The Earth After Rebirth

Chapter 270: Tartarus Again

Kiro didn't intend to kill him quicker, he wanted him to remember to think the next time he challenges people because he fet like it.

He wanted to remove the chip on his shoulder that made him feel important, like everyone and the world owed him everything.

He was using the poor guy as a sandbag. He was still resistant, occasional throwing of punches here and there and trying to avoid Kiro's attacks. But he was too slow to succeed in either of the two things.

"Oh wow so you need to be fast to beat opponents that are slow and all muscle heads."

"You always say the dumbest things. Of course being just fast isn't enough, if he wasn't strong his hits wouldn't be making such great damage." The smart of the two commented, admiring Kiro all the same.

He was naturally right. Kiro was faster and stronger, the great giant couldn't hope to keep up. Though this didn't make him want to work on his speed.

He was more stubborn than that, this only served as a failure to him, a failure that he wanted to face head on. This meant he needed to increase his constitution and strength even more and to greater heights.

This was the kind of guy he was. He never succumbed to other people's ways, if his ways didn't work, he made them work anyway.

As he took the beating, he hadn't given up yet. He knew resisting was futile but he did it anyway. He didn't regret challenging Kiro, in his mind this was going to happen sooner or later.

He was happier the wake up call happened way earlier into the game rather than later when he thought he was the king of the world.

Kiro was sitting cross-legged on Ryu, they dashed around, giving Viktor a taste of a very bitter medicine. The fight had been going on for a few minutes and he decided to end it with a bending kick.

He completely caved his skull, the cracking sound was heard throughout the arena. The great giant did something amazing, he talked with a skull in the process of being shuttered.

"Haha. Monkey King is it? Thank you for showing me how weak I am. Let's fight again..." He was cut off by the light, his arm outstretched, trying to reach Kiro with a fist bump. But it never quite happened as he was whisked away by the light.

Kiro didn't know this, but this nuisance he was trying to get rid of, he'd created a bond with that would follow him everywhere when he thought he could beat him. They'd have more fights with each other than the in-game monsters.

"What a weird guy. May we never meet again." He proclaimed, feeling satiated now that he'd beaten the arrogance out of him.

'I guess I should get out of the battleground.' He thought while yawning.

Ding!

[As promised, the winner of this battle was Kiro and so Valhalla you've all been disqualified from participating further into this war. You also forfeit your number one spot. Number one is now taken by Dragon Tail.]

Valhalla wasn't even given the chance to complain, the light took them faster than they could react. They complained in the stands, they didn't exactly agree to their leader's abrupt decision, they also didn't think he'd lose, so they didn't raise their concerns sooner.

So you won't only travel through land unknown, you'll also be required to make a map and write notes on everything happening there.

While there's 99 guilds here, survival of even two of you isn't guaranteed. If you all die, the last one to die will be the winners obviously. Though if the last ones don't have information they'll forfeit to those with more information.

This part of the forest has been explored before but none have returned alive. They don't know what it is, whether they die or can't find their way out. Your job is to find out why. While there is no time limit, keep in mind that the whole event is supposed to take only a weekend of real time. Happy hunting!]

Everyone had a confused look on their face. They thought for sure, the next stage would be players fighting out and killing each other.

"Ahh, how boring, we only need to map through a forest?"

"Do you have wax in your ears or are you an idiot? Did you miss the part that nobody returns?"

"I heard it, but it can't be that bad? They probably just sent in NPCs right?"

The guy next to him sighed and didn't answer him. He couldn't believe there was someone who didn't know that there were NPCs in Asgard at 200 levels, meaning they were stronger than any player. If they sent those and they didn't come back, they were all screwed.

If it was something that detrimental, then this final stage was just gathering as much information as possible and preferably dying last.

The system told them they had only an hour before they were transported to different entrances of the part that wasn't known to the general public of Asgard. Each guild would have their own entrance.

There were initially 100 entrances, but since there were only 99, that one was closed off. It was automatically closed by the system.

99 entrances of just a part of the forest. This was how big Tartarus was, it was a world of its own, with an ecosystem different from that of Asgard.

"Be careful, okay?" Kiro told Isla and Saanvi.

He knew something was off about the game, so he didn't know how their deaths would affect them while in this uncharted land. He'd been to another realm after all, although he managed to not die he was sure something bad would've happened if he did.

So his worries weren't unwarranted here.

"Worry about yourself." Saanvi shot back.

"Hey, why are you fighting?" Hiro stared at Saanvi demanding an answer but she never gave him one. She simply rolled her eyes and walked off.

"What's eating her. Well, to be fair, something is always eating her." Kiro joked.

"I heard that number two." She shouted from the stands.

It didn't even give Kiro the chance to talk back, and they were suddenly in a very dark, tree densely populated area.