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Episode 271
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He who knows when to retreat is more beautiful than anything.
To that, the man replied with a smirk.
It’s not knowing when to back off, it’s just a plausible wrap-up of giving up.
It is said that even if you are thrown into an endless abyss, it looks really beautiful when you struggle with all your might to come up.
The memories of that time brought the man back to life.
It did not collapse in the face of defeat, did not succumb to setbacks, and did not break even though it felt despair.
Because the word renunciation cannot exist in his dictionary.
Even if, after struggling in the ugly way, I fall somewhere on the bottom, never.
‘What was lacking?’
It was that the man’s eyes flashed in agony in front of the first defeat he had ever experienced.
What was lacking that caused him to lose?
The overall condition was almost the same as that of the opponent.
No, actually, he was the one who had the advantage.
The opponent had just entered the state, and he had already been in that state for a long time.
Of course, time is meaningless to their talents, so it was only a small advantage.
The battle between them was a close battle with the difference of a single paper that the final judge knew by this subtle advantage.
‘Time, it’s time…’
In the end, my thoughts went crazy with the two letters of the year.
More than twenty years have already passed since the man retired from active duty.
Skills are innate talents, and they are maintaining the exact same level as before, but in terms of physical strength, they are clearly not as good as they used to be.
If his fight had been more common, the problem would not have been revealed.
In the first place, it is a man that an equal fight cannot exist, so he must have already won before he felt the lack of physical strength.
However, the opponent the man fought with this time and he was perfectly equal in skill.
It means that the fight had to be prolonged, and thus the lack of physical strength was clearly revealed.
‘It’s rusted, even me.’
twenty years. No, was it almost thirty years?
It is said that rivers and mountains change in ten years, but that has happened three times, so it was unavoidable.
The man quietly closed his eyes and thought.
Is there really such a thing as unavoidable?
Isn’t it just that, with the expression ‘it can’t be helped’, you give up halfway through?
Just like those with whom he swayed.
Wow…Ah…Ah…!
porridge···! Ahh···! Kill them all…!
The man’s surroundings began to gradually become noisy.
Harsh swear words, iron sounds, and the death penalty are constantly heard.
At that moment, the man opened his eyes that had been slowly closed.
Until recently, the place he was in was a room that resembled the appearance of a house he had built himself.
But not now.
He was now in the middle of the battlefield.
In a space surrounded by a round wall, a battlefield where everyone is hostile to everyone around them and tries to take their lives.
A place where the struggle of all against all is taking place.
Colosseum.
A man stood tall in the middle.
The monsters on the battlefield cannot leave a man standing still.
There was no conversation, just a cry to die, and a monster swung a sword at the man.
A sword swung aiming at the head.
The man looked at it silently.
A cold, subdued gaze scans the blade.
Eventually, the blade cut through the place where the man’s head was.
“uh···?”
The blade, which had a sharp wit as if it could cut anything, did not cut anything.
With no feeling in his hands, the monster full of conviction turned into a man, the murderous intent disappeared, and a clear embarrassment appeared on his face.
And the person who became a human did not turn his gaze and was startled.
A true ‘monster’ stood before his nose.
A monster that Heaven created talent in the form of a human being.
‘I have no choice but to grind again from the beginning.’
If it is rusted, you can remove it.
If you lack stamina, you can build it up again.
There is no reason to give up saying ‘it can’t be helped’.
The man was already aware of that fact.
What you can do is just do it.
Silly story, but that was his talent!
The man’s sword slashed the head of the enemy who was stupidly standing in front of him.
Starting with that, on the battlefield overflowing with people pretending to be monsters, a real monster alighted.
A monster that has long been hungry for the taste of blood.
after so much time has passed.
There was only one man standing on the battlefield where so many people ran wild.
Among the traces of those he had cut through, the man held his sword in reverse and put it on the floor, quietly closing his eyes.
Already this battlefield was out of his interest.
There is only one battle in his mind.
A battle that engraved the two words ‘defeat’ on him, who had never been defeated in his life.
‘The day the preparations are finished, let’s meet again. Son.’
The man, Jaehyun, slowly opened his eyes.
The surroundings were getting noisy again.
This is because the battlefield he had just been on disappeared, and a new battlefield unfolded before him.
He naturally surrendered himself to the flow of the battlefield.
like that.
Knowing defeat, the war god was sharpening his sword.
for another emergency.
In the Colosseum, a battlefield where countless people fight together!
“The Colosseum?”
Seeing the name of the newly recommended game, Dohyun tilted his head.
An ancient Roman word for an amphitheater, it is often described as a place where gladiators fight.
However, for Dohyeon, the first thing that comes to mind when he thinks of the Colosseum is ‘Psychic Wars’.
It was because of the Colosseum battlefield there.
He’s a Drew at the Trickers Tournament! Because I remember winning the Grand Rumble Colosseum.
Of course, the Colosseum that viewers are talking about was a completely different game.
-Ahhh
-By the way, K didn’t go to the Colosseum??
-I want to see K eat a champion, Imari!
-I heard that there is a monster running rampant in the Colosseum these days.
“Wait a minute. I’ll take a look.”
