<<The second phase of event continued for some time.... And it was really freaking chaotic.>>

<<Beside me acting like some sort of slasher from a movie, the other maps were doing no better.>>

<<A lot of people and I mean like a LOT of people, really focused on hunting other players instead of hunting monsters.>>

<<Their reasoning is pretty much extremely simple.>>

<<Points and get rid of competition.>>

<<Obviously the players can respawn and people with barely any points are worth nothing... But again, it would buy you sometime to hunt monster down, without going to assassination you without or stealing your monsters.>>

<<Simple put, the entire second phase was a giant and massive shit show.>>

<<Hell, some maps didn’t finished until the timer hits, because how many people didn’t bothered hunting monsters and just hunting each other.>>

<<Hell... The whole second phase was a massive shit show.>>

<<Way too chaos and stuff was going on.... Yeah... I think the devs will have to remodel this form of phase if they will want to use it again in the future.>>

<<But still, I can’t say that there were no interesting moments.>>

<<There were some moments were the master rankers fought each other.>>

<<...Or there was a case where Diamond apparently fought 2 rankers at the same time.>>

<<However, Diamond didn’t apparently used any new "special" skill.... He is hiding his divinity.>>

<<Is he hiding his "cards"? Or maybe he doesn’t possess the {faith} stat?>>

<<....Too early to draw any solid conclusion....>>

<<But on the other hand, Arthur qualified.>>

<<....Buuuuuuuuuuutttttttttt....>>

<<Stone and Mordred were eliminated.>>

<<All thanks to Thanatos’s sabotage.>>

<<We would be able to cut more of his team, as some of his teammates also met with Maparapra.... But that saint.... Morina.>>

<<She stepped in and stopped Maparapara.>>

<<Annoying.... But still, we managed to deal with two of the members.>>

<<However, what Thanatos told me worries me.>>

"Both of them had the same golden flames as Mara."

<<That is what she said.>>

<<Fuck me.>>

<<Is my theory correct?>>

<<Then that means this bastard really wants to show off as much as possible in order to possible bait people into becoming his fallowers.>>

<<....They really need to be dealt with, an in extremely crushing way, which would make them look weak and pathetic.>>

<<Still. Things will now get much heated up.>>

<<The third phase.>>

<<The day has come for it.>>

"And let’s get a quick overview!" – shouted W.W.

"Rules?! Simple!"

"This time you will be hunting for specific prey!"

"Specifically, another player!"

"Each player will be given target that they need themselves eliminate!"

"How this works is like this."

"This match will have a revival mechanic and like before, a spot mechanic."

"You will revive automatically no matter what and there is a limited number of spots that the people can take!"

"Meaning, that you need to hurry and take the spot as soon as possible!"

"Now! How does hunting works here?"

"As you may had guessed, to qualify, you need to eliminate the randomly assigned target you were given."

"OR!"

"Eliminate the player which has YOU as their target!"

"Eliminating the hunter or the prey will result in you qualifying to the next round on the spot."

"If your target is removed from the map, you will be assigned a brand new random prey."

"No time limit."

"Nor a border."

"However, there will be a SCAN going off here and there."

"One it does goes off, the hunter will have their prey’s location marked on the map for few seconds."

"That means hiding away from your hunter will be impossible."

"And that is the overview!"

"REMEMBER!"

"There are limited amount of spots!"

"And after this phase? The finals!"

"So if you get it! Let’s get ready!"

"..."

(Originally on the website, the tournament said that there will be single map.... But they apparently changed it to 2 maps after the number of the participants increased beyond reason.)

(Hell, they added several additional maps to each phases out of nowhere, right as the tournament was about to start.)

(But still, the number of the people that will be allowed into the finals is will be still just 50.)

(Meaning that from each two maps, only 25 people will be allowed to go further.)

(There is in total of 100 people on each map, meaning that it won’t be pretty.) 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

(Not only that, the 200 people that gotten to the semi finals are no lucky bastards.)

(They all are pretty much either rankers or unregistered rankers.)

(This will be bloody fun!)

"..."

(Still, during the second round, I wasn’t "hunted" per say like in the first round.... What was that about?)

"AND START!" – shouted W.W as she snapped her fingers.

"GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!" – shouted W.W as the players were teleported to their respective map.

[You have been teleported to the map A.]

"..."

(Huh.... This spot.... It looks exactly bloody same as the spawning spot from the second map.) – thought Phantasia as he looked around and found himself in the forest.

(But then again, the map was supposed to be way different compare to the other maps.... So...)

[The match will be soon starting.]

[Once the countdown reaches zero, the match instantly starts.]

[You will now receive the name of your initial {prey}.]

[The {prey} location will be visible until the end of the countdown, plus 10 seconds after countdown has ended.]

(Okay. Let’s see who will be hunting to-)

"..."

"..."

"Hey.... Hey, hey, hey... Isn’t this fucked up a bit?"

(Did the developers did that intentional by any chance?)

(How high chances of that happening are?)

(Oh.... Oh boy.)

(THIS WILL BE WAY MORE FUN THAN I’VE THOUGHT!)

[Meanwhile: Somewhere else on the map.]

"..."

(Welp... This isn’t going to be easy.) – thought Doremi who was also present on the map A.

