The challenge begins!
No drum roll, no overhyped comntator, no cheering from the crowd.
Can it even be considered a real challenge?
Also, what is the ti limit?
[Right, how long do we even have?]
"Take your ti, this isn't a race."
HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Oh my god.
I just thought of sothing amazing.
Divine power lets survive without eating, drinking, or anything similar.
At least as far as I can tell.
I could totally refuse to pick anything and play an endurance ga!
If it ever cos a day that my opponent is more skilled than , I'll do that.
But not today!
I have a cheat!
X-Ray vision activate!
Wait, does that make a superhero?
Oh my god!
Ah, but I don't go everywhere being heroic.
Too much of a pain.
I guess there is being a supervillain.
h, too troubleso.
I slowly inspect every rock there is.
There are a few hundred in the courtyard.
I nonchalantly get 10 with the coolest looking gems inside.
That will do.
Before long I am done.
"You should take your ti. Speed isn't related to true skill."
[Sure.]
"These are your 10 rocks?"
[Yep.]
"You don't want to reconsider?]
[Nope.]
I can hear so people calling foolish.
Others are talking about how I probably entered this for the fun.
There is no sha for a newbie to lose to a professional after all.
That guy is slowly going around every rock and
Posing.
I want to say that he is using a mystical technique...
But seriously all he does is wander around and pose.
Pretty sure he's trying to woo that attendant girl.
Always turning his side profile for her to see him well.
anwhile, I'm just petting Wolfie.
[How about we open my stones and I just leave?]
"No way! I will compete fairly!"
What's with that guy?
He's supposed to be arrogant, unruly, and tyrannical
But actually, he's just foul-mouthed, isn't he?
I keep waiting.
I can now sohow relate to our judge.
He kept trying and getting denied.
Now that I think about it, wouldn't this be way more fun with magic involved?
What's the point of blindly guessing?
Plot twist this was all designed with a purpose to train the instincts of the younger generation.
Feel the heart of the rock kind of thing?
What are the chances of one of these turning out to be a DudeGeo?
I don't know.
Still, it feels dumb to .
After what feels like an eternity he is finally done.
This is the mont of truth.
The tension is palpable.
Or not
I already know the outco.
Overall 8/10 of his contain gems.
The last 2 being duds.
This is a very respectable result, to be honest.
[So how do we open these actually?]
"We'll slowly open each. It won't take long. Only a few minutes each."
Wait, we'll still have to wait an hour or more, no?
Had I known I wouldn't have accepted.
[How about calling it a day and ]
"No way! Challenges are sacred!"
[Look, how about we simply call it a draw and end it there?]
"*Scoff* As if I would accept such a thing!"
[Look, it will take lots of ti, then you'll lose and it won't even serve any purpose.]
"What do you an?"
[I thought this was going to be fast you know, just so side-fun.]
"Oh, I see. You are trying to get inside my head. To make admit a draw."
[*Sigh* Fine we'll wait. Ah, can we just skip these 2 rocks since they are totally empty?]
"As if!"
Thus I go back to petting Wolfie.
In the anti, a professional starts working on a small stage.
He is slowly peeling layers upon layers of the outer surfaces.
Every gem that appears provokes exclamations from the crowd.
About the type of gem it is.
About how valuable it is.
About all kinds of stuff.
Frankly, I'm not following any of it.
After a long while, my opponent's rocks are all done unveiling.
The crowd is urging to admit defeat.
After all, an 80% ratio is apparently almost unbeatable.
anwhile, my opponent is looking pensively at .
Guess he has realized that my prediction ca true.
Ti for my own selection.
I keep looking at the employee working on it.
How long before he extracts all the gems?
Yeah, fuck it.
I approach the stage.
"Custors are not allowed here and"
[Friend, this is taking too long. Got a sword?]
"What, no I don't?"
[Manager, what about you?]
He orders a subordinate to bring one.
This will go faster than the short tool he uses.
Then I start peeling.
Using divine energy to cut through the hard layers like butter.
Cutting most of the excess and leaving only small rocky chunks with gems inside.
Then I hand it all back.
[Alright, now you finish it.]
I get down while people are calling a madman.
Saying how I could have potentially wasted sothing extrely valuable.
Well, that's at first.
With every new gem that appears their reactions change.
Slight surprise.
Curiosity.
Confusion.
Bafflent.
Insanity.
I'd keep going, but after the fifth gem, they are already losing their shit.
I an 50% success rate is already enough to give a nice profit even if all the other ones are a dud.
At first, it actually isn't that bad.
But then one guy reminds them of how I expertly cut the excess.
As if I knew exactly what was inside.
Now they are talking about having a gift for it.
Sothing about an amazing intuition.
One guy even says sothing about the ability to talk to rocks.
What the hell?!
For so reason, I can only picture this going one way.
The rock going: Human, know what? I'm rock hard! Get it? Rock!
Don't ask why.
Then it is finally over.
The whole courtyard is silent.
Until finally.
*THUD*
"ARG, my elbows aren't as good as they used to be."
You can always count on that guy to break an awkward silence.
Or any silence for that matter.
It seems as if they were all waiting for that.
The crowd erupts in a cacophony.
Sothing about a new rising star.
Sothing about being aweso.
Sothing about hiring .
They forgot handso.
Oh well, I won't hold it against them.
They are too excited is all.
Now, can I collect my reward?
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