Returner of the Colosseum

Chapter 8

Episode

8 . red flag(1)

ping-! Peeping! Phew!

He ran quickly along the track and fired an arrow. Along with the pogongseong that cut through the air, the arrow was embedded in the scarecrow made of straw.

It’s not easy.

Although all of the arrows hit the scarecrow, they were lodged some distance away from the heart I was trying to hit.

‘Compared to a week ago, it’s a huge improvement.’

something was missing

If I do a little more, I think I’ll get a sense of something.

“I have to admit it.”

At that time, Aserian, who was watching my training, spat out a word.

Whoa-

As I approached with a breath, Aserian handed me a towel.

“What are you talking about?”

“That Ahn Woo-jin’s training method was right this time too.”

Aserian’s expression looked very complicated.

It has to be.

“I am going to practice archery starting today. Then a whip after a month, and a dagger after a month, and so on.”

A week ago, when I explained how I was going to train, the person who was extremely dry was Aserian.

She watched me compete as a dummy and insisted that the best weapon for me was the sword.

“How can you be sure the sword is the best weapon for me?”

“yes······?”

“Even if the sword is the best weapon, there must be a big difference between knowing why I should use a sword and using it without knowing.”

“······that’s right.”

Of course, he seemed to agree with my explanation, but he couldn’t help but feel frustrated.

The sight of me shooting an arrow on the first day was truly spectacle.

Out of ten shots, not one hit the scarecrow. It was a relatively close distance of 20 meters.

However, my bow skills improved dramatically.

On the second day, I fired ten shots and hit seven, and on the third day, I fired ten shots and hit them all.

From the fourth day, every shot only hit the chest, and on the fifth day, it stopped moving and started shooting.

the seventh day like that. Now, even if you shoot while running, it has risen to the level where you can hit all of the scarecrow’s body.

‘This is all thanks to my super senses.’

The bow is very sensitive. There were so many things to consider, such as the direction of aiming the bow, the force of pulling the bowstring, and the center of gravity at the moment of shooting.

So, in order to hit accurately, I have to shoot a lot and learn my senses, but my five senses, which have become more sensitive thanks to my super sense, helped me learn all of them quickly.

Without the super sense, I would not have been able to set the goal of learning the bow in a month.

“I will correct it. The weapon that suits An Woo-jin the best must be a bow. To be able to shoot like this in a short period of time… What a natural talent!”

Aserian said in a very evocative voice. He was drinking kimchi soup by himself, saying that this would make him the top player in the lower league within a year.

Seeing that, I laughed.

‘The weapon that suits me best is a spear.’

In fact, I knew best which weapon suited me.

However, the reason he practiced his bow was rather because of his spearmanship.

Literally, I wanted to know for sure why I had to use a spear.

Currently, my level of spearmanship is advanced spearmanship. It was one step above the highest level.

And without being able to go further, I hit a wall.

In order to go beyond advanced level and advance to special spearmanship, it was necessary to realize more than simply polishing a spear.

And what I said to Aserian was what I heard when I met the master of spearmanship before returning.

‘At that time, it was a training method that I couldn’t do because I was blind.’

Of course, there were other reasons besides that.

Because the opponent I was most picky with was an archer.

To catch an archer, you have to predict how he will move in certain situations.

There’s nothing more certain than using a bow myself to know that.

ping-! hooked

The arrow shot lightly without even holding the posture properly stuck in the scarecrow’s chest.

Do a little more.

He seemed to be able to hit his arrows accurately while moving vigorously.

“Huh, whoa-. hehehe, whoa-.”

My heart felt like it would explode. But I didn’t stop moving.

Crawl on the floor and cross the barbed wire quickly. Then climb the rope and climb over the 5-meter wall. As soon as you land on the floor after jumping, roll forward and land softly. And avoid the zig-zag structures.

Right now I was avoiding obstacles and training my agility stat.

“Two minutes and seven seconds until here! One lap left! Cheer up a little more!”

