Adam activated [KEEN SIGHT] and looked around.
Nobody was near him in a 100-meter radius.
He already knew what had happened even before the system window popped up.
|| DUE TO THE HOST'S BAD LUCK HE ENDED UP SPAWNING IN A CORNER OF THE MAP WITH NO PARTICIPANTS NEARBY. ||
An utterly idiotic turn of events.
This put Adam at a severe disadvantage since he couldn't fight anyone to move up the ranks in the first place.
However, this bad luck meant nothing to Adam right now.
With the underdog bonus, his total agility was now capped at 3000.
There was nobody in this arena who could match his speed now.
Along with 220 strength 5600 char and 1000 mind stats.
His total mana pool had now increased to a total of 1100 mana due to his mana stat increasing to 110.
Nobody in this entire arena could do enough damage to kill him with his whopping 1250 vitality stat.
In the early game, he would be undefeated, and these buffs would become meaningless in the endgame however as his stats got better, so did his bad luck.
-900 luck.
It was such an absurd number for a stat that was capped at 100 on both sides of the integer spectrum.
It was almost as if all of this was pre-planned by some higher being.
|| DUE TO THE HOST'S BAD LUCK, WHICH IS NOW SO BAD THAT ITS IMPOSSIBLE IN THE MULTIVERSE TO HAVE LUCK THIS BAD, NOW THE EFFECTS OF THE UNDERDOG CAN GO BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF CAUSALITY. ||
The good news was short-lived, however.
||DUE TO THE HOST'S BAD LUCK, INVISIBLE BANANA PEELS WILL SPAWN EVERYWHERE TO MAKE HIM SLIP. ||
This had to be the greatest debuff known to man.
Combat stats and combat prowess are meaningless if you keep slipping on banana peels while fighting.
As soon as Adam took his first step he stepped on a banana peel, but with the added momentum of his incredible agility stat, it instead turned into a snow sled on the grass as he slid through the arena searching for participants.
As he made is way through the forest slipping on another banana peel every 5 steps he started to get used to the invisible banana peels.
Now he was able to turn the slip into a back flip every time he slipped on a banana peel all thanks to the martial book he got from the beggar in Brahken.
As he made his way through the forest he looked up towards the leaderboard, Jake was already at rank 1.
It hadn't even been 5 minutes since the event had started.
After another 2 minutes, Yaketsuku had taken the lead.
Adam still hadn't found anyone in the forest to kill.
Finally, he found a poor chap with a sword in his hand.
As soon as he saw Adam approaching him he readied his sword and charged in Adam's direction.
All of a sudden, Adam vanished right in front of him.
The last thing he remembered before he lost consciousness was that he felt a blow to the head.
Adam's first opponent had collapsed without much resistance.
How did this happen?
All Adam did was utilize [FORGOTTEN MARTIAL ARTS] with [OSCILLATOR] and the enemy was down in one blow.
It wasn't that Adam's hit was strong, it was just that falling asleep counts as falling unconscious which in turn counts as being knocked out.
Adam rushed on, with one person after another falling to a kick to the head, a punch into the stomach, or a sudden kick to the chin that took place during a black flip, more and more people started to pay attention to Adam's fights as he climbed the leaderboard swiftly.
The announcers took notice as well.
" Ladies and gentlemen it seems we have a new contender in the top rankings and it's none other than... what? Wait no way this is real right?..."
As the female announcer looked at the records of the student in question, she felt a sense of disbelief.
"The student's name is Adam Alastair Dacre. But... his potential is trash, how is this possible? "
The camera now moved towards Adam as he rushed towards another opponent with great agility.
He then performed a tackle on the opponent, causing her to fall onto the ground but before she could even recover or comprehend what had happened in a matter of milliseconds, she was put out of her misery with a drop kick to the head before she could even get up.
Seeing this the announcer lost her composure.
