[CH399+ Continued] Dungeon Diver: Stealing A Monster's Power

Chapter 544

All of the matches in the first round finish before the hour is up.

The rankings get closer to even as the matches go on, so many of the final battles are evenly matched and take up the entirety of the 2-minute timer.

Once the 33 vs. 34 match comes to an end with 33 winning in the last 10 seconds, the leaderboard screen shows up projected on the top of the blue mana dome.

There are 33 applicants left, so the scoreboard shifts and creates a brand new matchup between the two lowest-ranked fighters. Rodrigo announces a final match to finish round 1.

This is between fighter 33, who just won, and the fighter ranked 32.

There were 66 applicants at the start of this trial, meaning in the second round there are 33 left.

If the event organizers were to just allow 1 applicant to move on without fighting because of the odd number of matches, round 3 would be filled with 17 fighters, making there an odd number continuously.

The best way to make things fair is to have an extra elimination match this round.

The match is close, but fighter 32 wins in the last 20 seconds of their long brawl.

He walks back to his room, and the final matchups for the second round begin to shape up.

All the fighters that defeated hunters at a higher rank than their own had their rank changed in real time.

The most noticeable shift is that Phantom Region fighter who was in the high 40s last round but moved up to slot 27 in just a single victory.

Those that lost to fighters with lower ranks than them fall in rating too.

The next round's matchups move around to make some of the matches far more fair.

It's not only low vs. high this time around; it looks as if someone is pulling the strings to create exciting matchups for this event.

Once the rounds start, this rank movement becomes far more apparent.

One of the first matches in this event is Ember against an Apex Region applicant ranked number 4.

He puts on quite the fight, battling against an extreme wind magic user over level 680.

Wind blades and fireballs fill the dome, but after a full minute of battling back and forth, Ember squeezes out a victory.

His speed and power during this event reached peaks equivalent to the highest skill we showed off during the simulation trials.

With mana control and speed peaking around that of a 750-800 hunter, the match finishes with Emrie Carter being announced as the winner.

The Apex Region's applicant falls down 1 slot in the ranking, hitting position 5, and in turn moving me up to the 4th slot without even taking part in the fight.

Ember moves up two rankings for his victory, hitting the 7th slot while there are loud claps and cheers coming from the Bedrock Region as he walks back into his room.

Dane is matched up against a similarly strengthened opponent as he fought in the previous round, defeating fighter number 31 in under 15 seconds.

Marcie also has an easy time taking out number 22 in her match, finishing the round in 4 solid blows without being struck even once.

Natalie's picture matches up with a hunter ranked 28 from the Raya Region.

It seems like many of these matches are far more fair than the earlier round one matchups. As insurance during her fight, I still use my ranked-up buff to share 5% of my base stats but lower the mana control I share down to 0.25%.