The Chicken Legend's Game Becomes Reality - Chapter 68

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Chapter 68
A notification appeared across the entire message window.
[Player ‘666MakGaNeVoss’ has been defeated.]
[You have acquired 100G as a reward.]
My first kill.
“Heh.”
【Reckless courage without the skill to back it up. It seems they wanted to test themselves against me.】
That appeared to be the case.
I allocated the acquired stat point to agility and sprinted toward my next target, when Red Star displayed a recommended weapon window in the corner of my vision.
[Hastily Forged Dragon Scale Sword — 1,000G]
“What kind of weapon is this? Isn’t it too expensive?”
They’d recommended something roughly two tiers above what I needed.
To afford a thousand-gold sword, I’d either need to rapidly eliminate other players from the start or clear at least one Gate.
【There’s nothing but small fry around here anyway. No reason to compromise.】
Red Star understood the Battle Royale better than I did, so I generally followed their suggestions.
I paused.
“…?”
A sudden wave of discomfort washed over me.
Looking around, I noticed digital-eyed NPCs staring at me—only me—with wide eyes.
Eyes filled with shock and awe.
‘What’s this.’
Some of them even pulled out phones to take pictures.
‘Why did they bother recreating something like that? Is it intentional? This excessive realism is oddly distracting.’
I clicked my tongue inwardly at the overkill realism and moved past them.
The moment I straightened my head without thinking, a female NPC standing before the escalator made an adorable heart gesture with her fingers.
I nearly nodded back without realizing it.
‘…That’s dangerous.’
If intentional, it was effective.
They might be trying to shake players’ mental composure with such tactics.
At least I couldn’t physically touch them—that was a mercy.
I shut out the seductive NPCs and suddenly leaped up, landing cleanly on the escalator’s handrail.
Tap-tap-tap.
The red dot on my minimap rapidly approached.
A player descending the escalator glanced back at me, panicked, and accelerated, but it was already too late.
A Sword Mage’s basic skill.
[Sword Wraith]
Whoosh!
The blade I hurled with the skill pierced the fleeing player’s neck with perfect precision.
[Player ‘AhEoJjeoRaGo’ has been defeated.]
[You have acquired 100G as a reward.]
One shot, one kill.
“Nice!”
【Mm. Truly excellent.】
I tapped Agility mid-air and landed lightly below the Escalator.
Thud.
I immediately checked the minimap.
Crash—!
An ominous noise erupted from behind the Shop Line.
Red dots were rushing toward me.
“Gahhh!”
“Damn it! Move!”
Crash!
Bang!
The sound of glass shattering and metal shutters crumpling.
Overlaid with the chaotic thunder of footsteps.
‘There’s a Ranker here, it seems.’
I didn’t know who was herding the monsters, but from my perspective, this was an unexpected blessing.
I quickly crouched and hid slightly behind the Escalator.
【This is an opportunity.】
My luck was extraordinarily good.
‘Ah. I wasn’t expecting much from a Battle Royale, but it’s already giving me hope from the start.’
Hehehehe.
The corners of my mouth kept creeping upward.
If I win this Tournament, fixing my leg is absolutely guaranteed.
Because Kkolkkalpi, who was kicked out of my Fair, promised to bet all his coins on me.
‘Whoever you are, thank you for putting all your faith in me.’
Boom boom boom!
Several Players came rushing from the front.
My location would show on the Map, but they couldn’t know who I was without seeing me with their own eyes.
“Upper Floor! Go to the Upper Floor!”
As the Players drew near with their commotion, I darted out like a predator snatching prey.
Tap tap!
Agility +2 at the very start of the Tournament created an enormous speed differential.
“Move—huh?!”
“W-Chicken Seat?!”
“Kyaaaah!”
“Attack!”
Bang!
The ones at the front quickly cast skills and attacked me.
‘A coordinated assault? Ah, they’ve already formed a Fair.’
Bang! Crackle!
But the attacks I’d thrown out in panic while fleeing had accuracy that was predictable even without looking.
【There’s nothing to say.】
As expected, the gunner’s bullets and the mage’s fire arrows passed completely by me.
[Sword Wraith]
My blade, driven deep through agility, cut through empty air—and the heads of those at the front flew through that same void.
Crash!
Double kill.
[You have received 100G as a reward.]
[You have received 100G as a reward.]
Tidy earnings.
In front of the escalator leading to the upper floor, the Players scattered in all directions.
“Ahhh! Aaaahhh!”
“Damn these bastard Rankers!”
“No! I can’t die like this!”
“Kyaaaah!”
Crash! Boom! Crash!
Panic had reduced everything to chaos.
In the confusion, Players unleashed skills indiscriminately, and while they struck each other and their health drained away, I easily claimed two more.
[You have received 100G as a reward.]
[You have received 150G as a reward.]
The larger reward amount suggested one of them had leveled up slightly in that brief span.
[You have received 100G as a reward.]
[You have received 150G as a reward.]
[You have received 100G as a reward.]
Money poured in relentlessly.
‘This is absolutely ridiculous.’
Someone had already drained everyone’s strength so thoroughly that not a single Player possessed the ability to use Incarnation or a Constellation’s ultimate skill.
