Chapter 818: The Despairingly Powerful Great Sage—Wood!
With nothing but the thought of surviving until the end, the birdman adventurer turned and flew away without the slightest hesitation.
But he had barely made it a few dozen meters into the air when he suddenly sensed an intense threat from behind.
The instant that sense of danger hit, the birdman barely had time to look back before a dazzling streak of lightning shot toward him!
And then... that was the end of the story...
The birdman, a Level 3 adventurer with a decent rank and the advantage of flight, was pierced through the chest by a bolt of lightning. He was judged to have suffered a fatal injury and was immediately kicked out of the game space.
Almost as soon as the birdman appeared in the central plaza, the number above the water-mirror magic changed from 4,399 to 4,398.
Apparently, the birdman had the bad luck to become one of this martial arts tournament's casualties.
Birdman Adventurer: (;´д`) What happened? Who am I? Where am I? What the hell, did I just get taken out?
He had barely sensed danger before turning around. That was all it took for him to be eliminated?
He'd only taken one hit, and he'd already been judged dead? That was absurd! And he hadn't even found out who had taken him out. That was enough to mess with anyone's head.
"Hey, don't sit there cursing your luck. There was no foul play. You were just incredibly unlucky and ran into the tournament's final boss right at the start.
The water-mirror magic over there has a replay of the kill. Just watch it and you'll see how you went down."
The adventurer talking to the birdman clearly knew him. He stepped forward, patted his shoulder in