Chapter 29
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[<LIVE> God of Fighters /Chicken Fire Slap / Battle Royale / Warning: Getting Absolutely Crushed / Donations Highly Welcomed]
—Wait, did you mean the host is the one getting crushed, not the opponent?
—So I wasn't the only one who saw that wrong.
—LOL
—Interesting.
—To think the Chicken Lord would be pushed back... T_T
—Must be their first time in Battle Royale.
—Why aren't they buying weapons?
—[(HunterLoveCountryLove) donated 2,000 won: Sis, put points into your stats, buy potions, and get a new weapon! You keep getting crushed because your gear is trash T_T]
—Is it for real that they’re not dead even after all that?
—Maybe they’re training in Hell Mode on purpose before the tournament.
—As if.
I took refuge in the stairwell.
I immediately bought potions to refill my HP, which was on the verge of bottoming out.
I thought I’d gotten a bit used to it after playing Capture Battle, but the restrictions on potion usage in 1v1 Duels are so severe that I’d forgotten all about it in the meantime.
【This is why you have to play unfamiliar modes as much as possible. You don't learn new rules that easily.】
"You forgot too and didn't tell me."
【Ahem. Well.】
Outside the window was a high-rise abandoned building with an eerie atmosphere, blanketed in thick smog.
A battle was in full swing inside.
I knew how to buy potions and weapons, but the stats were the problem.
"Ggol-Ggap, recommend some stats."
【I’m not recommending anything if you call me that. Put 15 into Agility and dump the rest into Strength.】
Strength, Stamina, Intelligence, Agility.
Strength increases attack power, Stamina increases HP, Intelligence increases MP, and Agility increases speed.
—Put 10 in Agility and dump the rest in Strength, go!
—[(ChickenLicker) donated 2,000 won: Agility is the most important in Battle Royale, so get it to 15 and put the rest into Strength.]
—Who is Ggol-Ggap? Is that a Constellation?
—No way.
—Don't you usually ask Constellations for help with things you don't know?
—??
—My Constellation just slaps me.
—There’s a ranker who calls a Diamond-tier toxic Constellation "Ggol-Ggap"?
—D-damn.
—I’m curious about the Constellation's reaction.
—One of the main contents of GOF is the Constellation Dating Simulation, and they call them Ggol-Ggap???
—Wow, my Constellation is like a master to me.
—But even the foreigners know who the Chicken Lord is.
—They plastered the electronic billboards all over the world.
—They're really going hard on the criticism.
I’d been chased ever since a while ago.
It seemed like the foreign players who recognized my character from the billboards were targeting me specifically.
Since a 1v1 Duel ranker had suddenly appeared, they probably wanted to test their mettle against me.
"This damn popularity."
Who would have thought that having my character's face plastered on a billboard would lead to this?
—LOL
—Popularity that brings a gang-up.
—Real talk.
—So the Chicken Lord knows they're famous, too. LOL
—They couldn't possibly not know. LOL
—Korea’s Chicken Fire Slap is going global.
—They’re really chasing like crazy.
—It’s like a horror movie if you play horror background music.
Along with the donations from fans, a flat, mechanical voice rang out.
—[(HunterLoveCountryLove) donated 5,000 won: Sis, show them the power of Korean chicken!]
—[(ShutUpAndListenToMe) donated 1,000 won: 100,000 won if you win this round.]
It was hard to win since I’d chosen a room filled with such strong players.
"30,000 won if I lose? You're on."
—..?
—They’re asking for 30,000 won even if they lose. LOL
—I’ve felt it since last time, but this person is definitely good at squeezing out chicken money.
—Self-call. LOL
—[(SisIWantToSeeMyOwnMadness) donated 30,000 won: Sis I love you Sis I love you Sis I love you Sis I love you Sis I love you Sis I love you Sis I love you Sis I love you Sis I love you I love you so much I think I’m going crazy.]
—Wow, this actually works.
—Living up to the name.
—They already seem crazy.
I ran down the stairs as if flying, afraid someone might come, when an unintelligible foreign language boomed from above.
—What are they saying?
—They say they're a huge fan.
—?
—Fan: They’ve been chasing me with a sword and going hard on the attacks since a while ago.
—Is this horror?
—LOL
Two red dots appeared on the map that marked nearby players.
Two guys on the floor I was about to reach.
The red dots appeared once more.
This time, another guy from the floor below scrambled up quickly, and a total of four people rushed toward the stairs.
—???
—Is this for real?
—Wow, those crazy bastards;;
—Is this the end?
Ggol-Ggap floated the recommended Constellation skill in front of me.
As soon as the players saw me, they cast skills in succession, and it was like fireworks going off.
I touched the recommended skill and created a Constellation Area-of-Effect Skill: Abnormal Gravity Zone.
3 seconds.
*Boom, rumble—*
The space-time slowed down so instantly that even the sharp explosion sounds turned into thick, heavy thuds, and a gap to escape appeared.
The players rushing toward me struggled to retreat.
*Thud. Thud, thud.*
The skills exploded in slow motion.
The enemies who took those attacks head-on saw their HP drop rapidly.
I minimized the damage by dodging the overlapping attack ranges of the skills used by the opposing players as much as possible.
But I couldn't just let them go after using a Constellation skill.
