I can now use my ancient tongue to a point where I can influence higher beings to a certain degree, but the more demanding the order, the more damage I will take… obviously.


    Even when the skill wore off, everybody else stayed silent, but their first naive and uncaring eyes turned into that of predators.


    They stalked me as I walked into my cell, hearing the loud ng of metal bars shut behind me, locking me in.


    "If you want to be ughtered, then feel free to join me in the colosseum… well, as if a greenhorn like me would go against such strong diators, right?" I taunted the prison while sitting down in a meditative position.


    And as the prison exploded into an uproar of insults and foulnguage, I just closed my eyes and calcted the situation and what my best future course would be.


    …


    A few days passed, and no food had been given to me, yet I realized what I needed to do in order to eat.


    "I guess I have to win this match," I smiled as a guard pulled on the chains linking my wrists together and dragged me out of my cell, taking me down the hallway where a long silence befell the prison.


    Everything about this ce revolved around the idea of getting rewarded upon surviving in the colosseum, and this has beenpletely revealed to me through different means.


    I''ve seen many weaker onese backpletely unharmed, with their match apparently ending in a draw, meaning I didn''t have to win every single match in order to survive.


    Most likely, I just needed to provide entertainment like a normal diator would… but that isn''t my goal in the slightest.


    I wasn''t nning on extending my stay here, but instead, I wanted to try and find a sponsor or possible guild who could buy me from this hell hole.


    The chances of somebody watching the brutal colosseum are pretty low, but on the off chance it does happen, I''ll use my chance to the best of its abilities.


    [Next Side Quest has been revealed]


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    [Side Quest: Colosseum Match One]


    [Description: Utterly destroy your opponent in this next match in order to reveal to the opposing settlers that you didn''te here to y around. Strike fear into the hearts of everybody watching and make sure your opponent doesn''te back with his sanity intact.]


    [Reward: [Skill Book - Tarot Unlocking Process]


    [Penalty Upon Failure: Death]


    [Time Left: 30 Minutes]


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    I stared at the quest in front of me, slightly disappointed, as this meant I couldn''t just sit back and watch.


    Plus, the description of this quest was so vague that I might not evenplete it if I just survived… but it doesn''t want me to kill the opponent at the same time?


    I was utterly confused but decided to just go with my gut and make sure to destroy my opponent with everything that I had.<novelnext></novelnext>


    "Hey, since it''s my first match, will my opponent be weak?" I asked the guard, who pushed me toward a beaming light at the end of the hallway.


    But the man didn''t reply and just gave me a cold look before a gate came down, separating both of us within the hallway.


    "Go," He almost ordered, so I let out a long sigh before shuffling to my feet, where the links binding my wrists and ankles suddenly unlocked, dropping to the floor wlessly.


    "Ugh… this stench…" I covered my nose as I walked towards the light and shielded my eyes from its blinding properties.


    RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


    The colosseum exploded with tension and excitement as I walked out, every single person in this damn ce praying for my downfall.


    "AND NOW! THE CHALLENGER HAS APPEARED! AND FOR HIS FIRST MATCH! WE HAVE THE FAMOUS NOOBIE KILLER! THE MINOTAUURRRRRRRR!" An announcer shouted, her voice ringing across the Colosseum.


    My expressionless face shifted into a smile as arge minotaur about five meters in height came charging out of the opposite gate, its hooves kicking up a dust cloud behind its rabid and fast legs.


    "I guess I don''t have to hold back," I smiled ear-to-ear before utilizing the [Breath of the Snowy Underworld].


    All the ttering noise constantly attempting to distract me was blocked out; I assessed the situation, predicted every single oue, took my starved body into ount, my weaponless state… and then proceeded.


    "IT LOOKS LIKE THE NEWBIE IS FROZEN IN PLACE WITH FEAR!"


    I stood still, sweating as the minotaur charged closer and closer, reaching out its hairy hands to grab me and most likely crush me.


    And once its three meter long wingspan was about to touch me, I raised my hand into the air and then swung down.


    "Come,"


    A whistle resounded through the stone bowl before arge crashing BOOOOM exploded through the arena, the scarred minotaur in front of me frozen in ce.


    It then dropped to its knees, coughing up so much blood that it fell from its mouth like a waterfall of dead essence.


    I grabbed my spear, which had appeared before me, and then swung it once, removing the blood from the de and looking up at the now pitiful monster.


    My spear came crashing down through the minotaur''s torso, leaving a gaping hole in its stomach, destroying almost every single organ that it held within its body.


    As its eyes dimmed, I pped it with the blunt and t side of my de, waking it up for just a split second as it was knocked to the side.


    I raised my knee and looked at the minotaur straight between the eyes before mming my foot down, denting its entire skull.


    It died instantly, blood spurting from every orifice in its body.


    But I wasn''t done yet as the quest hadn''t beenpleted, so I repeatedly shed and stomped on the monster''s corpse until it was unrecognizable, leaving the entire colosseum speechless.


    "Ugh… I got blood stians on my only shirt," I muttered disappointingly before gazing up at the panel now floating above.