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41 – 2nd Floor, Score Duel.

How many people do you have to kill to increase your stats by 1?

A whopping 100 people.

No matter how much I had adapted to the Tower of Struggle, this was too much.

The exchange rate was too cruel.

Humans die like flies, but that doesn’t mean they are actually as insignificant as flies.

But this ratio had changed.

33 kills to increase a stat by 1.

It would be a lie to say it wasn’t tempting.

‘They happened to mess with me at the right time.’

Rationalization.

My brain reinterprets the situation, thinking it’s okay to kill them.

‘Just once.’

I’d rather pour soup.

While I was praying inwardly, the Lunacolises moved first.

“You must be crazy to want to die.”

Even though one of them had died, they weren’t scared at all.

Instead, they rushed at me to kill me.

“That’s enough.”

At that moment, Administrator Daimus appeared and blocked the way between us.

It happened in the blink of an eye.

“Administrator.”

One of the Lunacolis glared at Daimus.

“Our kin was killed. By that human. And you plan to stop us?”

Daimus sneered as if it were laughable.

“Can’t you see anything? Why are you barking without looking at the opponent standing in front of you?”

An intangible energy was emitted towards the Lunacolis group.

The Lunacolis hit by that energy began to tremble as if they felt fear.

At a glance, the size difference is about three times.

A fully grown male high school student and a kindergartener, almost that much.

But the Lunacolis were terrified.

Judging by appearances alone, Daimus should be the one running away.

The Lunacolis shouted.

“Then what do you plan to do about Kar Per’s life? How do you intend to repay his death?”

“Why do you speak as if someone has to repay it? In the Tower of Struggle, it is natural for the weak to be weeded out like water flowing.”

“…So you intend to kill these bugs, and you, the administrator, are interfering.”

Daimus burst into laughter.

His laughter, “Puhaha,” felt like he was mocking the opponent.

The Lunacolis also seemed to feel that way and gnashed their teeth.

But they couldn’t attack.

“Then how about this.”

Daimus continued.

“Your Lunacolis team and this side’s error… the Scarlet team will face off. In the Colosseum.”

“Wha, what?!”

Scarlet reacted as if having a seizure.

Judging by the expression, it seemed they had a reluctance to compete in the Colosseum.

They instinctively felt it.

They couldn’t win against the Lunacolis.

Daimus glanced at Scarlet and ignored their words.

“Since it’s come to this, it would be good to bet points as well.”

“No. No, absolutely not.”

Betting on points.

That means not using the elimination prevention option.

Losing means dying.

The relatively weaker Scarlet team wouldn’t have wanted such rules.

‘…He’s talking to me now.’

I don’t know why.

I understood what Daimus was trying to say.

‘Go up with the points.’

Why is he practically kicking me out?

Is it a big nuisance for the manager if people keep getting killed?

The conversation continued without giving me time to ponder the question.

The Lunacolis were barking that they were always welcome, and the Scarlet team was trying to smooth over the situation somehow.

“What do you think?”

Daimus looked at me and asked.

Other people’s opinions didn’t matter much to him.

“…Not bad.”

The manager offered to arrange a special place, so there was no reason to refuse.

* * *

Daimus was paying attention to the Error Man.

Ever since he showed his presence in the entertainment.

Every time he caused trouble, it was Daimus who cleaned up.

‘If you’re going to hide your identity, hide it. If not, don’t.’

Damn dragon b*stards.

I knew they thought of short-lived species as their slaves, but I didn’t expect it to be this bad.

‘Their taste is really shitty.’

Polymorphing into weaker species and poking around here and there.

There’s no trash like this trash.

Climbing the Tower of Struggle, gaining strength, and reaching the position of Ascendant.

But he felt so miserable that he couldn’t even handle a dragon brat.

‘…It’s only been two days.’

The longer the stay on the second floor, the harder it would be for Daimus to handle it alone.

‘Not everyone is friendly towards dragons.’

An incident must not occur and catch the emperor’s eye.

It might be better to send them up now, while there’s still no interest.

For Daimus, who was contemplating this, the friction between the half-beasts and the beastmen was a very good opportunity.

He had no intention of missing it.

The dragon, perhaps sensing this, understood and accepted his proposal.

Daimus sighed in relief inwardly.

* * *

“What were you thinking! Accepting the administrator’s deal so readily!”

After Daimus and the Lunacolises left, Scarlett screamed, not quite a scream.

From Scarlett’s team’s perspective, it was like a bolt from the blue, so such a reaction was understandable.

“Calm down.”

Kim Min-seong stepped in to mediate the situation.