Even during the Battle Royale preliminary practice sessions, I’d never encountered such easy pickings.
That such fortune would strike during the main tournament itself.
Whoever had herded them here, I was sweeping up everything—they’d surely be furious.
‘I’d like to take more.’
I rapidly tapped through the windows floating before me.
[You have purchased the weapon ‘Hastily Forged Dragon Scale Sword (+10)’.]
[You have purchased a Health Potion.]
[You have purchased a Mana Potion.]
[Agility has increased +1]
[Agility has increased +1]
[Intelligence has increased +1]
…
I purchased a weapon for 1000 gold.
A Dragon Scale Blade.
The moment I downed a mana potion, mana began surging through me.
It was coming.
A small shadow hurtling forward with devastating speed.
‘…What?’
It was far faster than I’d anticipated.
But the presence felt familiar.
In-young rocketed toward me and struck my solar plexus with perfect precision.
Crash—boom—!
“!”
My HP, which had never taken a single scratch, plummeted in an instant.
“【How dare you poach my prey!】”
The true predator who had driven the Players this far had arrived.
Eyes gleaming with brilliant gold light.
A Constellation.
“【I will kill you!】”
Despite confirming the location via the red dot, the small figure I’d missed was a character I recognized.
‘Hwang Beom-young?!’
The tiger girl customization that the entire nation knew.
Hwang Beom-young’s God Opal game character, boasting an extreme gap moe appeal.
Red Star urged me forward.
【Hurry!】
Hwang Beom-young’s character, eyes blazing, rushed at me—already in the midst of Incarnation.
Bang!
I kicked Hwang Beom-young away at close range, then immediately activated Incarnation myself.
[Incarnation]
Flash!
My avatar was engulfed in crimson light as the power of an external entity seized control of my body.
Sparks erupted from the blade.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Red Star immediately raised his sword, deflecting Hwang Beom-young’s fists with movements that bordered on artistry.
‘Constellations truly are…’
Of course, Hwang Beom-young’s Constellation wasn’t idle either.
Tap-tap-tap, boom-boom-boom-crash!
“Wow, what the—? Are you insane?”
“What are you doing?! Run!”
“Hah. We made it.”
The prey scattered in flight.
‘What a waste.’
Hwang Beom-young’s Constellation pressed forward without hesitation, striking at me relentlessly regardless of whether the Players fled or stood their ground.
True to a Constellation specialized in close combat, her melee attack techniques were formidable.
‘But I’m blocking it.’
Clang!
Red Star’s swordsmanship bordered on acrobatic mastery.
Clang!
Sometimes the blade seemed to teleport.
In the Game World, nothing was particularly strange about it, but regardless, these beings occasionally disregarded the laws of physics entirely.
The Opponent Constellation’s voice reached my ears.
“【Why are you there?】”
“【I drove them away.】”
Red Star spewed the lie without even wiping his mouth, then immediately cranked his mana output to maximum.
Boom—!
‘Damn. My mana.’
My mana pool shattered in an instant.
It was all according to plan.
These cursed Constellations were always obsessed with fighting each other rather than concerning themselves with the Players’ circumstances.
Hwang Beom-young’s character recoiled far back, engulfed in demonic energy that poured out like ink.
‘So Hwang Beom-young’s Constellation is also a girl character.’
The Constellation’s voice was feminine.
“【Hmph, a Sword Mage? I didn’t come here to fight some weapon wielder.】”
“【Sounds like you lack confidence.】”
A surge of emotion.
She took the bait instantly—oddly similar to Hwang Beom-young himself.
‘She vanished.’
The movement was lightning-fast.
Hwang Beom-young’s already diminutive character moved so rapidly it seemed like instantaneous teleportation.
From the side.
A small silhouette appeared like a flying squirrel, launching a venomous kick.
Boom—!
‘Wow.’
Tremendous impact.
Despite Red Star blocking with his sword, the shockwave from the skill explosion dealt considerable damage to his HP.
‘These cursed Constellations.’
As always, summoning them meant they’d drain your health completely.
Red Star immediately swung his blade at Hwang Beom-young’s descending trajectory, but her Constellation was faster.
Boom!
She kicked me swiftly, using the recoil to escape beyond striking range.
A low, menacing growl—
Golden eyes gleaming with predatory focus as she regarded me from her lowered stance.
Red Star’s pursuit continued relentlessly.
Crash! Boom-boom-crash!
After fighting once and assessing the situation, I realized Hwang Beom-young’s Constellation’s skills were no joke.
‘She’s strong.’
It made sense that Hwang Beom-young wasn’t ranked fourth in the world in God Opal for nothing.
The Constellation’s combat ability far exceeded Lee Do-jin’s.
‘I dismissed the armed one too easily. She’s on par with Kkolkkalpi. I’m curious who would win if I fought that guy.’
But Kkolkkalpi was suspended, and despite the incarnation’s time limit being extended, it was still short.
A sharp, youthful voice.
“【You’re not my match, I’m telling you!】”
The moment the blood-soaked damage exchange ended, Hwang Beom-young’s Constellation retreated sharply, creating distance between us.
The luminous effect in her eyes vanished.

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