Ten minutes before the game starts.
All teams waiting in the waiting room on the server were checking after receiving battlefield information.
There are four players in Ilsung Flower, except for the finishing ceremony.
"The latent underground food storage room?"
Upon receiving the information on the battlefield, Jae-ho frowned.
"I've got a terrible nuisance.”
Like commentators' evaluations, this was the annoying battlefield that all teams picked up.
If all the battlefields across the exhibition league and preliminaries were a repetition of simple battles, this place was even grafted with puzzles.
It was a battlefield where we had to start playing in different positions and find a way out of there as soon as possible.
"Have you ever had a room escape?"
Team members silent on Jae-ho's question.
They couldn't have done anything like that, always connected to New World.
"Well... ...then let's face it."
Jaeho entered the battlefield with a mindset that something would happen.
* * *
A collapsed space where you can feel the passage of time.
The food storage room was quite large, and rather had a prison atmosphere.
There was only one passage, which was blocked by a large iron gate.
Boom boom-
Jaeho approached and kicked.
[This statement cannot be opened by force.]
"Shall we smash it with our strength?”
Jae-ho shook his head at Red's question.
It was built for the competition, but it couldn't have been so clumsy.
Besides, according to information already released, this place is...….
[In a moment, the monster wave will begin.]
[New wave starts every 2 minutes, and semi-boss-class monster wave starts every 10 minutes.]
[On 1-wave clear, earn 2 points.]
It was that a completely different rule was applied.
"This map came up from the start, didn't we shoot it?"
cried the dakist irritably.
Ilsung Flower, which only caught monsters in the preliminaries, confirmed its advance to the finals.
If such a fixed score system is applied, it was absolutely impossible as it was then.
"That doesn't make much difference. Because the other teams will be on the same page with us anyway."
Finding a way out of here was the top priority.
"Let's take a look around for now."
The party dispersed and began to look everywhere.
It didn't make sense to keep dealing with monster waves, so there must have been a hint for an escape somewhere.
And Jae-ho also had a title that was effective in finding hidden things.
[Secret hairdresser]
[We can find something hidden.]
'Hmm...... I don't see anything special.’
Nothing stands out right now.
[First wave starts!]
Kugugugugu-
And finally the monster wave started.
Chul-kung-Koong-Kong-
As the iron door opened, some rocks began to roll in.
"What is that?"
But if you look closely, it's not a rock, it's a giant rock-bomb!
Quaddeuk-
They rolled around quickly and began to threaten the team.
For Ilsung Flower, however, it felt much slower than the usual Elf.
Moreover, he was so big that he could clearly see the movement.
However, the problem is that close combat is not easy.
Jae-ho took out the window of the pyra, not the seed shovel.
Wha-a-ang-
I'm going to hit you first!
Rock coppers stuck in the wall in shock.
Kiyuk!!
Fortunately, the whole body was not a rock.
Quaddeuk-!
Jae-ho, who climbed onto the upside-down wriggling fellow, stabbed deeply into the window, and the coagulant struggled violently against the burning pain of its internal organs.
Boom, boom, boom!
On top of that, the magi overlap began to pile up, and the damage to the fireplace became increasingly amplified.
-Suddenly, I thought. What is Alsia's main weapon?
The question of the commentator who broadcast it.
-What we've identified so far is a seedling shovel and that fireplace. These two are completely different styles of weapons, but if you look at them, they don't feel like they're the main weapons. If you look at it now, isn't he beating with his bare hands?
-It means you're not picky about any kind of attack. So I can say that he is a more scary player. Simply put, there's no counter. And I think that's the style of Ilsung Flower.
The relay screen turned to the other team members.
It was very annoying for wizards to deal with these aggressive monsters.
Most of them were not used to using their bodies.
But as evidenced in the preliminary round, the Ilsung Flower Wizard was different.
Not only did he throw himself away to avoid a fatal blow, but he also did not miss a moment's counterattack.
Plus, if you're caught in a skill cool time, you can swing your weapon or kick it's holding!
-The word fighting wizard fits perfectly.
Do those attacks really work?
-Of course the damage itself is extremely low. But think about it. How painful would it be if you poke a needle in between every big one? Besides, what if I stab him with a needle and then stab him with a knife?
-Oh! I get it! That means all those actions can be used as a high level of psychological warfare.
-That's right. It'll be half as effective against monsters, but it'll be a lot of stress if they become players.
Just in time, Red and Dakist each knocked down one of the coppers, proving that the commentators' analysis was not wrong.
Samantha, needless to say, was strong.
* * *
[First wave completed.]
[Accepts 2 points.]
[Time remaining until the second wave is 1 minute and 12 seconds.]
"This is too hard."
Everyone agreed with Red.
Increasingly, the monster would be stronger, but it took almost a minute for the first wave alone.
At this rate, it was clear that the third wave would start to push back.
"Let's go through the door that opens for a moment when Monster comes out?"
dakist's suggestion
"Well, did he do it so poorly?”
Red said as if it were nonsense.
"What? What's wrong with my opinion! You should try something!"
"No, you do. If it's so easy, why would you make it so fancy things like this?”
"You Mr. Lee..."!
"Calm down, both of you.”
Jae-ho stopped the two.
