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The Martial God Who Regressed to Level 2
[Translator – SCM]
[Proofreader – ilafy]
Chapter 258
Humanity had encountered the dragonkin before.
- The dragonkin appeared in the rehearsal game, right?
- Yes. They used their breath attacks right when we entered the map and were quite strong.
- JiHan still swept them away, though.
- Those were just hatchlings…
The 'Blueback Dragonkin' they’d encountered in the Battlefield of Chaos rehearsal map had left a strong impression on them, even though JiHan had defeated them. It was the first time people truly feared what other monsters the Space League might hold.
Finally, the 2nd-ranked species’ ‘???’ vanished on the leaderboard to be replaced with ‘Red-headed Dragonkin’. It was only humanity’s third Space League match, but it looked like they’d be properly facing them.
= The red-headed dragonkin are quite strong and are ranked 2nd.
= If they're 2nd, that means they won both matches like us and have been earning a lot of points.
= We must win this match and take their position.
JiHan thought, 'It seems that they haven't met the elves yet.'
In terms of each species’ base specs, the dragonkin were certainly superior to the elves, but before his regression, the dragonkin had always been weak to the World Tree’s elves. Later on, after all the species in the League were revealed, humanity saw that the dragonkin never once beat the elves in an official match.
'Well. It wasn't just the dragonkin. No species has been able to beat those damned elves…' Within the Space League’s Bronze division, the World Tree’s Elves eventually ended up holding the top five positions. Other than when they faced each other, they had no defeats.
Even if the elves were strong, one might think the dragons could have won a match or two, but the elves firmly held the 1st through 5th rankings up until humanity was demoted.
'I changed things this time.' While thinking that he should further shake up the rankings, JiHan saw both teams’ coaches walk out on screen.
= Uh…
= It seems that there's no table this time.
= Is this above the clouds…?
The meeting room where both species revealed their cards looked far different from usual.
"Hmm…" As Coach Davis entered the room, he found himself standing on the clouds. The coach, his eyes trembling, slowly walked forward, worried he could fall at the slightest misstep.
Tap, tap—
'Fortunately, it seems these clouds can be stepped on…' The clouds didn't dissipate like smoke but instead supported his weight. Feeling relieved, Davis slowly walked until he saw a shadow being cast over him and looked up to see a red dragon that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.
= S-so that's a dragonkin…
= He's big… much bigger than the dragons we saw in the rehearsal!
Sure enough, the dragon was a few times bigger than the hatchlings they’d seen in the rehearsal, and Coach Davis finally understood why the room had changed to be above the clouds—the old room wouldn't have been able to accommodate such a huge being.
Swoosh—
When the red dragon's bright yellow eyes moved to look down at Coach Davis…
"Ugh…!" The coach subconsciously fell back and sat on the cloud. The dragon's gaze had no special power. Even if it did, Battle Net's mental protection would have blocked it.
'The dragon itself is frightening…' The mere act of being looked down on by such a huge creature made Coach Davis feel threatened.
- Why's Coach Davis so scared? Hahaha.
- If I were there, I would have peed my pants…
- Oh, he managed to stand up. Although his legs are shaking.
- Well, he has to pick the ban and priority cards.
The human coach managed to get up and grab the priority and ban cards that appeared before him. 'First, we need to scout them out.' They had no information on that dragonkin species, so he picked the most versatile ban card, which took three random players from between 1st and 10th place out of play.
'The priority card's going to be… Valhalla.' Among the human players, JiHan was in a class of his own, so the coach chose Valhalla, which was the most favorable map for him.
Flash—!
Startled by the sudden burst of light before him, Coach Davis stepped back. "Ah… It… it was the card." After the light disappeared, he saw the two cards the opponent had drawn.
The ban card flipped over first.
= The dragonkin has chosen the same ban card as Coach Davis. He's decided to ban three out of the top 10!
[3 players out of the ‘Top 10’ players of the 'Red-headed Dragonkin' will be banned.]
[Players ranked 1st, 3rd, and 5th have been banned and cannot participate in the first game.]
[3 players out of the ‘Top 10’ players of 'Humanity' will be banned.]
[Players ranked 3rd, 4th, and 7th have been banned and cannot participate in the first game.]
- Oh, Sung JiHan is still allowed!
- The top-ranked dragon was banned! Lol.
- The coach is definitely lucky with the cards this time.
Although both had chosen the same ban option, things went in humanity’s favor, and Coach Davis let out a sigh of relief when he saw JiHan, the 2nd-ranked human player, had made it through. 'Now, let’s hope the priority card works well…!' The Valhalla map being chosen was the best outcome he could hope for.