"Ladies and gentlemen, did you just see what happened? This contestant is so quick and strong it doesn't take him more than a single blow to render his opponent unconscious! We wouldn't even be able to see what had happened if we didn't place the footage in slow motion! The craziest part is that he isn't even using any armour or weapons! "
While the female announcer was going on and on with her commentary on the feat Adam had accomplished, Adam looked towards the floating camera, his expression stoic and nonchalant as if he hadn't even broken a sweat yet, he then gestured with his brows he stared into the camera as if he was asking the audience if they were enjoying the show.
The women in the crowd erupted into a frenzy, the female announcer lost it as well.
"Kyaahhhh! He is so good-looking! It's a shame his potential is so bad but I think he will be just fine with an affluent woman like me as his partner... I would take care of all his needs~ "
Watching his colleague spiral on the mic, the male announcer intervened.
"Ahem- ahem! Let's talk about the technique in play. It seems our contestant is using a hand-to-hand combat technique, probably from the Eastern dynasty. I'm curious to know who his teacher was since I have never seen such a versatile martial art anywhere except for the martial dojos of the elite families in the dynasty. "
The crowd went wild as they discussed the footage on display.
One guy said," Why does he look so good? Who do I look so much worse than him? Why is life so unfair?"
Replying to this statement, his younger yet wiser brother said, "Brother you just lost at the lottery of life. Next time pull better."
He was telling his older brother to off himself and try again.
The women in the audience had completely different reactions.
"Oh my god! Oh my god! Why can't I be 20 years younger and be in the academy with him? He looks so cute!"
Her sister replied, "Sis, this is the 78th young guy you have said this about just this week, pace yourself, or else the authorities might come for you."
"What do you mean the authorities might come for me? You know he is already legal age right?"
Siblings... truly a lovely existence.
Adam rushed towards his next prey but as he ran, all of a sudden, a flying sword grazed past his cheek, the surprise rendered him unable to dodge the sword properly and now he was bleeding from his cheek.
The flying sword then went on to move back into the hilt of the guy right in front of Adam who was the owner of the sword.
Looking at Adam with a smug face he said,
"Heh look at you, that pretty face of yours looks like it has taken quite the beating."
Adam didn't seem to care about the bleeding cheek.
In fact, by the time Adam started talking, the bleeding had already stopped and the cut had started to heal.
"How are you able to use the sword like that? Telekinesis?"
"Teleki- what? I don't know what that means, where I'm from it's normal for us to be able to control swords through our intent after we reach a certain level."
"Intent? The f*ck is that?"
"What? You don't know about intent? Did our sword saints beat your sword masters so badly that you removed all the bad shameful memories from your head?"
Adam couldn't tell whether the guy in front of him was pulling his leg or not.
Intent was something he had never heard of until he got it as a stat in the system window.
While the 2 men were butting heads trying to insult each other's country, all of a sudden, Adam saw the guy in front of him have his neck cleanly cut off from the rest of his body.
This was all being shown to the entire world as this participant with purple eyes and white hair was the most entertaining for the audience.
As the easter man's head fell to the floor along with his body and turned into nothing but pixels that vanished into thin air, he now saw the source of that slash that killed the easterner in front of him.
It was none other than that nervous and shy kid that he stood behind in the auditorium as the principal gave his speech.
Seemingly though, he didn't seem as nervous as he was back then.
He stood in a solid sword stance with a singular long-ranged saber in his right hand as he looked at Adam with deadly eyes.
The shyness and the nervousness were nowhere to be seen, almost as if he was a completely different person.
"I truly despise noblemen like you." Said the kid in a serious tone.
"Oh really? And why is that?"
"It's because you care not of the result of your actions and how it affects the people around you, you are self-serving and blind to the suffering of others."
Unable to understand why the kid was acting so hostile, Adam replied the way he always did whenever someone threw baseless accusations at him in his past life.
"You make a really good case and your statements are all factually correct, but here is the question... who asked???"
