The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 24 - System Interference
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Wolf
I end up lazing around reading a book for almost an entire three days before the second fifth finally comes to an end and my portable system home is forcefully dismissed. Leaving about twenty thousand contestants remaining overall appearing in the stadium floor around me. Two-thirds of which are lunar winter beasts.
And after the commentator goes about his usual spew of jabbering away nonstop, another notification appears in my vision. One for the rewards that were mentioned before.
Beta Administrator Dungeon Notification
Congratulations on completing the second fifth of the Second Centurion Quinzel!
As a result of your success within the second fifth, you have earned the following rewards:
For being the first to complete the second fifth, you receive the Traveler Bug. This is a bug created by the great Beelzebub himself that always knows the correct direction that its bonded partner wishes to travel and will lead them there without fail.
For gaining possession of at least half of the contestants’ linked crystals at some point in the fifth, you receive the Crystal of Curses. This is a crystal that may be implanted into a piece of jewelry, and will grant the wearer of said jewelry a fifty-percent immunity to all curses.
For killing at least ten mini bosses within the second fifth, you receive the carapace of the ???. This is a ??? of the ??? of ??? and ???.
System Favor: This reward has been tampered with by a force outside of the System and The Reaper’s control.
Say what?
As if trying to ignore my question, three things appear floating in front of me. One is a tiny little beetle that almost looks cute and is purple and black in color. The next is a glowing purple crystal. And the last is a piece of carapace that is black and purple in color and feels like it’s emitting a rather powerful aura of curses on it.
Before I can wonder anything, I feel a connection establish between me and the tiny beetle. One that’s similar yet different to the connection I have with Sapphire.
Huh.
The heck’s going on?
I glance at Sapphire, just for her to shrug while yawning. Then I look at the two items for a moment before shrugging and taking them both into my storage ring.
Regardless of what that carapace is from, the crystal seems like it’ll be useful. I just need to send it off to Diane and have her find a jeweler for me to implant it in.
Right when I touch it though and feel the curse elemental energy within it, a thought comes to mind.
Curse elemental energy immunity. A carapace from an unknown source. Some sort of special bug. And System interference by someone outside of the System and The Reaper.
Was this… Beelzebub’s doing?
From what the System said at the start of this floor theme, this whole Centurion Quinzel thing was designed by the Progenitor of Insects and the Curse element, Beelzebub. And those two things kind of fit with the rewards I was given.
And for the creature that this carapace scrap belonged to being censored… could it be something from Beelzebub himself?
But if that was the case, why?
I try to think about it a bit more before remembering a System Favor message I read a while back.
Something about The Reaper and Beelzebub having an argument making it so that this Centurion Quinzel thing wasn’t placed in the actual Administrator Dungeon.
Hmm… it’s definitely a possibility.
I’ll have to ask about it the next time I… see…
My mind kind of blanks out as I find a certain chicken fluttering around in the stadium without a care in the world.
I stare at the immortal chicken for several seconds while completely ignoring the overly dramatic commentator. Only for said commentator to eventually grow quiet as well. Largely because said chicken landed on top of his head, leaving an awkward silence in the stadium.
The silence stretches on for several seconds with the chicken just kinda perched on top of the commentator. Almost as if the chicken decided on its own that it just owns the commentator or something.
Eventually the commentator just continues jabbering away while clearly acting as if the chicken isn’t there.
I share a glance with Sapphire before looking back at the commentator and chicken duo, only for the chicken to eventually get up off of his head and pass through some portal. Vanishing once more from the stadium and leaving me wonder what the hell just happened.
The System doesn’t give me much time to wonder about it though, because another notification appears mere moments after the chicken leaves.
Beta Administrator Dungeon Notification
Welcome to the third fifth of the Second Centurion Quinzel!
This fifth will be a game of King of the Hill.
Unlike the first two fifths of this Quinzel, you must find the crown within the map and claim it. Then you must hold onto the crown for as long as you possibly can.
All surviving contestants will move on to the fourth fifth of the Second Centurion Quinzel regardless of how long they kept the crown.
However, the contestant who retained control of the crown for the longest will be granted a special reward during the final fifth of the Second Centurion Quinzel.
Good luck.
Because you’ll need it.
A wide smile stretches across my face at the sight of the next fifth’s description.
Now this one seems very interesting.
I can already see the potential in it!
The potential for me to take a nap or just read.
I give a firm nod at that thought before finding myself and Sapphire being teleported into some sort of jungle. And it doesn’t take me long to notice the rather obvious golden beacon shooting up into the sky further away from where we’re located.
So after sharing a glance with Sapphire, the two of us both turn into lunar ice element and begin flying towards the beacon at a rather rapid pace.
