Chapter 164: Thunder (2/2)

Marni was quite satisfied and was about to try the other two games when he noticed a countdown timer for continuing.

“Spend game coins to keep playing? Nah, ten thousand and eighty-six feels like a high score.”

However, the leaderboard of the top-scoring players appeared after he closed the continue panel.

Someone named Vulcan was the top scorer at the moment at a hundred and fourteen thousand, five hundred and fourteen points!

Gaping at the leaderboard, Marni found that he was only ranked below fifty—and there were just around sixty Players who had played the game so far.

“Tch. I’m that far away from first place? Hold on, there’s a note here…”

Marni discovered from the note beside the leaderboard then that the God of Games would also reward players ranking within the top hundred, and that the rewards get better the higher their ranking.

After blanking out for three seconds, Marni determinedly chose to play again, only for the system to display a message: Free try used. Please insert coin to play.

“That scared me. So, this only cost ten game coins? So cheap!”

10 game coins wasn’t too much money even for new Players, and certainly not for Marni, rich and generous as he was. Hence, he started a new game without hesitation.

Still, his luck was poorer this time—he ended up dead with a score of 9,527.

“Continue with ten game coins? Let’s go!”

He did not last long, however. Caught dazed by concentrated fire, he panicked, darting around and ended up shot down once again.

“Second continue for a hundred game coins? This is robbery!” Marni could not help cursing. “Let’s go!”

And yet, he didn’t survive too long on his third attempt either.

“Third continue for a thousand game coins? I could strengthen an item up to plus three!” Marni was about to curse the underhanded business there, but quickly stopped short when he remembered that each game was created by the God of Games himself.

“Let’s go!” He seethed.

Marni eventually stopped at 20,000 points when he realized that there wasn’t a fourth continue. Admittedly, he could only surrender given how he had died three times straight.

“Well, I should at least make the top thirty.” Pleased with himself, he turned to the leaderboard to find that he had dropped another sixty places, whereas the rankings numbered up to a hundred and fifty players.

It appears that more Players had noticed the game page, along with the note of the God of Games’ rewards.

His reward was going to disappear if this continues!

Marni steeled himself right then. “I’m dead anyway. Want to take my place? Keep trying!”

He inserted another 10 game coins into Thunder.

Go, Thunder!