episode_0669

next day.

About 100 S-class people were eliminated in the first preliminary round, which lasted until dawn.

People ridiculed those 100 people, saying that if they fought 1:1 with the so-called S-class reader, ‘Armored Taejo’, they would be crushed under his feet, but they still showed a good performance against the S-class.

Propaganda was done.

We fought well, but lost.

Some say that among the surviving S-class, if they had met Taejo, there would have been those who would have been read and eliminated.

Luck is also a skill.

And either he advanced that way, or he passed the first round of the preliminary round in a somewhat sneaky way.

Even if you are randomly matched with those people and end up in a relatively unfavorable 3-on-3 match, it is just fate that depends on the sky.

For example, my opponent is an S-class hero with some recognition as the ‘Saint of Orleans’, one of the collaborators of the organization.

The heroes who build the same team as me are two men.

“Kihihi, hey, kid. In America, don’t we even provide moral education in elementary schools?”

The German gunsmith [Zottenberg], whose hair is dyed pale yellow but whose roots are black, is a foreigner with black hair.

“If you come to Korea, you must follow Korean laws. You don’t even know that it is a country of courtesy in the East. This is why Westerners… tsk tsk.”

[Ri Seok-du], a Chinese boxer who was born in Korea, studied at Sejong Academy, then moved to China to follow his mother’s nationality and wears a cheongsam uniform.

“Hey. Are you listening? American ladies, please give me your number. Do you have something to talk about with your sisters?”

“The identity of the riders, if I know them, we definitely need to talk. I owe them a debt. If I get a chance, I’d like to talk.”

Both of them are trying to somehow get in touch with the four riders and executives.

To put it positively, you could say that I would like to meet you once as an insider.

“Why aren’t you saying anything? huh? Whether we like it or not, we are a ‘team’. Do you know that he is a troller?”

“For our country to win, it is right to beat the opponent and advance, but… sometimes holding back can be a strategy.”

“So give me your number.”

“It’s unpleasant for him to talk like this, but if you’re going to do that to him, then hand it to me.”

As a result, these guys are perverts who try to enjoy ‘responsible pleasure.’

How can the numbers of executives be handed over to such people?

In the first place.

‘If I had met them as goblins, they would have been ZenLosed right away.’

Neither Jotenberg nor Ri Seok-du are heroes.

He is a real villain who committed a crime in Korea and fled to Germany. He has the business card of a Chinese hero, but is a party servant with civilian blood on the back.

For both of them, if there is evidence and justification, breaking the cradle is not enough. If they have committed a more serious crime, it is okay to break the head.

“…….”

There is no reason to talk to such people.

“Ha, the king is a noble man. Is that it? It’s annoying.”

“…Don’t think you can stay silent forever. In the end, when the second round of the preliminaries begins, we will have to talk even if we don’t want to.”

The two left, leaving me silent until the end.

There were 3 minutes left to prepare, and their starting area was different from mine.

[iced coffee. The second round of preliminaries will now begin. The first match of the 2nd round beginsㅡㅡㅡLet’s start!!]

The announcer’s voice rings loudly in the virtual city of Dongtan-myeon, and the time is displayed on the smartwatch I wear on my wrist.

Game time is 30 minutes.

The game ends when you make all of the opponents with special abilities surrender or take away the magic band on your wrist.

“Hmm.”

Although it is a wristband made of mana gold, it only functions as a mark and does not contain mana.

If there is very little mana, it is the minimum mana needed to track the location of a drone floating in the sky so that it can be easily photographed.

In other words, here, the person with this ability must deal with the enemy team using only his or her special ability and magical power.

only.

-Ah, Team A!! Are you each living a life?! Instead of joining, they are protecting their own areas!!

The announcer’s shout is heard in my ears.

It’s not something you actually hear, it’s just a feeling.

-Compared to that, Team B!! We gathered around the Saint of Orleans and entered into a strategy meeting! It looks like they are having a meeting about who to attack first!! If this happens, we will defeat each other 3:1!!

And as he said, the teams are 3-3, but it is not a team match.

3:1:1:1.

While that side is full of will to unite, this is a situation where I refuse to unite.

‘There is a reprisal match.’

Like all survival audition programs, the World Cup qualifiers also have a repechage match.

To be precise, if there are not enough people to pass the preliminary round before the ’round of 64′, which is confirmed as the final match, there will be a battle royale type repechage match with the remaining finals advance tickets.

-No, what do you mean by a repechage match at the World Cup? Why did you include something like a repechage match?!

-Because it’s fun!!

The original purpose may be to save those who are eliminated due to bad team luck like this match-up, but honestly, if I don’t get in there, I’ll just eat popcorn and watch who gets the chicken for the finals.

