Returner of the Colosseum

Episode 37 . Dawn of Blood (1)

[You have killed player ‘Kasbad’.]

[Your HP is recovered by 1% with ＜Recovery of Blood＞ ability.]

[All stats increase by 1% with ＜Blood Reinforcement＞ ability. (1/30)]

[The boost is reset if you don’t kill another creature within 3 minutes.]

Lightning spread in all directions with a tremendous roar.

I don’t know because there was no damage to me, but it seemed that the wide area damage would be quite good.

‘I have to use my stamina efficiently.’

I turned off the breath of thunder after killing Kasbard.

Tada Tada Tada-

Then I heard someone running this way.

He had come to hear the roar of the wall.

After a while, a young man in uniform appeared with a sword in his hand.

‘Evil eyes.’

The guy’s name is Eo-U-Dong. His stats are lower than mine, and his swordsmanship is at an advanced level.

After checking the opponent’s ability, it seemed that there was no need to kill the breath of thunder.

I hit the spear straight at the running opponent and went in.

“Where!”

He tried to take my spear with great vigour.

Awesome!

The severed head rolled on the ground.

Tring!

[You have killed player ‘Eowoodong’.]

[Your HP is recovered by 1% with ＜Recovery of Blood＞ ability.]

[All stats increase by 1% with ＜Blood Reinforcement＞ ability. (2/30)]

[The boost is reset if you don’t kill another creature within 3 minutes.]

Being able to figure out the enemy’s stats was a huge advantage.

Depending on my stats, I can change the way I fight.

In short, I was able to fight as efficiently as possible.

‘This is what it meant to be a landkeeper.’

Thanks to the status window, I can objectively know my stats.

In addition, since I could grasp the opponent’s stats, there was no risky situation for me.

If you look at it with the devil’s eyes and see it as a stronger opponent than me, just avoid it.

‘Let’s go outside as much as possible.’

The first thing to do was to check the death line, where if you escaped, you would be eliminated.

In an emergency, a very difficult situation would unfold if the place I thought was Saint-Lo turned out to be the Death Line.

Boom! Kwagwagwang! Boom! Boom!

I was heading east, where the sun was rising, when a tremendous roar erupted from somewhere.

I saw fragments of broken trees flying into the air.

great power. It was a majesty that could not be seen unless it was magic.

Even with high-ranking magic.

‘A high-level magic is used in a place like this?’

In order to use high-level magic, you need a thing called chanting time.

However, there is no way the opponent will wait for that.

So in individual PvP matches like this, high level magic was rarely seen.

‘I’ll have to avoid that side for now.’

The roar would have attracted a lot of aggro.

Right now, the priority was to check the map rather than hunting.

30 minutes to go like that.

As I walked while killing the opponents who attacked, I came across a cliff.

‘That’s it.’

Beyond that was a precipice.

And beyond the cliffs, the vast sea stretched out.

[Current number of survivors: 4,302]

[Status of kills]

[1st. ‘Seomunchang’ 17 kills]

[2nd place. ‘Victor’ 14 kills]

[3rd place. ‘Ren’ 11 kills]

[4th place. ‘Izen’ 10 kills]

[5th place. ‘Arwen’ 10 kills]

[Time remaining until end of match: 71:24:07]

30 minutes after starting.

Before I knew it, about one-seventh of the total number of participants had decreased.

It was a huge death rate.

However, I saw a familiar nickname in the rankings.

‘Victor!’

It was the guy who fought me at the end of the Red Flag Battle.

The guy also stood out in the co-main event.

‘I want to fight, but.’

I have grown so rapidly that I can’t even compare to that time.

If we fight again, it seemed like we could definitely defeat him.

However, due to the nature of the survival game, which lasts for 72 hours, it is advantageous to avoid fights with strong opponents as much as possible.

If you have to fight, it’s best when the time limit is running out.

‘At that time, I wouldn’t have to worry about my physical strength.’

Having grasped the death line, I moved toward the center of the arena.

It was then.

Wedge ah ah ah!

An arrow flying from afar.

I turned my head and leisurely dodged the arrow.

In the distance, an archer was aiming an arrow at me.

‘I just wanted to check how easy it was to deal with archers.’

I ran straight towards the archer.

Then the archer quickly fired three arrows and turned his back to run away.

‘Because you’re not the only one who can shoot a bow.’

I immediately swapped my bow and fired an arrow at the fleeing guy.

“crazy!”

Then he felt embarrassed.

Eventually giving up on running away, the guy hid himself between the trees and, while standing still, fired arrows at me.

Ting! Ting! Ting! Ting! Ting!

Five arrows rushing at me.

I switched to the spear again to block the arrows and focused on closing the distance with him.

If you shoot an arrow, switch to a spear to close the distance, and if you run away, switch to a bow to shoot arrows.

Then the distance between him and him quickly decreased.

“Ha, f*ck…”

Eventually, as I got closer, he spat out a self-deprecating curse.

Tring!

[You have killed the player ‘Go Ye Geon Hae’.]

