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Chapter 571 - One hour remains

🕑 Added 2025-03-09 09:50:46 +0000 UTC

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Audrey WJ

I don't think she stole any of his kills and it's just some kind of manipulation on her part, he just sees it that way, otherwise we are just letting her do whatever even if it does not make sense, I don't like the "she is an absolute" explanation.

BJ

Okay okay. I can see how she may have kill stolen some of the beast, but why didnt he get credit for killing the hydra or the beasts while running around. The only way I could thinkg of that would put him at 0 is if he got negative points from people dying.

Ivan Jelenić

Isn't 26k people more than exist in the tutorial right now?

P K

I mean, she legit has his first girlfriend (I know nat is weird about this stuff but still) and is holding her hostage, nat can't die, and I feel like this is deff a play she'd make as a teacher/antagonist, still agree is gonna make nat very upset even if he understands the motive, not to mention everyone else

Carlo

I feel like this show of skill is a bit too much even for Liss. I mean she is nowhere near her previous level of power. She should still have a lot of restrictions on her. I get that she was an Absolute and what not, I get that she could have easily stolen the kill of the special grades, but of ALL the beasts in the islands? INVIDUALLY killing every monster without effecting anything else so that Nat doesn't notice it? Or has the system not counted those kills? It seems to absurd to me. I get that having someone like her in the story makes everything more exciting, but there should be limit imposed by the system on beings like her, she shouldn't have so much freedom/power. The more we go forward with the story, the further away Champion/Absolute level of power seem to be getting, even with everything that Nat has going for him I can't see him reach it with how much Liss is improving from their fight in the pyramid.

Daniel is ŁØNE

I'm aware of the intention, the reason it leaves a bad aftertaste is because there is a level of twisted sense to her actions which is why I can't fully hate it, doesn't mean I have to like it either tho, that said it's good writing so you have me hooked regardless. All I hope is that he gets some major reward aside from Tess's survival for his troubles because the tensions are running real high rn. Would also love to see some minion time because my boy Nat is gonna need either some down time or an immense crash out after all this. Either way you go tho, I trust the story is gonna come out well looking forward to the next chapter, this novel is literally how I start or end my day nearly every day.

anonymous patreon

Thats the intention- she said it clearly: She doesn’t mind being villain in his way.

David

Perhaps the beast notifications were only for the individual that killed them and the system notifications are for everyone?

Nachotoad

Okay hire the hell did she kill steal the island crashes?

Daniel is ŁØNE

This was surprising but this seems like a dick move, even by Liss standards. She is psychologically driving him into a corner when he is already backed against a wall, which would normally be fine but since it's not Nat's life at risk this does leave a bad after taste. I hope that the gains from this experience will be worth it because this feels malicious in the worst way.

Val the mysterious Jedi

Liss is that one party member in raids who needs on all loot

Robert Reilly

That sneaky bitch!

Arnon Parenti

Liss KS all his kills

Tee

Doing the math here, he’ll have to fight a semi-champion to win this thing. He also has to make sure no one kills it before then. Good luck my boy because you’re going to need it.

Meowgrr

She needs to manipulate the System in order to escape the Tutorial. I assume this is her practicing for the future. Screwing over Nat to further his training is just a side benefit.

Memelord Steambath

Nope, that would mean Liss kill stole every single one of his kills.....fucking monster

im Panda

So Lissandra kill stole each monster from Nat from the moment he started to now, that's some crazy Mana manipulation. I don't want to do the math, but I bet the mean kitty will have to be very powerful before it's worth enough points to get 1st

Death56

Did liss kill steal somehow

Antony Silva

Cerim,I love you so much for not using this chapter as the last weekend cliffhanger. I'm 100% sure I would had died from a heart attack.

Mark Bullock

LoL brilliant; I wonder if Cerim thought of this

Corac

Remember she is just as petty as Nat. And while she refused at the time to name him absolute candidate she treats and is training him to be one. And as...from the sounds of it...the strongest absolute to have been, she is clearly a little training crazy

Mark Bullock

I was speed reading and missed how he counted down(id assumed he already wasn't first) so I missed that oh shit moment... But he still got me with cliff

Mark Bullock

I can understand hadwin; but 0points??? Did he lose points from killing a few attendees?

jj

Woah! Woah! Woah! What?!? Let's gooooo!!!

EDMANGO

I'm hoping we get at least a little explanation about this or something, liss is just escalating after escalating to force his growth I assume, but it feels idk forced for her to just keep adding random conditions because she said so on top of her initial ones, I know people with power can do whatever they want but this is starting to feel either excessive or like she has a grudge against him

David McCreight

10th, 9th, 8th and 7th are shown and then he says "Five placements appear". What am I misreading?