Battle Royale is a mode where you can collect coins and stats every time you kill a player.
'Prey.'
As I dashed toward the new floor at the end of the stairs, I targeted one guy at the very edge of the gravity zone.
2 seconds.
Every player was as slow as if they were submerged in molten iron, but I was the exception.
*Bam—! Bam! Bam!*
A triple combo struck in an instant.
'This is it.'
Unlike before, when my HP would just drain away no matter how well I fought, my damage output returned to normal after I equipped the new weapon and allocated my stats.
1 second.
In the meantime, I consumed a health potion whose cooldown had finished, replenishing my HP that was dropping in real-time.
I slipped out.
The explosion that followed behind me wasn't the other players' skills, but the detonation of my own area-of-effect skill.
0 seconds.
*Flash, boom-boom-boom—!!*
—Huh?
—That actually worked??
—Wow... what did I just see...
—I believed in you, Chicken Sis T_T
—The gravity skill was insane.
—No, wow.
—Amazing.
—That’s insane.
—I can't believe all that happened in 3 seconds.
—They really are a ranker.
—GodChicken GodChicken GodChicken GodChicken GodChicken GodChicken GodChicken GodChicken GodChicken GodChicken GodChicken GodChicken GodChicken GodChicken GodChicken GodChicken GodChicken GodChicken
—Ah, I want chicken and beer.
—I tried to order chicken, but it's morning and nowhere is open, damn it.
—[(HunterLoveCountryLove) donated 20,000 won: Sis, eat some chicken after this round.]
—Chicken Lord, have you ever thought about opening a chicken shop? I think it would do well.
—Did you see the angle of the kick on the last guy? LOL They did a roundhouse kick from the side, not the front, so he couldn't bounce out of the zero gravity zone.
—They said they were getting crushed;; I love you.
—They're finally starting to adapt.
With two guys dead, I received a decent amount of money and experience.
I leveled up.
As I escaped the hell gate, I allocated my stats and bought various potions and a further upgraded weapon.
【The next skill is Incarnation.】
Ggol-Ggap tried to sneakily put the Possession skill into the recommended skills, but this wasn't the time for that.
"My practice comes first."
【Tch.】
They grumbled but seemed to accept it as they swapped the recommended skill.
I was here to prepare for the qualifiers, which were said to be held in a survival format most similar to Battle Royale.
It was right to practice the Constellation Possession skill only after the game patch.
Just then, a donation notification sound rang out.
—[(White Snow) donated 2,000,000 won.]
—Gasp.
—Two million won...
—Thank you, thank you, please donate a lot to our sis.
—That’s a huge success in funding, right?
—That’s the person who donated a million won from the Chicken Lord’s first broadcast.
—That’s insane.
—Didn't they play a game with Chicken-nim in the last broadcast?
—Yeah, that's right.
—Wow, that's ranker-level bus fare. D-damn.
—Even the Chicken Lord seems surprised.
I stopped running and looked at the chat window.
*Gulp.*
'That person really has a lot of money.'
I thought White Snow would stop after donating for a few days, but they consistently, faithfully, and repeatedly dropped millions of won.
It was proof that they were good at playing hard to get, but it was starting to feel like pressure.
'They want to see me in reality.'
But that was out of the question.
Just as I was about to firmly ignore it and move on, despite being shaken for a brief moment, White Snow threw another donation.
—[(White Snow) donated 10,000,000 won.]
—Wow, the class of a regular donor...
—The donation unit is always in the millions.
—??? That’s ten million won??
—Holy... m-my...
—Behind you, Chicken-nim!!!
—Behind, behind, behind!!!!
—Aaaahhh!
【What are you doing standing still!】
I realized the attacks were flooding in from behind and tried to move reflexively, but I couldn't.
It was a Binding Skill.
The moment I turned my head, I saw a shimmering ice-blue flash.
*Bam—!*
—No way.......
—??????
—No.
I had been dazed looking at the massive donation, and by the time I came to my senses, I was already dead.
【Well done.】
Ggol-Ggap mocked me, and the real-time chat window was noisy.
—They died to this.
—Oh, man;;
—Died because of the donation. LOL
—Give me back my emotion T_T
—I’d probably be the same if ten million won was donated suddenly, though....
—No, how do you lose to this?
—You were doing so well, why!!!
—[(asdf_1111) donated 10,000 won: You messed up at the end, but it was really fun. Please play Battle Royale in the next match too.]
—Foreigners LOL. They’re asking if the Chicken Lord lagged. LOL
—ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
—They definitely lagged. LOL
—They said they had a brain freeze after receiving the donation.
—Doesn't this mean they have to pay back the donation?
—Real talk. LOL
—[(White Snow) donated 5,000,000 won: I do not want a refund. Since you died because of me, I will donate an additional amount as an apology.]
—Five million won as an apology, damn...
—Wow, amazing.
—16 million won for one game, that was a good death.
—Agreed.
I felt numb.
'Crazy. I died while counting the zeros.'
I was so dumbfounded at how I could die in such a way that I just sat there, staring blankly at the game while dead.
It was a huge relief that this match wasn't the main tournament.
'......Should I meet them once?'
There was the fact that I’d been receiving consistent support from White Snow, but after receiving 16 million won in one game, it was the first time I’d had such a thought.
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