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[Remaining Time - 00:00:30]
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[The three hours have been completed, the safe zone will now shrink.]
After the announcement, a new window with the maximum number of participants showed.
[1386/1400]
[Participant count doesn't exceed the limit. None of the participants will be kicked out.]
[The 2nd tutorial has ended.]
[Distributing 500 points and the full inventory will be available to everyone who survived.]
[In the case of death, the contents of the inventory will be deleted.]
[A small break of one hour will be provided. After that, the third tutorial will begin.]
Everyone was happy as their decision to send three hundred people out was right, and they were able to survive.
But in Max's head, the scene of Arya's smirk and how he treated him replayed.
'That bastard... Just you wait!! He's stronger right now, but not for long. I'll show him what the hell is!'
As everyone was given an hour to rest before the next trial, they started resting.
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Arya, after his warning, left the safe zone. Though he didn't like how Max and his gang did things, he didn't have the time or reason to babysit people. If they couldn't survive here, they would never climb the tower.
Arya's goal was to become stronger than everyone else. He couldn't focus on protecting or babysitting random people who were just extras in the grand scheme of things. Because of what was to come, he had to become strong enough to protect the people he cared about; the world as a whole was at risk.
'I have around 1.5 hours before the next trial starts: thirty minutes remaining of the current trial and the one-hour rest time given.'
As Arya walked, he thought about how to act for the time being since the next trial would be a long one.
'I will rest for an hour and then head back to the subway to hunt.'
"Yeah... Let's do this."
Arya entered one of the buildings and, after hiding, started resting.
After half an hour, he woke up to the announcement.
'Well, now I can store things easily, as the full inventory is available now. Before, only three slots could be used.' Arya became a little happy knowing he could use the fully functional inventory.
The personal inventory provided by the system had 99 slots where items could be stacked up to 64 of the same item. It was accessible to all players both inside and outside of the tower.
Other than the normal announcements that everyone heard, Arya got a few extra system notifications.
[You've killed 500 girth worms. You receive 500 points.]
[You have killed the most beasts in all the sectors. You received the unique title 'Slayer'.]
Though he knew he would receive a title, it was still astounding that he got it in just two trials. Titles played an important role in the tower. They provided a few benefits and increased a person's reputation. Be it current top players or future ones, everyone had many titles. But even among them, only a few received titles in the tutorial.
He checked his surroundings and started resting again. Though his eyes were closed, he was fully aware of his surroundings due to his high perception stat. After another half an hour, he woke up.
After waking up, he started heading towards the subway. Walking slowly, he reached the subway in 20 minutes. During the rest time, no girth worms attacked anyone around the map.
After reaching the place where the nest was, Arya started to warm up. He chose this place because it was the best place for the next trial.
Just as he completed his ten-minute warm-up session, an announcement happened.
[The 3rd Tutorial will now begin.]
[The theme of the third trial is hunting. Kill monsters in the sector and acquire their essence.]
"Wh-what? More monsters?!"
"Will they be as strong as those worms?"
After the announcement, people started murmuring.
[A portal will open after the trial ends. Those who manage to obtain 50 of these essences will clear the tutorial.]
"S-So, we have to kill fifteen-fifty monsters each?"
"Ar-are we even sure all monsters will drop these?!"
As more such statements were made, people started turning pale.
[The trial will last 72 hours.]
[The safe zone will stay as it is, but the limit will decrease by 50 every hour.]
"At least the safe zone is still here."
Only after this did their condition improve a little.
[The third tutorial starts now.]
As the announcement was completed, various insect-like monsters started appearing all around the sector.
'Kill the monsters and collect the essence... Do I have to collect all 50 by myself? Hehe!'
Max, after hearing the statement, thought to himself.
"You all heard that, right?"
"You know what to do!"
Max said to his gang members, who smiled and started walking towards the rest of the people.
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As soon as the announcement was completed, monsters started spawning everywhere around Arya. He got into position and lunged at the monsters.
[Goliath Rodent Level 5]
[Flutter Pillar Level 7]
[Feeble Roach Level 7]
There were many different kinds of monsters, including something like a big mouse, an ugly big Butterfly, big cockroach-like monsters, big spider-like creatures, etc.
Even those girth worms and zombies from previous trials were there, though their levels were between 5 and 10. Arya had easily killed stronger monsters than them in the previous trial.
For him, all of this was just too easy.
"There sure are a lot of monsters. Will I be able to reach a thousand? Hehe... Why don't I try and find out?"
Arya started attacking the monster. As they were less than half his level, and not even comparing the stats, it was a piece of cake for Arya to kill them.
But it wasn't their strength but their number that was the real difficulty. Though they were from different races and of the lowest level, they didn't have much intelligence. However, due to the effect of the tower, they were able to coordinate and try to kill Arya.
If it were someone else, those who were low-level or inexperienced would have died. But for Arya, who had even killed dragons in his past life, these beasts were nothing.
As there was no limit to these monsters, Arya continued to kill them.
But even after killing more than a hundred of these monsters, he didn't level up once. He received very few experience points due to his high level. But he didn't stop and continued hunting.
After killing many monsters, Arya got a brief break when the monsters respawned. This window of time allowed Arya to collect the essences and store them in his inventory.
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