Zaim İpek

Read it again.

David McCreight

I know, I reread them. I’m saying that the announcements about the deaths of the Special Grade Beasts seem like notifications. I know what Nat means when he says “for the first time”, but it’s just not clear why the beast death announcements are in a different category from System Notifications.

Ansordia

FOUND it... it bugged me aswell! "Easy difficulty: 1869/2000 Normal difficulty: 734/1000 Hard difficulty: 330/500 Hell difficulty: 56/250" = 2,989 participants alive overrall 3750 Chapter 60 soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo to get 26,576 people would seem hard... considering I remember that a lot of people from easy difficulty left also remember that this is +500 chapters earlier and lot of them are dead not 50% but more then 25% have left or died... so how do we get "26,576" because lets assume every round is equally healthy with an assumed 35% less people then that 2989... that is only "1942,85 x 10 isn't nearly enough so either there are rounds that ARE a lot more healthy or I'm assuming way higher death/leaving rates then there was... because to get to get 26576 every round needs 2657,6 people left... and that just isn't true for sure because the last number for easy I remember was 11XX something... so what gives? edit: So what David said... the WHOLE population of the tournamet isn't enough... like wtf? Also I don't remember that number what Chapter was that in? because that isn't more then 24k not even close to being 25k and absolutely not enough to be 26576

Ansordia

I read it more like he is placing lines INSIDE the armor that really helps the armour but the armour itself isn't 100% made out of that material more like 5-10%, but yea the increase in his ability to make leylines in reality seems even then a bit much.

David

Easy Difficulty - 13,961 Normal Difficulty - 7,021 Hard Difficulty - 2,100 Hell Difficulty - 269 Beyond - 74 Those are the numbers from the start of this tournament, I believe it was 5000/round at the start

Sail

For sure we're going to get one tomorrow, doubt its gonna be left up to the reader to infer how she stole his points

Sail

If you read the author notes on Thursday you'd know, Cerim explained that some changes were made to the last few chapters to increase the quality of future chapters

Edmund Dillon

Tftc!!!

Aeon

You lose an unknown amount of points iirc for killing other contestants, and im pretty sure he saw BenDover and killed him out of spite or whatever the hell

Zaim İpek

I'm sure that in her mind she is the most normal and sane person in the tutorial.

Andrew

Thank you!

David McCreight

“Five placements appear” - but you only list four.

Moonfrost

She specifically said at the 25 minute mark it would be "strong enough to kill everyone else here", meaning it would br up to Nat alone to deal with it. Nat has to wait until the 22 minute mark at least before killing it in order to take back first place from Liss (the Witherclaw will be worth 38k points then)

David McCreight

“for the first time, a notification from the system pops up” - but even just earlier this chapter a notification popped up when he killed the hydra?

vEnviouz

TFTC!!!

FarFromLogic

how is it 0, how did she kill steal, I think its a good setup to force him to act or break, I also hope the comment from myrra was yet another push to not turn off his emotions since he misses stuff when he does but I think we'd need an explanation on how lis did what she did rather than just treating her like some god that can flip the script just because, it was really good to limit her power in the early chapters since she was reliant on external mana,

Zaim İpek

I believe this is implying Liss did something to mess with his system and keep this tournament round from recognizing any of his kills so far, presumably because she wants him to earn all of his points from the Witherclaw and earn enough from it alone to win the round. This also seems to hint or suggest that his complete lack of any system notifcations is due to whatever was done that prevented him from gaining points.

Bob

She just stole his kill. She can kill all the monsters 1ms before Nat would have.

blaw

Maybe she put some people in the way of the falling islands to reset his points.

Madje Tobi Marc'Avent Tchona

He can’t see kills or points so he assumes system fuckery for both, which is logical but a pitfall she cleverly used to take his kills with him none the wiser. Maybe if he had talked with the other participants, he would have known they could see their kills, and that would have been a hint? Maybe this is a lesson in the pitfalls of single minded “focus”? All I know is Liss is devious for this.

Woojoe

So the question is, was Liss telling the truth when she said that it would become impossible to kill at the 25 minute mark. So does Nat need to quickly get enough other points to be able to kill it at or before the 25 minute mark. Or does he have to grow enough to be able to kill it afterwards. My bet is the latter, but now that he understands all his kills have been stolen up to the point it’s possible Liss won’t continue doing it.

Wojciech Waleśkiewicz

I don’t get it. After all this fighting and killing he has 0 points ??? 😳

LawBear2005

My bet is that Liss wants nathaniel to beat the witherclaw when Its points are higher than her total points. That will be the only way nathaniel can win by a landslide. Instead of limiting him by saying he can’t use his passives, she limits him in this way.

