I Stole the Number One Ranker’s Soul - Chapter 189

episode 190

, but it was a very simple summary.

If you win the final hall, you will become king and take refuge.

That’s it.

I had not heard any details such as that only the awakened could evacuate or that those who could not endure the process would die.

“hmm. okay. There will probably be a secondary barrier spread outside now, but once the time required for that barrier is over, the final barrier will be formed and the hall will begin at the same time.”

“The final barrier… So if it breaks, it’s over?”

“That’s right.”

end.

My heart sank under the heavy weight of those words.

Perhaps other people felt the same way, and the air above the table suddenly darkened.

“How does it start when the final hall begins? grandfather.”

Rodran’s jaw tightened at Ban Seo-jin’s light question.

It seemed like he was probably swallowing words like ‘This rude…’

I’m sorry, Rodran.

Still, he’s not a bad person…

“When the final hall begins, the king can choose five subjects to join the hall with him. And once the selection is complete, you will be moved to the hall.”

“movement? “What, you’re saying they’ll move it on their own without you having to go anywhere?”

“yes.”

Ban Seo-jin’s voice muttered, “It’s comfortable.” He was pretending to be carefree, but he still showed nervousness that he couldn’t hide.

“Hmm, then if we kill all the boss monsters we see as soon as we get there, we win, right?”

Let’s kill! Elfanis quietly denied Ban Seo-jin’s words, which were loudly shouting, “Let’s kill them all!”

“no. All you have to do is sit on the throne provided there. Of course, it is true that casualties occur in the process of keeping each other in check. And sometimes there are those who are more interested in killing all the kings on the throne than in sitting on it.”

“Um, all I have to do is sit down? Where is that chair? “Don’t those who are closer to the chair have an advantage?”

“A huge altar in the shape of a pentagonal pyramid is created in the center of the hall. The throne is at the top. All kings are called under the altar, so there is not much difference in the distance from the throne.”

Elfanis carefully took out the paper and pen from his pocket and spread them out on the table.

Then, with a decent skill, he drew a pentagonal pyramid in the center and drew countless circles around it.

“In this form, the kings each took their own actions before the full-scale struggle for the throne began . “You will be isolated in the barrier and prepared for battle.”

“Hmm, as soon as I start, do I start by killing everyone around me?”

“…If another king sits on the throne in the meantime, it’s over.”

Pointing out a loophole in Ban Seo-jin’s words, I asked Elfanis a question.

“All I have to do is sit on the throne, right? “There’s no need to fight.”

“That’s right.”

“What about after I sit on the throne? Do I have to choose whether to flee or fight right away?”

“You can choose right away, but you are usually given a grace period of about five to ten hours. I understand it depends on the level of depletion of the final barrier. Even if you evacuate, you need time to choose an area or select people to take with you. Even so, some preparation would be necessary, so it appears that they took that into consideration.”

That’s right.

I thought about it the whole time, but while the system is unfriendly in providing information, it still seems to be quite considerate in this aspect.

“It’s a maximum of ten hours… So, it would be best to avoid fighting as much as possible. You don’t know how strong other monsters are, and you might end up fighting. “It would be a big problem if someone else sat down while I was deeply involved or distracted. The goal is to sit on the throne.”

“That’s right. The most important thing is to sit on the throne. There are probably quite a few surviving kings. I used to be surprised every time too. And they are the ones who know how to calculate. “He has his own intelligence.”

Ten hours.

While I was quietly listening to him with a heavy heart, Eundam Yoo intervened.

“But even if we don’t want to fight, I don’t think the boss monsters around us will leave us alone. “You can’t just keep avoiding fights, right?”

“You should deal with it moderately. But you shouldn’t overdo it to the point where it gets poisoned by the potion or its condition gets worse. If you think you’re going to fight a predator after that, it takes 24 hours for the potion addiction to go away, but we’re only given a maximum of 10 hours. .”

Elfanis looked a little surprised at my words and asked,

“Are you planning on fighting?”

I vaguely averted my gaze with a complicated feeling.

Because I still hadn’t made up my mind.

I wanted to fight the predator if I could win, but…

“I don’t know. But if I choose to flee, Mom, Seungju, and the others…”

It was too much to say out loud, so I took a moment to catch my breath.

However, despite my efforts, my voice continued to tremble slightly.

“You’re going to die.”

In fact, I think it might be better not to tell Seung-ju and her mother about this conversation.

However, as I thought about the two people who had been enduring the burning pain without even knowing what I was doing or what I was planning to do, I wanted to tell them as much as possible.

I am family and they deserve to know where and how I am doing.

“The odds of winning are slim to none.”

Elfanis spoke in a rare harsh voice.

“If you fight and lose, are you immediately annihilated? Are we all going to die? immediately? “Are there any other options after that?”

