Returner of the Colosseum

Episode 38 . Dawn of Blood (2)

I instinctively kicked the tree.

Kwagwagwang!

A roaring sound followed.

Fragments of chopped wood hit my body noisily.

‘sh*t. How did you find out?’

The thought raced through my head, but I sprinted toward the heart of the forest.

First of all, we have to get rid of Arwen somehow.

Then I felt a sharp object flying quickly behind my back.

The pointed object held a chilly cold air.

‘Spirit magic!’

For some reason, I thought I couldn’t feel the flow of mana.

Existing magic is activated by processing mana. That’s why you can feel that mana is being processed, but spirit magic is composed of pure natural mana.

So even if it was activated, it was not easy to feel it.

Kwakwang! Kwagwagwang! Kwakwang!

The ice magic I avoided exploded with a loud sound as it hit the floor.

In an instant, the flat soil floor sprouted, creating several deep pits.

‘It’s fortunate.’

With the exception of his eyesight, his super senses and magic field were able to tell what type of attack was coming without seeing it with his eyes.

Adding to that was the sense of being able to read the space itself.

Thanks to that, avoiding magic wasn’t that difficult.

‘Of course, I can’t even dream of an attack.’

Hurry up and head to the center of the map.

There will still be many players there.

You have to blend in among them and turn Arwen’s target to the other players.

‘It’s not just that there’s no possibility.’

Her physical stats, as seen through the devil’s eye, are the average of players who participated in the co-main event.

On the other hand, with perks and breath of thunder, my agility is 70.

And his stamina was 67.

It seemed that this would be enough to reach the center somehow.

‘It’s a real scam.’

The current spirit that Arwen summoned would be the highest quality water spirit if my eyes were not mistaken.

To be able to continuously fire high-level magic without any chanting.

It was the first time I had met such a high-ranking elementalist, but the more I looked at it, the more I thought it was a fraud.

If you use magic like that, you can’t get close to it in the first place.

In the end, they had no choice but to run away until their mana ran out.

‘It’s fortunate that the map is wide at least.’

If it was a narrow map, I would have been bombarded with magic while blocking all the space to escape.

visor! Kwakwang! visor! visor! visor!

The breath of thunder quickly reduced his stamina, but as he ran at full speed without paying attention, he was able to reach the center of the forest before he knew it.

Trees were cut down, and a huge number of players were fighting in the forest with pits dug here and there.

‘it’s okay. Now I just have to hide among them and get out of hiding.’

I hurriedly threw myself through the tangled mess of players.

Then the players who found me were startled.

“What, what!”

“It’s named!”

No, I was surprised to see Arwen chasing me.

I hid among the players as they flinched and retreated, and immediately used the Cloak of Silence skill.

And again, I turned to get out of the center of the forest.

I love you!

Ice magic that was created and flew in an instant.

‘what!’

Dozens of ice arrows shot by the highest level water spirits were flying right at me.

Kwagwagwagwagwagwang!

I managed to get out of the magic’s range thanks to breaking stealth and kicking the ground.

I turned to see Arwen, and she was looking right at me.

The other players looked as if they didn’t care.

‘Why on earth!’

I immediately got up and ran again at full speed.

When I turned my head and glanced, Arwen started chasing me again, expressionless.

For a moment, I wondered if there was something that would make me fixate as her target.

‘f*ck. Where is that?’

It was the first time I saw you today.

Although I knew her nickname, it was only because of the memory of the first playthrough.

There was no reason for me to hate her.

‘sh*t. For now, let’s widen the distance as much as possible.’

When I turn on the breath of thunder, my agility is 6 points higher than Arwen’s.

In the end, there was no other way than to run faster and separate her.

Tring!

[＜Thunderbolt＞ is activated.]

aaa!

The wall power was activated and the agility stat suddenly rose.

A huge crater formed on the floor where I had kicked it, and current spread in all directions.

Thanks to this, I was able to increase the distance that had been reduced while hiding and melting among the players.

[Remaining HP: 61%]

Because of the breath of thunder, his stamina is rapidly declining.

But he couldn’t quench the thunder’s breath.

When that happens, it is impossible to separate her.

‘I have no choice but to absorb as much energy as possible with the mask.’

