I don't know what serious consequences the new book will have, so in order to keep updating, I can only make this decision, please forgive me, as compensation, after the computer is ready, I will be at least 6,000 a day, and I will work hard every day.

Chapter I

"Hello everyone!"

"Welcome to the monthly gladiatorial arena of the gods."

"I'm your favorite host,"

“007！”

In the quaint and dilapidated building, in the center of the eyes of the general public, a skeleton whose bones have been rubbed so that it can reflect the light is jumping...... Tap dance.

He danced as he put his ribs to his mouth as a microphone.

As his leaky chin opened and closed, a magnetic sound came out of his mouth.

"I haven't seen you for a long time, and it seems that there are a lot fewer people coming."

"Congratulations on making it to this point."

"But without further ado, today's gladiatorial arena is arranged as a novice arena."

"Now, let's welcome the first contestant of the day,"

"It's an eyeless demon that is born with sentient abilities and is a monster capable of devouring everything,"

"It's—"

“9526！”

The skeleton pointed his ribs in one direction, and there, there was a blocked tunnel.

And as his words fell, the iron door made of steel slowly opened, revealing the true face of the monster inside.

The fat and slippery body squirmed on the floor, with an inexplicable aura.

However, as soon as it came out, the laughter in the stands could not be stopped.

"Haha, isn't that just a slime?"

Indescribable obscure words rang out, creating tangible ripples in the air.

However, before the ripples could reach the arena, they disappeared in mid-air.

"036, pay attention, don't laugh at the newcomer, that's how you came." 007 glanced up at the stands and said mildly.

"I can stomp on a slime even when I'm at my weakest!"

The obscure voice was full of disdain.

"But I can stomp you right now, you weak Minotaur."

The skeleton looked at him, a gentle smile on his face that could still be seen without flesh and skin.

And then

Quiescence!

A deathly silence instantly enveloped the arena.

The obscure voice never sounded again, and 036, known as the Weak Chicken Minotaur, seemed unable to refute it.

"Poof!"

The silence was broken by laughter like silver bells.

If it were a different environment, people who heard such a pleasant smile might look up happily and see that beautiful face.

But at this time, most of the rest of the people in the stands were looking at the slime without squinting, as if the slime was the peerless beauty in their eyes.

Although a significant number of them did not have a brain, they could clearly hear the sarcasm in their smiles.

And with 036's temper, if it were ordinary, he would definitely not be able to endure such ridicule.

However, the battle that might have happened next did not come, and the mocking laughter was only fleeting.

After all, this is a gladiatorial arena, and all battles can only take place inside the arena, and the stands are only for viewing.

And only in the field is the place where victory and defeat are divided, and it is also the place where life and death are divided.

The obscure voices were no more, the laughter of the silver bells was no longer ringing, and the people in the stands were even more silent, so the skull's jaw opened and closed again, and gentle words came out.

"So let's welcome the other contestant today."

"He is the one who broke the record of newcomers, the worst race in the world, a being cursed by the gods."

"He's the newcomer who just came to the Bones Yesterday—"

“9527！”

The skeleton held its ribs and pointed at a reversed, flexible jaw that cracked at an exaggerated angle.

And in the direction of his ribs, a rumbling sound sounded, and the steel blockade was opened, and a slightly thin figure slowly stepped out of the deep darkness.

Ragged clothes, loose half-length short hair, sunken eye sockets, haggard but still handsome face.

He is 9527.

Chu Ge.

"I heard that there was a scum with an initial combat power of 5 yesterday, is he?"

"It's really a newcomer record breaker, I've never seen a newcomer with such low combat power!"

"It's human! It is said that this race feeds on other races, and it is extremely evil and terrifying. ”

"What did they do, and why were they cursed by the gods?"

"It's been a long time since I've seen a human, and the ones before seem to be dead."

"No, I heard that there seem to be a few left, but they have entered the depths of the buried bones, and I don't know whether they are alive or dead."

“……”

An obscure but understandable whisper came from the stands, and Chu Ge turned his head to look behind him with some dazed and vigilant eyes.

