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Preliminary 2nd D-Day
Pow!
A huge flame exploded and exploded.
The power of the explosion was so strong that a strong wind blew inside the training room.
“Tsk…!”
The employee, caught in the aftermath of the explosion, stumbled backwards and fell to one knee.
Even though he was fully armed from head to toe with anti-hunter equipment, he seemed unable to overcome the shock.
At the same time, the flame mana that had covered the entire training room instantly disappeared back into Jinseong Kim’s body.
“That’s it for now.”
After saying one word, Jinseong Kim slowly walked towards the employee and held out one hand without saying a word.
“···I, Won.”
The employee who was looking up at the sight quickly burst into laughter.
Afterwards, he stood up holding Kim Jin-seong’s hand and said something.
“You’re not even asking me if I’m okay anymore?”
“Just by looking at you, you look fine.”
“This bastard… huh?”
Jinseong Kim extended his hand again towards the employee who was rolling his eyes humorously.
“Today is the last day. “Thank you for sparring with me, Myeong-gu.”
Kim Jin-seong greets with a very serious look.
Seeing that, the employee called Myeonggu held hands with a happy smile.
“No, I also learned a lot thanks to you. Be sure to win. No, I think you will definitely win.”
“thank you.”
Myeong-gu tapped Jin-seong Kim on the shoulder in a friendly manner.
After sparring together for over a month, we have built up quite a bit of affection to the point where we call each other older and younger.
“Then go and get ready. “We’re leaving soon, right?”
“Can I go without the anklet?”
“Oh, that won’t work.”
Kim Jin-seong soon put on the anklet and came out of the training room with Myeong-gu.
Just as I was about to walk down the hallway, I heard an announcement coming from the speakers on the ceiling.
Afterwards, a woman’s voice began to be heard.
[We would like to inform all participants staying at the accommodation. Today is the day we depart for the second round of the preliminaries.
Please make all preparations to go out by 10 PM, one hour later, and then wait at the entrance to the accommodation.
I’ll say it again…]
‘···I guess I should hurry.’
After hearing the broadcast, Kim Jin-seong’s steps quickly accelerated.
‘Still, I’m glad I was able to perfect my mana control skills before the preliminaries started.’
As Kim Jin-seong walked, the image of sparring with Myeong-gu just moments ago came to mind again.
If Kim Jin-seong can only show what he did during today’s sparring, it is certain that he will be reborn as a much more threatening hunter than he was in the first round of the preliminary round.
* * *
After a while.
A number of participants, including Kim Jin-seong, came down to the first floor lobby under strict surveillance by employees.
And then they started walking in line along the long hallway.
It was the first time we had gathered together like this, so we glanced at each other even though we were under close surveillance.
Among them, the one who received the most attention was, of course, Kim Jin-seong.
Kim Jin-seong just silently walked forward without any hesitation.
‘I guess I’m getting used to it because I keep receiving group attention like this.’
At first, Kim Jin-seong was an extremely introverted child who felt burdened by even receiving attention from even one person.
When I think about that time, my personality really changed a lot.
After a while, they stopped in front of a place that looked like an airplane boarding gate.
‘···It’s a real airplane boarding gate, right?’
Eventually, Kim Jin-seong’s eyes widened as he spotted a huge airship outside the window.
It was Kim Jin-seong’s first time seeing an airfield installed in the backyard of his dormitory.
“I’ll board! “Get in line and get in!”
Soon, Kim Jin-seong and other participants began entering the boarding gate along with the employees.
Afterwards, we took turns sitting in our assigned seats, and Kim Jin-seong’s seat was a window seat in the center.
‘It’s a seat that can seat three people. Is this a method where two participants sit inside and an employee sits outside to monitor?
He, who had been staring at the assigned seats, was just about to sit down at the window seat.
“uh! Jinseong Kim!”
A familiar voice called out to him from behind.
Seoldaun was walking to the seat next to him with a bright expression.
“nice to meet you! We saw it once from our helicopter back then, right? “I see you again like this.”