‘It’s much easier to catch an archer than before.’

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Just being able to stick an arrow into the back of a fleeing opponent made it easier to close the distance with the archers.

Of course, going to the higher leagues will be much more difficult than this.

Because you’re dominating with various skills.

However, the guys I met in the lower leagues didn’t have very good skills because of the point limit.

At best, it was a skill that could shoot arrows with mana, or basic stealth.

[Current number of survivors: 4,011]

‘I’ll have to hurry soon.’

After checking the number of remaining players, I hurriedly moved on.

The number of players was rapidly dwindling.

At this time, I also have to hunt as many players as possible.

‘As time passes, only the strong will remain.’

It was already a situation where the population density was significantly lower than when the game started.

It was not easy to encounter the player even though he was walking around in the forest.

‘That means that they are crowded somewhere in the arena.’

It was most likely the center of the arena.

That was when I was walking for about 20 minutes.

Someone was walking from the other side.

“…!”

Wearing leather armor, various daggers are stuck in the belt.

A scimitar, a short sword curved like a crescent moon, hung from her waist, and she held a long sword in her hand.

‘Evil eyes.’

Tring!

[Check the opponent’s abilities.]

[Name: Victor]

[Alignment: Good]

[Muscle: 61] [Agility: 67] [Stamina: 62]

[Spirit: 69] [Intelligence: 15] [Magic Power: 68]

[Awakening ability: ＜Advanced swordsmanship＞ ＜Advanced swordsmanship＞ ＜Superlative dagger skill＞ ＜Superlative mana management＞ ＜Superlative living＞ ＜Advanced horsemanship＞ ＜Advanced swordsmanship＞ ＜Advanced throwing＞ ＜Intermediate treatment＞]

Seeing his stats and awakening ability, I swallowed my saliva.

That’s advanced swordsmanship.

It’s a difficult level to have even in the top leagues.

Victor, whom I hadn’t seen in a long time, had grown as much as I had.

“Cheolkeol, it’s been a while. To meet in a place like this, it must be that we are meant to be.”

Victor seemed to recognize me and greeted me with a smile.

‘From the very beginning…!’

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Just as I wanted to fight him, he must have been looking forward to meeting me.

But things weren’t looking good.

It won’t be an easy fight.

Fighting against such a strong person in the beginning of the play was too risky.

“Long time no see.”

“Oh, if it weren’t for that mask, I wouldn’t have recognized you. In the meantime, my energy has become sharper.”

“You are.”

Victor walked towards me with a squeak.

I gripped the spear tightly and put all my nerves on edge.

Then Victor put the sword in his hand into the scabbard.

‘what?’

It meant that he had no intention of fighting me.

“Whoa, calm down. Fighting now is not good for each other.”

It was an unexpected reaction.

I thought you would rush at me without even checking back and forth.

“What do you mean?”

“A fearsome name is crouching behind this. When she sees a strong presence, she will light up her eyes and run, but when we start fighting, she will surely fly this way. In short, we will end up like hyenas fighting for food with their backs to the tiger.”

Namedra······.

Only then did I understand why Victor didn’t rush right away.

The fight between me and Victor won’t end easily.

In the midst of that, if you run into the name, it will be difficult for each other.

I lowered the spear I was aiming at Victor.

Then Victor laughed.

“Good idea. After all, you know how to see the whole stem. Then I wish you luck.”

After that, Victor hurriedly moved on.

Maybe out of consideration for me, he turned south.

‘how will we do it.’

After thinking for a moment, I turned to the north.

The most players will be concentrated in the center, but they will also escape to the outskirts to avoid the name.

A situation where you can’t enter the center because of the name.

Since this happened, I was planning on targeting those prey that escaped from the center to the outskirts.

visor! Chae Chaeng! Ching! visor!

As we started to circle along the center, after a while we came across a group of players fighting.

number seven.

When I checked the stats through the devil’s eyes, they were all normal.

In a word, it means that it is just prey to me.

‘Breath of thunder.’

I immediately turned on my skills and rushed towards them.

Deal with the entangled guys as quickly as possible and move.

“You son of a b*tch!”

As I approached with my spear pointed, some of the fighting players changed their targets and swung their swords at me.

I swung the spear while leisurely dodging their attacks.

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Jjiriririt!

There was no one who could block my thunderbolt-laden spear even once.

Tring! Tring! Tring! Tring!

“Keah!”

“Oops… I, damn it.”

After taking out four of them in an instant, the remaining three rolled their eyes and soon changed direction and started running away.

But no one will be able to escape the hand of death that I stretch out.

Breath of Thunder has a 4% stack with Blood Empowerment, and now my agility is 73.

It was as fast as most top league players.

As I followed, the fleeing player glanced back and shouted.

“f*ck. I came out avoiding the name!”

And that was the player’s last words.

squeak-

Three players left.

‘One guy has to give up.’

Killing all the opponents fleeing in different directions would not be good for the effort.