Without any separate explanation, his expression was calm, as if he understood everything.

“Ryu In-hyung also thought it was possible. That’s why he accepted the administrator’s proposal. It’s actually a chance. A chance to earn points.”

“Do you know how strong the Lunacolises are? People like us can’t do anything. What do you know, just an Earthling who came up yesterday….”

Kim Min-seong’s gaze turned downward.

Scarlett, who had been shouting, also glanced down following Kim Min-seong.

“You’re misunderstanding something.”

There lay the corpse of Lunacolise Kar Per.

“Ryu In-hyung doesn’t expect anything from you. Just fill the numbers.”

“…….”

“What did you do to kill this Lunacolise? Nothing. Ryu In-hyung killed it. Sent it off very easily.”

The same goes for the duel with points at stake.

The chance of Scarlett’s team being helpful is zero.

‘As expected of Earthlings.’

Are they a useless race in any situation?

Their understanding of their role was impeccable.

“This, this is a coincidence.”

Even seeing it with his own eyes, he couldn’t believe it.

“How can an Earthling capture a member of the Lunacolis tribe? That’s impossible.”

“Ryuin hyung can do it. Because…”

He might spout some nonsense about being a regressor or something.

Thinking that, he tried to cover Kim Minseong’s mouth─.

“…Ryuin hyung has a special skill. It’s a skill that blooms in a few special Earthlings.”

“Special skill?”

The Scarlet team expressed their doubts.

“There’s no such thing. Kerek. Are you looking down on me because I’m a goblin?”

“Earthlings are weak. The administrators of the 0th floor, the players of the 1st floor, they all said so. Suddenly, a special skill only Earthlings have?”

Kim Minseong clicked his tongue.

“Do you know all the skills?”

“……”

“Of the skills registered in the Tower of Struggle, we know only a very few. Even if there are unknown skills, it’s not really strange.”

Words that deny the existing proposition that Earthlings are idiots.

“Scarlet, you seem to know that Ryuin hyung is an Earthling.”

I’m a monk of Shaolin.

Did you really know?

Staring at Scarlet with that meaning, she blushed and avoided his gaze.

“…Luna has a good sense of smell. That’s how I knew. That Ryuin is an Earthling.”

“But he’s not as weak as an Earthling. Ryuin hyung was different from other Earthlings. Why is that?”

As if even a goblin could guess, Kim Minseong looked down at Gorak and asked.

“Is it, is it because of the special skill? Kerek?”

“That’s right. The special skill only Earthlings have. That’s what made Ryuin hyung strong.”

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“Then it makes sense. The martial prowess Ryuin showed. The power that couldn’t be thought of as an Earthling’s. If you think it’s thanks to the special skill only Earthlings have, it can be fully explained.”

“…It doesn’t make sense. If such a special skill exists, why do the administrators treat Earthlings like that?”

Scarlet’s question.

Kim Min-seong responds.

“Everyone. You must have experienced the first floor and come up, right? Who did you meet there?”

“……”

They look around at each other.

It seems they came up as a team from the first floor.

Kim Min-seong shakes his head.

“There is a lunatic manager on the first floor. You all know that.”

“…The one who keeps saying ‘yong yong’…”

“Yes. Because it’s a dragon, it might seem cute if it says ‘yong yong’. That’s probably what it’s thinking. It’s not sane. What did you think when you saw her?”

“……”

“There’s even a lunatic like that.”

This is Kim Min-seong’s own thought.

It’s not the opinion of the Scarlet team.

“But no one would think lightly of a dragon. The same goes for Earth.”

“……”

“Just because there are special Earthlings like Ryu In-hyung, it doesn’t mean that the players from Earth’s dimension are strong. The evaluation of Earthlings would be the same.”

A perfect analogy that even a dumb-looking goblin could understand.

The eyes of the Scarlet team slightly change.

A feeling of expecting possibilities.

“…So. Are you confident you can win?”

Scarlet looks at me and asks.

At that question, I felt doubt.

“I don’t have multiple lives. If I thought I would lose, I wouldn’t have accepted Daimus’s proposal.”

I accepted Daimus’s proposal with the thought of winning unconditionally.

The expressions of the Scarlet team slightly improved.

I could feel their relief.

“…I, I think it’s good.”

Luna said.

“I’m sorry that others have to risk their lives because of something from my home dimension…”

“Luna. Don’t be too hard on yourself. We’re a team.”

Scarlett and Luna embraced each other.

The rest of the team gathered around them.

Kim Min-seong approached and whispered.

“Hyung. Everything is going according to plan, right?”

“……”

I nodded.

Two days later, we headed to the stadium.