1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

1st place in the ranking is the villager

- Volume 7 Episode 20

20. Hero Wars (3) (完)

"I hope it will be so futile..."

Seol-Young Baek, among the team members of the experienced newbie who returned to the waiting room with the result of defeat after finishing the team game, sharpened her teeth.

He didn't know that he could use on them a power he had never used in his first match.

The fire of the divine beast, the phoenix, Ihwa was too powerful.

Seol-Young Baek thought that probably no player could beat Lee Hwa.

The experienced newbie team suffered a quick defeat 5-0.

“Well, I still couldn’t get past the round of 16 in the 2nd or 3rd innings… So Seol-young did well enough for you. Others do as well.”

And since the finals haven't started yet, Ho-young, who is sitting between them, was very mortal.

Every time Seol-Young Baek said a word, it felt as if she was sitting on a cushion of thorns.

It was he who gave the reason why the lyricist became so suddenly strong.

'... Let's take this fact to the grave.'

If not, Seol-Young Baek would open her axe's eyes and look at herself.

However, Ho-Young's determination was immediately shattered thanks to the RED team's interview before the finals on the monitor.

-Then, I will ask Kentaro-san one last time. Before the finals, who do you want to thank the most right now?

- This is Hoya.

At Kentaro's unhesitating answer, the eyes of the experienced newbie team in the players waiting room immediately turned to Hoyoung, and Hoyoung carefully stood up.

-Hoya-san is the player who defeated Kentaro-san in the round of 32 in the individual event, so why are you expressing gratitude to him?

- The summons I used for the experienced newbie team were originally a very limited ability. That restriction was accidentally removed by Hoya-sama. That's why our RED team was able to achieve such a win in the semi-finals.

"Hey? Seon Hoyoung, who's touching the door there, can you stop for a second?"

"Yes?"

"What the hell does that mean?"

"Well... what do you mean?"

Ho-young shed an awkward laugh at Seol-young's question as she pointed her finger at her monitor, but it didn't work for her.

In the end, Hoyoung could not leave the players waiting room until the final of the team event ended with the victory of the Japanese national team, Red Team, and the host staff picked him up.

* * *

There is now only one remaining match in the 3rd Heroes' War, and there is only one individual final match.

The audience had higher expectations than the round of 32 where Hoya and the bookworm met for the combination of the two people who met in the final.

Because it was a match between Hoya and Doban.

Still, there was a great public opinion that Hoya would win because he broke the book without much difficulty.

In such a situation, the final of the Hero Daejeon individual match started with a hot shout.

Hoya and Doban were grinning at each other with the countdown in between.

The two did not have a long conversation.

Even without saying it, Hoya knew what Dovan wanted from him.

Don't look at it, come with all your might.

I will show you the best of my strength.

Hoya was going to do whatever he wanted.

He intended to show him his power from the very beginning.

There was no need for pretense between the two.

"Ah, Doban is smiling! It's the first time we've seen it since Hero Wars started!"

"Hoya is also smiling at each other. Is there something in common between friends?"

When the commentators saw it, they were greatly astonished, and so were the audience.

At that time, the countdown was over, and Doban showed the skills he had as much as possible.

"God's blessings, blessings, holy symbols......"

A halo shone from behind Doban, and a divine energy emanated from him.

After that, the last thing Doban pulled out was something Hoya didn't expect at all.

"Descent."

Pah-!

As Doban spoke, a familiar pillar of light fell upon his head.

In the place where the pillar of light had disappeared, there stood Doban with a mysterious blue-silver hair and blue eyes.

"You that..."

"Yes, I met Eve-sama."

It had been a year before Dovan met Eve.

As a knight of the guardian of light, he met Eve by achieving the hidden condition of the hidden job, and was able to use the skill by receiving the title.

"And then, Hoya, I heard that you came first."

Hoya could see why Doban had said that.

You also have Advent, so don't hide it, take it out.

Hoya accepted Doban's will and immediately started using Advent.

Then, a pillar of light fell on Hoya as well, and in the place where the pillar of light disappeared, Hoya with bright bluish-silver hair, which contrasted with the black equipment, stood.

Even pretending to be the same skill, the commentators who recognized the fact came up with several speculations.

“Ah, it looks like you two used the same skill, right?”

“I think so. If I had only heard the players talking, I would have been convinced.”

"But just by looking at the change in appearance due to the use of the skill, it is almost certain that the two used the same skill. It is a well-known fact that the two players are usually very close and act together. Did they acquire it through something at the same time?"

"But that was two years ago. After Hoya returned from his military service, I didn't see the two of them together on the hunting ground. Even if they had acquired it at the same time, it would have been two years ago.

“If it was two years ago… was the place where you got the skill from the East Continent?”

"I don't know about that. Only two players will know."

