Chapter 28: Point-Blank

"There are 80 players remaining, there have been no added rules." Said the voice.

"80... Huh..." John muttered as he looked down at his badge number.

The number displayed was 7. As he saw this he clenched his fist before letting giving a short look around. It had risen unexpectedly fast considering only 20 players had been eliminated.

That would have meant that he had 35% of the overall eliminations so far. However, he didn't seem proud nor felt like he had accomplished something great.

"I never expected there to be so many people here at the beach..." John said as he looked towards the small concrete and frozen sand on the ground.

They were stronger than John had expected. Some continued chanting even after they had dodged his glacies. But John guessed that he shouldn't be seeing any mage soon who can fight one-on-one.

"*sigh* mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble... Deprehendre," John whispered.