Pride Online

Chapter 216: Qualifying Round Part VI

“I’m Wisana. Nice to meet you.” The young man held his hand out to the other.

“Hi, nice to meet you.” And Vis shook hands with him nicely.

Then the two walked to the inside of the town together, with other players joining them along the way, making them know that these players were the winners from the qualifying round as well.

It did not take long before they arrived at the center of the town. And the place was the location of the tall tower named “Athenia”, the tower that got Wisana’s attention since the first time that he stepped foot in Dores. A moment later, they stopped walking after they saw a group of people sitting carefreely with the information windows showing in front of them.

“Those guys look so chill here, while we were in a death combat out there.”

The huge guy with the axe spoke up from behind Wisana, making him raise his eyebrows as he leaned closer to whisper to Vis right away.

“Who’re the guys sitting before us?”

“The aces who are the most expected to win.”

Hearing that, he made a sound like, “Oh.” out, starting to feel the huge bro behind him instantly. Well, they were literally in a death combat with those difficult monsters, but these top players did not have to take the qualifying round and just relaxed here while they were waiting.

A short moment after that, the winners from other blocks arrived, so Vis excused himself to go find his friend. And the one who just made a new friend regretted it a little that he did not get to know him more. But then, there was a rough hand of someone poking his back.

“Hey.”

“Shin!”

He shouted the other’s name out of extreme happiness!

“I see you passed the first round just fine, huh.” The Zero-Celsius man greeted. “I was expecting you would be more beaten up than this, but you did not even have a scratch.”

“Shut up.” Wisana gave him an annoying smile. “You can say that because you didn’t have to pass the qualifying round. It was tough too, you know? And this didn’t even include when other players tried to accidentally kill me, and how I had to snitch the monster kills from them, too.”

“You’re still the same guy who likes yelling nonsense, though.”

A sentence from the untalkative one was already enough to make Wisana turn his face away and make a clicking noise. He felt kind of displeased that Shin was still the type that was unbothered by anything like usual!

But after he paid attention to the surroundings, he then realized that other players around were looking at where they were standing in unison. ...Seeing that, the cheeky one forced up a nervous smile, before hurriedly turning back to poke Shin.

“Those guys are looking at you like they want to bite your head off. Shin, what did you even do to them?”

Hearing that, Shin glanced back at those players. He moved the corners of his lips up like a smile, before shaking his head slightly.

“Did you get something wrong? They’re not looking because they’re interested in me only, Vincent...”

“Huh?”

“Congratulations to all of you who have made it to the second round again.”

He did not say anything more to Shin because GM June shouted out in front of everyone, and this time, she had GM Anne walking with her in the rear.

“We were watching the excellent fight through the monitors, and we’re very happy to know that every one of you fought with your real skills without any tricks or cheating at all. And for this reason, we’re going to give you one hundred thousand coins as a reward for the first-round winners without any terms and conditions.

That was Rattana speaking up with her mature smile. And after listening to that, the first-round winners smiled broadly, while they were looking at each other happily.

“This makes you become a cheater even more, Shin.” Wisana turned to whisper to him.

“How...?”

“Well, you didn’t do anything and just got a hundred thousand.”

Shin made a sound out of his throat that sounded like a chuckle, before shaking his head slightly.

“I’m telling you that the hundred thousand I just got isn’t worth my effort in working so hard to collect the hunting points until I become an ace like this. And I’m not speaking for myself only, I’m speaking for those top ten aces as well.”

Hearing that, Wisana snorted out loud, before turning his face away...

“So, I’m giving you half an hour to rest. After that, I’ll be back again to explain the rules for the next round at 9 o’clock.”

Rattana already started walking away, but GM June was still standing in the same spot. Even though the senior GM turned back to give her a look that implied she should hurry and follow her back now, the pink-haired girl just smiled widely in return and nodded, implying she would be back by herself later. Seeing that, the older one shook her head slightly, before walking out of the players’ sight.

After the senior GM was gone, GM June hurriedly ran to a player who barely looked at her because he was busy talking to his friend. After he saw the pretty GM standing next to him, he paused right away.

“Yes?”

“You’re Wisana, aren’t you?”

The one who was questioned raised his eyebrows a little, before nodding in agreement, thinking that this girl knew his name because of her GM position for sure.

“Yes, that’s me. What’s going on? Did I do something wrong?” Wisana asked.

“Well, I’ve come to tell you that you got the highest score in the first round, so I wanted to congratulate you.”

“The highest score? Me?” The one who was not sure he heard it right pointed a finger to himself, before glancing at Shin confusedly. And the Zero-Celsius man just nodded to confirm her words, making the round’s first winner force up a wry smile.

“Then, thank you so much. It was just a fluke.”

He said, scratching his head.

“No, it wasn’t.”

Then she smiled sweetly. Her beautiful eyes looked dreamy somehow.

“I was watching all the time earlier. You’re the coolest, calm, and attractive as well.”

The one who was complimented continuously caught eyes with his friend. Wisana started getting confused. He had no idea what this GM was trying to do. Okay, he had to admit she was one of the prettiest girls, but he thought that this girl was a bit nuts as well.

“Do you have anything else?”

He tried to end the conversation as fast as he could. And GM June looked dreamy more and more. Right now, she was leaning closer to Wisana, making him draw his steps back a little.

“Yes, well, I’ve come to tell you that you got another special reward.”

Then she smiled sweetly.

“Special reward? ...What’ that, ...oops!”

“...!!!”

There was no need to say any more words, this guy with three times more pheromone than average people now got his mouth shut tightly by the pretty girl in front of him, unable to speak a word. ...And of course, she did that by pressing her soft lips on Wisana’s.

And the Zero-Celsius prince who had never seen people kissing at such close range before, widened his eyes, showing that he was in extreme shock like the rest of the players there, too!

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WOAH!!!

At the same time, the audience on the Light Ring shouted out in unison with shock and fun to see people kissing live, even though GM June, the owner of the slogan “Go hard or go home” only promised a cheek-kissing for the winner in the first round.

But they had no idea how came she went fully on the lips like this!

“Oh, ...they’re kissing.”

And Waree, after seeing her brother’s lips being violated, blushed. Even though she was used to this kind of thing so well from where she grew up, seeing someone she was close to doing it in front of her eyes like this was kind of embarrassing still.

GRABB!!

But when she looked to her side, the embarrassment she was feeling just now was suddenly gone. Because right now, the medium size bottle in May’s hand was squeezed up so that it was all crooked, making Waree turn pale instead.

“Er, May, ...let’s be calm...”

“How dare you!” The girl drawled. “...This is why you killed those monsters like crazy, huh? This is what you were aiming for, you jerk?!”