Chapter 59
Chapter 59.
The audience rapidly swelled as soon as the title was revealed.
Of course, there wasn't anyone whose form could be recognized among them.
But it was confirmed that the numbers had increased dozens of times from the original ten or so.
'The Record Achiever title must have attracted a lot of attention.'
But why are they all in ghost form?
'I'll have to try throwing an opponent at the audience later.'
Just as Lee Ganghan was deciding to throw again this time while looking at the whitish-formed audience.
[There are no 5-star players in the Bronze tier of the race 'Humanity'.]
[Matching with a 1-star player from the upper tier, Silver tier.]
[Matching with player 'Steve Kim'.]
Saying there were no 5-star players in Bronze.
They matched him with a 1-star player from Silver.
Flash!
Then a human player was summoned across the arena.
The man wearing a robe with a magic staff was.
"What, why is the arena so wide...? Isn't this a 5-star arena?"
Looking around bewildered.
Then he was shocked when he saw Lee Ganghan standing far away.
"Hea, Heavenly Demon...!"
The mage who appeared to be of Asian origin.
When he pointed at this side in shock.
Lee Ganghan lightly waved his hand.
"Am I screwed? Wasn't Heavenly Demon Bronze???"
Despite clearly being one tier higher than Lee Ganghan.
The opponent was panicking instead of being confident about winning.
-What? Why is he matched with Silver?
-That guy looks like a 1-star... Is Heavenly Demon fighting a higher tier 1-star because he's 5-star?
-Has there ever been such a case?
-Nope, first time seeing this;;
-Interesting lol
This was the first such case, so viewers were watching this situation with interest.
However,
"Ah, what the hell...! Hey, I'm originally Korean too, you know? Sorry, but I have 4 losses, couldn't you just let me off once?!"
The mage player, instead of choosing to fight.
While appealing that he was from the same country—
"Ri, right, bow! I can bow too!"
—He came out completely submissive, saying he could bow.
The opponent seemed to have absolutely no intention of fighting.
-Why is he so pathetic lol
-Silver completely chickened out against Bronze lol
-But I understand... I'm Gold but honestly I wouldn't want to meet Heavenly Demon either ;
Watching such a mage, viewers' chat messages flowed up.
'I can't accumulate 1 loss just to receive a bow. Let me finish this quickly.'
Swoosh!
Lee Ganghan immediately rushed toward the mage.
Since the arena had gotten bigger than before, it was a distance where he couldn't catch him right away.
But still, with each step forward, the distance closed in an instant.
"How is he so fast...! Blink!"
Flash!
The mage's body was dyed with light.
Then his body instantly teleported behind Lee Ganghan.
Blink, magic that could leap short distances.
When Lee Ganghan showed no intention of going easy, the mage also decided to fight.
"Ice Arrow... huh?"
He who was trying to cast magic after teleporting backward.
Hesitated when he couldn't see his target, Lee Ganghan.
What?
Where did he go?
Then.
Grab!
"Kugh...!"
Lee Ganghan, who had somehow appeared next to the mage.
Grabbed his neck.
"I'll send you quickly."
Then Lee Ganghan dragged the mage to the end of the arena.
Whoosh!
He threw him toward the audience seats.
The mage who seemed like he would retire quickly.
"Kek, kek...!"
However, once his grabbed neck was released and his breathing cleared.
He flailed his arms and legs in the air.
"Bl, Blink!"
He used Blink again.
Compared to initially coming out saying he would bow.
The mage showed fighting spirit that wouldn't give up until the end.
However,
"Hmm."
Grab!
Lee Ganghan, who had already reached the Blink's destination first.
Grabbed his neck again.
"Kugh, kek..."
"Hey there."
The mage's eyes were filled with shock.
Lee Ganghan looked at him intently.
"If you do this again next time... you die?"
"......"
"Well then."
Swoosh!
Then again the mage's body flying through the air.
At first he still flailed around, using Blink and resisting.
"Damn, fuck...! Today's completely unlucky...."
A little while ago, after the Blink landing position was preempted, he seemed to have lost his will to fight.
The mage falling toward the audience seats while only spitting out curses.
Before his body touched the audience seats.
Paaaaah...!
It flashed with light and disappeared.
-18+ came out...
-He really is Korean lol
-Wow but how did you know the Blink position?
"Well? I had a feeling."
The mana was rippling at the landing point.
Ah, I had a sense that the Blink destination was here.
-Playing a different game again...
-They say if mana is high, energy sense develops, is that it??
-Heavenly Demon's mana is also 10+, right? Really fucking overpowered lol
-I think I know why Alfred does daily mentions...
Does having high mana have such effects too?
Lee Ganghan nodded and then calculated the time the recent battle took.
'Did it take over a minute this time?'
The arena also got bigger.
The mage used Blink and resisted somewhat.
He was worried whether it would barely fall under the 'subdue within 1 minute' condition.
However,
[You have subdued the opponent within 5 minutes.]
[You can raise your arena grade. Would you like to raise your grade?]
'It increased from 1 minute to 5 minutes?'
Rather, becoming 5-star gave him a more generous time limit.
Was it reflecting that the opponents had also become stronger?
'I should keep raising it until I can't.'
When Lee Ganghan chose to raise his grade.
Flash...!
Next to the materialized 5-star.
Another semi-transparent golden star was attached.
-Immediately reached 6-star lol
-What's humanity's highest star?
-Mike is 7-star
-He's going to break Mike's record again?
-Tutorial, Tower of Infinity, arena - keeps stealing records lol
Mike, humanity's top player.
For a while, no player could reach his great records.
But Lee Ganghan had been continuously breaking the new records he set since Iron grade.
'During the tutorial, they called my record Fake News.'
Well, that fake news.
I'll have to keep making it.
