125 – Just as you believe
Someone once said that sufficiently advanced scientific technology is indistinguishable from magic.
So, given a near-perfect hallucination, can we know what is different from reality?
“So far… It’s all been a hallucination…”
I was able to know right away after making a proper attack for the first time during the trial.
You can see the original sentinel shattering like glass and then turning into black-grey smoke.
Not the reality embodied by the host, but darkness, lies, and illusions created by myself.
But is that really all?
The disappearing watchman was staring straight into my eyes even as he lost his existence.
The sunken eyes seemed to say that they would meet soon.
“What are you looking at, you bastard?”
The guy glared at me until the end and then disappeared at some point.
“Tsk – it wasn’t all real…”
Then what about that giant bird?
But the bird I saw with my insight was real…
It seemed that I was still unable to fully see through the essence.
‘The insight is nonsense.’
It is a frustrating moment to realize that it is difficult to even see the world as it is.
Rurrruk-
A feeling that disturbs one’s thoughts lingers in the back.
I felt something flowing down my back, so I put my hand in and felt warm liquid.
“Blood…”
Bleeding occurred from a fairly deep crack in the back.
Before the event starts.
A message warning him that he could die passed through his head.
“Does it come true as you believe?”
If you think the opposite way, when you strongly believe that you can overcome, wouldn’t your opponent be able to overcome any opponent?
– Huh… Sigh… Huuu…
Ling Ling appeared next to her, breathing heavily, with a light she had never seen before on her face.
I guess the flow of time was not the same as mine.
She was completely tattered and most of her clothes were torn and missing.
Her entire body was covered in what looked like black ash, showing that she had been in quite a fierce battle.
“I guess I overcame it.”
“Kick… Of course!! You should have seen what that bastard did. He was disassembled into thousands of pieces.”
“Huh? Uh… Good job.”
No matter what, it would be a good thing if her pain was washed away even a little.
Before I knew it, Isabella and Ha-eun were hanging on my back one by one, and Hyuna and Go Ok-ja also joined them.
“There were six of us, including me… I guess Director Ahn finally gave up.”
“Who did I meet?”
“It doesn’t necessarily have to be someone we met during the stage, so it could be someone we don’t know about.”
“Still, the score is better than the previous version.”
She nodded and moved onto the disk that had fallen in the space where the glass wall had disappeared.
It didn’t take long to move to the next step.
A circular stadium filled with nothing but a soft golden aura.
It seemed as if all the survivors so far had gathered in that space, and although it was a fairly large space, it was densely packed with humans.
‘It feels like I’ve been here before.’
An event where damage was measured against the hero Rosherdin.
It was that space.
“It’s a good thing to hear.”
Hyuna said as if she was fortunate.
Seven million teams compete, and only 1,000 teams receive elixirs, and after that, all they can do is collect points.
This is a mission to deal with the being in the center of the hall, but in reality, you have to be wary of everyone in this space.
The faces of all the players gathered in the stadium turned gray with such worry.
Besides.
“It doesn’t deviate from my expectations one bit…”
What appeared in the center of the stadium?
A monster that served as a measuring instrument during the damage measurement event.
And it was a being presumed to be the hero Rosherdin.
His long arms were still hanging haphazardly on the ground, his huge torn mouth, snub nose, and eyes that had degenerated into dots remained. Even the long back of his head, stretched out like an alien, was fluttering and writhing.
He was short, less than 160cm tall, and had a very smooth, streamlined, light purple body that slowly straightened his waist.
The density of the shield worn on the body still seems to defy common sense.
‘It will still be difficult to win 1:1. Still, I don’t think I’ll lose easily…’
At that time, it was an unknown creature that could not even be encountered, but now it was at a distance that was enough to measure the difference in level.
Those thoughts disappeared from my mind the moment I checked the guy’s ability window.
—–
Fallen Hero Rosherdin
– Rosherdin, the hero who was the first singularity. He was defeated and corrupted. However, thanks to the choice of the Chimera Artisan, complete extinction was avoided.
Although it has been modified, its abilities have been significantly lowered.
Stamina: ???
mana: ????
Strength: ???
Agility: ???
It is a living being that has formed a strong ego within itself. Verification of attribute information is blocked.
—–
“Damn… This is real.”
For some reason, when I see Rosherdin like that, I feel like I could be like that in the future, and my mood suddenly plummets.
If the remodeling was by any chance the Great Devil Ser, it was a matter of reconsideration.
“It moves.”
Gulp-
All the players swallowed their saliva at the sight of Rosherdin’s movements, and the sound was like the sound of a huge speaker.
Huung-
“Disappeared?”
Rocher Din’s form disappeared, and his blood feast began.
Seogeeogeeogeeokeuk ㅡ
– Kwahaaa!!
– Sigh-!!
– Buy, save –
– Ugh, stop!! Cow, I’ll raise my hand –
In an instant, more than a hundred players were eliminated and disappeared into smoke.
Fortunately, we were some distance away.
We quickly put up a tent with our fingers and established a plan.
The faces of the team members were thoughtful.
Even if you are told that you will not die, no one wants to experience something comparable to death.
He must have already experienced enough of that danger due to hallucinations.