And there are times when you meet again the opponent who dropped you in the second round, or you meet the same teammate who committed trolling again in the finals.

-Shouldn’t the matchup take care of filtering that out?

-Isn’t this a fun guarantee? I eliminate the teammate who eliminated me with my own hands. And then I advance to the finals and head further up.

If we were talking about a many-to-many ranked game, it would be a situation where a teammate who was a troll would meet as an enemy and defeat the opponent.

To put it the other way…

“If Doblin, America’s S+ class hero and one of the contenders for the title, is defeated in the preliminaries, that would be a good advertisement.”

From the perspective of the country that hired the villain, there is no transaction more efficient than this.

‘Even if I don’t advance, it’s common for me to put forth an all-out effort to defeat my opponent.’

Isn’t that the beauty of the World Cup?

When the team that was confirmed to be eliminated faced the second-place team that had a bad relationship with 10 minutes left, miraculous news was heard from another stadium.

-If you win, those guys are eliminated!

-….Once again, Correa!

There are cases in real life where teams try to win in order to prevent the opposing team from advancing to the finals.

It would be nice if it was a wholesome story about good and evil, but unfortunately, it seems like these villains are determined to hold us back.

‘It’s an opportunity to see Dongtan before redevelopment.’

Kwa—-!!

The 10th floor apartments in Dongtan-myeon collapse all at once.

There is a large hole in the middle, and although there is only a skeleton of the building, the sight of the entire apartment collapsing is enough to make anyone inside feel dizzy.

The person destroying Dongtan Jugong Apartments is not the government that won the redevelopment project, nor is it the construction company that started construction of the new city.

“Tsk, that’s too bad! You dodged my attacks!”

Gunman Jotenberg and the three heroes started the battle from afar.

“Take it, [Jeanne], [Heidegger], and [Amber Heart]!!”

Gunman Jotenberg fired the dual pistols he held in both hands left and right toward the team, led by the Holy Maiden, whose movements were so organic that it was hard to believe they were working together for the first time.

Pabababang.

The twin pistols burst into flames and the flying magic bullets hit various parts of the building.

It might have been just a bullet, but since each one was an exploding magic bullet, the opposing team worked hard to deflect it with their weapons.

“Look at this!! Don’t you know that there is a penalty for destroying a building?! The likelihood of meeting Koreans in the finals increases!!”

“It’s none of my business!”

“Oh, you’re crazy!!”

The reason why Jeanne is swearing appears in real time on my smartwatch.

[Apartment destroyed, -100 points.]

[Commercial building destruction, -50 points.]

[Civilian injury, -500 points.]

“-Whether it’s 50,000 points or whatever, it’s okay as long as I win against you guys anyway!! Isn’t that right, if you’re short on time?!”

“That title is unpleasant, but it is true.”

Ri Seok-du, who was watching from afar, fell from the sky onto the roof of the building.

“First, let’s win.”

Suddenly!

The massive blow of splitting a building in half by slashing a leg downward was certainly threatening, but it did not reach the opposing team at all.

[Building destroyed, -100 points.]

[Citizen deaths, -10000 points.]

“They even kill citizens who failed to evacuate.”

I told myself to listen.

“Hahaha! It’s ‘fake’ anyway, so who cares?!”

“If it had been a real battle, of course the citizens would have been rescued. A score like that is meaningless.”

It will have meaning.

It is said that in the finals, those with lower scores are matched with those with higher scores, so if scores are broken like this, there is a high possibility of meeting those who maintained their scores as much as possible in the finals.

in other words.

“If this continues, I will meet Rider or Gwangikgong in the round of 64.”

They say that no matter what happens to them or not, they will fuck me too.

It is impossible to manipulate the bracket.

Since it is the realm of heaven, there is nothing I can do about it.

but.

At least with those trollers, there are plenty of ways to win against the three heroes who are trying to defeat me at all costs.

“Seeing them tearing apart apartments and destroying buildings, it’s so boring that I can’t stand it.”

I grabbed the invisible goblin bat and aimed it at the sky.

“I’ll show you. That it is the class of Cheonjo-guk.”

As for the filming drone, please evacuate quickly.

“There are rules. Didn’t they say that if you run outside the city, i.e. outside the stadium, you are ‘out of the stadium’?”

“What…?”

“If you don’t run away, you’ll all die.”

I opened my mouth to the sky with the most mischievous expression I could at the drone taking pictures of me.

“I, Doblin, earnestly hope.”

Goblin bat, material creation.

“I will use this city again from the beginning.”

I built ‘things’ on top of the city.

An object that contains Hwan’s will.

“I will now become death and the destroyer of the world.”

The name is.

“They say that only after destruction there is rebirth.”

Urban redevelopment.

“Nuclear Lunch Detected.”

In Dongtan-myeon.

The nucleus fell.