After I completed one lap, Aserian informed me of the lap time.

A record that was less than 1 minute less than when it first started.

The limbs are heavy. It looked like it would fall over at any moment.

However, I digested it until the last wheel with my teeth clenched.

“Heo-eok, hee-eok.”

I forcibly supported my body, which was about to collapse, and moved to the rest room.

And then, straight to the floor, it flopped.

I quenched my thirst by accepting the water bottle Aserian handed me. Then he threw away the cumbersome sandbags hanging all over his body.

[Name: Ahn Woo-jin (Nickname: undecided)] [Affiliation: Team Fighting Spirit]

[League: Lower League]

[Muscle: 10] [Agility: 17] [Stamina: 19]

[Spirit: 88] [Intelligence: 12] [Magic Power: 0]

[Awakening Ability: ＜Super Sense＞＜Advanced Living＞＜Special Mana Management＞＜Advanced Spearmanship＞＜Intermediate Swordsmanship＞＜Advanced Daggersmanship＞＜Advanced Throwing＞＜Intermediate Boxing Technique＞＜Low Level Healing＞＜Low Level Archery＞]

[Owned Skills (0/5): None]

[Achievement Perks: None] [Dimension Perks: None] [Race Perks: None]

[Remaining HP: 23%]

Within a week, I raised my strength stat by 3, my agility stat by 10, and my stamina stat by 7.

In addition, the mental stat, which seemed like it would never go up, went up by 1.

As his stats increased, the number of stats he gained through training dropped exponentially, but even taking that into account, he raised the total by 21.

in just one week.

Currently, the total of my physical stats is 46.

How long did it take me to make 46 in the first playthrough?

I think it took about 6 months.

‘I raised it 10 times faster.’

The power of experience was really great.

No matter how much I’ve walked it once, I can’t believe I can make such a difference in my growth.

Of course, it’s thanks to the high mental stat, but after all, the experience is melted into that mentality.

“Please rest. I will be doing something else.”

Aserian took the water bottle I drank and a wet towel and left the rest room. Silence came in an instant.

How long will it take to catch up with me on the verge of regression?

1 year? 2 years?

Because it took me 10 years to get to that position…

I clenched my fists.

The promotion match to go up to the high league is called the Wailing Wall.

In the first playthrough, I couldn’t even get close to that entrance.

in this life.

I thought it was possible.

[All HP has been restored. All the fatigue in the body disappears.]

“Oh, you’re awake.”

When I came out of the rest room, Aserian, who was sitting on the bench in front of the accommodation, approached me with quick steps.

Her face was flushed red.

“A review of the game Ahn Woo-jin played has been uploaded. Would you like to take a look?”

Ah, it seems that the review of Blood Knight 171 has been uploaded.

What if it’s normal? I must have had a strong thought, but Blood Knight 171 was a match where I received a percussion bonus.

So, to be honest, I was a little curious.

“What are you saying?”

“hmm······. I’ll send you the link now!”

Tring!

[A message has arrived from Aserian, the owner of Team ‘Future’.]

―Dummy Rebellion! Dye the Colosseum with blood!

―The main event and co-main event were just bridesmaids to highlight the under card match!

―Lower League-Blood Knight 171, the biggest surprise of the year!

There were three links on the status window that Aserian sent.

‘Number of views… 700,000?’

Even though it was a lower league game, the number of views was very high.

Of course, even so, the number of views that do not appear in the reviews of the upper leagues is less than half.

I roughly clicked on one to enter.

―Dummy Rebellion! Dye the Colosseum with blood!

Do you know the term ‘dummy game’?

A ‘dummy match’ is an event that can only be seen in lower leagues with a small number of spectators and a lower level of competition.

Before the start of the undercard game, the players are divided into red formation and blue formation to increase the excitement of the audience, and the unilateral slaughter of one side is a characteristic of the ‘dummy game’.

Because of this, a very brutal battle of slaughter unfolds, and there are even gods who come to see the lower leagues, fascinated by its sadism.

