The Chicken Legend's Game Becomes Reality - Chapter 69

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Chapter 69
Whoooosh!
Seizing the moment, Red Star’s blade erupted with a torrent of dark effects, brimming with abundant mana.
“【How pathetic, unable to even win.】”
[Cursebrand]
Hwang Beom-young, who had evaded with ease, suddenly panicked and flared up in irritation.
“Damn! What the—!”
He hadn’t evaded at all.
A curse mark had been etched onto his character.
‘What else would it be but a curse.’
It was one of Red Star’s random curses, and this time the skill was absorption.
From now until death, Hwang Beom-young would serve as a shuttle for health, mana, and stats.
It was useless against someone you could kill immediately, but it was the perfect curse skill to use against someone you couldn’t finish quickly.
Hwang Beom-young swiftly activated a skill.
A boxer’s technique.
[Thunder Wire]
Boom!
Hwang Beom-young’s magical power spread wide and detonated.
Boxers, whose attack range was shorter than other classes, used this skill to block an Opponent Player’s approach.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Red Star paid no mind and charged through the exploding minefield.
‘Hey! Can’t you see my health bar?!’
“【Mm.】”
‘What do you mean “mm”! Stop fooling around and get ready for the handoff! Didn’t you see Hwang Beom-young’s Constellation putting distance between us at the end?!’
I was ignored.
These Constellation bastards came to play a combat game, and they had the audacity to turn someone else’s avatar into a rag while acting shameless as heaven itself.
‘Should I just force him out.’
But if I did that, the momentum would break during the pursuit.
Hwang Beom-young gripped the escalator handrail and nimbly leaped down in one bound, evading Red Star.
Boom!
Red Star’s blade strike flew into the space where he had vanished.
‘Like a squirrel.’
Hwang Beom-young was genuinely quick, probably because of his small stature.
Even amid all this, the NPCs inside Seoul Station didn’t flee—they watched our battle with fascination.
They seemed to be enjoying themselves.
‘Tch. I’ve turned the NPCs into obstacles.’
Red Star chased after Hwang Beom-young and hurled himself down to the lower level of the escalator.
Thud.
The moment he landed, a flash of light rushed toward me, and my vision went dark.
The incarnation had ended at the worst possible timing.
‘This won’t work, damn it.’
But then.
Hwang Beom-young, who had been rushing toward me, suddenly changed direction and fled desperately.
“Two tattered Rankers.”
“!”
An area-of-effect skill erupted without warning, engulfing both Hwang Beom-young and me.
Boom.
Battle Royale—it’s never easy.
‘This kind of bullshit ambush doesn’t happen in one-on-one matches!’
I reflexively twisted my body and threw myself over the railing, using all my health potions at once.
My HP didn’t fill up instantly but rather rose slowly.
‘Faster, faster, faster!’
Crash—!
The escalator I’d been standing on crumpled like tissue paper and exploded.
The HP bar that had barely filled up was instantly obliterated.
‘That was close to death.’
I think I hit HP 1.
If I hadn’t used that health potion right then, it would’ve been over.
【That was excellent judgment.】
Shut up.
Thank goodness this is a game—if this were real, there would’ve been explosions, destruction, and severe burns everywhere.
I rolled across the ground, quickly got up, and hid while assessing the situation.
“Jeong Si-do, that bastard….”
Hwang Beom-young, pressed against the wall directly across from my hiding spot, muttered in a voice cracked with strain.
‘Jeong Si-do?’
God of Fighters Battle Royale world ranking number three.
The highest authority in domestic Battle Royale.
A woman’s voice rang out.
“Didn’t kill them?”
I turned my head and glanced toward the source of the voice.
“No kill registered?”
“Unfortunate. They’ll be dead soon anyway.”
They were such famous characters that there was no way I wouldn’t recognize them.
Jeong Si-do and Jeong Hee-ji—siblings.
‘Insane.’
According to Baek Hee-an, many Hunters decide on their Fair partners before the tournament even begins.
Jeong Si-do is a top-tier Ranker in Battle Royale, and Jeong Hee-ji also has a ranking in this category.
They’d become a Fair.