“yes···.”
Kim Jin-seong shook hands without realizing it. He remembered shaking hands like this when he first met him on the helicopter.
Kim Jin-seong glanced at Seol-daun’s smiling face. Even though they were competing for each other’s lives, there seemed to be no malicious intent at all. He was definitely an unusual person.
Seol-daun, unaware of Kim Jin-seong’s thoughts, continued speaking.
“I really wanted to meet you one more time! “When I met you on the helicopter, I had no idea you would become so famous!”
“···I didn’t know that either.”
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Kim Jin-seong also had no idea how surprised he was when he first turned on the internet at his dorm after passing the preliminaries.
“Wow, the entire internet is plastered with three letters of Kim Jin-seong’s name? If I had known this would happen, I would have gotten an autograph right then. haha!”
“Seoldaun has also become quite famous.”
Although he was not at the level of Kim Jin-seong, Seol-daun was also one of the few stars who made his name known the most during the first round of this preliminary round.
Therefore, Kim Jin-seong also had no choice but to naturally encounter information about Seoldown.
“Uh, what is it? “Did you really search my name?”
“no. “It was just floating around in real-time search terms.”
“So you pressed that?”
“what···.”
“Hey, I saw it, I saw it!”
Jinseong Kim asked without denying it.
“I’m sure Seoldaun has searched my name too, right?”
“That’s natural. “Is there anyone in Korea right now who doesn’t know your abilities?”
‘···also.’
Kim Jin-seong, who heard Seol-daun’s answer, smiled bitterly when it turned out to be exactly what he expected.
It felt especially poignant when a direct competitor said that right in front of me.
“Well… out of courtesy, I won’t say more. “We’re going to fight each other fiercely tomorrow anyway, so there’s no need to talk about our abilities now.”
“Yes, well…”
“Now, everyone, please wear your seat belt! Staff, please put additional handcuffs on the wrists of the participants in charge!”
Soon, the person who appeared to be leading the employees shouted that in a loud voice.
In addition to the anklet, the hunter’s handcuffs were also placed on him. It would be a very uncomfortable flight, but it didn’t mean I couldn’t understand it.
After all processes were completed, the plane took off immediately.
The flight time was quite long. It took over 6 hours just to fly in the sky.
However, Kim Jin-seong was not bored at all during that long time.
This was because Seoldaun, who was sitting next to him, did not stop talking.
“I heard on TV that you get a stamp for attendance every day in the training room?”
“yes.”
“and···! No, you’re strong enough without trying that hard, right? “Everyone is already scared, but now I’m going to start shaking even if they just make eye contact!”
“…I don’t think you’re scared at all?”
“no! I can not see? My two eyes filled with fear? “Right now, cold sweat is streaming down my back…!”
“If you were that scared, shouldn’t you have come out of the training room?”
Seoldaun’s eyes widened.
“what? Did you know?”
“It was openly uploaded as an official video on iTube. “It’s titled ‘The only participant who has never used the training room.’”
“Oh, was that so? “Why don’t I remember it?”
Seoldaun, who was scratching his head, quickly nodded his head.
“Actually, I didn’t feel the need to practice. “There’s no way your skills will improve significantly if you practice for just one month, right?”
Jinseong Kim, who had been to the training room this morning, opened his mouth but then closed it.
Kim Jin-seong clearly achieved significant results during the one month that Seoldown looked down on.
But there was no need to talk about such things.
So he just quietly listened to Seoldaun’s next words.
“Have you seen all the seasons so far? No matter how hard we worked in the training room, the result was always the survival of those with overwhelming talent. Do you know what that means?”
“······.”
“From the beginning, the strong are determined. There is a limit to who survives in survival. “The reality is that no matter how hard the ‘weak’ try to become stronger, they are unable to keep up with those who are naturally talented.”
Many of the participants sitting around turned to look at the quiet voice.
It was all a negative look, but Seoldaun paid it no mind and continued talking.
“Oh, of course I’m not ignoring your efforts for a month! “The efforts of a ‘weak’ and the efforts of a ‘genius’ are completely different!”