Thanks to the blood reinforcement ability, you can absorb your stamina and raise your stats a little.

I quickly ran in the direction of the crowd of players around me.

[Current number of survivors: 3,397]

[Status of kills]

[1st. ‘Ren’ 30 kills]

[2nd place. ‘Victor’ 29 kills]

[3rd place. ‘Izen’ 18 kills]

[4th place. ‘Aaron’ 17 kills]

[5th place. ‘Arwen’ 16 kills]

[Time remaining until end of match: 66:57:03]

Suddenly, the sun was hanging in the middle of the sky.

It’s been 3 hours since I started running away from Arwen.

She’s still obsessed with killing me.

‘f*ck.’

So, in annoyance, I swung the spear as hard as I could.

“Ugh!”

Tring!

[You have killed player ‘Seok Chun-bae’.]

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

[All stats increase by 1% with ＜Blood Reinforcement＞ ability. (8/30)]

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

[Remaining HP: 47%]

I don’t know what this is doing now.

You have to kill other players to survive.

It’s not a player rushing to kill me, nor is it for a mission.

He had no choice but to kill the players in order to survive.

‘If I don’t, I’ll run out of stamina and I’ll die.’

Fortunately though, the distance from Arwen was getting farther and farther away.

Currently, my agility is 74 points, including up to 8% increase due to bloody enhancement.

Thanks to this, I was able to increase the distance from 50 meters to 100 meters now.

‘Since there is a difference of this distance, spirit magic doesn’t fly anymore.’

Well, if magic flew at this distance, I would be able to dodge them all with just a slight angle.

“Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh.”

I went looking for players again.

If possible, I wanted to kill it in 3 minutes.

That way you can keep building up the stack.

I turned my head and glanced at Arwen, and she also looked pretty tired.

Her stamina stat is 58.

My stamina was 67, and the breath of thunder would drain my stamina 50% faster, so Arwen’s stamina stat was about 70% higher.

However, I killed 14 players and recovered an additional 14% of my health.

Considering that, her physical strength would have remained around 60%.

‘I just need to hold out like this for about 4 more hours.’

Of course, it would be best to drop her before the distance is wide enough.

Tring!

I was running for a while when the call suddenly rang.

what? there’s no reason to cry

[The 6th-class powerful angel, ‘Sinoel’, has taken a sub mission.]

―Fight Arwen one-on-one.

[Compensation: 2,000 P]

‘It must have been a sub mission.’

After seeing the contents of the mission, I closed the system window without regret.

wait for a sec.

‘Sinoel?’

You’re the angel I met during team growth, right?

The moment was absurd.

Of course, I thought that there would be a scene that felt stuffy because I was running around avoiding a fight.

However, there will be more gods who are curious about whether that guy can survive or die.

So I didn’t think that the sub mission would come down at such an early time.

that it is

‘Because he wants me to die, it must mean that he gave such a sub mission.’

Now come and wish me dead.

It was clear that it was a twisted mentality that he would rather destroy a toy he could not have.

‘Let’s ignore it.’

I continued to focus on running away, ignoring the submission.

[Current number of survivors: 3,003]

[Status of kills]

[1st. ‘Ren’ 58 kills]

[2nd place. ‘Victor’ 37 kills]

[3rd place. ‘Izen’ 25 kills]

[4th place. ‘Aaron’ 21 kills]

[5th place. ‘Arwen’ 17 kills]

[Time remaining until end of match: 63:02:44]

The setting sun spread the last light of the day across the horizon.

Arwen was nowhere to be seen.

“Hee-eok, hee-eok, hee-eok, hee-eok.”

My remaining HP is 23%.

It was only before reaching the limit that he was able to shake off Arwen.

‘That crazy b*tch.’

In the end, Arwen pursued only me until the end.

In the meantime, even if she killed a player, there was only one moth that didn’t recognize the name and rushed fearlessly.

Contrary to her, I had 58 kills.

There is a whopping 21-kilometer gap with Victor, who is in second place.

‘f*ck. Because I had no choice but to live.’

It was the first time he had been looking for players with such a sense of desperation.

I didn’t feel relieved even in the situation where she couldn’t be seen and ran away for a while before I put my back on the huge tree.

