Chapter 207 The Bounty and The Map!
Five dayster, one hour before getting teleported into the game...
Felix was wearing his usual Landlord outfit while sitting in the living room, browsing the daily news in the Mariana Empire.
Unsurprisingly, Felix found that his name was currently being mentioned by many of his fans in thework, using the hashtag #LandlordisBack!
"I bet everyone thought that you died somewhere." Asna said,ughing.
"Heh, some news tforms actually wrote so." Felix didn''t know whether tough or cry after reading some news, iming that he got killed by hitmen sent by Mastermania or he was found drowning in his own puddle of blood on a deserted.
Well, the news tforms were just trying to milk as much attraction as possible from the fact that Felix was gone an extra 7 days.
Everyone assumed that he was going to start another game immediately after the two months reset, but when they saw that he was nowhere to be found day after day, rumors started to circte in thework, starting small then ending up with Felix getting killed.
If Felix bothered to create a social media ount, he could inform his fans when he was nning on joining another game, just like the majority of the yers do.
Too bad, he had no interest in social media.
"Speaking of Mastermania, let''s see how much bounty did his agency put on my head." Curious, Felix waved the news hologram away from his face and created another nk one.
He wrote in the search engine >a guide on how to ess the SG Bounties website<.
The website was in the darkwork, or in other words, it was not indexed by and, therefore, essible via the search engine.
Since the website owner didn''t give Felix permission to gain ess to his website, he couldn''t just request the Queen to find it for him.
That being said, the guide that he searched for was extremely helpful as it was created to facilitate for yers like him to locate the website.
He used it before in his previous life, but he forgot about it as he never bothered to hunt for bounties or was too important for others to put one on him.
This was the website appearance for individuals without membership. Just a basic search bar, nothing more, nothing less.
After a couple of minutes, a pitch-ck hologram was disyed before Felix, showing a human skull right in the middle while underneath it a search bar.
This was the website appearance for individuals without membership. Just a basic search bar, nothing more, nothing less.
Unbothered by this, Felix typed >Unpaid Landlord_6996< his full SG identity.
After clicking enter, the bounty ced on his head resurfaced, while written boldly with dripping blood.
500,000,000 SC!
"Hahaha, my reply must have pissed them off." Felixughed in amusement like his head wasn''t worth half a billion inside the games.
"You did tell them to go f*ck themselves." Asna giggled while covering her mouth.
"I guess it won''t matter much in the next game." Felix chuckled while closing the hologram.
He knew that everyone would being at him the moment he secured the Crown inside the game. So, nothing much changed.
"Asna, prepare the cards." Felix closed his eyes as he smirked, "We have to carry the tradition."
Delighted, Asna''s sun-like eyes brightened up as she created a deck of cards in one hand while getting out of bed.
So far they yed cards two times during thest hour before Felix get teleported to the Game Hall, and if they kept doing so, it wouldn''t be farfetched to call it a tradition.
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Whoosh! Whoosh!....Whoosh!...
Inside a giant ancient-looking hall, which had many crystal chandeliers hanging from above, lighting every corner of it, and a wooden stage with a podium ced right in the middle, yers started to get teleported one by one, filling the empty hall rapidly until one hundred yers were all standing under the stage.
Expressionless, Felix kept looking around while walking towards a corner of the hall, nning to sit there until the MC arrives.
He knew that it was going to take a couple of minutes.
The yers he passed through didn''t make it difficult for him as they smiled politely while opening a path for him.
This was a pure demonstration of respect for one''s strength!
Felix guessed that probably all of the yers had either an extensive idea about him or aslight idea.
After all, he was the only bronze yer in this game with two wins.
So, even if the yers didn''t follow the news and heard about him, they would have done it out of curiosity after seeing his low rank and two wins streak.
After sitting with his back against the wall for a couple of minutes, light particles started to take shape in front of the podium.
Felix, who was paying attention to what goes around him, saw a tall beautiful thin man with purple hair made into a bun, suddenly appear after the light of particles disappeared.
''Hmm, I never saw him before.'' Felix tilted his head slightly in confusion.
Well, it was obviously impossible for Felix to know every MC as there were millions of them just in low elo.
