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After Sofia was almost mockingly knocked out by a novice, she began to think seriously about lying on the floor and headbutting a wall to lose her own memory.

Victor sensed that Sofia's thoughts were evolving in the wrong direction. He said he wanted to play a game to distract her.

Sofia accepted his offer while she was still seriously thinking about banging her head against a wall and losing her memory.

Victor summoned the system needed to enter the games and when he looked at the two-player game section, he saw a new piece of information there.

[ Random world shrinking map survival battle (two player)

Number of participants : 100

Entrance fee : -1 month lifetime

Win reward : +1 year ~ +1 month of life span and 100~1 system points

Team ready

Start? ]

When Victor clicked the start button on the screen, both Sofia and Victor suddenly disappeared.

Victor and Sofia appeared in the living room of an ordinary looking house.

[ One month charged from your total life span ]

[ Your remaining life span : 24 years, 9 months and 28 days... ]

As the countdown in front of Victor was counting down from ten to five, a symbol of a golden knife appeared in front of Victor and disappeared again.

Victor turned his head and was about to ask what it was, but Sofia saw his ignorance and explained.

"This sign means that only knives and similar weapons will come out of the chests as weapons."

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Looking out of the window and then checking the map with the symbol in my hand, I realized that where we were was quite similar to where we lived.

All around us were detached houses, each with its own personal garden. Each house was two floors high and built for a single family.

As far as I could see from the map, the whole game map was the same. Thousands of identical two-story houses.

"Victor, what is your talent?"

Is she asking my talent? Well, that could mean a lot of things. If she's asking about my talent in such a relaxed way, maybe there's a system feature where people can show their talent to other people. Probably the government collects everyone's talent information.

"Do I have to tell my ability?"

"Of course not. I asked you that if I knew your ability, we could use a battle tactic accordingly, but you don't have to tell me if you don't want to."

"Would it affect me if I tell everyone what my talent is?"

"If your skill level is not too high, there is no risk in revealing it. After all, your game avatar and your real views outside the game are completely different."

"What about telling my real avatar what this looks like?"

"This is absolutely forbidden. If you tell others what your game avatar looks like in-game, you will find that when you come back to your personal space, you will have to create your avatar again, just like the first time. Also, all the stats you've been upgrading all this time will be reset."

Hmm.

"What if I mentioned my special ability and someone who knows me sees an avatar in the game that uses that special ability. Then he told everyone that it was me. What happens then?"

"That's a bit of a complicated question. But I think it would be fine. After all, special abilities are not unique. Even though the name is special, some people can have the same ability. I've heard that if there are other people in the world who have the same ability as you, even if your avatar is revealed by others, nothing will happen unless they verify it. But that's just a theory, it's still not proven, because the chances of something like you say happening are very low."

"As far as I can guess, the number of people with S-level abilities should be much smaller than the number of people with F-level abilities, right?"

"Yes."

"Then wouldn't it put people with high levels of talent at greater risk to share their talents with others?"

"I don't know, but I once heard girls talking about something at school. They said that if your high level abilities were revealed, the people at the top would send assassins to kill you. Of course that's just bullshit ahahaha"

Bullshit? It makes perfect sense to me. If the positions of people at the top can only be occupied by people who are skilled in the game, it means that people with high skills are a potential threat to them.

I need to talk to whoever this friend this girl is talking about. That girl obviously knows a lot more about it than this girl.

"Before you trust me, I will tell you about my ability; my ability is a C level ability. It helps me teleport myself to my 3-second past location once every 3 minutes."

Huh... I remember this kind of ability. In the last game I played, a little naked girl used a skill like that. Ye right, she wasn't naked...

Anyway, since she told me her ability, it probably shouldn't be a big deal to reveal my abilities. Besides, if I tell her about my ability, there's a chance I'll find out more about it.

"If you think it's safe, I'll tell you my ability."

"Of course it's safe. After all, I'm not going to tell others about your abilities, am I?"

"My ability is a level B ability that gives me a random ability every game"

When she heard about the talent I was talking about, Sofia's face briefly showed a look of pity for me.

"Aren't you going to say anything?"

"ahah ahha ahha how should I put it... Your talent is a bit... trash."