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"....How gruesome."
"I knew the tutorial was difficult... but this...!! This is too much!!"
"I'd rather bite my tongue and die than get eaten and die like that..."
The people who were inside the safe zone after it shrank said, looking at those who were bombarded and killed by the girth worms.
Currently, the average level of people in the tutorial is two or three, due to killing a few zombies during the first trial. So for them, a level 10 monster is like their worst nightmare.
"Everyone shut up!!!!!!!" A blonde-haired guy, inside the safe zone shouted at everyone.
After getting everyone's attention, he continued.
"From this point onwards... we're going to choose who will die, or to be specific, who will be thrown out of the safe zone before every shrinking."
As he said this, a couple of people who were part of his group stood behind him and started glaring at everyone as if showing the hierarchy.
'If this goes on, I might get thrown out when the dome throws people out randomly, and I don't want to die. I will throw someone else, and with my gang, I can easily make all of them submit. This will ensure my survival,' the boy who just shouted at everyone thought to himself.
So he walked towards a skinny guy present there and pulled him up in the air by his collar.
"W-what are you doing...?!"
"Are you crazy..!!" people said after seeing his actions, but he didn't respond to anyone and directly threw the guy outside.
"Ahhhh...!!"
The worms, as if they were waiting for the meal, caught the boy in the air and directly gulped him down fully.
"Wh-what have you done..!!"
"How could you?"
"Didn't I just tell everyone, that we'll decide who will live and who will die?"
This scared everyone. Though they felt sad for the skinny guy, they didn't want to die like that. Soon everyone submitted to him.
'Now, that's how you should behave.' A grin soon formed on the guy's face after seeing the situation.
.....
"Kweeek!!" The worm screeched, as Arya bisected it into two parts.
The underground area where Arya was currently was littered with many dead girth worms.
When Arya reached the first underground level of the subway, he found many girth worms, which he killed and leveled up once.
'I am at level 10 now, but I plan to reach level 20 before the trial ends. I have around eight more hours left until the tutorial ends as one hour is already over from the total nine.'
Arya remembers that in his previous life, the second tutorial trial lasted nine hours.
So he created his plans accordingly.
"My perception stat is high enough, and with my experience from my past life, I can roughly estimate the general location of the monsters."
Arya then closed his eyes and focused on the highest concentration of magic power and the vibrations the girth worms produce while moving.
.....shhh...
.....kssss...
...kksss....
"....That way..!" Arya pointed towards the north, where he just sensed the monsters or the high concentration of magic power.
After knowing the possible location of the nest, Arya started walking north.
As he walked, he faced many more girth worms along the way, which was good for him as they were delivering themselves to him.
'...Now..!!' Arya jumped, and in the place he was just standing, a girth worm popped out.
"Kweeeeeeeek" Arya didn't wait long and directly attacked the monster, killing it in just two slashes.
At first, when he was near the entrance, the monsters were just attacking him directly. But now that he was deeper inside the subway area, many girth worms dug into the ground, so people wouldn't be able to see them until they unbarrowed themselves to attack.
But as Arya was fully alert and with his heightened perception, he was able to feel their presence and was ready to counterattack.
Arya didn't wait long and continued his journey. After killing a few more monsters, he leveled up again and received 5 more free stat points.
As Arya was walking north, he soon stumbled upon stairs that led downward.
"Is this where the nest of girth worms is..?!"
Arya questioned himself as he was able to feel many presences underground where the stairs were leading, so he decided to head there.
But before going down, he decided to distribute the stat points he had, distributing them equally among the five stats.
As soon as he reached the underground floor, a new window popped up in front of him.
[Hidden Dungeon Discovered.
You have discovered the hidden dungeon, 'Girth Nest'.
You obtained 100 points.]
'Bingo.'
When he looked at the hidden dungeon from the upper floor, he couldn't see anything as it was very dark, but now he was inside the dungeon, it wasn't dark anymore.
'Since I've found their nest, all I have to do is hunt them.
Let's level up to twenty now...!'
Arya thought while looking at the dozens of girth worms in front of him.
"..Come to me, my precious experience points."
"Kweeeek."
"Kweeeek."
The worms screeched towards Arya and moved to attack him together.
But Arya was at least twice as strong as them in terms of stats, so he moved at such a speed that they couldn't even follow him.
*Slash*
*Slash*
Arya slashed up, down, left, and right in every possible way, as the nest was filled with these worms.
He killed, killed, and killed non-stop until there were no more worms left, only their cold corpses bisected into parts and their green-bluish blood stains remained.
[You've leveled up.]
'..huh..!! This is fast, and I am just at the entrance of the dungeon...!! Maybe I will even exceed my expectations and reach above level 20.'
After finishing off those girth worms, Arya started to further explore the area.
Though it was the nest of the worms, the place was a subway, and Arya was able to maneuver easily. He found many broken structures and empty shops.
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