"Good morning my lovely yers!" A merry feminine voice was released from the MC''s glossy lips, making some yers confused whether he was a man dressing like a woman or the opposite. However, the majority still knew that he was a man, who swung in the other direction.
"I am Meliodas, and I will be your judge in this game." Meliodas smiled charmingly and said, "Let''s not dilly dally and get into the game exnation!"
He pped his hands twice and the samerge screen descended from above, behind his back.
Felix raised his head and saw that the screen was already on and disying the current map of the game.
It was a medium-sized ind, stretching tens of kilometers from one end to the other. Rather, ends shouldn''t be used as a term for describing it as it was shaped like a circle.
Yet, none of the yers cared about this but the fact that the ind was split into two zones, each with apletely different environment and weather!
The southern zone was a rainy forest made out of trees, from all kinds of species, painting a gorgeous piece of nature.
The only thing they share was their towering height, reaching hundreds of meters into the dark cloudy sky!
Meanwhile, the northern zone had only one humongous volcano sitting at the very center of it. The volcano''s mouth was closed shut, appearing just like a dormant ck behemoth.
Felix ignored the top and focused on one enormous tunnel in the volcano, probably leading to the underground.
''Tsk, at least I''m used to training in a forest environment.'' Felix clicked his tongue in criticism at the sight of the ind.
During his practice in the past five days, he had to improvise and create many maps, each with a different environment, since the game clearly stated that the map was randomly generated.
That meant it could be anything!
Thankfully, his daily training most of the time include a forest environment since he knew that it was used quite heavily in the games.
Based on the gloomy expressions of the majority of yers, it seemed like none of them nailed the map design in their practice rooms.
"As you can see, the map that was generated has only two environments." Meliodas pointed at the volcano tunnel, making the screen disy where it was leading.
Surprised, Felix raised his eyebrows at the sight of aplex Labyrinth of tunnels connecting to each other, making it almost impossible to not get lost in them without a passive or active ability to help.
Thankfully, they were dimly-lighted, making visibility, not a major issue.
Meliodas didn''t put too much focus on the tunnel as he swiftly reced it with a sea ofva at the bottom of the volcano.
"While the rainforest is friendly, the volcano on the other hand isn''t!" He informed them yfully, "During thest 15 minutes of the game, the volcano will erupt at a random period of time. It can be at 15 minutes sharp or at thest minute of the game. Even I don''t know when." He warned them with a grin, "So don''t be near it when it happens."
Unsurprisingly, the yers weren''t really that shocked, as they knew that most games with randomly generated maps have some kind of perk to make them more deadly for the yers and entertaining for the spectators.
Though, the SGA would never take it that far and make the entire map turn into hell for the yers. That''s why they left the rain forest untouched and peaceful.
"Oh, and you will be getting two minutes warning before the eruption. You will know it when it happens."
"Now, into the hidden addition!" Meliodas pressed a button and the center of those two zones suddenly had a beacon of light projected into the sky.
The volcano had a red beacon, that was ced right before the tunnel, while the forest had a green beacon in the middle of it.
"Those beacons are teleportation circles, that allow only the Crown holder to teleport!" Meliodas said.
"Nice! this makes it a bit easier for the Crown holder."
"Not bad, I just need to escape to the teleportation circles now."
''As expected.'' Unlike the yers, who were eximing out loud in surprise and joy, Felix merely scratched his chin nonchntly.
He knew about it beforehand as this addition was live in the game he yed in his previous life.
The moment a surprise addition gets added in a game, it would either stay permanently or removed after not achieving its intended purpose, which was obviously entertaining the spectators.
"Shush down for me please." Meliodas showed a sulking expression, making the men in the hall to avoid having eye contact with him at all cost.
Besides the girls giggling, not a single sound was heard in the hall again.
"Good boys." Meliodas smiled and continued, "Those teleportation circles do not teleport yers randomly on the map but to the other teleportation circle!"
Immediately after hearing so, the yers'' delighted eyes dimmed instantly.
They understood that those teleportation circles weren''t escaping routes but gates to hell itself!!
''Hehe, life isn''t so easy.'' Felix couldn''t help but chuckle at their expressions.