Joe Woodhouse

Since I'm like this... In Excel or Google Sheets, put the remaining number of minutes in cell A2 and the remaining number of seconds in B2. We'll ignore seconds until we get to under one minute remaining. (You must say 0 minutes remaining to start counting seconds.) Points for defeating Witherclaw at that number of minutes or seconds remaining are given by: =15000+(MIN(30,(60-MIN(A2,60)))*500)+(MIN(20,(30-MIN(A2,30)))*1000)+(MIN(9,(10-MIN(A2,10)))*5000)+IF(A2>0,0,(MIN(30,(60-MIN(B2,60)))*10000)+(30-MIN(B2,30))*100000) It allows for both minutes and seconds remaining to be zero, since Cerim writes like that. :) That would be 3,395,000 points. So assuming Nat can figure out and prevent what has lead to Liss stealing his points, and that she does nothing to earn any further points, he only needs 38,000 points to win. He can do this by defeating Witherclaw with 22 minutes remaining - well before it attains Champion rank.

Mads jæger

if liss kill stole all nats kills then the witherclaw wont be able to track nat

Poutine Au Syrop d'érable

Yeah, and that's 8 minute after it became strong enough to kill everyone here.

Poutine Au Syrop d'érable

Idk about that. We do see her use mana in a way he can't even detect. And she is constantly getting stronger. She also maybe placed something on him to remote kill.

Oaktree

There is one thought going through nats mind, as biscuit would say “asshole”

Poutine Au Syrop d'érable

So, Is Noname officially inside the #0, or is that we he can see for himself/ a change. Cause that means liss killed 3 and then a lot of small ones, right? Ahhhh. It's not 0th place, 26000 points... Liss kill stealed him everytime! Is there even 26000 people in the tournament? It's like 2500 per rounds? What was the numbers again.

Venno

Whaaaaaat

Moonfrost

it seems unlikely even for Liss to be able to do all that all unnoticed, it's more likely she somehow manipulated the System to take the points from him seems a bit far-fetched, but then we've seen her do stuff with attendee statuses and the 5th Floor discipleship

Jeb

Lot of kill stealing there miss cockroach. Good luck Nat!!!

Belmont Igneul

She killed all of his enemies

Poutine Au Syrop d'érable

Ley Lines Knitting and Weaving for armor and inscriptions, Nat is already at that level? Wasn't solidifying a single line really hard? Did I miss something, miss understand whats happening, or boy grew that fast? Cause the fully solidified looked to be at eclipse++ level of potential and power.

zoarian

It does seem like Liss stole all his points... Talk about a monster - killing all the beasts from the floating island drops without him noticing. She's the sixth special beast lol. It's kinda interesting that current Nat's basically fighting the past Nat. The last kill is where it all needs to happen. At 30min till the end of event, the Witherclaw will be worth 30k. Then extra 1k per minute. To be "safe" and dominate the event Nat will need around a 10k buffer between him and Liss - so around 50k... 10min till the end of event, just as the beast turns into a Champ. I dunno, hard to say if Liss considers herself as part of the event - maybe just having a slightly bigger score will be enough (so 22-20 min before end of event).

Moonfrost

Liss definitely stole his points, no way "Hadwin" is at 37k points otherwise

Sunto

This just feels needlessly edgy tbh

Le Frog

...I... why didn't I expect that?

Moonfrost

that is actually so evil, Nat has to wait until at least the 22-minute mark to kill the Witherclaw if he is to place higher than Liss

Brady Fiola

Aww poor Myrra just wanted to genuinely apologize to Nat, even if it meant he was a little mad. She knows when he’s not himself at least, and seems to put it off for later. If I remember correctly, Lissandra said that Nat has 5 minutes to kill the beast after the 30 minute mark. Or at least, the beast would become “strong enough to kill everyone” at that point. However, the most amount of points he could get for that would be 35,000. I assume Lissandra is poaching his kills somehow (and will continue to do so for all other beasts), and is taunting Nat into killing the Witherclaw after her arbitrary time-limit. Without a doubt, he’s going to take that challenge.

Scraser

Lissaaaandraaaa what did you dooo

M van Dongen

Is it becausenof Smiley?

RainyCats

Stealandra

Hemi Rigby-Curtis

I think Lissandra stole his points

M van Dongen

How?

Sadyix

Cerim you are amazing I would never expect this

RainyCats

Damn, how did that happen. Did he kill too many tutorial attendees when the island dropped?

BrokenBulb65

Tftc

Gio

Lol. Lissandra the killstealer.

Aoth the Arcane

Wtf

Jamie

Thanks for the chapter and letting us know what was changed!

ShyviaAngel

Damm tournament bastard

Funny guy

Danks fur da chappie! Liss is crazy, holy hell

BlackRazaras

Thanks for for chapter


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