first game V

An arrow from an unknown source pierced my leg, which was not protected by armour, and it was quite painful. So I quickly took out the medicinal tangerine I had just hesitated to eat and immediately popped it into my mouth. 

Since I hadn't even peeled it, I thought it would taste bitter, but as soon as it entered my mouth, it turned into a tangerine-flavoured liquid and made its way to my stomach. 

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I quickly hid behind the trunk of a thick tree so that I could not be seen from the direction of the arrow. 

Meanwhile, the cooldown on my dice roll was reset. I wasted no time and reactivated my special ability while the sniper there was probably looking for a new position where he could see me. 

Fortunately, this time it was defence and not something I couldn't use like intelligence. 

The fact that my defence stat was now 12 meant that I had 120 extra health. 

I took my head out from behind the tree for short intervals and examined the arrangement of the trees in the direction of the arrow. Then I imagined that I was the one who shot the arrow, and I picked a tree and shot myself from that tree.

And thanks to this imagination, I was able to ask myself, if my opponent was hiding behind the tree where I am hiding now, which way would I approach him? 

Because of the structure of the trees and the ground, there is a 90% chance that he would be looking for a new position in a wide circle in a clockwise direction. 

Knowing this, I looked at the trees around me made a quick plan and then estimated the approximate position of the sniper targeting me. I started moving slowly through the trees. 

Throughout the whole process, I was trying to stay as much as possible in the blind spot of my estimated position. What I was doing was probably nothing more than stupidity in the eyes of others, since my own life was at stake.

After all, all my behaviour is based on a simple assumption. I believe that the people who call me stupid are the real idiots.

What I do is nothing more than simple math. I calculate the probabilities and bet on the highest probability. The fact that each time I calculated a new probability and adjusted my behaviour according to the highest probability lowered the overall probability that what I was doing was correct. 

To put it more clearly, the calculation I made before each step was just increasing the bet of the gamble I was taking. But then again, I'm not the kind of person who loses. 

After closing my eyes and calculating the route he would take after failing to find me for the fourth time, I quietly climbed to the top of a tree and started counting backwards from one hundred, imagining that he would move along this route. Until now I had already calculated the route he would take after failing to find me three times, but I had never confirmed it.

When the countdown reached fifty, I tied the rope from the girl I had killed between the tree branch I was on and the ankles of both my feet.

When the countdown reached ten, I heard the footsteps of my opponent, which made me realize how successful I had been in my gambling. 

Unlike the other numbers, after saying the number 0 out loud, I leaned backwards and went into free fall. When I turned my head to look at the ground, I saw the figure of a person covered with leaves passing just below the branch I was sitting on. 

Because of the sound I made when I said zero, he raised his head and looked at me. When we were only 20 centimetres away from colliding, the rope at my feet tightened and I stopped in mid-air.

The man who had ambushed me got over his shock when he saw that we hadn't hit each other, but he couldn't move as fast as me. 

I immediately reached out my arm and grabbed his neck squeezed his neck with my arm and pulled him into the air. His feet left the ground and the handmade bow he had loosened his grip on when he thought we were going to collide fell to the ground. 

While I was strangling him with my arm, hanging by his feet from the tree, he was using his hands to try to get rid of me. But I had already pulled him up into the air as far as I could and my head was resting on his back. So his hands couldn't reach my head. After a while, the writing appeared in the air, letting me know that he had run out of breath.

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[ Congratulations you slaughtered another player to get ten assignable stat points ]

[ Congratulations you killed a player and your stat roll ability has evolved to level A ]

[ Number of players remaining 50 ]

The art of probability... It's number three in my top ten favourite arts. 

After rummaging through the man's corpse for a while, I found some pieces of underclothes armour that I could use for my legs, which are currently my most vulnerable parts. 

While wearing the armour pieces, I checked to see what kind of improvement my special ability had made.

Special ability - SSS: I'M BETTER THAN YOU (Stat Roll - A: once every two minutes roll two dice and randomly make your two stats increase by 7 points. The ability will evolve when you kill a person) (00:10)