“I’m not even a genius…”
“Hey, what are you talking about? “If the ability to absorb other people’s abilities and create something of their own is not a genius, then who is a genius?”
Kim Jin-seong responded immediately to those words.
“I think Seol-daun looks more like a genius.”
“me? Hey, how does it compare to me…”
Seol-daun trails off while shrugging his shoulders. There was no apparent denial.
Kim Jin-seong thought to himself as he looked at him like that.
‘You’re really confident in your abilities. But, it’s worth it.’
It was Kim Jin-seong who worked hard to get to know other participants outside of training for a month.
Among them, participants who were thought to have threatening abilities were separately analyzed for a long time.
‘The participant who devoted the most analysis was this man.’
When I think about Seol-daun’s performance in the videos I’ve seen so far, his arrogant appearance did not seem funny or out of place.
In fact, it felt even more threatening.
* * *
Ding dong.
[I would like to provide information to all participants. In a moment, our plane is scheduled to land at the venue for the second preliminary round.]
After hearing the guidance voice, Jinseong Kim looked out the window.
The sight of a small island in the middle of the vast ocean caught my eye.
“Is that an island?”
Seoldaun, who was sitting next to me, leaned over and put his face toward the window.
“It’s smaller than the island in the first preliminary round, right? “Is it perhaps a tropical forest again?”
“Yes.”
“Then it looks like Oceania or the Pacific… Could it be a New World island?!”
“I heard that the island is used as a main ship location.”
“Oh yeah?”
While they were talking, their plane soon landed at the island airfield.
When the plane came to a complete stop, one of the employees stood up and shouted loudly.
“From now on, you will get off in the order your name is called. “The participant whose name is called should answer loudly, and the staff member in charge should immediately remove the handcuffs of the participant who answered.”
The employee in charge called the first name.
“Kim Jin-seong.”
“yes.”
“As soon as the handcuffs are removed, stand up and walk toward the exit.”
Jinseong Kim did as he was told.
As I walked down the stairs to the exit of the plane, there was a small convoy bus standing there.
“Get in.”
One of the employees who was watching nearby put Kim Jin-seong on the escort bus.
After Kim Jin-seong boarded, participants continued to follow him, and the convoy bus door closed only after exactly 10 participants were on board.
The convoy bus carrying 20 people, including 10 employees, left the landing pad at high speed and began running.
The convoy bus didn’t run long.
Because the island was so small, we arrived at our destination after only 5 minutes of running.
‘It’s a castle-like building you’d see in the Middle Ages.’
Kim Jin-seong saw through the window the scene of the convoy bus entering the gate of a building that looked like a set.
Soon the bus stopped, and Kim Jin-seong and other participants entered the small stone building led by the staff.
“uh?”
As soon as they entered the door, one participant let out a surprised voice.
This was because the short, stocky man standing in the center looked very familiar.
The participants shouted in their hearts.
‘It’s Kim Bong-man!’
‘I’m Hunter Kim Bong-man, MC of Dungeon Rules!’
Another long-running and popular program in Korea, Dungeon Law.
There, Kim Bong-man, a hunter who showed off his amazing physical abilities and survival skills, was now standing in front of the participants.
At that time, everyone’s eyes widened at the appearance of ‘Star Hunter’, who was more famous than most famous celebrities in Korea.
“Welcome. Please sit comfortably in your assigned seat.”
Kim Bong-man guided the participants to the prepared seats with a comfortable smile.
After a while, only 11 people remained in the room, including the 10 participants sitting in the seats and Kim Bong-man.
“This is waiting room number 1 where you will wait before the second round of the preliminary round.”
‘no. 1?’
“The remaining participants who will be competing with you are moving to waiting room number 2 in the main building next door.”
The participants looked at each other.
Why were participants in the same game divided into two waiting rooms?
At that time, Kim Bong-man read the progress chart in his hand and spoke to everyone.
“Then, at this point, I will reveal the rules for your second preliminary round.”
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