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You defeated 7,082 players! You gained experience! Yuri reached level 38!
Yuri gained +7,082 event points!
“Whew! What a rush! Defeating monsters feels good, but there’s nothing quite like taking out other players!”
I wiped the sweat from my brow, exhilarated as I surveyed the smoldering wasteland around me. I’d just gained a boatload of event points and jumped 8 levels at the same time.
It’s a good thing Giganster joined us! I’d never have been able to kill enough players to make the UI bug out without him! I stopped Korin from getting away and roasted a ton of other players in the process! “Thanks, Giganster!”
“Grrgaah!” Giganster sounded like a puppy lapping up the attention. His undulating tentacles reached for me, but then he started to fade away. We’d reached the ten-second limit for giant monster summoning.
When my perch disappeared, I was left hurtling toward the ground.
“So, who’s up next?”
I was falling from a hundred meters up. Below me was molten rock full of players who’d been knocked off their feet by the blast wave, as well as other players who’d been left near death with broken armor by the Scorched Earth effect. They were all hopelessly confused by the unfolding situation.
I smiled ear to ear at the sight. “This looks like a good opportunity to level up my new companions!”
As I neared the ground, I conjured a summoning circle that the Vanishing Firebird boss monster burst out from. His monster type might have changed to Vanishing Firechirper when he’d dropped to level 1, but for a few moments, he would go back to being a proud boss monster.
“Piiiiwaaa!”
“You’re up, Chirpster!”
Although he couldn’t compare to Giganster, he was still a massive bird that dwarfed any player.
I landed safely on the soft red plumage of Chirpster’s back then headed straight for the Scorched Earth zone where numerous players lay near death. I had us fly directly over them, then I gave my cute steed a boost.
“No need to hold back, Chirpster! Arts activate: Hyper Magic Burst!”
“Piiiiwaaaaaaaaa!” Chirpster opened his wings wide and spread his tail feathers like a peacock as flames burst from his plumage. Thanks to my art, his magic was five times more potent than normal.
Chirpster glared at the prey lying beneath him, then with a ferocious squawk, he launched well over a hundred firebombs.
“F-Flames from the sky! Flames!”
“What hell has befallen us?!”
“First a dragonplant appears in the middle of town, now there’s a firebird?!”
Players were screaming once again. They’d been scrambling to recover from Giganster’s massacre beam, leaving them unable to react to Chirpster’s aerial bombing.
Flames rapidly engulfed the players below. Hundreds of them cried out at once as their lives abruptly ended.
“Nice, nice, nice! Let’s keep it up! They’ll learn to fear summoners!”
I flew Chirpster across the Scorched Earth zone and continued the bombing campaign as I conjured two more massive summoning circles. Out leaped the Goblin King and the Wolf King, both ready for action! With howls of joy, they plummeted down at the players below and began to attack!
“Gohbuuuuuuuh!” Gobster brought his club down on players as he hit the ground.
“Arrrrrrggghhh?!” Players who’d been desperately trying to escape the flames were instantly reduced to bloody stains in the dirt.
“Grrrr!”
“Wh-Wh-Wh-What’s a boss monster doing here?!”
There was no chance of escape as Wolfster nimbly caught up with the players fleeing from the Scorch Earth zone and lunged at them from behind. His level increased rapidly with each kill until even the fastest players had no chance of outrunning him.
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You defeated 877 players! You gained experience! Yuri reached level 40!
Yuri gained +877 event points!
You’ve reached level 40! The high summoner special art, Boundless Calamity Summon, is now available!
Special art, Boundless Calamity Summon: Costs 500 MP. Cooldown of 600 seconds. Instant cast. Gain the power to summon an unlimited number of monsters for 30 seconds.
“Oh ho! I get to summon an infinite number of monsters?!” Now that really is a special art!
I could only use it once every ten minutes, and the MP cost was ten times as high as arts like Hyper Power Burst, but it was just what I expected from a high-power spell—something so amazing it would use up all of my MP!
I drank a recovery potion to fully restore my MP while directing Chirpster toward the center of the plaza. Unsurprisingly, I found it packed full of players who’d been driven into the area by the flaming regions around it. They all looked worn out and pale in the face, and they weren’t even trying to fight each other, instead focusing on gulping down recovery potions.
I drew nearer and decided to offer them a few words of sympathy before my final attack. “Sorry, everyone. Victory in this first battle royale belongs to me and me alone.”
The players looked up in shock when they heard my voice. The sight of someone riding a boss monster filled them with confusion.
“Wh-Where’d the beautiful girl come from?!”
“How’s she riding a boss like it’s her pet?! Hold up... Is that a Beginner’s Bow?!”
“I-Is this part of the event?! Who are you supposed to be?!”
Some players were yelling at me, while others cowered in fear.
“She must be an event boss!” cried one.
“Are you the Demon Lord?!” another asked me.
Both had it all wrong. If anything, I was the hero.
“My name is Yuri. I’m playing as a summoner, using a bow, and running a pure luck build—the very choices you all believed were the weakest! And now...I’m about to obliterate every last one of you!” I raised my hands to the sky and activated my Boundless Calamity Summon.
The crimson sky above the town instantly filled with over a hundred summoning circles, out of which poured an overwhelming number of monsters! Wolves, goblins, firebirds, worms, and numerous other species that I’d encountered on my travels were raining down on the players!
“Grrr!”
“Gobgobgobuuuuh!”
“Piiiiiwaaaaa!”
“Pikwaaaawk!”
The air was filled with the monsters’ cries as they readied themselves for the onslaught.
The players bearing witness all cried out at once, “Wha...? What the heck is this?!” Shortly after, their dying screams echoed through the streets of Starting Town.
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