Chapter 46
Dan Woo-sung returned in a remarkably short time, registered for the main event, and departed. The receptionist read his nameplate with a bewildered expression.
“Seven-Step Ascension, Demon-Slaying Blade, Red-Water Prince… Was he weak?”
After finding the nicknames in the roster, he drew a line through them, signifying elimination. No participant had ever passed the preliminaries this quickly before.
As the clerk stared blankly at Dan Woo-sung’s receding back, a colleague beside him asked.
“What’s with you?”
“That guy… seems like a top contender.”
It was because the man who had snatched three nameplates in the blink of an eye wore an utterly serene expression.
“Where?”
When Maeng-won pointed at Danwooseong, his colleague said,
“I don’t know.”
“What would you know? Just take the registration.”
Maeng-won dropped the nameplate labeled “Guest” into the wooden barrel collecting the nameplates of the main contestants.
Since there was nothing at the bottom, it made a thudding sound.
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The nameplates of the main contestants poured out of the wooden barrel with a rumbling sound.
At the lit reception desk, all the judges had gathered.
It was the moment the main tournament bracket was being drawn.
The assistants arrived carrying large situation boards.
The scoreboard featured thin nails arranged in a mountain shape, with fewer nails as you ascended. Naturally, whoever placed their nameplate at the summit would be the winner.