Hwang Beom-young glanced at me.
I looked at him too.
“….”
“….”
Silence hung between Hwang Beom-young and me.
Both of us had depleted our HP to the bottom from fighting while using Incarnation.
‘I’ve exhausted all my health potions too.’
And those Jung Siblings as a Fair were one of the most formidable championship contenders in this Battle Royale tournament.
【They’re coming.】
There was no choice.
But before I could even request a Fair, a voice cut through.
“Found you.”
Jeong Si-do’s chilling murmur accompanied a sinister explosion of light.
Pop-pop-pop-bang—!
The fluorescent lights in the passage detonated in unison, spewing flames.
“Gahhh!”
“Damn it!”
Black ash scattered thickly through the air.
Running the moment I heard his voice was a stroke of divine luck.
The erupting sinister light expanded rapidly, sweeping over our position like a tidal wave.
It didn’t stop—it kept expanding.
【Incarnation, then.】
Glancing back, Jeong Si-do’s body blazed with dark crimson flames.
Eyes gleaming with blackish-red darkness.
Incarnation.
【A rather notorious one among the Constellations. A walking calamity. I strongly recommend the Thirty-Six Stratagems of Retreat.】
I know that already—shut up!
“What’s happening? He used an area skill but they’re still alive? Weren’t both their HPs at the bottom?”
That’s Jeong Hee-ji’s voice, and judging by her tone, she’s not in Incarnation state.
Bang! Tap-tap!
Running for my life, Jeong Hee-ji’s bullets came flying.
‘Why is she such a good shot?!’
Being a martial artist while also excelling with firearms was downright unfair.
Her ranged ability was so broken that even hits wouldn’t deal significant damage, but getting hit now would mean instant logout.
Graze.
Hwang Beom-young, barely grazed and losing some HP, shrieked convulsively.
“Damn it! Fair! Request a Fair! Hurry—!”
Fighting those siblings alone was already dangerous, and now Jeong Si-do, the final boss of the Battle Royale, had activated his Incarnation skill.
【A dire situation.】
Refusing was not an option.
[A Fair request has been received. Do you accept-]
“Accept!”
Before I could become charred meat, Sword Dragon and I slipped beyond the range of the area-wide skill.
Hwang Beom-young screamed at me.
“Damn it, aren’t you breaking the curse?! It’s draining all my stats!”
In the meantime, he must have used a health potion, because unlike me, he’d escaped the beggar state of his HP.
I quickly used a mana potion as well.
But did this bastard not understand the current situation?
“We made a Fair, you idiot!”
“What does that have to do with me….”
Hwang Beom-young closed his mouth, understanding my words a beat too late.
Neither Hwang Beom-young nor I could use Incarnation again right after exhausting it in combat.
I had to overcome this wretched situation by combining the mana I’d drained from Hwang Beom-young with the mana gained from the potion.
‘Lethal strike!’
A Constellation area-wide skill.
[Black Pyroclasm Noir]
A sharp whoosh.
Light vanished instantly within a radius of dozens of meters.
All sound became muffled as the air transformed into a vacuum, then magma-colored light erupted suddenly, engulfing the entire area.
Boom-boom-boom-crash—!
The ultimate skill I unleashed backward made the entire underground passage tremble as if it would collapse.
‘Yes!’
A critical hit from the ultimate skill flashed like a single ray of light through the darkness.
Hwang Beom-young muttered something beside me.
“…You held back.”
“I’m pretty skilled, I’ll admit.”
“Bullshit.”
Boom-boom-crash!
The moment dust clouds billowed thickly, Hwang Beom-young and I exchanged glances.
He’s coming.
Jeong Si-do appeared in our vision, his health bar completely depleted.
A sane player would flee after taking a critical hit from an ultimate skill and having their HP evaporate, not charge forward like that.
The opponent was a mad Constellation that had entered a player’s body.
Whoosh—
Jeong Si-do’s Constellation ghostly dodged my blade strike and glanced at me.
Eyes filled with eerie intent.
“【So it is you….】”
The moment interest flickered, Hwang Beom-young’s kick came flying.
I didn’t stay idle either.
