'You did it.' Lord Black laughed. 'Boy, you just secured a Labyrinth for this continent because once you enter a Labyrinth's leaderboard, it will become permanent, or rather, a permanent copy like others in the leaderboard have.'

Ainen raised his eyebrows. 'Then I have to set a top score since once I break through to the next rank, I won't be able to enter this Tier-3 Labyrinth.'

'That's true.'

Ainen started the true Arcande Game 1#.

And it was…reversed.

Ainen was stationed in a single place while obstacles rapidly passed by!

Moreover, the speed of obstacles rapidly passing by increased faster and faster.

The goal was to destroy as many obstacles as possible in ten minutes.

In the final minute, Ainen had to conjure 11 Solar Hex Tempests, consuming 5000 Mana per second to destroy all obstacles while being in absolute focus.

Ainen was constantly already bleeding from his eyes, nose, and ears, his mind processing all obstacles passing by at the speed of 10,000 meters per second and targeting the right ones while avoiding the ones with a skull mark.

'Ainen…' Lord Black's imaginary eyes were trembling as he watched and felt Ainen's status while being inside him.

'STOP! You will fucking die, brat!' Lord Black was anxious because Ainen was literally overloading himself in body as well as mind. At any single moment, Ainen could just implode his brain and die on the spot.

But Ainen was deaf to everything except for this single task as he summoned the 12th Solar Hex Tempest.

It wasn't like Ainen was destroying every single positive obstacle. That was impossible due to the sheer scale of this game, so the point was to destroy as many as possible.

This Arcade Game tested the absolute focus and pinpoint, fast attacks of Adventurers.

Attack speed, precision, and constant focus.

[0:01]

[0:00]

[Congratulations. You have scored 37,789,370 points. This score puts you at the 1st rank in the leaderboard.]

[There is a reward for ranking in the top 100, based on the rank you achieve. If you accept the reward, your spotlight will be open to be viewed by other participants.]

'Insane…' Lord Black was speechless. 'I don't know if I should be glad or not that Ron and Syl are sleeping.'

Ainen fell on his butt and took out multiple Tier-3 juices before chugging them down.

'Fuck, I want to sleep.' Ainen lay down and closed his eyes, but not before pressing [ Yes ] in accepting the reward.'

Lord Black. '…We have to talk, Ainen.'

Snoring~

Snoring~

'After you wake up.'

…

Half an hour after Ainen ascended to the last floor, Prisha challenged Tathan again.

[Congratulations, you have defeated Tathan within 14 seconds. You have overtaken Ainen and achieved 1st rank in the Tathan Leaderboard.]

Prisha looked at the leaderboard and smiled.

'I am coming for you, Ainen.'

A pillar of light wrapped her as she ascended to the final floor.

And without further ado, she started the 1st challenge.

'His score is 1,000,000? Must be the maximum score.' Prisha looked at the leaderboard.

Her eyes glinted.

She hit restart because she made some mistakes in the first run.

This time, she achieved Flawless Performance.

Prisha also got the same notification as Ainen and got access to the true Arcade Game 1# to compete with others in the leaderboard.

Ten minutes later, she finished her run, gaining 1,734,039 score.

She accepted the reward, which gave her a Rank 14 Lucky Spin ticket. 'So, everyone gets Lucky Spin tickets with effects based on their ranks? But this stuff usually has low chances. Even number one might not get something as good as rank 100th from this.'

'Let's see where he is at.' Prisha looked at the rankings from 10th to 20th and didn't find him.

She turned to the page containing the 21st to 30th ranks, but didn't find his name.

'What's going on?'

In the end, Prisha didn't find him until she reached the 100th rank.

'Wait, don't tell me…'

Prisha checked the first page containing the 1st to 10th ranks.

And then, her eyes widened.

'What the fuck?'

At the number one position was the name she was looking for more of.

But that wasn't what shocked her.

It was that there was a difference of around 500k between Ainen's score and the 2nd-ranked person's score.

'What the fuck?'

…

Arcade Game 2#.

Prisha looked at the leaderboard after finishing her run, and ranking 12th, but also saw that Ainen was once again ranked 1st with a sizable difference of points between him and the 2nd rank.

