The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 44 - System Centurion Quinzel

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Wolf

Time passes rapidly as I clear one Centurion Quinzel after another.

The Sixth Centurion Quinzel turns out to be the second easiest one of the bunch, with two fifths that focus just on finding an item or two, and the others being combat focused. With the Seventh Centurion Quinzel, which has nothing but combat fifths in it, being the easiest of them all. Since the combat fifths were all pitting me and Sapphire up against other contestants of the quinzel.

As for the Eighth Centurion Quinzel? That one turns out to be rather difficult. Only because it was a bunch of tests that blocked me from using any sort of magic or elemental energy at all.

So I was left using just my physical strength and planning.

Lastly, the Ninth Centurion Quinzel surprisingly isn’t split into fifths like the ones before it. It’s just a single quiz. One where if the contestants get the questions wrong, they have to fight a mini boss and then restart the quiz.

This one ends up taking me longer than any other floor I have ever been in to complete. Mostly because all of the questions in the quiz are about Beelzebub.

Every. Last. One.

And I don’t know shit about Beelzebub.

The only reason I manage to clear the floor in the end is because Fenrir takes pity on me and answers the questions in a message for me after a while. Although I do at least level up quite a bit during it.

Which I’m thankful for now that I’m sitting in the nearly empty arena of the Tenth Centurion Quinzel’s stadium. A stadium that is even more packed than any other stadium in the entire Centurion Quinzel. And to top that off, doesn’t seem to have a single one of the creatures that I have come to recognize are the dominant species of Beelzebub’s universe.

Then there’s the commentator.

A commentator I recognize and know very well isn’t the same commentator I’ve been seeing for the past nine floors.

My eyes narrow a little as I look up at the man, who looks just as confused as I am for some reason.

Was he just teleported here or something?

I glance at the audience that is actually growing larger and larger with every second as more and more people teleport into it. People who are far more animated than the what I’m assuming were fake people from the previous stadiums.

They’re also speaking in a language I clearly understand.

My answer comes in the form of a System Notification. One that Mikaela who is floating above me seems to have gotten as well considering the screen that appeared in front of him. Although I can’t confirm that for sure since I can’t see his side of the screen.

Beta Administrator Dungeon Notification

Congratulations on completing the first nine Centurion Quinzels, Beta Tester!

You have now arrived at the apex of the Centurion Quinzel!

However, Beelzebub has retracted his permission for the final Centurion Quinzel to be used within the Beta Dungeon. Therefore the System has made alterations to create its own Tenth Centurion Quinzel.

One the System has officially dubbed as the System Centurion Quinzel.

In order to replace the artificial audience and commentator from the Tenth Centurion Quinzel, the audience and main commentator of the Void Stream has been placed within the Beta Dungeon for the duration of the System Centurion Quinzel.

Huh. Well that’s… interesting.

I look around the stadium at the audience, all of whom are going absolutely wild at my appearance. With there being millions of people in the audience that seems to just continue going up and up and up through the bleachers forever.

Which honestly looks rather bizarre, but whatever.

“Well look here folks, because it seems like things are getting interesting!!!” Mikaela shouts, his voice echoing out magically over the audience. An audience I get the feeling is being muted a little bit when the noise reaches me, otherwise I probably would’ve gone deaf by now. Even with my headphones on. “A viewing room that is actually within the dungeon itself! Who would’ve ever thought this would happen?! Certainly not me!”

Yeah, yeah, you look incredibly happy about this.

I tune the vampire out as I look at the next notification that appears in my vision.

Beta Administrator Dungeon Notification

Unlike the previous Centurion Quinzels, the System Centurion Quinzel will be separated into three parts.

The first part of the System Centurion Quinzel will directly pit the Beta Testers against every single contestant remaining within the System Centurion Quinzel. And only a single survivor may pass on to the second third.

Any and all rewards will be delayed until the Sponsorship that begins prior to the final third of the Centurion Floor, known as the System Centurion Quinzel.

Good luck, Beta Tester.

For you will need it.

I feel like the System is starting to be more direct with its words lately. Also, I kind of forgot about the whole sponsorship thing if I’m being honest.

Not that I’m complaining about free stuff.

Good things generally happen when I get these Sponsorships after all. Even if they’re generally good things that stop a bad thing from happening.

And considering that this is the three hundredth floor and a Centurion Floor?

Something bad is bound to happen.

My thoughts come to a brief halt when all of the other contestants of the Centurion Quinzels that survived up until now all appear around me. Then things just… kind of go silent. Despite the notification saying that the first third is beginning.

I glance around at the other contestants – all of whom are lunar winter beasts – before shrugging.

Guess I can’t move on with any of them.

A pity, but they’re all artificial things that will die by the end of this anyways.

So I go ahead and give them all an order to kill themselves. Which they all follow immediately.

Leaving the audience growing silent as the next notification appears in my vision.

Well that was an easy third.

Time for the next one.