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  The camp was divided and led by several of their Generals, but there was also another smaller se where one could register, led by a single, green-skinned woman with short, spiky red hair. She looked rather bored, looking around while closing her arms and sighing. It seemed she had been here for a while, but why wasn’t she in her own fa?

  She mostly wore silver armor around some of her body parts, but her body was so big she didn’t have enough armor to cover it entirely, and there were also red tattoos across her green skin. Her emerald eyes were rare amongst orcs, who mostly had all red eyes.

  “So this is where we register for any fa we want?” wondered Peperina. “How plicated… So we really o choose who we kill?”

  “It is a tough choice, yes, but it’s not like it should matter,” I said. “I will ge things for the better now, but for now, it would be preferable if we pyed around. I need a way to provoke that god.”

  “Provoke?” wondered Urbosa. “I thought you could simply go and hunt him down.”

  “The faster, the better, no?” Merkite asked.

  "Yes, but I also don’t want them to just disappear; I must first show him that I will not py by his games, and I will ge things. And I need him alive for that,” I said. “Also, nothing is saying he’s not waiting for me with anods for an ambush, right? It’s always better to let them e to me, or at least to let them react to what I’m doing. I also o learn more about them if possible.”

  “F-Fair enough, sorry f to hurry you up,” Urbosa sighed.

  “It’s fine, honey; don’t worry! I know you’re quite nervous, but we have to do things right as well,” I said. “Ah here is quite crucial in that endeavht? Because once God is dead, what do you think will happen to this world? There o be a new one; we’ll have to find it. Or make it.”

  “Make it…?” Urbosa wondered.

  “Maybe she’s really pnning something great; let’s trust her!” Peperina smiled. “I am w if we could hunt down monsters here at least. And is the food good? Especially the food! I am a blogger, you see, and I like vlogging about the food I find and giving reviews to restaurants.”

  “Oh, is that so?” Urbosa wondered; she only seemed mildly ied at best.

  Seth looked at me as he spoke.

  “That womahere is hosting for something called “personal fas." They are never hosted anyway, but you pay huge sums of credits to make your own fa and try to screw everyone else over; it never actually happens though,” said Seth. “You don’t get any special be from making your own fa either, and you even have to host recruiting new members. But if you happen to win, you get big rewards. A lot of War Game Points too.”

  “Iing! Just what I wanted.”

  I walked towards the orc dy as the wind made my long silver hair wave by. She quickly looked at me, her eyes widening for a sed, perhaps surprised by my bright appearance.

  “Excuse me, are you hosting personal fa registrations?” I asked her. “I would like tister myself and my group as a personal fa.”

  “Wait, you are?!” she muttered. “I am the General assigo the personal fas; usually only one is allowed per War Game, but it has been years sinybody has ever chosen to make one... You’re a beautiful woman; why are you here, ied in waging war and bloodshed? You would do much better in the lower floors or the smaller worlds."

  “I am quite fttered that you’ve called me beautiful, but my appearance has nothing to do with my strength,” I said. “I’ve been mostly repressing all of my power, so I don’t scare people, to the point where I only look like a slightly fshy woman at most. heless, must I show a slight amount of my power for you to believe me?”

  “Heh, you’re bold,” she smiled, showing me her sharp teeth. “It is a requirement after all! To host a fa, you actually o defeat me in a battle. The War Games will start within four hours. People are all getting ready, and there are big armies too. Do you think you beat me, pay the fee, and find enough people to form the fa? You require a minimum of fifty, you know?”

  “Easy to find!” I said. “Now, let’s begin. Where shall we spar? Um, what’s your name, dear?”

  “Dear?! Hahah! Are you sure yoing to flirt with an ugly oran like me?” she ughed. “You have weird tastes... But my name is Mursha Bloodfang! I am the st surviving member of the once glorious Bloodfang Tribe, now defeated and sughtered by the wicked Cult of the Barbarian God. It is a pity that the monster cursed me with being the general of a fa that does . Only to mock my honor even more and humiliate me as a warrior. What’s your story, human woman?”

  As she introduced herself, she led me to the arena in the middle of the camp. Some people were gathering to see the se, and my group panicked slightly when I told them I was fighting this dy.

  “I am a normal human that was born in the small and weak world of Earth; I was teleported into the world of Murim, where I had to fight and survive for eleven thousand years,” I said. “After ing bad seeing the state of things with the Tower, I’ve decided that my world must not be subject to the whims of the gods. I decided to climb the tower and kill all those wicked gods, freeing my world and all those involved.”

  “Oh? Hahaha!” Mursha ughed. “What sort of story is that? Are you seriously saying you’re eleven thousand years old?! As if!”

  She uhed a huge bck axe, pointing at me with her rge frame. I could only look up to her because she was quite tall—taller than me. Her big, muscur arms were sweatih the bright sun of Elios, and her entire body was just too much of an eye dy for me to not look at it quite intensively. She was a beautiful woman; I ’t believe she would call herself ugly!