Dohyun checked the information of the game named ‘Colosseum’.
The first thing that came to mind was the release year of the game.
Do-hyeon saw this and muttered without realizing it.
“Is this a game from ten years ago?”
-Has it been like that since the Colosseum came out?
– That’s right, ten years ago.
-When it just came out, I enjoyed it as a gag jam haha
– But it seems like there are still a lot of people doing it?
‘Colosseum’ was released ten years ago, and it was a game belonging to the old axis.
Even so, as it is a virtual reality game, it is almost no different from today’s games, and it has enjoyed considerable popularity even after ten years have passed since its release.
The secret to longevity was a battle that made you feel like you were a gladiator in the Colosseum.
‘It’s a game where you have to trust only your own physical…’
The ‘Colosseum’ does not provide any superpowers to gamers.
All you are given is a strong and strong body!
Everyone will fight under the same conditions.
Even, it wasn’t a one-on-one battle, as the name suggests, it was a battle where 100 people were thrown into one huge Colosseum at once, and the last survivor was the winner!
No matter how strong they are, in the end their abilities are the same, so you never know when they will be attacked and die.
In other words, you can never let go of the tension until you kill all the enemies.
People addicted to such thrills constantly wandered the battlefields of the Colosseum, and it was still quite popular after ten years.
Do-hyeon, who was reading the explanation calmly, lit up his eyes.
“Pretty interesting, isn’t it?”
-The gladiator guys are fucking hilarious hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
– But if you do it wrong, it will be a big burden.
-It’s hard to win the numbers fight at the Colosseum;
-Uh-huh, how dare you see the future! They are sentient beings who lack faith!
“Well, I didn’t have any games to play today, so it’s a Colosseum experience.”
Do-hyeon, who relaxedly modified the broadcast title, immediately downloaded and executed ‘Colosseum’.
Downloads were fast, and execution was even faster.
The moment he thought that the place he had designated as the waiting room was blurred, he was standing tall in the center of the large, round stadium.
Shouts roar around like waves.
The spectators of the amphitheater were packed with people, and they cheered and applauded only when they saw Dohyeon standing in the center.
It was the crowd’s hymn to the sole victor on this battlefield.
A cry to worship the victors of the Colosseum, the champions.
Clouds of feet so huge that the earth rumbles, cheers that tear the sky, and applause that fills our ears.
It couldn’t have been the opening scene that made me clench my fists without realizing it.
Of course, this is true even for those who are easily swept away.
Dohyun moved on to character setting as if nothing was wrong with the crazy cheers of the audience.
Despite the character setting, due to the nature of the ‘Colosseum’, where special abilities do not exist, only weapons and armor were available to choose from.
However, perhaps because there were only two to choose from, the variety was so diverse that it was difficult to see at a glance.
In the case of weapons, he could even design his own, so he had the advantage of being able to create a weapon that was right for him.
“What weapon should I use…?”
-If it’s a sword, it’s a sword hahaha
-? I lost the title of swordsman to King Burge;
– Oh haha right hahaha
– Do you have any other weapons?
In front of a variety of options, Dohyun was troubled.
His trademark sword didn’t look bad, and the spear he used once on the battlefield of ‘Samurai Hearts’ seemed to be fine.
There was no specific rule against holding a weapon, so he grabbed a weapon and swung it around.
To find the weapon that best suits your taste.
At the same time, viewers constantly chatted with the weapons they wanted to see and expressed their opinions.
It was around that time that one support came in.
‘I’m going on a mission’ sponsors ‘10,000 won’!
[Roh Moo-gi, 100,000 won call when winning 5 kills or more with no armor?]
“Ah, Mission Go-nim, thank you for your ten thousand won support. Well, in Nomugi Noh armor… 5 kills?”
-Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
-If someone from behind gets a knife, I’m going to die lol.
– Play hard even with rotten water;
-Hundreds of people fight in a tangled mess, but no equipment hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
The content of the new mission sponsorship was concise.
Win with 5 kills or more without weapons or armor!
However, unlike the content of the mission, which is arranged in a single line, the difficulty level was murderous.
Ten years after its release, ‘Colosseum’ has long been a game overflowing with stagnant water.
There is even rotten water in the neighborhood above!
Winning there with no equipment at all? Doing that for more than 5 kilos?
Dohyun asked with an interesting expression.
“Can I just not have the weapon at the beginning or until the end?”
-Look at the thought of taking it again!
– It looks like you’re trying to steal everything like a sword from a swordsman hahaha
-Of course, from start to finish hahaha
-Weapon snatchers ON!
The answer to Do-hyeon’s question, which reveals her intentions, came back somewhat strangely.
Usually, it was meant to give back only whether it was okay or not, but this time the viewer put some conditions on it.
[You can take the weapon. However, it is prohibited to exceed 1 kill with a stolen weapon]
“You mean taking one weapon and killing one and throwing it away? I see.”
– This is another different rule. 1 weapon 1 kill
-Stealing weapons and killing them, taking them and killing them hahaha
-The person carrying out the mission knows the broadcast well.
– It’s a fun mission hahahaha
“Mission, I will accept it.”