Since we didn’t know what kind of psychological damage it would cause even if we didn’t die, we planned our strategy as conservatively as possible.
In the end, we decided to protest inside the tent again.
It was a tedious method, but there was no reason to take risks.
In particular, the stadium is already in the midst of a complete melee.
Battles between teams were gradually occurring, so there was no need to waste magical power by participating in such battles.
“Let’s hold a sit-in protest here until they turn their attention to us. Only use your abilities against those who come close.”
– Yes, Shelter Director!
– Wow!!
Fortunately, there were few people who were interested in our defensive positions.
Occasionally, there were teams that tried to fight with their backs to our tent, but as soon as they got close, [Lightning] Struck from the sky, so they widened the distance as if it were a pre-set trap.
-Keueuuu!!
-It hurts!! My arm!! My arm!!
-Monster, monster! Po, give up-
Seoggeokㅡ
Has it been about 10 minutes since it started?
The number of people throwing up their hands and giving up began to increase rapidly.
“You have to see something before you fight. That’s…”
Hyuna Kim frowned and muttered.
Of course, my vision was constantly moving, following its movements.
‘Hmm – [Matchless] Against [Blitz]… If you do well…’
Once I got used to its movements to a certain extent, surviving as number one was a priority.
In some ways, this could be my last chance to fight someone stronger than me among humanoid monsters, so I felt a strange sense of victory.
And for a while, the world was filled with only the sound of missiles exploding loudly in all directions.
Quaaang!!
Then, the first blow came to our tent, and one after another, my magical power began to be eaten away.
“I’m leaving. Hyuna, Lingling, and Lulu, please focus on defense. If only two are eliminated, you will not receive any compensation.”
As soon as I set up the tent, I gave a warning to my team members again and jumped forward like lightning.
‘It was that person.’
For some reason, a woman who had lost her mind was spitting out fireballs all over her body.
It didn’t seem like it had the ability to aim and fire on its own.
However, the power seemed to be considerable, and this could be seen by looking at other people who could not even get close and kept the distance between them.
Pajijik-
But since I barely took any fire damage due to the effect of the upgraded flame cloak, I went right up to it and blew off its head.
Sigh!
······!!
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Before the short-haired horse could even scream, the woman who was performing the fire show turned into smoke and disappeared.
And Rosherdin and me. The two people slowly narrowed the distance between them and erased the obstacles between them.
The number of players suddenly decreased from 10 million to 100,000.
10 Seconds before encounter.
10, 9, 8···3, 2, 1
“It’s been a while, Rosherdin?”
“······.”
aaa!!
In the end, I clashed with him with great force.
We held each other’s hands and looked into each other’s eyes for a while.
Unlike the sad look in his eyes the last time I saw him, this time he was alive and alive.
He seemed strangely happy.
hahahahaha!!
······.
And it was the same for me.
Sticky blood on my face that I couldn’t tell who it belonged to began to fall to the ground.
Blood falls slowly, as if in slow motion.
And there was a huge back and forth between him and me.
Me, who focuses on defense using box fighting and sword fighting, and Rosherdin, who constantly focuses on attack.
Took-
We hit the ground hundreds of times until the falling blood hit the ground, and the first one to lose focus was me, who was on the defensive.
Rocher Dean did not miss the opportunity and kicked my chin with his right leg.
Although it clearly did not allow time for it to attack with its legs, it snaked in, drawing an impossible trajectory.
Whoa!
He pulled his chin back by a narrow margin to avoid it, but Rocher Dean’s middle kick came right away.
Quang ㅡ!!
I couldn’t avoid this, so I wrapped myself in full armor and used box-fighting techniques, but the impact made me fly hundreds of meters away.
‘It was definitely spilled…?’
He stood up again and shook his head from side to side.
Wood-duk- Wood-duk
“Ugh, that’s funny. What kind of great martial artist am I?”
When I think about it now, it was a mistake for me, who learned boxing like a child’s game, to try to fight the monster who was called a hero with hand-to-hand combat.
“Now we don’t care about the means. Let’s get it over with quickly.”
Pajijik-
We deployed [Blitzkrieg] To the maximum and even borrowed Kim Hyun-ah’s [Musou].
Then, just for a moment, I entered a new range of speed and was able to catch up with him, who was quickly dodging.
And I poured out all my abilities in an instant.
First, I used the water to distract Rosherdin, and then immediately cast Freeze to build a tall ice wall surrounding him and me.
Then, I fired my dagger and Mini Vulcan, blocked his left and right movements, and ran in a straight line.
“······!!”
“Isn’t this one shot in life?”
I was a little disappointed that not all of the magical energy I had used in the fourth trial was recovered, but I was able to gather all but 10% of the remaining 80% of the magical energy.
Rosherdin must have sensed that the magic power gathered in my fist was unusual, so he erected a defensive wall with a strong cross guard.
But I already intuitively knew the outcome of attacking with a magic punch.
‘It will be a blow, but it won’t be able to win.’
Apart from the compensation, I wanted to make the strongest attack I could.
Of course, I had no intention of using only honest and upright methods.
As I was about to throw my fist, part of my body twisted.
[Partial polymorph]