The kid stared daggers at Adam while the audience laughed at the exchange. He wasn't actually a kid, he was the same age as Adam. However, he was quite short.
He looked at Adam with disbelief thinking about how little care the man in front of him had for his words.
"I knew a pompous nobleman like you couldn't be reasoned with. Well then, farewell!"
With that shout, Zimo rushed with his sword stabbing into where Adam's stomach was but Adam had already dodged to the side.
His sword was too slow to hit Adam, Zimo hadn't realized it yet.
Adam found the kid interesting. The kid wasn't too pleasing to the eyes, for some reason he had a bald head with a small knot of hair on his head, it's like he was screaming that he knew nothing about the current fashion trends.
Adam didn't use the Oscillator and instead chose to prolong this fight as he wanted to figure something out.
Right after dodging to the side, Adam swiftly delivered a kick to the side of Zimo's stomach while his hands rested in his pocket.
The blow to the stomach didn't do much damage but it did knock Zimo back, further away from Adam.
Adam wasn't taking this fight seriously at all yet, he wanted to test the kid in front of him.
Zimo quickly regained his footing and charged again, this time, the wind seemed to move along with his body as a thin layer of aura seemed to generate around him.
'So this is a qi user?'
Zimo got faster and faster with every consecutive strike at Adam, all of which, Adam kept on dodging.
Zimo's speed had now advanced to the 300 threshold which would have given Jake a run for his money if they had to fight one another, currently, however, his opponent was Adam.
Winning was impossible.
Adam delivered another kick, this time on Zimo's chest. The force wasn't strong enough to push Zimo back this time since Zimo had gotten stronger as he was utilizing his qi.
Adam chose to continue his battle of attrition with Zimo until Zimo was too tired to constantly circulate qi through his entire body.
Soon enough, that time had come.
Zimo was now heavily panting and his grip on his sword was much looser.
Feeling the sense of defeat slowly creep in, Zimo said, "Why? Why can't I hit you?"
Adam didn't choose to belittle the kid in front of him again and answered seriously.
"It's a difference in speed, I am simply stronger than you in many physical aspects. Your refined techniques cannot break a wall if they can't touch the wall in the first place."
After saying this, Adam rushed towards Zimo with great speed delivering another kick to Zimo's chest, this time, Zimo fell to the ground laying as his breath got heavier due to tiredness.
Adam put his foot on Zimo's chest as he lay on the ground.
Looking down at Zimo's eyes as he stood on top of Zimo with one foot on his body, Adam said," There is one thing I will say about you, your technique was unrefined and sloppy, your sword art was basic and predictable and you seem to only know the basics of utilizing internal energy, it seems like you are sleeping taught and from a commoner family from the east, no wonder you're only at this level technically. But I will give you one thing, your endurance and tenacity are incredible."
Zimo was only half conscious listening to what Adam was saying.
The noble man had said many negative things about Zimo, yet his final compliment was quite heartfelt.
Zimo's aim in life was not to be looked down as just another piece of trash by the ones who were above him in status.
He believed that even though it was only a little, he managed to be recognized by this pompous self-serving nobleman in front of him.
"Hey kid, tell me your name."
"Zimo... Zimo Laos."
"Well then Little Zimo, I am Adam, we will meet again soon."
With that said, Adam slapped Zimo in the face unconscious with the help of the Oscillator.
Another battle endured, and once again he was victorious.
The excitement of the crowd was visible, the gods seemed to be enjoying the battles at display as well because their halo seemed to be glowing brighter.
Adam chose to walk slower through the forest since he believed he could now slow down since currently, he was already at a higher rank than Jake.
Adam was now only behind Yaketsuku in the rankings.
As he walked through the forest silhouettes of a group of people seemed to be walking towards him.
Soon, the group was quite visible and Adam was able to make out who they were.
Her bright red lustrous hair moved side to side with the same rhythm as the pace of her legs as she walked toward Adam.
Cassandra and her cronies were here.