«There they are.»
A few minutes of movement.
Two players come into my view.
The two players are on what looks like a plain, weapons at the ready, moving cautiously around the area as if looking for each other.
«The current curse level is 9, and with a deformity level of 5, I can just barely see up to ……125 meters, I think. But I can only barely see it, so my actual visibility is probably 50 meters or so.»
If my calculations are correct, the arrow indicating the other player’s position disappears when the player approaches within 100 meters.
«In any case, it is convenient for me.『 Evil Eye of Poison-1 』»
«What?!»
«There!»
The scene moves.
The player who was poisoned by my eight-eyed『 Evil Eye of Poison-1 』cries out, and the other player moves in response.
The two players come into contact with each other and begin to engage in battle.
«『 Evil Eye of Poison-1 』»
«Huh!?»
«It wasn’t you!?»
At that time, I delayed my charge and hit the other player with the fifth «『 Evil Eye of Poison-1 』» with staggered timing.
Now the poison in the two players is estimated at 90 and 50.
I would have liked to put a little more poison on the one with 50, but they are almost certainly both confirmed dead.
I keep my distance from them, paying attention to the direction and position of the other arrows.
«Damn it, catch them–…….»
«Damn it…….»
And they’re gone more easily than I thought.
I had expected the 90-stacked venom person to give the 50-stacked venom person a recovery item and have him chase after me.
«Next.»
I collected the drop at the spot where the two corpses had been and immediately used the HP recovery crystals.
I’m unsure where I’ll be able to rest from here on out.
«The other four people left…… no, three.»
The place seems to have started to move at once now that we know the position of our opponents, even if only roughly.
I noticed that there were only two long arrows.
«…….Degrees of deformity 9 and above or location by means other than sight. I should assume this.»
It’s unlikely that the players who came this far will die by accident, and they’ll either be defeated by the remaining two players or traded.
And even though the remaining two people were defeated, the number decreased a little quickly.
This is even taking into account the length of time it takes me to poison them.
In other words, these two have an efficient method of finding and defeating the enemy.
In some cases, I should consider the possibility that they can use sorcery as well as I can.
«I guess they are about 300 meters or closer.»
Both arrows were getting shorter.
That meant they were both coming toward me.
So I tried to make them meet in the middle of the road and crush each other, but that didn’t work.
They noticed me.
After a moment, they reached me.
«Taruu~chu?»
Well, in the current situation, the one who started the battle first is at a disadvantage. It is obvious that the remaining one will try to take advantage and scavenge.
I put Zarichu back on and reconfirmed the situation.
I am now at the edge of the forest.
I have a rough idea of where the two are because I was able to see them for a moment.
However, I can’t see them at this moment due to obstacles.
«One is a glowing flower head…..»
One of them, hiding in the shadow of a rock in a short grassy field, is a person with a glowing flower head, holding a cavalry spear…… like a lance, and their body covered with metal armor?
The person was obviously a close combat specialist and seemed to have no way of detecting my position, but there must have been something there.
I don’t know if it was a curse on the body, an item, or sorcery.
«The other one is lightly armored…..»
The other is hiding in the shadow of a rock in the wasteland, their whole body concealed by light equipment that seems to be made of cloth, and their weapon is probably a dagger of some kind.
This one is more of a scouting and surprise attack type rather than a melee specialist.
Did they have a slight reaction to my mutterings, perhaps?
If so, it might be some kind of hearing enhancement.
Let’s give it a try.
«One in the wasteland, behind a rock, and the other in the meadow, behind a rock. One is armed with a lance. Armor is full-body armor covering all but the head. There is a glowing flower on his head.»
Hmmm, interestingly, the one in the wasteland responds.
I don’t know the details of what they are doing, but I can somehow tell that they are upset.
The glowing flower seems to be struggling to attack me because there is no way to reach me without the other one attacking after.
In any case, I guess they are both still out of range of the long-range means of attack they have on hand, or maybe they can’t see as clearly as I can.
They seem to be pondering what to do from this point on.
«……»
Okay, then, let’s take them out one at a time.
I’m going to take them out one at a time, using methods that could be called unreasonable.
«Hmph!»
I fly from the treetops into the sky.
I start flapping my wings as fast as I can, leaping 5 meters from where I was, and pointing the backs of my hands and feet at the target when I reach my limit of flight.
Despite such movement, the glowing flower did not show any movement and remained motionless in the shadow of the rock, perhaps because it was difficult to tell what it was doing with the arrow that only indicated the horizontal distance.
The one in the wasteland, on the other hand, must have sensed that I was flying in the air and decided that they could not deal with the coming attack from behind the rock, so they leaped out from the shadow of the rock and came toward me.
It was a dead end.
«『 Evil Eye of Poison-1 』»
«!?»
My thirteen eyes emit a dark green light, and the poison strikes the player in the wasteland who had jumped out from behind the rock, and they collapse on the spot.
The poison is surely more than 100, and the player will die on their own if they are left alone.
However, the decision by the one in the wasteland was generally not wrong.
If the opponent sends something that penetrates your defense, it is right to move from the spot and avoid it.
However, there is no option to avoid my «『 Evil Eye of Poison-1 』»
If you want to escape from my eyes without limitation of vision in all directions, you have no choice but to hide yourself in the shadows.
Well, I can only think that they were unlucky in comparison to me.
«The problem starts here……»
Now, from here to the next activation of «『 Evil Eye of Poison-1 』» I have 15 seconds of cool time and charge time combined.
The player with the glowing flower saw the light of my «Evil Eye of Poison 1» and ran straight toward me as if they sensed something.
The distance between them and me is about 300 meters.
It is generally impossible to close 300 meters in 15 seconds because they are wearing metal armor and carrying a heavy-looking lance.
But this is not reality, but in the world of a game called «CNP».
«Haaaaaaah!»
With the tip of their lance facing forward, they were clearly charging toward me at an inhuman speed.
It probably took less than 10 seconds to close 300 meters.
After that, because of the speed of their feet, we would have to fight in the forest, a space with many obstructions.
That’s not good.
«Suuuu……ha!»
The first thing I did was to take out one of the items I had made for this PvP game from my tool bag and accelerate it in mid-air in a sort of half-spinning motion before throwing it at them.
It spun violently and flew straight up, looking like a single stick due to centrifugal force.
«Such a thing!»
The glowing flower player’s reaction was sharp.
By quickly raising their lance, they tried to repel my projectile, which flew from diagonally above.
But that was a dead end.
«Goga!?»
The moment my projectile made contact with the glowing flower player’s lance, my projectile bent with its fulcrum at the point of contact.
The weights attached to both ends of the projectile gained momentum and struck the shiny flower player’s hands and head, stopping his movement.
«Sei!»
«Gobah!?»
The second throw.
The rope part touches the player’s torso, and the rope tangles around the player’s body, restricting their movement and striking them violently.
Then fifteen seconds passed.
«『 Evil Eye of Poison-1 』»
«Tsu!?»
This is the final blow.
Now all I have to do is wait.
I move away from them.
There is no denying that they may recover from the poison in some way and survive, or they may try to defeat me in a last-ditch effort before the poison takes effect.
So, I ran away properly.
Then, the player with the glowing flower, whose HP had been reduced by the two throws, first ran out of strength, followed by the player in the wasteland.
≪Congratulations on making it through the qualifying round, Taru-sama! ≫
At the same time, a message and fanfare announcing my victory flowed through the air.
«Phew, that was pretty tight.»
I exhaled lightly and was repatriated from the qualifying map when I rested my body against a tree trunk.
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