Starting with the speculation of commentators, many rankers search the eastern continent after the year, but that is a future thing that has not happened yet.

"The moment I told you! The swords and hammers of Hoya and Doban collided!"

"Ah-! Doban couldn't stand Hoya's strength properly and was pushed back."

While the commentators were sharing their opinions, Hoya and Doban, who were looking at each other, collided, and Doban, who had lost his power, was pushed back.

"Buff, divine power. Swordsmanship."

Kagang-, spatula!

Hoya, who used all the buffs except for God's Protection, pushed Doban without adding or subtracting, and the Doban's HP decreased with tremendous momentum.

In a way, it was natural.

Doban rushed to Hoya thinking that he was doing a one-man raid.

However, when Hoya used his attack skills one after the other, Doban had no choice but to face defeat.

As in the second match, the final of the individual event ended very quickly.

But the audience did not show any dissatisfaction with it.

The running time was shorter than other games, but there were more things in it than other games.

It was disappointing, but because it was a satisfying enough match, people did not spare the shouts.

* * *

People sitting in the stadium's audience were shouting and looking at the center of the stadium with their glasses off, unlike a few hours ago.

A few hours after all the matches, the award ceremony was being held on the stage in the center of the stadium.

The winners, runners-up, and third-place players of the individual event were on it, and the leaders of the team in the team event were on it.

They were on stage, each holding a large bouquet of flowers and holding a trophy in one hand.

Only one person has not yet received the bouquet and trophy, and Neo Wars president Tae-seong Lee, who handed the bouquet and trophy directly to the players, stood in front of the remaining one.

"Congratulations on winning. It's great to see you so close."

"thank you."

Ho-young, who was handed the bouquet and trophy the staff was holding through Tae-seong, held them all in one arm and held the hand that Tae-sung had reached out with the remaining hand.

Then, when the other players were handed trophies and bouquets of flowers, the flashes of the cameras went off again, and the stadium was filled with shouts and applause.

Ho-young received the camera flash, held Lee Tae-sung's hand, smiled and looked at the camera.

For some reason, Lee Tae-sung's hand felt very cozy and warm.

He felt a kindness towards him.

The first time we saw it, it was too much of a favor.'Is it just because I'm a winner...?'

I don't know what the reason for the favor was, but Hoyoung readily accepted his favor.

After the awards ceremony was over, the closing ceremony was held splendidly.

The spectators put their glasses over their eyes again, and the players performed performances that had been prepared individually or in groups in advance in response to the audience's expectations.

Among them, the most well-received one was the castle of ice placed under the sparkling sky of ice powder that Hoya had created by borrowing Miho's power while using Geomwoo and Yanghwa.

Inside the ice castle, where the ceiling was low enough for a villain to walk around, the appearance of small animal-shaped ice cubes moving in rows like swords caught my attention.

The models for the ice cubes were Sammy and Badu.

And the day after the Hero Battle was over, players from Japan, the winner of the team event, and Korea, the winner of the individual event, were able to receive a buff as a prize for winning.

It is an experience increase buff that gives an additional 20% experience when hunting monsters for the next 30 days.

* * *

Returning to the president's room in the dark after the heroic battle, Lee Tae-seong looked back at the streets where the lights had not been turned off through the large glass window.

- Are you sorry?

At that time, the light on the monitor that was turned off came on and Eve's voice came out through the speaker.

At the sound, Lee Tae-sung turned to look at Eve's face floating on the monitor and burst into laughter.

"It's a little bit like that. ...When we actually met, he resembled Jihyuk a lot. When I first saw him from afar on the first day of the Hero Battle, I thought he was standing among the players."

-father.......

"At that time, I knew what had happened to me."

Tae-Sung Lee said so and walked to his desk and buried himself in his chair.

Then, he took out a small picture frame and a newly made picture frame he had carried in his arms throughout the Hero Wars from his arms and placed them on the desk.

Tae-seong Lee, who placed his elbow on the desk and pinched his chin, looked at the frames.

There are now two frames that have stood alone since Neo Wars' headquarters was built.

A picture taken about 20 years ago was embedded in one frame.

And in the other frame was the picture I had just taken today.

Although the dates were different, the two photos had something in common.

One was that the picture was not taken by Lee Tae-sung alone, but that other people exist together.

And the other one.....

- That's an absurd misunderstanding, Father. Ji-seok's father is no longer there.

At that time, the moon, which had been hidden by the clouds, appeared outside, and softly illuminated the inside of the hall with the lights off.

In the two picture frames placed on the desk illuminated by the moonlight, the men photographed with Lee Tae-sung in the pictures had different faces, strangely very similar to each other.

It was as if only Lee Tae-seong had grown old alone.

Tae-Sung Lee looked at the two frames and burst into laughter.

"Ahhh, that's right, aren't the father and the son so similar?

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