Lee Ganghan grinned and waited for the next opponent.
The matches continued like that.
-Overtook Mike's star in just one day???
-But why does 1 star keep increasing after each match? Is this normal?
-Right now he's throwing every opponent outside the ring, shouldn't he get stars...?
-At this rate, 10-star today?
-Really crazy lol no, it gets stronger every time I watch lol
Throwing every opponent that came out outside the ring.
Before long, the 10th match was approaching.
[You can raise your arena grade. Would you like to raise your grade?]
And the grade up message appearing again before the match.
Lee Ganghan raised his grade like he had been doing.
Flash...!
The 5 stars merged into one.
Creating a materialized star.
With this, there were a total of 2 stars hanging on his chest.
-10-star on the first arena day wow
-Two stars look cool
-Now will opponents suitable for 10-star appear?
-This time he's fighting Gold? lol
People were watching Lee Ganghan who had become 10-star.
Interested in who would come out as the opponent.
Rumble, rumble...!
Suddenly the floor vibrated.
The arena expanded to an even larger size.
'Now it's too wide to be called an arena for 1:1 fighting?'
The arena that had expanded even more.
And in the increased audience seats, the audience had also increased considerably.
Roughly over a thousand spectators.
The numbers had increased little by little each time he gained a star.
But reaching 10-star and the arena changing completely, the audience count jumped significantly from this point.
'The fact that they're still in that form hasn't changed though.'
Even if he threw opponents at the audience seats, they would disappear in mid-air anyway.
The audience whose identity was completely unknown.
While Lee Ganghan was quietly looking at the audience seats.
Crack, Crack, crack...!
Cracks appeared in the dirt floor.
Then a milky white marble floor rose from underneath.
"Oh, this floor..."
This kind of floor was laid when meeting other races.
Could it be that case again this time?
Then.
Flash!
Light burst from beyond the arena.
[You are matched with player 'Hild' of a competing race.]
An Elf holding a long spear.
"You are...!"
Was looking at Lee Ganghan with a surprised expression.
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-Oh Elf!!!!!
-Ooooh this is it, I believed it!!!
-But somehow she looks familiar?
-Isn't that the Elf that Heavenly Demon stabbed before?
-I almost unsubscribed then haha she's living healthily...
-But she's going to get stabbed again this time, right? lol
-Today's concept is ring-out so he'll throw her
The Elf holding a spear.
When 'Hild' appeared, chat messages came up several times more than usual.
This damn Elf preference.
It's unreasonable.
While Lee Ganghan was chuckling at the chat enthusiastic about Elves.
"It's that human from that time...!"
Hild glared at Lee Ganghan as if to kill him and walked quickly.
Then.
"Rather, this worked out well."
What worked out well?
When Lee Ganghan had such doubts.
Swoosh.
Hild extended her hand toward Lee Ganghan.
"Human, return the core while I'm being nice about it."
"What core?"
"Human, the core that dropped when you killed me!"
"Ah."
She's talking about the Tower core fragment?
"I used that though?"
"You used it?"
"Yeah. Thanks to that, I collected all the fragments and spun the roulette. Thanks, yo."
If not for Hild, it would have been 4 fragments.
Thanks to her dropping the core fragment just at the right time, didn't humanity get Accessory Slot +1?
"To, to use that, how dare!!!"
"Well, you gave it to me, so naturally I had to use it. Ah, right. Are you giving one today too?"
Swoosh.
When Lee Ganghan raised his fist while saying that.
"Eek...!"
Whoosh!
Hild instantly put distance between them by moving backward.
-Look at her running away wow
-So fast lol
-Avoiding close combat was an excellent choice, Lord Elf!
-Why are you cheering for the Elf here? --
-I can't see Elves anywhere else haha
Cheering for the enemy Elf on the Heavenly Demon channel.
Do they like Elves that much?
'I don't understand.'
It's true that she's beautiful, but is it worth making such a fuss?
When Lee Ganghan tilted his head.
"Last time I was careless...! Today is different!"
Whirl, Whirl!
Hild, who had been spinning the long spear alone like a windmill.
Released it from her hand.
Then.
The spear continued rotating in mid-air by itself.
Paaaaah...!
It turned into light and created a blue portal.
"Come forth, spirits!"
Then spirits began appearing one by one through the portal.
'They look quite different from the spirits that Karana threw from the Sacred Fire.'
The fire spirits that appeared from the Sacred Fire had different forms - some were lizards.
Some took the form of birds and each had different shapes.
But the spirits coming out through the blue portal now had identical appearances as if mass-produced in a factory.
Stick-like thin and long torsos and limbs.
Round heads without eyes, nose, mouth, or hair.
All were about half of Lee Ganghan's size, about the size of children.
-Stick figures???
-They're called spirits but look like stick humans
-The only difference seems to be color, are those different attributes by color?
Except for having four versions - blue, red, brown, and green.
A group of spirits with completely identical appearances.
There were also 10 of each color.
A total of 40 spirits were lined up in formation.
"Show the inferior race what's what. And I'll take that title instead of the fragment!"
Taking out the spear from the blue portal again.
Hild pointed the spear tip at Lee Ganghan with great momentum.
Is she coveting the Record Breaker flashing above his head now?
'Except for the increased audience, there's nothing particularly good about it.'
Lee Ganghan chuckled and pointed at the spirits with his finger.
"But you, where did you mass-produce those spirits? What do they look like?"
"Hmph... What does an inferior race know about spirits to babble about?"
Hild snorted as if it was ridiculous.
"I don't know much but... there's someone who knows well?"
Paaaaah...!
A red portal opened behind Lee Ganghan.
"Tsk. Heavenly Demon, did you call?"
When the mixed-blood Elf Karana walked out from there.
"Yo, you are...?"
She opened her eyes wide with a shocked face.