The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 7 - Chapter 12 - Other Competitors

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Wolf

I continue to tear my way through the quiz shows one floor after another without stopping, slaughtering the monsters set as other contestants on each floor. All while answering the questions on said floors.

Unfortunately for me though, I don’t always get a question right. And I can’t help but notice the chat going while and joking around every time I get a question wrong.

Which slightly irritates me.

Especially when I notice a couple friends in said chat trying to make fun of me as well. Some of whom I know from the regular Administrator Dungeon and have spoken with quite a bit over the years.

Like Crystal.

But things change when I arrive at the 366th floor of the Beta Administrator Dungeon and find a new notification appearing in my vision.

Seriously. What the heck is going on?

Beta Administrator Dungeon Notification

Welcome to the great Administrator Dungeon Quiz Show’s second half!

Give a round of applause for the incredible contestant before you who has managed to make it this far despite the grueling quizzes they’ve been faced with thus far!

And of course, for yourself as well! For watching their miserable failures during some of these quizzes!

During the second half of the quiz show, contestants will be taken from random floors across the regular Administrator Dungeon to participate in a quiz show centered around the different Competitors of the Administrator and Beta Dungeons! Four contestants will be taken on each floor, and should the Competitors of the Administrator Dungeon win a floor, they will be given instant Moderator status within the System! However, every time you answer incorrectly, or aren’t the first to answer, you will have to face off against a powerful monster!

Or you may just end up in a monster house filled with dozens of other monsters!

So be careful and answer calmly and quickly!

But this time the Beta Tester is not the only one with a punishment for getting the incorrect answer.

Should a Competitor of the Administrator Dungeon not answer correctly, they will be forced to appear on a Variety Show created by the System itself! One that will be broadcast across the entire universe!

So be careful to your Competitors as well, because you won’t be getting away without a punishment should you answer incorrectly.

And all answers will be muted for each contestant, making it impossible to know another contestant’s answer after it is given.

I find myself staring blankly at the notification before looking at the five podiums with mics and buzzers on them. Four of which have people I recognize appearing on them.

Or rather, three have people I recognize but haven’t necessarily met with many times or talked with much while one has someone I very much recognize and have talked plenty with.

My eyes narrow on Crystal, who was just making fun of me in the chat.

Crystal just awkwardly laughs while avoiding my gaze. Meanwhile the other three Competitors look confused as hell.

Considering that there are only a few dozen Competitors left in the Administrator Dungeon at this point, there aren’t many to choose from for the next five floors. Which means some of these people will end up on more than one floor. Most likely.

Putting that aside for the moment though, I wonder what this ‘Variety Show’ thing is supposed to be?

Is it going to be an actual variety show? Where celebrities go on the show and do various activities that the public might be interested in? Things like playing a game, or participating in a quiz show, or even doing some sort of survival on an island skit?

And the System’s really going to force the remaining Competitors into those things?

Honestly, that’ll be hilarious to watch.

I feel a smirk stretching across my face at the thought.

Crystal noticeably shivers when she notices the smirk on my face. And she’s not the only one as the others do as well.

As for who those other people are?

On the far left is Crystal, followed by Karunn Kegale, who I made an arctic lycan a while back and is a blacksmith. Then there’s Dewey Hobbs who I don’t actually remember much about other than him being in the top ten most followed Competitors of the run. Along with Lily Veldon, who is in the top five most followed.

I did meet Lily once, but she was just hiding behind that Christopher guy who I actually made a deal with back then.

Anyways, the System doing this may have been planned from the start.

Or it could be its method to stop me from killing the other contestants. Because I’m not just gonna slaughter these people to win this with ease.

I walk up to my own podium with my hands in my pockets before stopping right behind it, making the other Competitors breathe out sighs of relief. Almost like they were worried I’d kill them or something.

Of course, right before the first quiz appears, I make sure to let out my Domain just the tiniest bit. Instantly freezing everything in the room, including the people standing behind the booths.

But I make sure not to hurt them.

I just turn them into living statues, and they will stay that way throughout the duration of this quiz.

A smile spreads across my face as I state, “Bring on the quiz.”

The chat in the corner of my vision instantly goes absolutely ballistic. With very few calling me a cheater and the rest just laughing their asses off.

I, of course, ignore them all with a smile on my face while the first question appears. Then I proceed to look up said question on the System Forums in a very calm manner.

None of the others can answer after all, and I found that doing things this way makes it a lot easier for me.

No one ever said I had to know the answers off the top of my head after all.

After answering correctly, my podium begins to glow green.

Then I just wait a few minutes for the timer to run out before red lights shine from the others’ podiums.

This is fun.