Whoosh. Whoosh!
Dodging, dodging.
Dodging and dodging and dodging.
‘Damn Constellation!’
When a Constellation possesses a body, the fluidity and precision of movement become absurdly superior compared to a normal Player state.
It felt less like controlling a Game avatar and more like watching something truly alive and moving.
Whoosh. Swish, swish, swish.
Hwang Beom-young and I attacked together, yet he didn’t get hit once.
“【How troublesome.】”
A voice tinged with difficulty.
He was displaying incredible evasion skills, but that wasn’t all there was to it.
From the perspective of Jeong Si-do the Hunter wielding dual swords while possessed by a Constellation, our coordinated assault was continuously throwing off his attack timing.
The moment my eyes met Hwang Beom-young’s, we understood each other perfectly.
‘Hey.’
‘Yeah.’
We’d only been dealing damage for a few seconds, but the judgment came instantly.
We had no chance of winning.
‘His stats are way too high compared to us both. How much did he farm at the beginning anyway.’
Besides, the opponent was a Constellation bastard with his HP nearly depleted yet showing absolutely no fear of death—or rather, logout.
‘Since we can’t kill him outright, we retreat quickly.’
Whoosh.
Hwang Beom-young and I smoothly deflected our attacks against Jeong Si-do and spun around in one fluid motion, breaking into a run.
Tap-tap-tap-tap!
Without exchanging a single word, Hwang Beom-young and I made a perfect circle around the area and headed straight for the Escalator.
‘Why do we work together so well for no reason?’
【We’re surprisingly compatible.】
The algorithm of judgment was simple.
This area was already the domain of the Jung Siblings, who had generously raised their stats.
To defeat them, I had no choice but to go higher up and resume hunting.
‘Since there’s a correct answer, the conclusion has to be the same.’
Before long, I heard Jeong Hee-ji’s character voice.
“Brother!”
The voice was distant.
Glancing back, Jeong Si-do stood motionless, not pursuing us.
The light in his incarnate eyes faded.
“….”
He’d used Constellation possession, yet ended up with nothing to show for it.
‘So be it.’
Like a predator that had let slip a great prey, Jeong Si-do quietly smacked his lips and turned his head away.
He left.
‘I need to pump my stats like crazy.’
I’d thought I’d been fairly lucky from the early stages, sweeping through content, but experiencing Jeong Si-do’s physicality firsthand jolted me awake.
Current Tournament ranking score.
1st place: Sword Dragon’s Killing Intent.
Trying to avoid the fox, I ran into a tiger instead, but barely managed to escape.
Hwang Beom-young and I safely reached the escalator and quickly entered the second floor.
‘We made it.’
A warning window appeared.
[Warning: The Fair cannot be dissolved for 10 minutes after its formation.]
“?”
Had Hwang Beom-young tried to dissolve the Fair?
I glanced to the side and confirmed it.
Since our Agility stats were similar, Hwang Beom-young walked at nearly the same pace while maintaining distance, then shot me a sharp glare.
“Hey, Chicken.”
“What.”
He growled with an adorable and mischievous expression.
“You know who I am, right? Consider yourself honored that I formed a Fair with you. If you betray me before the Fair ends, we’re settling this in real life.”
“….”
He seemed genuinely serious about his threat, but it had absolutely no bite to it.
‘You already lost to me.’
If someone with that level of physicality had taken the same beating I gave him against an unawakened version of me, that meant I fought far better than Hwang Beom-young.
Besides, I now had Hwang Beom-young’s Aunt backing me up.
But this guy had no idea who I was.
“You don’t betray me either.”
“Tsk.”
Hwang Beom-young seemed displeased, but he appeared to think he’d gotten the answer he wanted.
He turned his back and walked ahead.
【Showing his back without fear. His personality is as cute as his avatar’s appearance.】
Hmm.
If I saw his real body in reality, “cute” wouldn’t be the word I’d use.
Judging by how he asked if I didn’t know him when we fought, he certainly had self-awareness about what he possessed.
‘Actually, that’s better.’
Because he had strength, he could trust me more easily.
It’s the perfect setup to betray him later.

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