I immediately swapped weapons with my bow and started shooting arrows following them.

Then one eventually died with an arrow stuck in the back of the head, and the other, trying to avoid the arrow, slowed down and was cut to death by the spear.

[Current number of survivors: 3,702]

[Status of kills]

[1st. ‘Seomunchang’ 31 kills]

[2nd place. ‘Victor’ 21 kills]

[3rd place. ‘Ren’ 18 kills]

[4th place. ‘Arwen’ 14 kills]

[5th place. ‘Izen’ 13 kills]

[Time remaining until end of match: 70:08:54]

My kill count is still 3rd.

It was about twice the number of kills in first place.

‘That guy is named.’

And the other named is probably Arwen, who is in 4th place.

Seomunchang was a nickname he had never heard of before, but Arwen was familiar with it.

In other words, it meant that he made quite a name for himself in the upper league in the first round.

‘I’ve never met him.’

It was time to go around the outskirts of the center again.

Kwagwagwang! bang! bang! Kwakwang!

The ground rang with a tremendous roar nearby.

Suaaagh!

After a while, a huge shockwave hit me.

My robes fluttered like they were about to burst.

‘f*ck.’

The lower leagues used magic that emitted shockwaves of this magnitude?

It didn’t even end there.

The binge drinking continued uninterrupted.

It felt like a missile bombardment pounding the ground.

‘I have to get out of here for now.’

I hurriedly turned my steps to go out further.

It was then.

bang! Kwakwang! Kwagwagwang!

The roar was rapidly approaching.

At the same time, I began to feel two players in the magic field.

‘They were fighting with each other.’

For a moment, I stopped and climbed a giant tree nearby.

And immediately used the skill.

‘Cloak of silence!’

Tring!

[Use the ＜Cloak of Silence＞ skill.]

Cloak of Silence is a high-level stealth skill.

It is a tier 1 skill that is true in name and reality.

No matter how named, it would be difficult for them to notice that I was hiding.

After a while, two players appeared.

It was a middle-aged swordsman and an elf in uniform.

I used the evil eye on a middle-aged swordsman.

[Name: Moonchang Seo]

[Disposition: Moderate]

[Muscle: 73(+?)] [Agility: 79(+?)] [Stamina: 73(+?)]

[Spirit: 66(+?)] [Intelligence: 19(+?)] [Magic Power: 81(+?)]

[Awakening Ability: ＜Advanced Swordsmanship＞ ＜Advanced Living＞ ＜Superlative Mana Management＞ ＜Superlative Fighting Art＞ ＜Lesser Healing＞]

It’s a stat that won’t be strange even if you go up to a higher league right away.

As a native of Murim, his magic power was extremely high.

However, I didn’t think I would lose even if I fought him.

I used Devil’s Eye on another named, an elf.

It was then.

“Cheak!”

Seo Wenchang, a middle-aged man in a dark brown uniform, had his legs cut off by some magic and rolled on the floor.

“This, this…”

For a moment, Seo Moon-chang seemed unable to comprehend what had happened to him.

I could understand his feelings.

It’s because spirit magic doesn’t feel the flow of mana in the first place.

His legs would have been cut without knowing where the magic was coming from.

Seo Moon-chang tried to stand up again in a hurry.

squeak-

Something flew by and cut her throat, then she fell to the floor with a pick.

It was a very pointless death for a name with tremendous stats.

At the same time, the elf landed softly in front of Seomunchang’s corpse.

She brushed up her blue-green hair that flowed like a waterfall.

Behind her, I could see the blurry figure of an elemental two meters tall.

‘Sir, f*ck…’

After seeing that, I was able to confirm the elf’s abilities.

[Name: Arwen Cerespiro]

[Inclination: Absolute Goodness]

[Muscle: 49(+?)] [Agility: 64(+?)] [Stamina: 58(+?)]

[Spirit: 81(+?)] [Intelligence: 86(+?)] [Magic Power: 111(+?)] [Spirit: 108(+?)]

[Awakening Ability: ＜Superlative Spirit Art＞ ＜Superlative Mana Management＞ ＜Superlative Magic＞ ＜Advanced Bakjutsu＞ ＜Superlative Healing＞]

[Race Perk: High Elf Blood]

Goosebumps broke out all over my body.

what?

Is what I’m seeing real?

Did you read the numbers wrong?

Magic power 111······ Spirit 108·······?

Why is there a guy like this in the lower league…?

A cold sweat ran down my back.

‘Really… I could really die…’

In the first place, Seo Moon-chang would not have been an opponent.

Because there were as many as two stats over 100.

That level of stats can only be met in high-level numbering matches in higher leagues.

For the first time since returning, it was as if I had met an irresistible being.

Even before Arwen entered the Colosseum, he must have been a strong player in the original system.

I held my breath and waited for her to pass.

A cold sweat broke out all over his body.

But after a while, the back of my neck stiffened.

‘what······!’

My heart was pounding.

Two pupils encased in blue jewels.

Arwen was looking right at me.

Our eyes met.