[Your target: Arthur]

(Arthur? Are you fucking with me? I’m going to deal with the rank 4?)

(Fuck me....)

"..."

(Well... At least maybe I have some chance? I mean, he uses a lot of magic-based attacks, meaning that it does give me some chance against him.)

(But still... What other monsters are on this map?)

(That is what worries me.)

[Meanwhile: Arthur]

"..."

[Your target: Apple]

(Don’t know them.... Are they rankers? I’ve never heard of anybody by that nickname.) – thought Arthur as he stared at the name of his {prey}.

(Maybe they are unregistered rankers?)

(Either way.)

(I think I should focus on hunting them down as soon as possible.)

(This place will become hell from the get go, won’t it?)

[4]

[3]

[2]

[1]

[0]

[FIGHT!]

Players across the two maps instantly began running through the map, aiming at their preys from the get go.

However, this in turn caused many players to straight up bump into each other from the get go.

And pretty much... The people just started fighting each other.

It wasn’t {prey} and {hunter} fighting each other. No.

It was just straight up repeat of the second phase.

The people wanted to get rid of their competition and put them on the death penalty.... However, at the same time, they were also suspicious of one another.

HOW DO I KNOW THAT YOU AREN’T MY HUNTER?

Pretty much, some people grew paranoid instantly, since the {prey} didn’t knew who was hunting them.

And some people just went with this.

IF I KILL EVERYBODY, I WILL EVENTUALLY KILL MY HUNTER OR PREY! IT IS WIN-WIN SITUATION!

That is what many people thought.... So yeah.... Chaos started from the get go.

"GET THAT BITCH!"

"EVEN IF SHE AIN’T ANYBODIES PREY, WE AIN’T GOING TO-"

"Shut it." – said the woman as she swung her one-handed axe and straight up just cut in half two players with single strike.

The woman then took out her gun and quickly shot the assassin above her, which knocked the assassin down, fallowed up with female warrior cutting off the assassin head with her axe.

*Sigh*

"For crying out loud. We just started." – said the woman with white fluffy hair and beastly yet lizard-like limbs.

[Powin]

[Master ranker.]

[Standard ranking rank]

[1#]

["Beast Of Slaughter And Beauty"]

The number one ranker player, Powin the "Beast Of Slaughter And Beauty".

She was present on the map A.

And she already made her presence known by already taking down 3 high rankers on the spot.

And to make things interesting, these high rankers were around rank 100, meaning that they were close to being master rankers themselves.

And yet, this beautiful woman with monster like traits, just slaughtered all of them on the spot, as if they were nothing but random mobs.

The woman with long white hair, a left red colored eye and right blue colored eye was starting at the map of the even, while also reloading her massive pistole with a long blade attached to the bottom of the barrel, while also holding a single one-handed axe which looked like a wing of a dragon.

(For crying out loud, I thought this phase would be far more peaceful.... So why things are like this from the get go.... Not only that, none of them were even my {hunters}.)

(Are they stupid?)

(Probably....)

(Still. The second scan should be around the corner.... Yet my {hunter} has to show himself.)

(Did they given up?)

(.... Nah. Not letting my guard like an idiot.)

(But still, it is a race.)

(I think should go look for my prey while also being wary of any traps.... I wouldn’t be surprised if my {hunter} is waiting for the exact moment when I will let my guard down.)

[WARNING!]

[RADAR WILL BE ACTIVATED IN FEW SECONDS]

[5]

[4]

[3]

[2]

[1]

[RADAR ACTIVATED]

"!"

(Oh common!)

[Your target has been eliminated. The target will be respawned and you will receive a short-term detection on their location upon their respawn.]

(For crying out loud. They got themselves killed already?)

(Fuck me.... )

(...Should I just head to the center of the map? It should get me-)

"!"

The beautiful monster player suddenly heard a sound of commotion coming from the distance, alarming the player.... Before right in the next moment, a tree was straight up threw at her.

"?!" – the player was caught off guard, but she managed to leap into the sky, dodging the tree.

However, just as she dodged one, another tree was already coming her way while she still in the air.

"Tch!" – but the beautiful monster just swung her axe, cutting in half the tree that was thrown at her.

However, as she gotten rid of the thrown object at her, she had already new problem coming her way.

A fist which appeared right after the woman dealt with the tree.

"?!" – the woman was punched right in the face before then getting sent flying right into the ground, smashing into it.

"[Acid Magic: Acid Tsunami]." – the female player instantly gotten after getting sent flying, but as she did, she saw a massive way of acid coming her way.

The way of acid smashed down on the ground, destroying and devouring everything in sight while the attacker watched.

"..."

"!"

However, out of nowhere, something like a rocket shot itself at the attacker, clashing their blades against the attacker’s weapons.

"..."

"Now why the fuck are you after me now?" – asked Powin as she strangled with her axe and gun blade against the attacker that she recognized.

"Why? Isn’t it obvious?" – asked the attacker as he was using his arms to defend himself.

"TO HUNT MY {PREY}! ISN’T IT OBVIOUS!?"

[Phantasia]

[Master ranker]

[Standard ranking:]

[3#]

[Targeted prey]

[Powin]