Unable to hide her nervousness, Elfanis lowered her gaze with a slightly troubled expression as I continued to ask questions.

“I don’t know about that either. “We have never fought against them until now and have only continued to flee.”

“Have you never fought? Have you heard any information from other kings?”

“…yes.”

He lowered his head as if he was sorry, but I actually felt hopeful.

“Then no one knows. If we actually fight, it might be more worth it than we think. Doesn’t the fact that no one has fought mean that no one has lost?”

“…I guess it wasn’t known to anyone because everyone who fought died.”

Elfanis was consistently negative, and I was consistently stubborn.

“But…”

“You’re feeling it, right?”

I kept my mouth shut at Elfanis’s firm words.

He’s right.

Predators are incredibly far away from us, outside the atmosphere.

However, a strong presence was felt that made the distance seem insignificant.

I feel like I am an ant looking at the mountain.

Thanks to being able to feel magical power, the sensation became even more vivid.

“…Anyway, you shouldn’t get addicted to potions. Even if you take refuge, you have to be prepared to battle the creatures of that world immediately afterwards.”

I finished speaking, trying hard not to look at my mother and Seungju.

Then Eundam Yoo joined in with a bright smile.

“Oh, sister. Did you say you can strengthen your skills with horns? “With your gathering skills, aren’t there quite a lot of boss monster horns that you have looted?” “

There are a lot. But there is so little time left that it will be difficult to eat them all.”

“Hmm, wouldn’t it be possible to buy some time if we were all assigned one by one, ate it all, and passed it on to my older sister? “There are about 40 hours left until the end of the Final Hall.”

It’s not a bad opinion.

Elfanis didn’t object too much, so I took out some horns from my inventory and handed them out one by one to each person.

Anyway, even if I have it, I can’t eat it all….

“Even if I eat all the horns, there’s nothing like participating in the final hall or canceling my sister-subject relationship, right? “Your relationship will be canceled and you will not be able to enter the dungeon.”

“Not really. We have already been subjugated once.”

Hearing Elfanis’s words, Yu Eundam was relieved and took a bite of the horn.

While I was leaving, I also handed out the S-class stat-boosting potions of each type.

“I will hand them out in case the situation in the final hall becomes dangerous. Temporary increase. “Don’t use it in any case. It has major side effects. Unless you really need a lot of power, it’s better to take Grade A.”

“Oh… that’s the potion that President Kim ate and became incapacitated.”

Okay,

if this is the reaction, I won’t drink it all the time.

“But a temporary increase? All potions give a temporary increase, right?”

“There is also a permanent increase option.”

I said it plainly because it was such an obvious fact to me, but I received shocked looks from all over the place.

Oh, maybe I’m misunderstanding something?

“Even if it’s a permanent increase, it doesn’t mean it’s just going to increase by a few hundred, it’s about 5 at most, so don’t expect too much. “It’s not true.”

“No, even if it’s 5, it’s definitely not that big of a deal.”

Ban Seo-jin intervened as if it was absurd.

Seo Ji-han was watching them happily, smiling with a translucent face.

– By the way, as Yoo Eun-dam said, even if we have no intention of fighting, it would be bothersome if the other party attacked. There are five people we can take with us. It’s just that. If anything, it wouldn’t be a bad idea for Yu Eundam to take the potion and freeze all the kings around him.

“If you really want to freeze the boss level, Eundam will have to die.”

– It’s okay, it’s okay.

“It’s okay. Um, shall we just use invisibility and rush in?”

– It’s too dangerous. Even if you turn invisible, if you get caught in an area-wide attack, your defense will be fatal. They said you can sit on the throne even if you’re not the king, so it might be better for me, who has high agility, to go. Even if you get mortally wounded from an attack, you can just disembodiment and that’s it.

” I don’t think that would be that bad…ah.”

As I was talking with Seo Ji-han, an idea suddenly crossed my mind.

Why didn’t I think of this earlier?

“I thought of a way to avoid fighting! We’ve been doing it this whole time.”

– Huh?

“Hidden somewhere is what I’ve been doing this whole time.”

After saying this, Seo Ji-han looked like he realized what I wanted to say.

I smiled brightly at him and nodded.

“I can become a bug!”

Yes, I have the Chung King Mutation, which is a skill optimized for sneaking around.

Plus, I’ve used it countless times in the past, so sometimes it’s easier to jump as a flea than to jump on a human body. As a

flea, I use the invisibility scroll and use agility. If I raise my stats with an increase potion…!

I think I have a chance of winning!

After being delighted by the amazing method, I felt a cold gaze for a moment and turned around.

“…What is going to happen?”

It was Ban Seo-jin, who was looking at me with an expression that asked, “What kind of nonsense are you talking about in the middle of this serious situation?”

Well, this needs to be explained.