[You have learned a hidden passive: Endless Marathon]
[Endless Marathon]
Type: Passive
Info: Increases your maximum stamina permanently to 50 per level. Enhances the recovery of stamina to 5 stamina bar per second.
Note: Not even the crazy people will try this. You are already out of your mind.
After running for 30 minutes, I finally received the notification. The moment it appeared, I stopped running and lay down on the ground. Finally, I can rest and remove my debuffs completely. I didn't expect to be able to receive it since even though I am so close to the goal, I am also a sliver away from giving up. Good thing I didn't and persevered.
The effect of the passive is quite good. Players will always have the same maximum stamina in their stats from their creation until to their level-ups and it will not change values. However, the moment you obtain this passive, max stamina will immediately increase by 50 every level up.
For some players, stamina is not that useful aside from using various actions that will consume them. However, to me who already know, the importance of it needed it. It might not be that useful in early levels but it will be useful in future battles as stamina consumption will instead drain you down especially in raids. Since Sandurk will show the players the first taste of raids, this passive will show its strength.
After a few minutes of resting, I stood up and looked at my debuffs which has finally disappeared after their timers have gone down. I can hear the cascading flow of water not too far from my location which means the meeting area is just around the corner.
Following the sound of the water, I arrived at my destination where players who are interested in going to Sandurk first has arrived.
[Player has discovered The Falls of the End]
The majestic sight of the falls is quite something as it will never exist in the real world. This huge falls is from a floating island above the skies which is still inaccessible for now. However, due to this falls situated in the Battle of Re' takhat'ha where the demon, Re' takhat'ha fought to the death with an Archangel that ended up in a draw, due to their deaths, Their bodies have solidified in this place and has been seen as an attraction. Adding the falls, their dead bodies that didn't rot have already been undergoing the terraforming process which is now allowing monsters to live. Due to that, the place is now known as the [The Falls of the End] to keep the history alive.
Now, enough of that history talk. Currently, people are already bustling in this place and from the looks of it, everyone in here is rearing up to take one slot of the Pioneers. Of course, I am one of them.
Looking around, I saw many familiar faces and one of them is Harmless Sparrow. I don't plan to meet up with her for now, so let's just ignore her. I also spotted Kazuki in the crowd but since I don't want to garner attention with him which will allow him to remember me, I decided to just ignore him for now.
Dolly is also among the crowd of players and she spotted me first before I spotted her location, allowing her to call me preemptively.
"Hey! You idiot, I have been trying to contact you via chat but you didn't respond. What is going on and you can't even respond to one chat?"
I just remembered that before I started acquiring the passive, I mute and turned the chat to private, causing her messages to meet a wall. It's not intentional but that doesn't mean I am ignoring her.
"Ah, sorry. I didn't turn on the chat since I am doing something that needed my entire concentration dedicated to it to succeed."
Dolly looked unconvinced and raise her left eyebrow while staring daggers at me before she sighed and shrugged.
"Alright, I will accept your dull response for now. But since you are here, you will still know what I typed on my message so just listen instead. Maybe we should go and team up with each other during the selection. They will be selecting 15 people to become one of the title bearers right? Then that means we can freely team up to do this!"
"Are you sure about that? What if they decided to pick us to a sort of method that needed us to go on solo?"
"Then we will not attack each other and will help each other indirectly if that happens!"
I scratch my head at Dolly's confidence. If I have her confidence back then in the previous timeline, maybe I might have changed quite a bit of my destiny in a much earlier state. No wonder Dolly is one of the pioneers before because she is quite resourceful of her surroundings that even uses the others for mutual benefit.
While Dolly insisted on her plan, one figure approaches us and I was alarmed to see Harmless Sparrow on the way, walking elegantly. Unlike her previous armor when the game started she has already equipped quite good equipment for a player who has already challenged a few dungeons.
"I happen to hear your conversation and the topic got me interested! Can I join in?"
I knew it.
"Wah! Harmless Sparrow- sama! I am one of your fans! I can't believe a small-time player like me would get to see the chance to talk side by side with my idol!" Dolly activated her fangirl mode.
Harmless Sparrow looked at me and bowed a little bit before she started talking with Dolly. Fortunately, she seemed to have forgotten me since I faded out from the high rankers quickly, allowing my prestige and some of my famous achievements buried by others.
Based on her behavior in the past timeline, I predict that she will be tagging with us. If my assumption is correct, Harmless Sparrow might be Dolly's partner during the past timeline hence their success to acquire the title.
It took a few more minutes before Titania appeared in the middle of the place. The moment she appeared, everyone started getting giddy while some turned on the recording function of their cameras for streaming.
"[Welcome players from another world. I am Titania and I am in charge to determine the players who will gain the title of [Pioneers of Sandurk]. To everyone present, thank you for waiting. We will begin the selection. The process of selection will be Elimination. In short, you guys will have to kill each other until 15 people are left behind.