jin-seong also counterattacked.
He threw the long sword he had blocked towards the direction from which the dagger came.
Sigh!
A deep pounding sound coming from the front.
Unfortunately, what the sword pierced was not a person, but a wooden pillar growing behind it.
‘Did he run away?’
Kim Jin-seong continued to take a alert stance while pulling out another sword from its scabbard.
However, even after a while, I could not feel anyone’s energy within 10 meters.
‘You discovered my hidden location.’
So far, only three beings have noticed his location hidden in the shadows.
Kang Min-hyuk in a runaway state, a defense force with the ‘location tracking’ trait. And that giant plant monster underground.
But now one more person has been added.
‘They say he’s either stronger than me, or has abilities such as location tracking…’
Either way, it was not good news for Kim Jin-seong. Anyway, night hunting is impossible for him.
‘Let’s get out of this area quickly. The sound was too loud when I struck the dagger just now.’
Surely all the participants around him would have heard the sound as the long sword struck the dagger.
If so, most people would either prepare for a surprise attack or try to run further away.
Some might even try to stage a surprise attack, which would have been a good thing for Kim Jin-seong.
‘I’d rather have a surprise attack now.’
Then, you will be able to save yourself the trouble of looking for participants like you do now.
Kim Jin-seong retrieved the sword stuck in the tree in front and then hid in the shadows again.
That time.
On top of an old tree in a place very far away from where Kim Jin-seong was.
On a tree branch where no one was present, a man wearing a black mask suddenly appeared.
It was a fade.
‘Just now, that guy…!’
Although his facial expression could not be seen because of the mask, his severely trembling eyes showed that he was very surprised.
‘It was definitely the guy who ran away with the grocery bag on the first day.’
The memory of the time he was ambushed to steal a bag of groceries and ended up getting injured came back to Fade’s mind again.
The young face of that guy at the time was exactly the same as the face of the guy I had just seen in the dark.
‘How did you suddenly become so strong?’
This was why Fade was surprised.
If he had been unlucky, he might have been pierced by the sword that Kim Jin-seong had just thrown and died in one hit.
Considering the enormous amount of mana contained in that sword and its ridiculous speed, it is quite a possibility.
‘It was definitely not at that level when we met on the first day.’
Once you reached the level of fade, it was possible to determine the opponent’s level just by looking at the attack movement and the amount of mana.
In his view, the guy he saw on the first day and the guy he just met seemed like they were from a completely different dimension.
‘It’s one of two things. Either he hid his state, or he grew up.’
It was most likely that he had hidden his condition on the first day.
Even if you search all of Earth’s history, it is difficult to find a case where something grows as ridiculously fast as it does now within 5 days.
‘I should be more careful. ‘I guess I shouldn’t go out for no reason for the time being.’
Fade made a decision in his mind. Unless a really dangerous situation arises in the future, let’s stay quietly hidden until the helicopter arrives.
As soon as he made his decision, Fade used his stealth skill and soon disappeared on a tree branch.
About 30 minutes have passed since Kim Jin-seong and Fade collided.
Kim Jin-seong, who was still walking around the mountain using the ‘Shadow Hiding’ skill, was feeling very regretful in his heart.
‘Did I block it with my sword for no reason… I guess I should have just avoided it somehow…’
There was a reason why I kept blaming myself in such a depressed mood.
This was because no one could be found for 30 minutes. Kim Jin-seong was thinking that the reason was because of the sound made when the swords clashed with each other earlier.
‘Unless they all really ran away after hearing that noise, it doesn’t make sense that no one has been able to find it until now… huh?’
Kim Jin-seong’s movements, which had been grumbling internally, stopped for a moment.
After 30 minutes, something finally caught up with the ‘location tracking’.
Jinseong Kim immediately turned his head in the direction he felt.
‘···It’s a rabbit.’
Inside the small rabbit hole, a cute white rabbit was staring blankly in his direction.
···wait for a sec. Staring?
‘A mere animal knows my location hidden in the shadows?’
This didn’t make sense. Isn’t the White Rabbit not as strong as Kang Min-hyuk, and doesn’t he have characteristics like ‘location tracking’?
‘And the energy I feel is not that of an ordinary rabbit.’
Kim Jin-seong, who felt suspicious in many ways, soon made up his mind.
I decided to attack that rabbit.
Kim Jin-seong, hiding in the shadows, immediately started charging at the rabbit.
That’s when Kim Jin-seong reached the nearby area and pulled out his sword.
“Hey, Mr.! I knew it!”
A white rabbit suddenly emits a young male voice.
At the same time, the rabbit’s body was instantly engulfed in flames,
Quang!
Soon, the entire area around the rabbit hole was covered in flames with an explosion sound.
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