Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch - Chapter 763

Chapter 763: Chapter 723: Who is the Hunter After All?

[Happy Hunting!]

After the last prompt appeared, Ivan Ivanov felt a brief moment of confusion while lying in the game cabin.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself standing in a warehouse of some repair shop.

Ivan felt familiar with the place but uncertain whether he had seen this environment in reality or somewhere in the virtual world.

Because warehouses in repair shops generally look more or less the same, it’s hard to tell them apart.

However, he quickly put the environmental issue out of his mind because Ivan discovered something more important—

His point of view seemed a bit higher?

He looked down and saw his yellow-brown chest muscles, which resembled crocodile scales, and below that, perfectly symmetrical six-pack abs. Continuing downward, there were white coarse hemp shorts wrapped around his gluteal muscles and his amazingly thick and strong thighs.

With a slight bend of the knee and clenching of his fists, he could feel explosive power coursing through his muscles.

Ivan couldn’t help but throw a punch, smashing it down fiercely on the hood of a car beside him.

“Bang!”

With a loud noise, the hood was instantly dented by the size of a forearm, and the metal around the dent was wrinkled due to the immense force.

Obviously, this punch had astonishing destructive power!

If it were to hit a person, they would most likely be killed instantly.

Ivan straightened his body, looked around, and quickly found a huge mirror. In the mirror, there was a 2.2 meters tall, incredibly muscular Iron-Blooded Warrior!

Due to only wearing white coarse hemp shorts, his imposing and muscular figure was even more prominent.

The only problem was—

He was too ugly!

So ugly that it was unbearable!

Ivan looked at the face in the mirror. Knowing that it was his own face, he felt like throwing up.

It’s just too disgusting!

“A mask! Yes, a mask!”

—Summon [Iron-blooded Facemask]!

[Player is currently in a special environment, the item affects game balance, summoning failed.]

“Damn it.”

Ivan was furious and looked around the environment again. He picked up a sweat towel at random and was about to wrap it around his face as a facemask.

But at the next moment, a strong smell of oil and sweat hit his nostrils. He almost fainted.

Ivan couldn’t help but complain to the audience in the live broadcast room: “I swear to you! I’ve never smelled anything so outrageous in the virtual world except for the [4x strength shit smell]!”

“It must be Lincoln’s malicious intent!”

However, the audience’s reactions were:

“Yes, yes, yes, you’re right! Please don’t give us close-ups anymore!”

“Please spare us! I’m going to throw up my breakfast!”

“When you were fighting earlier in the pouring rain, it was fine for a few moments, and the atmosphere was fantastic. But now in bright lighting, it’s just too disgusting!”

“Ivan! Don’t be in a hurry to kill your opponents later! Make sure to lick them a few times! Please, that’s my only request in this whole life!”

“[Iron-blooded Warrior’s Kiss]! My God, how creative! Kiss them to death!”

…

Watching these comments, Ivan also felt a bit frustrated and picked up a wrench, smashing the glass in anger.

At that moment, he realized that as long as he couldn’t see it, the ugliness would be other people’s problem.

That’s good enough.

“Now, let the hunt begin!”

Seeing that he was unarmed and wearing only shorts, it wasn’t hard to guess that there were two possibilities for the game:

1: Everyone engages in hand-to-hand combat.

2: Find weapons and equipment for the final battle.

Considering that hand-to-hand combat wouldn’t necessarily require stripping down, the second possibility seemed more likely.

But Ivan’s thought was: since everyone has to find equipment, then in unequipped condition, Iron-Blooded Warrior’s physique and strength should be able to crush humans easily, right?

Even if he encounters multiple enemies at once, he can choose to fight or flee!

Even when faced with the martial arts expert he saw in [Battlefield] earlier, he could still crush them with the significant difference in physique and strength!

So—

Just charge in!

The true long leg power burst from his muscular physique, his arms swinging, and his muscular back activating, perfectly showcasing the incredible strength latent in his body.

As long as you don’t look at the face and ignore the shit-yellow… I mean, the yellow-brown skin, this is a perfect body.

For the first time, Ivan experienced the feeling of power emanating from within—this powerful body felt even stronger than the unskilled physical abilities of a maxed-level character in [Assassins’ Alliance].

And it was a permanent power!

This realization made Ivan’s blood surge with excitement. Looking at the warehouse’s rolling shutter door, he shielded his head with his forearm and charged at it wildly!

At the next moment, the entire roller shutter door was smashed open, leaving a huge human-shaped gap. Ivan burst out without any obstacles.

However, the loud noise spread throughout the entire repair shop.

The four [Hunter] players not far from the gate, of course, also noticed this commotion.

They immediately took action, rushing towards the source of the sound.

Both sides were desperately searching for their opponent, and as both parties approached each other, their distance quickly closed until—

They met in a narrow alley that was only four meters wide!

Seeing the four “dwarves” show up, Ivan, who was still immersed in the euphoria of his immense strength, hesitated for a second before accelerating forward. He couldn’t help but laugh while rushing forward:

“Hahaha! I caught you! Time to die!”

The four Hunters on the other side, seeing a grotesque, unspeakably ugly man wearing only shorts, screaming wildly and charging towards them recklessly, felt a tremendous shock to their psyche!

Subconsciously, they raised their guns and opened fire on the “naked man” charging right towards them—

“Bang bang bang bang bang!”

The dense gunfire echoed in unison!

Ivan felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

At such a close range and with such concentrated gunfire, it felt like being hit by a flurry of iron fists. His wild charge was instantly interrupted, even being pushed back by the impact of the bullets.

As the four Hunters on the other side kept shooting, they exclaimed:

“Holy shit! Iron-Blooded Warriors are so damn strong!”

“Is this guy insane, running at us naked like that? What’s his problem?”

“Don’t be so shocked! Haven’t you seen a pervert before?”

“If you have to say it, I really haven’t seen a pervert this ugly and muscular before!”

Ivan covered his head with his hands, desperately trying to dodge, but the narrow alley provided no cover. His body was continuously shot, and his health kept decreasing.

Ivan was furious, “This is not fair! Why do you all have guns!”

He tried to continue rushing forward, aiming to kill at least some of them.

But the other side didn’t care about him; they just kept shooting and took turns falling back.

Facing this strong suppression, Ivan had no power to fight back. He was entirely shot down and eliminated without touching any of his opponents.

His consciousness returned to the gaming cabin, and before his eyes were two enormous red words—

[Failure!]

Ivan was incredibly frustrated, cursing every filthy word he knew.

He didn’t understand. When the game started, didn’t the System tell him [Happy Hunting]?

But in the game, he was unarmed, while the opponents were all armed?

How the hell was this hunting anything?!

It couldn’t be that while he was admiring his muscles, the other side instantly found their weapons, right?

Or did they manage to arm all four players in those few seconds while he charged?

How could that be possible?!

Ivan was angry, but he was not satisfied.

So—

“Again!”

——

[Match start!]

[Finding opponent…]

[We have found—a worthy opponent for you!]

[This time the battlefield: Dinosaur Museum]

[Identity obtained: Hunter]

[Countdown begins!]

[3…]

[2…]

[1…]

[Happy Hunting!!]

——

The teleportation began.

Ivan was puzzled.

—Why were the last System prompts seen by both [Iron-Blooded Warriors] and [Hunters] all [Happy Hunting]?

According to common sense, if one side is [Happy Hunting], shouldn’t the other side be [Escape Alive] or [Survive Against the Odds]?

Who exactly were the hunters, and who were the hunted?