Usually, the players on the side of the one-sided massacre are called ‘dummy’, but something happened in the recent lower league – Blood Knight 171.

This is because a great player appeared among the ‘dummy’ that was put in as a brutally dying dragon.

At first, the players in the red formation were slaughtering the dummies. Blood splattered, screams roared, and madness engulfed the arena.

However, when the dummies were almost all dying, a twist began. In one corner of the arena, a dummy appeared that had killed a handful of RED formation players.

The pile didn’t stop there, and started to roam around the arena slaughtering RED formation players.

In the end, only one dummy, who created the anomaly, survived the arena.

In the end, he was selected as the ‘Performance of the Blood’ and the ‘undecided’ player who created the best surprise in the lower league this year. Attention is focusing on whether he will grow into a named player in the future and break through to higher leagues.

For reference, this dummy belonging to the team ‘Growth’ appeared with the nickname ‘Undetermined’ as if it was the first Colosseum match.

└ I watched this game intuition. It was really crazy hahahahaha The gods were so excited that they didn’t watch the back game properly and just talked about dummy.

└ Why this dummy is expected. 1. Even though his stats are very low, he rips through all the opponents. 2. His skill with the sword and his body movements to penetrate the gap were unusual.

└ f*ck, the dog is mad. To think that a guy like that would be on a team like an idiot who doesn’t even know if it’s raw or sh*t and throws it into a pile… Ha, what’s life? In my random drawing, only sh*t came out…

└ I bet one of my balls on the fact that that dummy is from Moorim.

└ Yes.

The review had thousands of comments.

It was a much more violent reaction than expected.

Anyway, I’m from Moorim?

I prayed for the rest of that pitiful god who risked his precious life.

“Awesome, right? Everyone thought Ahn Woo-jin was still part of ‘Growth’. Hoho, how many times as many comments would have been made if I had known that the strange player had been sold to another team as it turned out?”

“Not bad.”

That’s definitely a positive thing. The more issues, the better.

That’s because you can become a popular player with the audience.

The higher the popularity, the higher the base salary.

Because of this match, my base salary from next time will be 2,000 points.

It was a 100% increase from the first game.

If only I could imprint myself on the audience in future matches.

It seemed that the cut-off of the upper leagues, the basic salary of 10,000 points, could be achieved soon.

“Oh, and the nomination offer came in.”

what? A nomination offer already?

Now you’ve only played one game at the Coliseum?

A nominated offer means that I have been contacted to pick me up and participate.

Usually, you need to show a good performance while playing more than 5 games to start receiving nomination offers.

Until then, I had to make eye contact with the audience as much as possible with general offers.

The general offer is to ask the entire team if they would like to participate. If there is a match, I will give 5 Tio to the team fighting spirit, so it is common to ask if there is a player to participate.

In that sense, it was very unusual for me to receive a nomination offer.

“There was an opinion that they wanted An Woo-jin to appear in Blood Knight 176.”

“What is the game type?”

“Individual PvP. 1,000 players participating.”

A thousand people…

A nomination offer and even a big game?

You can only know what the rules and missions of the game are after participating in the game, but it will definitely not be easy.

“What would you like to do? I wish I didn’t participate… I want to have a game after I raise my stats a little more.”

“hmm······.”

I was honestly worried.

A big game with thousands of people participating. Perhaps the rules of the game were difficult and the mission was likely to be difficult. If I had been in team growth, I would have rejected it without even thinking about it.

But now I think a little differently.

In other words, a crisis means an opportunity has come.

In the second playthrough, I also realized that I am not a weak being.

And currently my stats don’t drop at all compared to other lower league players.

I will overwhelm the technical side.

That’s why I was confident that I could rise as the final winner in the match.

And one most important thing.

pounding- pounding-

My heart was beating wildly.

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Just the thought of playing in a game brought excitement to the depths of my heart.

I’ve been waiting for you.