'What the hell…It was me who got a big power up, but what is this difference in points between us?'

Prisha was undoubtedly getting cold feet.

But she moved on to the Arcande Game 3# without further ado.

'One more and then I'll decide.'

She finished the normal mode and also cleared the true mode, ranking 15th in the leaderboard.

And Ainen was once again in the 1st rank.

'This Arcade Game tested defenses…what kind of defense does he have that he also ranked first in this with such a large difference?'

'What the fuck?!' Prisha couldn't understand. 'How could he get so strong in such a short time?!'

'I can't defeat him. This defense…it means he can neutralize my poison. He has to have means against it.'

'Fuck.'

[ Congratulations to Chef Ainen, who has successfully slayed the floor boss—Gullimber of Arcade Arena, within 0:02 seconds and created a new fastest clear record, beating the previous 0.05 seconds run. ]

Prisha blinked twice and breathed out as if removing a burden. 'Well, the plot to invert this Labyrinth is officially over.'

…

The dark-circle woman, Qerin, suddenly stood up and declared.

"It's over."

"Eh? What?" the skin-changing girl put the book down and turned to look at the Labyrinth Gate.

She saw that Activation Time was still running, but its color had changed.

"Oh shit, this Labyrinth became permanent? Lucky for people here."

"We are packing up and leaving." Qerin looked at Zurdon's scary building and hit it with simple mana bullets.

A second later, he appeared outside, wearing an apron with strange, hazy neon colored substances floating around him.

"What's up?"

"It's over. Prisha broke through to SS-rank in her Poison Manipulation, but Ainen slayed the final boss already. And Prisha isn't strong enough to kill him."

"Oh?" Zurdon was surprised. "He wasn't that strong."

"He is now. I don't know how he gained such vast improvements, but he is very strong. In fact, he is the strongest Adept-rank I have ever seen."

Suddenly, Zurdon took out a crystal. "I am getting a call from Lilian's comm crystal. Looks like people of Sacred Aurelion are also here."

"I didn't sense anyone getting past the barrier, which means they are outside of our action range and contained beforehand."

Zurdon chuckled. "Well, it's time to go."

"Are you…done with those two?"

"Yeah. They are very happy with their new life."

…

Ainen was sitting on clouds at the very top, and the exit portal was just nearby.

But he wasn't in a hurry to exit.

Saffa, Clovelle, and Fraisea were still on the 2nd floor, climbing the steps or perhaps challenging Tathan.

And he also had scores to settle with the last member, Cradle.

'I hope the others are safe…' Ainen sighed. By others, he meant other people he knew and was friends with, like party members of Naresh and Diana's party.

Suddenly, he sensed a presence approaching and instantly stood up.

Within a kilometer around him, a square flickered into existence briefly with an exotic cube floating above Ainen.

It was his defensive skill: Geosun Mirrored Defense. Attributes: Earth, Fire, Wind, Sand, Mystic(Taste).

Prisha arrived, but her arms were up, holding white clothes.

'Is this his defense? Wait, he fucking used 4000 Mana at once? Yeah, that was around that. What the fuck?'

'How can he use 4000 Mana at once?! Is he in control of Mana that high already?!'

Prisha gulped. 'What kind of defense must this be?'

"What's the meaning of this?" Ainen raised his eyebrows.

"I surrender. I don't want to fight you." Prisha wryly smiled. "If you want justification for letting me go, I have only killed one person so far."

Ainen frowned. "Why?"

Prisha's lips twitched. "I don't want to die, so I am giving up. You won't attack someone who surrendered, right?"

Ainen smiled.

"Do you know what I believe myself to be?"

"What?" Prisha blinked.

"The most normal human being. In fact, I am a role model for the most normal human being. That's what I believe."

Prisha blinked.

"So I can't overlook the fact that you were here to invert this Labyrinth and kill ten million people."

Prish pulled a long face. "So you are the hero type?"

"I told you. I am the most normal human being there is."

"So I will kill you." Ainen's face turned icy. "You are not escaping this Labyrinth alive, so fight for your life and die."

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