  “Well, perhaps you’ll believe me once I show you eleven thousand years old worth of strength.” I asked her, uhing my Yin and Yang swords. “Go all-out from the start, Mursha; do not hold baor look down on me, or you will regret it.”

  As I provoked her, she took the bait, her emerald eyes shining bright red as her Aura of Mana surged from her body, her muscles suddenly giving a metallic sheen, and her aura became bright red.

  “Was that a provocation? Because it worked really well!” she ughed. “I’ll show you the true Martial Arts of the Bloodfang Tribe, acy! I won’t let anybody mock it anymore! I shall regain its honor by defeating you loud-mouthed woman!”

  As she roared, the people started enting, giving me more insight about her.

  “Mursha’s at it again!”

  “Is she going to beat another newbie who thinks they form a fa? Hahah!”

  “Well, she always crushed their dreams, but rarely likes to kill.”

  “She’s too soft of a woman!”

  “She values life too much.”

  “Well, she was cursed with this position, so it's her duty to take any newbie dow’s see how she hahis strange human.”

  “Let’s begin then!” I said. “e at me, Mursha. I shall receive any attack from you once, without defending or blog.”

  “You’re insane, hahaha! Okay, then, DIE!”

  RUMBLE!

  Her Blood-colored Aura surged, resembling a giant demon emerging from her body, which then fused into her skin. Her red tattoos fred, glowing brightly and resembling fmes expanding through her body.

  Her fangs became bright red, resembling rubies, and her eyes turned pletely crimson too, all while her short, spiky hair became long and wild, resembling the tail of a beast.

  Incredible, yet aeique from another world!

  The Tower surely ops to disappoint.

  CLASH!

  Her axe struck me down with a single, powerful strike. She didn’t aim for my head, however, but for my left shoulder.

  They were right; as brutal as she might seem, she never aims to kill; at most, she’s aiming to leave me without an arm.

  BOOOM!

  An explosion of crimson fmes made out of her own Aura surged, engulfing me whole at the same time. The entire se was covered by red smoke, only for it to dissipate with a y hands.

  “She surely died!”

  “Or at least lost a limb, definitely!”

  “She doesn’t kill, but yeah, she often leaves newbies without limbs, hahaha!”

  However, despite the words of the public, the se seemed much different. Mursha’s eyes opened wide as she realized her axe had not mao pierce through my robes, and I hadn’t even moved from my inal position.

  “W-What?!” she muttered. “What sort of robes? Wait! You didn’t even take a step back?! What’s your level?!”

  “Ohousand and two hundred,” I answered, my sword moving towards her.

  “What?! I’m level 2500! I shouldn’t be struggling against a novice like you-”

  Before she could say anything else, she quickly stepped back as my sword moved towards her, sshing through the air, and unleashing a wave of pure gold and bck light.

  SLAAASH!

  “Shit…!”

  She tried to block the attack, but it was too powerful. Trying to unleash her stroeique again, two auras of gold, bck, and red cshed against one another.

  BOOOM!

  “Ugh… Cough!”

  Mursha coughed blood as she was thrown into the floor, the explosion of light and darkness burning through her body as she was covered by several cutting wounds.

  The audience gasped in disbelief as I slowly made my way towards her.

  “Mursha! I told you that if you don’t aim to kill me... Yoing tret it.”

  “Shit!”

  She quickly stood back again, her Blood Aura somehow growing bigger and strohe more blood she lost. While gasping for air, her fury tinued growing and rising.

  “GRRHH…!” She groaned like a beast. “GRAAAAH!”

  With a furious roar, she charged forward, stepping forward and charging towards me like a wild boar. Her enormous axe moved down towards me as I quickly attempted to block it.

  CLASH!

  However, she smiled, her movements being suddenly incredibly fast as the axe quickly slid through my sword and moved to hit me from the left side.

  “Oh?!”

  CLASH!

  She mao push me like four or five meters. I was shocked that Mursha had such teiques and deceived me into thinking she would just charge wildly. She’s actually quite skilled!

  Before I could move, Mursha was already over me, her beastly red aura f into the shape of a ferocious creature, a mix between a lion, a wolf, and a red-skinned demon.

  “RAAAH!”

  She swung her axe several times, lifting it up each time she struck. Her physical power was so high that a huge axe could be lifted over and ain.

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  “Impressive! Very impressive!”

  However, this time she wasn’t taking me by surprise anymore. Using my sword, I blocked and then parried her blows, pushing her away as I unleashed a bright, dashing series of blinding strikes.

  SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

  “UGH?!”

  Mursha groaned in pain as she was covered in tless slig wounds once more. Her blood, however, tio empower her aura, as it was burning like crimson fmes.

  Her strength tio grow despite all her wounds. What an incredible teique! She sacrificed her own life; the more wounded she became, the stronger she became.

  Is this why she didn’t cover her body with armor that much then?

  “Ahah… HAHAHAHA!”

  She ughed wickedly, pletely possessed by the power of her teique. Her Aura reinforced her muscles and size, suddenly making her a whole meter taller.

  Her axe absorbed her prowing rger too.

  “Oh my, aren’t you full of surprises?”

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  Pach