The Primal Hunter

Chapter 755

Jake had expected his rematch with the Benevolent Monk to be during a promotion match or at least another highlighted event, but that didn’t turn out to be the case. After watching the very-much-not Benevolent Monk fight, Jake did his last match as a Warlord before his promotion the week after, and when he signed up for the promotion match, he was naturally once more met with another anomaly… just not the one he had expected.

”Look, by now, we both know this is all a setup, alright? But hey, you can’t expect any easy fights anymore, being a Warlord possibly about to be a Paragon, so I guess it shouldn’t come as that big of a surprise. Either way, next up is another person who has yet to lose a single match and is considered quite the monster by pretty much all opponents that have faced her so far,” the Battlemaster said. Jake was honestly surprised when he heard the Battlemaster say “her” as he had totally expected to meet the Benevolent Monk… but then again, could he even meet him with how ranks and such worked?

Either way, it didn’t matter. Jake was still confident they would meet sooner or later.

“So, any information on this mystery opponent?” Jake asked.

“Yeah… she may be the toughest fighter you have faced yet. You need to understand not a single opponent has even managed to land a single scratch on her clothes so far,” he said, shaking his head.

Jake found his interest peaked. “Sounds strong. Do you have any tips or tricks? Maybe just some basic information on her?”

“I can’t tell you much, but I can say she is one of the most feared types of mages in the world: an illusionist. The world itself is altered in her presence, and in her own promotion match to Paragon, she won within a minute by simply walking up to her opponent and cutting his throat… You may actually consider skipping this one,” the Battlemaster said with some genuine concern. “But if you do plan on fighting, you better fucking plan for it properly, even if you only have a day.”

“Sign me up for it,” Jake just grinned. An illusionist, eh? Poor gal to meet someone like Jake.

“Are you sure? She is also known to be very ruthless and kills most of her opponents,” the Battlemaster asked clarifyingly.

“I’m sure,” Jake smiled.

“Alright then.”

Bonus Objective gained.

Your rapid ascension through the ranks of the Colosseum of Mortals couldn’t have been swifter. If you wish to keep this streak going, you will have to defeat an opponent with power out of the ordinary for this ranking.

Failing this bonus objective will lock out many similar future bonus objectives.

Bonus Objective: Defeat the Living Nightmare

The Living Nightmare, huh? Sounded scary, but Jake didn’t feel the slightest sense of fear.

Due to his Bloodline, Jake had automatically not taken her seriously. Over the last thirty years, Jake had encountered many who used illusion magic, not to talk about those he faced before Nevermore. Due to how Bloodlines worked, Jake’s Sphere of Perception entirely ignored all illusions, and his own intuition filtered out all the false information automatically, making Jake arguably the biggest counter to illusion magic in the entire multiverse.

He still went and checked her out, with Polly also gathering some sparse information. Apparently, she was some odd fairy-like humanoid Jake didn’t remember ever encountering before, and he was honestly surprised that if creatures like them existed, they were born in F-grade.

[Fae]

What Jake did learn was that fae or fairies, or whatever one wanted to call them, were very magically inclined creatures with downright horrible physical stats by default. Based on what Polly said, they also varied widely in size and appearance, with some the size of a finger and others several meters tall.

It was a weird race, that one. The one Jake was fighting was at least human-sized. If not, the battle would have been incredibly awkward. Oh, and as Jake also saw she had small transparent wings, he also made sure to check if she could fly. She couldn’t, so that was good to know.

only thing he could see being two eyes without any pupils. As he stood behind the bars of the arena and made eye contact with her, he felt the mental magic already

was definitely priming him

Jake instantly noticed all that was wrong. The entire arena was darker than before, and it almost looked like the sand was moving on its own. The fae also slowly walked out of her entrance area to the arena,

color as if someone had turned down the contrast, and out of the corner of his eye, he felt like he constantly saw

truly think you can be victorious?” the voice of the fae echoed, seemingly

have to find out now, won’t we?

you keep your eyes on me? That the darkness

take my chances with the darkness; I get the feeling you are the real threat here,” Jake

strike me down? Or are you satisfied, standing there,

“I guess I shou-“

any warning, Jake tilted his head to the side and swung his right hand upward as he felt it meet resistance. The image all around him faded as the figure of the fae at the other end of the arena dispersed, revealing her true form, now impaled with a katar through her heart. A

eyes

handling your magic,”

before falling onto her

hadn’t gone for a killing blow on Jake, he would have been nice and only kicked her in the head. But if she wanted to kill him, she should

just didn’t like that she killed everyone

of the arena and back to the Battlemaster to report, Jake read through his

the Colosseum of Mortals, standing so close to the apex you can almost feel it. Only ten more victories remain before you claim the title of Champion of the Colosseum of Mortals,

limited to one fight every

best equipment the Colosseum of Mortals has on

options have been maxed out. You are now limited to

single time or losing any lives,

the Living Nightmare, you are rewarded an extra 150,000 Colosseum

and claim your rightful title

had changed. Annoyingly so. Fewer Show Matches sucked, but at least he was getting close to reaching the Champion rank. As for the points… getting 150,000 for a single stab with a katar felt like overkill, but then again, her illusions had been damn strong. Jake’s senses were totally thrown for a loop, and without his sphere, he could have seen himself in real

rank passed,

Be promoted from Paragon

Current rank: Paragon (0/10)

Colosseum Points: 710,210

Lives remaining: 10

had worked much like in the Master Gladiator rank when it came to points increasing over time. The first win had given 4200, the next 4400, with the final one giving 6000. The same was true for Show Matches, where the first four weeks of matches had given 3000,

his streak going, naturally

Monk

Jake nodded as he tried

it a bit odd that they chose to make his promotion match against the only person he has ever lost to in the Colosseum, but after looking into it, I found the reason… this match will

does that

the usual rules are

“Explain,” Jake frowned.

be the one to decide the means of victory, and chances are they will make it a

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