"I finally found something strange.”
"Huh? Something weird?”
Jae-ho's eyes turned to the ground.
"It turned out that the monster was covered in dirt on the floor because he was rolling around.”
“?”
But with the look of other people looking around for no idea at all, it was only natural.
[ Found something hidden by the title.]
It's finally been confirmed by the title thanks to the rush of the coppers.
Sushi-
Of the five inventory, an hourglass that occupied one.
Taking it out, Jae-ho summoned several Kopay soldiers.
"Did you call?"
"Give me an order."
Jae-ho said, pointing to the glowing zone.
"Break up the ground here."
Their hands, which were close to horseman soldiers and garden managers, contained tools such as shovels and pickaxes instead of knives.
* * *
The situation has progressed up to the fourth wave.
Teams like Jae-ho, who are capable of finding hidden things, also noticed that there was something on the floor and tried to escape.
But only a few teams did, and the other teams were forced to stamp their feet and prepare for the next wave.
The teams that are in a bad situation haven't even organized their fourth wave yet, until they start their fifth wave.
Kugugugugu-
A semi-boss-class monster that appeared as expected.
Qua-a-ang-ang!
But not through the passage this time, but below the ground.
"Ahhhh?! What is it?"
"Blood, avoid!!!"
A giant leech-like monster hit the players with hundreds of teeth clapping.
Meanwhile, the keen players confirmed that a large passage had been created underground through the monster.
"There it is! We have to go out there!!!”
However, if we go there, we have no choice but to deal with monsters.
"Let's do it as soon as possible!!!"
If there was any delay, the next wave would start again, so we had to deal with it as soon as possible and escape.
* * *
After about 10 minutes of fighting, only 12 teams escaped.
Among them, only seven teams escaped without losing power, and the eight teams that failed to escape were knocked out by another semi-boss-class monster that appeared in the 20th minute.
a shocking development
It was expected to put the players in trouble, but no one imagined that eight teams would never get out of the food storage room.
"No, what kind of competition did you plan like this?!!"
The players who managed to escape complained, but it was a complete misunderstanding of the league.
It's not just a fight to win, it's a race to survive!
In other words, the rules of the game were to survive for a long time in any way and accumulate a lot of points.
I just forgot for a moment because I only thought about the exhibition league and the preliminary rounds.
And now it was a full-fledged start.
"By the way... ...what the hell is this place?"
The place where the giant leech arrived at the end of the passage is a large cavity.
How big was it, to the point where there was no end in sight.
In addition, the eggs of the giant leeches were wriggling unpleasantly everywhere.
[Entered]
[If the egg is stimulated, it will hatch.]
"What battlefield...….”
"Doesn't this just end up fighting monsters all the time?"
"Huh? Shh! I see the other team over there! You look like you're fighting a monster."
They may have touched an egg, but they are fighting a battle with leeches as big as a human.
As battles continued, more and more monsters were waking up as stimuli were passed on to other eggs.
"Huh? That's the CUSA team?"
They sneaked in and identified the opponent's identity.
"Shall we play in the back?"
"No. Let's just leave it like that. Judging from the scorecard, I don't think catching that doesn't make your score go up either."
Besides, I shouldn't have touched it wrong. If the CUSA and the Monster's Urro were directed at them, they could have been more troublesome.
Survival for now!
"......but don't you think they're deliberately waking up the eggs?”
Suddenly, they felt something strange.
"And then...….”
As if they were hunting each other's eggs, they were scattered, woke up the eggs, and then treated them all at once.
Why the hell?
"Drive this way!"
The CUSA captain, Sumin, gave orders to the team members.
And the moment the monsters come together.
"Okay! Now!"
The CUSA attacked leeches that had not yet become saints.
[We have defeated the enemy!]
[Enemy...]
And another notification that followed.
[Level up!]
Out of the blue level up!!!
It has been revealed why CUSA is deliberately waking up monsters.
-This is... ...this game is going to be fun. Which team will survive in the end?….
If the CUSA team were to escape without losing power, it would be overwhelmingly advantageous.
Yes, but the problem is that the players who enter the nest think that's the final stage. It's fatal that you're not thinking about escaping from there.
-Hi-Risk High-Right. It's a perfect battleground for that expression. Of course, the parties didn't choose it.
-Then again, let's see the teams that escaped to the ground?
Teams that escaped to the ground?
Just early in the game, he named three teams, Ilsung Flower, Golden Retriever and Pandas, who found a secret passage and escaped.
* * *
The soldiers summoned by Jae-ho skillfully shoveled, and soon found a tunnel covered with wooden boards.
The place was large enough to walk, and after about five minutes, you could find a ladder on the ground.
And we arrived at the vast amphitheater.
[Food dumping ground]
[This is the end of the food that survived and escaped from the food cellar. You have to survive the food chain competition with other prey here.]
A total of twenty passages were drilled through the amphitheater.
Perhaps if we waited, it was assumed that the other teams would come through there, and after a few more minutes, two teams appeared.
Golden Retriever and Pandas.
I don't know.
The three teams faced each other at the speculation site, but it was not an embarrassment to the current situation.
-Really... ...a flower garden that doesn't go well with speculative fields.
Seeing all the players dressed up in flowers, the commentator commented.