A Gamer's Bloody Revenge

Chapter 78

"Get ready contestants!! For the round will be starting in a minute!"

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I breathe in and compose myself.

The Map this time consists of a large rectangular dry barren land of rocky mountains. A harsh environment but perfect for a battlefield.

The large rectangular field with a width of about 150km to a length of 100km, is split into two separate symmetrical parts.

Each team will have each part as their "territory" and can choose where they place their base, they can then try to gather materials or use theirs to construct a defence, traps, etc.

It's not complicated at all.

"The Game will now begin!"

The badge activates and my body disappears.
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I open my eyes and cough as soon as I do. I breathe in the sand flying around in the air.

Damn... It's hot. I shade the sunlight with my hand. It feels like I'm in the Sahara desert or something.

"K-Karma?" Says Ika.

I look behind to find the girls. Aside from Sakura, the rest are already panting from the heat.

I stare at them as I catch my breath.

En composes herself and nods to the others.

"Everyone, I need your help to scout the area first and create a map. We will meet back at the cave in the rocky mountain over there in 5 hours." Says En, pointing at the south.

I look south and see a mountain, the shade is shown shallow and thin, it's probably around noon now.

I've been in the dark for so long in this stage, that it feels weird to meet the sun again.

"The sun... People in this stage call it a bad omen." Says Sakura, walking up to me.

"Why?" I ask.

"Well, it causes drought, famine and skin cancer, lots of things." Says Sakura.

"But... Sun is technically still important, right? Example, vitamin D, Photosynthesis."

Sakura shakes her head. "The moon in this stage is special. Different from the moon in your world. It emits even richer but safer ultraviolet rays. And the atmosphere is cooling all year round."

What the heck? Now I want to live in stage 5...

En starts distributing us to our respective areas. The enemy can't cross into our territory for the first 10 hours, it's like a preparation period before the actual fight.

Well, I do have the whole complete map with me but... I don't think I should tell them that, they will question it.

En distributes me to the south-west, I walk in that direction and take out the paper and pen. We need to make a map.

Walking for about an hour, I can finally see some mountains ahead. I sprint towards it and stare up before jumping up.

*BOOOM!*

The jump sounded like an explosion and I instantly reach the peak of the mountain.

Argh!! The sunlight!

I place my hand above my eyes and look towards my enemy territory.
With my enhanced eagle sight, I can see a few groups of NPCs resting under the shades of some rocks. Dalbir is nowhere to be seen.

A slight breeze blew past... It's so hot the breeze felt like heatwaves.

I check my inventory and luckily I have a sufficient amount of water. I take a bottle out and start gulping it down.