Chapter 19: Map of Trials 2
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Qin Guan might have finally cleared the trial and obtained the useless person’s body, but he still had plenty of things he had to do.
Such as increasing his high score.
Every single difficulty level in the trial had the concept of completion rate. Once Qin Guan learned he could enter Developer’s Mode after he reached 100% completion rate in Developer’s Difficulty Level, he became even more motivated.
However, no matter how motivated he was, the trial was still very difficult. Qin Guan prepared to start clearing the stage from the first platform again, but he first set a smaller goal for himself. He would first reach 80% completion rate.
Qin Guan learned from Su Xiaoyu that once she cleared the much harder Hard Mode, she ran into the same situation as him. Her mobile AI system, Strong Boy, told her that she had gained her stage clear rewards, but she could not receive them yet.
As for when she could receive it? Strong Boy said she had to first clear more trials and truly obtain the [Transcended Gamer] status.
…
That night, at midnight, Qin Guan was prepared to increase his high score once he lied down on his bed, but he suddenly saw a new notification at the bottom left corner of his vision.
[Transcended Gamer Forum launched.]
[Map of Trials 2 launched.]
“What?”
Qin Guan was immediately shocked. ‘We have new content so soon?’
He had thought that everyone would get around two weeks up to a month to play Jump!!. After all, there were still very few people who had managed to clear Medium Mode, much less the more difficult Hard Mode, Despair Mode, and Crazy Mode.
However, less than a week since Jump!! was launched, the second trial began.
“Once I clear this trial, will I get a unique reward? I really want to change the clothes on my useless person…”
Qin Guan did not even think twice before he entered the new map of trials.
It was the same as before. He once again appeared in a white dimension of emptiness. However, the layout was different. There were no longer platforms that floated in the air. Instead, Qin Guan stood on a flat piece of land this time.
The only thing that was unique about this place was perhaps the hoops around him.
At that moment, Qin Guan stood at the center of one hoop. Its border was less than 6.5 feet away from him, which meant that the radius of the hoop was 6.5 feet.
The border was approximately two feet deep into the ground. Its bottom was dark, so Qin Guan could not see it.
“What sort of trial is this?”
Qin Guan noticed that the goal of the trial this time was different, but there was still only one word to describe it.
[Cut.]
He scratched his head. ‘Cut what, precisely?’
A dialog box popped up at the center of his vision, and it asked him to choose the level of difficulty. Qin Guan did not even look. He definitely could not choose the other difficulty levels, so he went straight for Developer’s Difficulty Level.
He thought he could start once he chose it, but it was not the case.
Many weapons appeared in front of him, floating in the air. There was even a system prompt.
[Please choose your weapon.]
“I can choose my weapon? That’s great! I knew it, with such a strong body, there’s no way I was supposed to fight barehanded… But why cold weapons? Couldn’t you have given me a gun or something?”
Qin Guan observed the array of weapons. There were only five of them, and they were arranged neatly on an illusory weapons rack. They were, respectively, a rapier, a broadsword, a longsword, an axe… and the last was a dagger.
It was a bit too flattering to even call it a dagger though. The thing was just a fruit knife.
The weapons differed, but all of them had one similarity—they all had basically the same length, and they were all one-handed weapons.
The swords were one-handed swords, and the axe was a one-handed axe.
“Hmm… Looks like I’m supposed to choose the weapon that is most suitable for me? The length is basically the same, so the differences will lie in weight and agility. The use of a sword, rapier, and axe is definitely different. A boorish person like me definitely has to wield something like Washington’s axe. Only it can fit my status…”
Qin Guan reached out for the hilt of the one-handed axe, wanting to take it down from the illusory weapon rack.
However, even though he yanked it hard, the axe did not budge.
“… What.”
Once Qin Guan remembered what had happened to him in the previous trial, he suddenly had a very bad feeling…
He tried to grab the rapier, broadsword, and longsword, in that order. And just as he expected, he could take none of them.
In the end, feeling resigned, Qin Guan cast his gaze on the fruit knife at the very bottom of the weapon rack. “Please don’t troll me this way… I already tolerated starting the game with the useless person. After all, it just has a slightly weaker physical attributes. But if I take this toy as my weapon, can I really kill someone?”
The system did not answer him, however, and he still could not pick any of the four other weapons.
“Fiiiiiiiiiinnne.”
Qin Guan picked the fruit knife with great reluctance, and the weapon rack immediately vanished.
Qin Guan carefully observed his new weapon. ‘Hmm… the craftsmanship is pretty good. It has a black hilt and a silver blade. It looks rather sturdy, and it appears very sharp.’
Qin Guan tried to cut himself with the knife. A bloody gash immediately showed up.
It had to be known that he could only damage his body with the kitchen knife after he used quite some strength. From this alone, he could tell that the fruit knife was much sharper than his kitchen knife.
But the problem was that no matter how sharp it was, it was still just a fruit knife…
Qin Guan did not look down on its sharpness, but its length…
If he really had to fight someone, they would hold three-feet long longswords or axes, while he brought out a one foot long fruit knife. How was he supposed to fight like this…?
Once he picked his weapon, the [Begin] button appeared in front of him.
Clearly, once he clicked it, the trial would begin. Once Qin Guan linked the weapon to the goal of the trial—to cut stuff—he could deduce that he was going to be cutting something.
But… what was he supposed to cut?
Qin Guan pressed the [Begin] button. Once the three second countdown started, he saw a huge ball the size of a watermelon fly toward his face from the hoop-shaped trench around him.
“Huh?!”
Before he could react, a tangerine flew at him from the left, and an apple from the right.
This time, Qin Guan strode to his left and swung the fruit knife in his right hand at the tangerine!
And missed.
It was not his fault though. The fruit knife was just too short. Even if Qin Guan had already taken a huge step in the right direction, he still missed by a huge margin.
Before he could return to his original position, he saw numerous fruits fly out from the hoop-shaped pit. They came in a very disorderly fashion while rising up and down. In fact, they flew in from all around him, all of the 360 degrees.
Qin Guan went to the edge of the trench. When he saw a fruit fly out from it, he cut it down. He deliberately picked the big fruits such as watermelons and pomelos because they were easier to cut down.
The entire process lasted for around three minutes. The further he progressed, the more fruits showed up, and they came in a very dense shower. It was common for a dozen fruits to appear at once, and there were black bombs added to the mix as well.
Qin Guan no longer harbored any hope of cutting the fruits that appeared from the other spots. He just stood at the edge of the hoop and cut what he could reach.
It has to be said that while the fruit knife looked like it was a scam, it was truly very sharp. When he cut the thick fruits, he felt like he was cutting a piece of paper. Their juices would fly all over the place, and it felt quite nice.
Three minutes passed like that. In the end, a huge pomegranate flew out from behind Qin Guan. He had thought the trial had already ended, but the pomegranate suddenly stopped in the air for a long time. When Qin Guan realized what was going on and ran over, it was already too late. He only managed to cut into it three times before the fruit exploded.
Then, his score showed up at the center of the hoop—59.