Death League 101: I'm Dead In 10 Minutes!-Chapter 83: "Finale (1)"
Leinster immediately had a bad feeling, but it was too late.
All those attacks immediately landed on the guardian spirit’s newly constructed body and then, under everyone’s disbelieving gazes, she...
Died.
The body exploded on the spot, shooting parts everywhere, frightening many people including the audience.
[Holy fck! The hell!]
[Did she die? For real? What??]
But that’s too easy?
The "boss monster" didn’t even fight!
The challengers were so shocked that everyone fell silent with their mouths hanging wide.
Is that it? They won? They completed the mission?
Indeed, the next second, the system notification sounded.
DING! [Congratulations! You have successfully killed the guardian spirit!]
[The ruin had ended. You may leave.]
? What? It’s over??
Leinster didn’t believe for a second that the whole ordeal could be solved so easily.
It felt like punching cottons!
The others had the same thoughts but when they finally got the system notification, everyone sighed in relief.
"It’s really over. The portal should appear soon and we can leave."
One of the veterans spoke, but the other veterans turned grim at those words.
Would the portal really appear? Because this year’s game...
The challengers waited and waited, but instead of a portal, what greeted them was a loud sound of explosion.
BOOOOMMM!
The whole hall instantly shook so hard that dust and small debris fell down the ceiling, quickly enveloping the entire hall with a thick cloud of dust.
"W-what! What the hell!"
Everyone subconsciously laid flat on the floor as they watched the display boxes cracked bit by bit, as if they were about to shatter completely.
What they didn’t see is that, the stream was still on and the audience’s view actually switched from the perspective challenger to the first floor of the mall.
There, thick black cloud and raging flames filled the entire first floor.
Stores became ruins with many strange products scattered everywhere.
"Gyaaaahhhhh— "
The zombie-like customers wailed in pain and the smell of burnt flesh could even be sensed through the screen.
Soon, the second floor exploded as well and the flame quickly burned a lot of places, turning the clean walls into charred mess.
The audience who watched these scenes were all stunned.
What? What the? The mall exploded? Is it because the game is over and the ruin will be closed?
But— the challengers haven’t left!
And why the sudden explosion?
Something feels wrong!
A few smart audiences, especially those who were also challengers but on higher levels, immediately analyzed with a grave tone.
[Guys, didn’t you notice that the entire time, the midnight mall really looked like it was once burned by something...]
[The zombies all looked like people who were burned to death!]
[Damn it. Those strange stores selling body parts disguised as luxurious products, don’t tell me they’re the visitors’ body parts?] 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
[Is there some kind of story related to this mall in real life? Any locals??]
[I-I’m a local! I think many many years ago, this mall got caught in fire and there were casualties so it was closed...]
But that mall should have been renovated and built anew!
The new mall looked nothing like this one.
[How unlucky. This ruin might be a memory or time-related ruin. No matter what happens, in the end, the same tragedy will play again.]
[Wait, I understand that this is how the ruin will disappear, but how come the portals are missing??]
[Yeah! The challengers have all completed the mission! They should be able to leave!]
The high-level challengers all fell silent before commenting.
[We suspect that this year, there’s a new rule...]
[Challengers who have finished the ruin can’t immediately leave like before and have to physically leave on their own.]
In other words, the challengers now had to physically leave the mall before they could truly leave the ruin.
The audience all had heart attacks at the bad news.
[What?? But the lower floors had all exploded! Fire is everywhere!]
With the lower floors in a mess, the building itself started to crumble, fire climbed all the way to the higher floors.
Even if the exhibition hall was inside a secret door in the supermarket, sooner or later, it would disappear too!
The audience who caught the guardian spirit’s relieved and wicked smile before she died immediately slapped their thighs.
[Damn it! Did she know about this?? Could it be that the trigger is her death??]
That’s why she didn’t fight back at all!
Despite knowing this, she still made many challengers die just to trigger the explosion.
The on-site challengers who waited for portals yet didn’t even see them until more and more displays cracked, finally changed their expressions.
"Damn it. Don’t tell me we have to leave the mall on our own??"
Someone immediately tried to go to the hall’s entrance but when they saw the ruins blocking their path, they almost fainted.
"We can’t go out! It’s all blocked!"
Even if they destroyed the ruins with their powers, there’s no way those explosions didn’t create fire.
They would still be burned to death.
Even worse, when the first display box completely shattered, the "art" inside slowly moved, its empty eyes looking straight at the challengers.
The nearest challenger noticed the art that suddenly came out of the box and even when he was a veteran, he couldn’t help but shriek.
"A-ah! The thing— the thing moved!"
That thing was shaped like a lamp but the lamp leg was two human legs, the lamp head was a human head.
The body was compressed to the point of resembling a pixar lamp mascot, giant version, two meters tall.
The human lamp’s two legs were glued to each other but strangely...it could still move towards the challenger, hopping like a rabbit.
You thought such a strange human lamp wouldn’t be able to move fast?
You’re wrong.
In a split second, the human lamp appeared right in front of the nearest challenger, the one who first noticed it.
Before the other challengers could even react—
"AAAAAAAA— "
