[Round 2, Day 30. 11:30]
"Huah"
I let out a sigh as I watched the goblin instructor's body fade away.
Initially, I had been pushed back hard and had only barely managed to win with my special Blink Tackle. Now, I could beat him easily.
What I lacked in that first fight was combat knowledge and experience.
With all the resistances and god's powers that I had, losing would be quite an achievement in itself.
Since the first battle, I had managed to defeat the goblin instructor multiple times, but there was still so many things I could learn from his stance, his movement and his counter attacks.
Taking into mind the many factors such as the goblin's height and weapon, simply copying the goblin wouldn't be a good idea.
My old memories from practicing Judo and Kendo were slowly coming back as well.
I was starting to realize the importance of education.
Although we couldn’t speak to each other and the goblin would just charge at me, even so he had taught me so much.
I should ask Kirikiri if such chances were available.
From challenging the Goblin, there had also been progress on skills.
[You have received Basic Shield Skill Lv.3]
[Cut Lv.1 has been incorporated into Basic Swordsmanship Lv.2]
[You have received Basic Swordsmanship Lv.3]
I had pondered for quite some time what that meant.
In the end, I came to conclusion that my 'Cut' skill wasn't considered swordsmanship.
I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that had been the case.
Like so, I had been learning basic combat skills, expanding beyond the swordsmanship and skill with shields.
Well, seeing how he reseted every time I came back from the Waiting Room, I don't think he actually existed.
I wish the goblin instructor was a little stronger. It feels too inefficient to learn from someone weaker than me.
This time, I had managed to beat him with just a sword and no shield.
Hand to hand and without a weapon?
I walked back to the Waiting Room as I planned out a schedule.
The 2nd Round would finally finish.
Considering that I had been crawling through just the 1st Floor for the entire 1st Round, the 2nd Round had been really eventful.
And just like during the 1st and 2nd Round, new people would enter the 1st Floor.
I don't know how many people would enter Hell Difficulty this time, but I hope a lack in communication won't happen again.
I had been taking care of my meals with mostly jerkies and rice balls, excluding the cake I had with Kirikiri.
One reason might be because I don't really care about the taste of my food, but the other reason was to stop myself from losing focus and becoming lazy.
If one day, I felt like I wanted to just rest for today,
if I wanted to delay the Tutorial to next day.
Those feelings may add up and cause me to become slothful, so I'm forcing myself into the corner to prevent it.
Today I will have a small break.
I've been through so much in the 2nd Round.
[Round 3 will begin]
Now, the newbies will be coming to the tutorial.
[Hell Difficulty, Forums (1/1)]
Hmmm...
How many people would actually choose the highest difficulty from a strange, floating hologram they've never seen before.
Actually, saying it like that made me feel like I'm the strange one.
It wasn’t too bad anyways.
One problem in my mind was removed.
I looked through the Community relaxedly.
I was not watching because I found their misfortune entertaining.
I was curious of the news from the outside world that they would tell after the confusion died down.
The 2nd Round finished, and the 3rd began.
Had the president stepped down?
It seemed that many had the same idea as me, as there are a lot of people logged onto the Community at this time.
[Kim Joo Hyuk, Floor 1: What is this? What is this Community and Tutorial. Actually, where is this place?]
[Lee Chul Min, Floor 1: I guess I've lived too long]
[Lee Gi Chan, Floor 1: I was just drinking until now, what is this...]
It seemed someone came here while being drunk like me.
It may have seemed grim, as they could not return home and they may actually die.
I was waiting for them to slowly calm down, until I saw a few strange comments.
[Lee Mi Yeon, Floor 1: Am I dead? Is this like hell?]
[Kim Jin, Floor 1: I'm sure I was about to be eaten by a monster, but even my leg is healed]
[Park Byung Jin, Floor 1: Is this related to those portals the monsters come from?]
What was this crazy talk?
Nations who were able to mobilise their armies the moment portals appeared didn't suffer too much, but the smaller nations who had not had a proper military were destroyed on the spot.
The nations who initially were able to barely manage with their own portals were now facing monsters from outside their borders, thus damage was beginning to spread.
There were areas which were so heavily occupied with monsters that the nation had given up;
Public order was non-existent and people killed each other for food and weapons.
Shady cults began to appear. The rich hid in their private safe houses, while the poor hid within the ruins of the cities.
Korea was no exception.
At least Korea's portal crisis had been late compared to other countries.
Therefore, they were able to react quickly when the first portal appeared.
Martial law had been in place even before the first portal had appeared and the armies from the front lines had been deployed south on standby.
So many comments appeared at once that I couldn't even read most of them.
I wasn't an exception.
[Lee Ho Jae, Floor 4: Suwon. How's Suwon? Is there a portal there too?]
Thankfully, there hadn’t been any yet.
[Round 3, Day 0. 18:20]
18 hours.
As if it should have never happened.
Thankfully, I had very few contacts.
Since they said the army was safest during these times, it lessened my worries.
My family was also in Suwon.
But I still wished that they were safe.
What was I thinking before.
The Community showed me the answer.
I had managed to spot this amongst the flood of comments.
If I were to clear all 100, how strong would I be.
Just as the name Tutorial said.
I wasn't the only one to think this way.
The high rankers of the Community all agreed to release information and walkthroughs and to join hands to beat the Tutorial.
Soon everyone agreed that, everyone's number one aim was to swiftly clear the Tutorial.
1 month after the Portal crisis and 3 rounds since the Tutorial started…
The Tutorial Speed Run had started.