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"I took 1900 damage in one shot!"

"I took almost 1,500."

As I sat on my bed in my side of personal space, I turned my head to look at Sofia, who was walking from one corner of personal space to another and back again, while complaining about how ridiculous the game was. Until she suddenly turned around and decided to ask me a question.

"Did you see why we died?"

"Sort of, the last thing I saw before I got kicked out of the game was a huge, hiltless sword piercing my head and stabbing into your head."

"A hiltless sword? Wait a minute... So you're saying we weren't killed by someone very fast or someone threw a throwing knife at us from a distance?"

"You could say that. It would be quite difficult to use a sword without a handle. Maybe someone made something like a slingshot with a big rubber tire."

"Come on, there were only five people left in the game. Both of us had stats that wouldn't be killed by a handmade weapon made with items that didn't come out of chests."

"Maybe someone found a high level sword and also has high stats. Under such circumstances, even if you make a mechanism to throw the sword with in-game materials, the sword's damage will probably be the same as if you threw it with your own hands, right?"

"Uhm... Well... I don't know much about it. Maybe it works like you say."

[ The last teammate to be eliminated: Sofia ]

[ Sofia's ranking: 4th place ]

[ Reward obtained: +1 month life span]

[ Half of your rewards will be deducted as a penalty for not being the teammate left alive the most ]

[ Player's original ranking was found to be 5th place. The penalty has been canceled ]

[ +1 month life span ]

[ Life span remaining: 24 years, 10 months and 28 days ]

[ Total number of victories: 2 ]

[ +6 system points ]

[ You have 36 total system points ]

After reading the system screens that appeared in front of me one more time, I was able to get a little more idea of how a two-player game works. But just to be sure, I finally asked Sofia about it.

"Ahhh, I thought we were going to be first. Huff"

"Can you hear me?"

" I'm sorry, I always keep forgetting that you have amnesia. You never act like someone who has amnesia. So, for example, let's say there were two of us in the game and I was eliminated at the beginning of the game, but you continued to play and came first. Then it's like we both came first, but since I was eliminated first, my remaining life span will be cut in half."

"It feels ridiculous. If the system is as you say, then the total amount of lifetime income that can be generated from a game is one and a half times more than a normal single-player game"

"That's why you can only join two-player games ten times in a month."

"What about system points? I only got six points this time."

"I got eight points. That's normal, there's no penalty for that. You get as many system points as you rank."

--------- a few minutes ago

The new security zone of the game map appeared, but by that point, many players had already been eliminated. Because the stat point rewards for eliminating another player are so high, the power gap between those who managed to eliminate someone earlier in the game and those who decided to hide and loot earlier in the game widened very quickly.

Meanwhile, on the roof of a house on one side of the new safe zone border, a man climbed up and pulled a huge mech out of his inventory.

It almost looked like a large sniper's bow.

The man took out a sword at random from his inventory, inserted the handle of the sword into the part attached to the corner of the contraption in front of him, and pulled a lever.

The mechanism fired off vapors and severed the handle of the sword, leaving only the iron part of the sword. The man inserted the sword, with only the sharp part left, into the mechanism and began to look through the binoculars on the mechanism.

Meanwhile, a little girl, breathing hard, managed to get up on the roof of the house next to this man.

"You are too slow."

"I apologize, brother."

"I let you take a little girl's body so you could move faster."

"I apologize, big brother."

"Okay, shut up and tell me where the others are."

When the little girl closed her eyes, an invisible wave of energy spread rapidly from the little girl's head to the surroundings. And then the girl began to describe to the man the locations of all the people in the neighborhood, one by one.

The man used a contraption to throw swords at people from far away ranges, killing them, and as he ran out of swords, he would ask the girl next to him to pull swords out of her inventory.

By the time the safe zone had finished shrinking for the first time, this man had managed to kill almost all of the players in the game and there were only 5 people left.

Meanwhile, the man saw Victor and Sofia from a distance. He threw the next sword just as they were walking side by side and eliminated them both at the same time.

The amazing thing was that this man was the sniper who had been killed by Victor in the previous game.

Thanks to his skill, he was able to obtain a long-range weapon that fit the rules of the game.

Victor was punished mercilessly by the almighty karma, but he didn't care one bit. Because right now he was thinking about the voice he heard just before he was eliminated.