[I took out the ＜Potion: Hand of Recovery＞.]

[＜Potion: Hand of Healing＞]

[It is a potion with a powerful recovery effect. If you take it, your stamina will recover quickly.]

[However, if you do not take a break after drinking, you will not be able to recover.]

[Rating: Rare]

Then he took the potion straight from his inventory and drank it.

It was an advanced potion worth 5,000 gold.

“I will live a little now.”

In a little while, a dark night will come.

All players who have been running around all day will have a break.

And players who are only active at night will start moving.

Like an assassin, for example.

‘I have to recover my physical strength as quickly as possible.’

It’s difficult if you lose more stamina here.

After drinking the recovery potion, I went straight up the tree.

It would be inconvenient to rest while relying on a single tree branch, but there is no other space like this to hide my body.

Because the leaves will hide me

Tring!

[The old moon has risen.]

[＜Robe: Echo of the Moon＞ borrows the power of the moon and increases all stats by 3%.]

When night came, all stats rose by 3% thanks to the effect of the robe.

‘It’s like this.’

I looked up at the sky and saw the moon.

Unlike the earth, the moon is blue.

The next morning, after taking a good rest, I ate a few pieces of beef jerky and came down from the tree.

Fortunately, nothing happened the night before.

A few assassins passed by, but they couldn’t find me because they used the cloak of silence each time.

‘Let’s be careful with Arwen.’

Now, there is only one name left in the arena.

The other died at the hands of Arwen yesterday.

After all, in this arena, except for her, there is no one who can overwhelm me one-on-one.

And yesterday, I checked the map enough by going around the map for a day.

‘The fact that I’m alive is the proof.’

The number of players I killed in one day yesterday was 58.

If there was even one opponent I couldn’t handle, I would have been killed by Arwen’s spirit magic.

‘Let’s just watch out for Arwen. Arwenman.’

Fortunately, Arwen could tell just by being nearby.

Because magic is rampant around her and there will be explosions.

I walked towards the heart of the forest with my back to the sea.

In the current situation, the center may be safer.

‘Everyone was leaving the center of the forest because of Arwen.’

The prey is inevitably sensitive to the position of the predator.

But the predator again follows the prey.

After all, unlike yesterday, the center will be quiet today.

The closer I got to the center, the more I knew I was right.

‘As expected, there aren’t many.’

There are plenty of kills anyway.

There was no need to go all the way to kill players.

My top priority for this game is survival.

It’s enough just to kill the midgets.

Sarak- Sarahak-

Then I heard the sound of someone’s clothes.

After a while, one person was spotted in my magic field.

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Judging by the fact that he was holding a sword, it was not Arwen.

‘good. Let’s hunt.’

After making my judgment, I used the Silence Cloak skill and quickly approached the swordsman.

There was an effective means of ambush, but there was no need to use weapons.

Even though the morning was brightening thanks to the leaves covering the sky, the surroundings were quite dark.

As they approached, the prey was clearly visible.

When I checked with the devil’s eye, my stats were slightly lower than average.

“Phew. Good thing. I thought there wouldn’t be many people here.”

The swordsman was talking to himself and was about to lean against a tree with his sword down.

I lowered my stance and approached him as stealthily as possible.

Even though we got quite close, he didn’t seem to notice me because the dense trees hid me.

That was when the distance between him and him was about 5 meters.

‘now!’

Like a tiger snatching its prey, I instantly leaped and lunged at him.

“omg!”

The guy hurriedly picked up the sword that had been put down on the floor.

However, because of her sitting posture, she won’t be able to block my spear.

It was about time I tried to insert a spear into the guy’s chest.

‘What, what!’

Numerous ice arrows were formed in all directions along with a huge flow of mana.

The numbers are…

‘f*ck. I can’t even read it with a magic field.’

There were so many that I couldn’t even count them.

The ice arrow flew in, marking all of the 64 directions that I could escape from.

An existence capable of such overwhelming magic.

‘Arwen!’

She was waiting with a trap set to catch me.

‘It is impossible to avoid. I have to reduce the damage at least!’

At the same time as I turned on the breath of thunder, I kicked the floor to get out of the magic range.

aaa!