Swoosh—!
He watched as the opponent’s priority card flipped over.
= The opponent's priority card is… Ah, the Battlefield of Chaos! Wasn't this map used during the rehearsal?
= Yes. Back then, 10 species took turns competing, but it seems that this map can also be used one-on-one.
= It was quite advantageous for flying species. It seems that the dragons have chosen a map that complements their strengths!
Coach Davis smiled. 'JiHan showed a winning strategy on this map.' A game was considered a loss on the Battlefield of Chaos if less than 10% of the players remained, but JiHan had locked humanity's players inside the Ten Thousand Ghost Seal and negated the penalty.
'The best option would have been a Warrior map, but the Battlefield of Chaos isn't that bad.'
[The map for game 1 has been decided.]
[Map 1: Battlefield of Chaos]
As soon as he saw the chosen map, JiHan calmly thought, 'The first game is going to be hard.'
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The first game seemed to start well.
[A species adjustment will be applied.]
[50 humans will be summoned for each dragon.]
It was just like in the rehearsal, and 50 humans appeared for each dragon.
Flash! Flash—!
Humanity's team appeared all over the Battlefield of Chaos.
"Ah… Am I participating as well?"
"I thought I was just going to warm up the bench forever…"
All two thousand members of the representative team were summoned.
[All players on humanity’s Space League roster have been summoned.]
[3,000 more players are needed.]
[The remaining players will be summoned according to their ranking.]
Even players who hadn't been chosen as representatives started to appear.
"Oh. I was watching TV, and now I'm participating!"
"It was also like this against the urks… It seems that there are a lot of opportunities to participate!"
"Good!"
Although the players who weren't among the top 2,000 were happy to get a chance to participate, the commentators sounded stressed.
= Huh… If 5,000 human players were summoned… does this mean there are 100 dragons?
= That's right! On top of that, unlike during the rehearsal, humanity's players are scattered all over! They've been distributed in groups of 500 across many regions!
= Ah. Unlike the rehearsal, the condition for defeat is if the survivors fall below 20%…!
It looked like the game would be harder than they thought.
- So it ends if the number of survivors drops below 1,000?
- Ah, with everyone being distributed like that, JiHan won't be able to lock players away like the last time.
- Yeah. During the rehearsal, he trapped the players and carried everyone by himself…
- These players were chosen as humanity's representatives. I don't think they will be baggage for JiHan.
JiHan’s teammates during the rehearsal had been fairly low-level, but those he was participating with in the Space League were among the strongest players humanity had to offer. It wasn’t just the viewers who thought that way, either.
"Inventory." As soon as he appeared on the Battlefield of Chaos, JiHan took a sword from his inventory and was about to use the Ten Thousand Ghost Seal.
At that moment, Baron, who'd been watching from the side, said, “JiHan… You're not planning to lock us down like you did in the rehearsal, right?"
"Yes, I'm going to do that. Why do you ask?"
"No! Don't do that!" He quickly stopped him. "We're humanity's representatives! We aren't baggage like during the rehearsal! We can stand against the dragons!"
"At least a thousand players need to be saved,” JiHan said. “You saw the defeat conditions, didn't you?"
"We just have to kill 30 of them before four thousand of us fall, right? Why do you think we're going to lose without even trying first? We're humanity's strongest!"
JiHan sighed. He’d been wondering why the bastard wasn’t trolling lately and took a look around.
"Right… Why can't we fight the dragons?" one of the other players asked.
"If not now, when will I become a dragon slayer?"
"Last time, the participating players were Platinum. That's why they were pushed back!"
It looked like most agreed with Baron. They’d been chosen to represent humanity, so they didn’t want to just get locked away and sit there.
"Inventory." When he saw their reaction, JiHan put his sword away. He could have ignored their objections and used the Ten Thousand Ghost Seal like a dictator. 'If I did that, then we’d still lose if even a few managed to escape, so I might as well let them experience it.'
The chances of beating the dragons on the map were already slim, but JiHan decided it’d be worth it to give the other players a taste of reality. "Okay, do your best," he said.
"Oh, good! I'm going to use my grand magic right away…! Where are those dragon bastards?!" Baron excitedly asked.
"Forget about grand magic or whatever. You’ll have to block that first," JiHan said as he pointed upward.
"What…?" Baron’s eyes filled with horror when he saw the massive wave of fire that seemed to be engulfing the sky.
“A breath attack is coming this way!” someone yelled.
"A-Absolute Shield…!"
Baron and the other players hurriedly tried to use defensive magic, but the fiery breath swept most of them away anyway.
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