How do you eliminate and evaluate this amount of participants practically at the same time?
In the real world, the answer would vary, but in the case of a world that was based on a game, the answer would be a new rising type of game.
Battle Royale.
A new type of game that was rising from a movie on earth, where a large number of participants would be left in a closed place whose area would slowly get smaller.
In the end, the idea was to make sure that all participants would encounter each other until some point where no one would be left aside from one.
In any case, the Chronicles of Aeris also went of this type for the practical exam, where participants would be teleported to a random island and then would be fighting with each other.
Which was why I was standing there looking around.
'Hmm…. I got the frost type, huh?'
I thought looking at the landscape and the condition of the weather.
In the game, it was said there were 20 islands overall and each of them had different types of climates and environments.
Well not entirely different since I am not sure how would they develop 20 different climates.
Though the one I was in was one of the most popular ones in the game.
'Because this was said to be the hardest one.'
/SWOOSH/ /HOWL/
Feeling the strong wind and the stormy weather passing through my skin, I started moving.
'I am already missing my Nihil.'
I thought.
Since the exam needed to be fair, bringing artifacts or any other things was strictly forbidden.'
Which also made me separated from my sword.
Though it didn't matter.
'I was not planning to show it anyway.'
I thought.
'Now, how should I proceed?'
In the game, there were several options of routes players could take.
You could go for eliminating a high number of participants or securing a safe place, looking for good loot, or many other…..
'Should I crush everyone? Or should I go for the face-slap route? Which would be more optimal?'
This question was one of the things I had been thinking about for a while.
Should I show my strength and my talent or not? Should I reveal myself or not?
'In the end, it will be how the author wants, won't it? Let's see how things will play out for me.'
<Ding! New quest [Main Character] generated.>
'Here it is.'
Just as I thought that, a simple sound that I was expecting echoed in my head.
'I was expecting you.'
I thought as I stared at the panel in front of me.
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Quest – Main Character
Description – As a person who always stood on top of others, there is no way you would be left behind by someone other; you are the main character here, show it to any other.
Conditions – Finish the practical exam first and secure the top spot in the entrance exam while destroying as many participants as possible
Rewards – Rewards will be distributed according to the performance measure in the exam
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Seeing the panel, a smile bloomed on my face.
'Just as I expected. A quest like this was bound to appear.'
'Then the only thing left for me is to show others who is the boss here.'
Just as I thought that I started moving.
Now, to explain the place I was in, it was a mountain range.
A mountain range that was filled with snow and sometimes trees.
Though it was stormy and the field of my vision was limited up to a certain point it was not like the storm that I had encountered while tracking the Logan brothers.
Since it was a natural phenomenon without any interference of mana, the field of vision being limited was not important.
Because I could simply sense the mana around me and see the mana signatures of people close by.
'Just like the person that is 200 northeast. One on 120 meters south, one 500 meters behind it, and another 150 meters on the west.'
'And lastly, here this guy that is approaching me. To think I would be the one hunted first, how shameful.'
I thought while clapping my hands.
'Then let's start.'
With that thought, I started reading my magic spells….
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In a place filled with snow, a young man that was running could be seen.
He had brown hair, brown eyes with tanned skin.
'Heh, this idiot… It looks like he couldn't even figure out what to do?'
The young man thought while sensing the mana signature coming from the trees behind.
'Let's smash him…. They said the more people you eliminate the higher score you will get even if you can't finish first.'
The boy thought while readying his mana inside the core.
"By the power of the earth so deep and old, I call upon its strength, untamed and bold. Elements unite, from dirt to stone, Let nature's might be fully known."
While chanting at the same time.
And as he said that, suddenly a bunch of rocks started flying all around him.
/SWOOSH/
And as he passed beside the tree, he faced the boy that was standing in the middle of an open field that had nothing.
"Pebble Barrage!"
The boy screamed as he finished his chanting.
Though he was inwardly looking down on the boy unmoving, he was also cautious and decided to use his magic immediately.
'You are dead meat.'
He thought.
Since the magic he used was a three-star magic that no one in his family could defend without proper concentration.
"What an idiot…. Who screams before his attack?"
Though the response he got from the boy was something he didn't expect.
'What?'
Even though he was surprised, he didn't show it and moved the rocks according to his calculations.
/SWOOSH/
But suddenly something unexpected happened.
With fire being ignited at the hand of the young boy, he was startled for a second.
'Non-chant? Ah, it was an elementary spell.'
In a millisecond, he sensed the mana and thought.
'Do you think you can stop it with elementary magic… Nonsense.'
The boy thought something he would wish he hadn't just a minute later.
/SWOOSH/
In just a minute five different boulders which would weigh at least 200 kg almost reach the boy.
/SWIRL/
Almost.
/BOOM/ /BOOM/ /BOOM/ /BOOM/ /BOOOM/
Since before they could even reach him, suddenly the fire mana inside his hand got violent.
Only to blast all the rocks that were thrown at him.
"What?"
The boy was surprised, seeing his attacks getting destroyed this easily.
"Goodbye, you little extra. Next time don't shout your spell."
And this was the last thing he had ever heard.
/SWOOSH/
Before the violent fire mana enveloped him all around…..
And the last thing he saw was a bright red eye that was locked with his….
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