His position was not far from the stands, and when he looked up, he could see the stepped stands, so the whispers of the spectators could be heard in his ears clearly.

However, although his ears heard, in his eyes, the stands were shrouded in a gray mist, and only shadowy black shadows surged from time to time in the gray mist.

The unknown beings seemed to notice that he was observing them, and the obscure voices ceased.

Chu Ge had no choice but to regain his heart and began to observe the opponent in front of him.

There doesn't seem to be much of a difference from the slimes depicted in various anime games, as they appear to be just a large piece of wriggling clear jelly.

This is his opponent, the enemy he must defeat or even kill if he wants to live.

Although I don't know why I fell asleep overtime, I woke up and came to this strange place.

But he didn't give up on staying alive.

He has endured all the work of 996, and the little slime in front of him doesn't seem to be nothing.

As he thought so, his gaze drifted to the bone-glittering skeleton.

Then, looking at each other, Chu Ge saw that the faint blue flames in the skeleton's eyes seemed to float for a moment, but they quickly returned to normal.

He saw the skull's jaw open and close, and the voice that had been raised a few degrees but still gentle reached his ears.

"The Eyeless Demon faces the cursed of the gods, so who will survive today?"

"I declare—"

007 raised his ribs in his hand, then swung them down heavily.

"The battle begins!"

As the skeleton fell, a dark blue flame suddenly flashed, taking 036 with him.

At this time, only Chu Ge and the slime who looked harmless to humans and animals were left on the field.

Chu Ge clenched his fists, although he didn't know what would happen next, but from the beginning, he didn't ignore the skeleton's words.

It is a gladiatorial arena where only the victor can walk alive.

He wants to live, so he has to win.

However, just as he kept encouraging himself in his heart, the slime moved at a speed he couldn't imagine.

His eyes suddenly went black, and an unbearable pain came from his face, as if he had been hit in the face by a giant hammer.

His body fell backwards heavily, the back of his head falling to the hard ground, his consciousness shattered in an instant by the pain, making it difficult for him to think about what was happening.

The hot and humid sensation came from the back of his head, and he couldn't even make out what it was for a moment.

Then, again, he felt a darkness in front of him, and the sledgehammer struck him in the face again.

In a daze, he felt something strange on his face, and his nose seemed to be broken.

He thought so, and then the pain came from his body again.

This time, instead of the face, the pain that I had never experienced came from the abdomen.

He curled up, clutching his stomach hard.

His mouth closed open and wanted to say something.

But the pain made him unable to even moan, and only a hoarse aftermath disappeared into the air.

"Bang!"

A loud bang rang out, as if the final verdict had been made.

Chu Ge could no longer feel any pain, and his consciousness sank into the sea of the dead and passed away.

At the end of his death, he faintly heard the gentle words.

"It was a short game."

"Let's congratulate 9526, he survived!"

Chapter II

In an empty room, a somewhat thin figure curled up on the ground.

The dim light fell on his face through the only window in the room, reflecting the frowning and somewhat hideous face.

I don't know how long it took, Chu Ge finally opened his eyes.

"Where is this?"

His eyes were full of confusion and fear, and the pain of death still haunted his mind.

"Am I dead?"

He sat up and looked around suspiciously.

Somewhat familiar......

At this moment, an indifferent voice that was neither male nor female suddenly sounded.

【Welcome to the Colosseum of the Gods】

[Code 9527]

If you're familiar...... It was yesterday!

Wrong!

I'm ...... Back in time?

Chu Ge's eyes widened suddenly, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

The indifferent voice that was neither male nor female ignored Chu Ge's shock, and continued to speak as if it had been programmed.

【Tomorrow you will have your first duel, please get ready】

[The winner lives, the loser dies]

[I hope you can survive]

The cold voice died down, and the room fell silent.

Chu Ge didn't shout like last time, hoping that the indifferent voice would give him various explanations like the main god space or something.

The last experience had taught him that the cold voice would not pay attention to him.

But are those experiences real?

Did he really go back in time?

Or was it just a dream?

He didn't know.

So he lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

But soon, adjusting his mood, he looked up again.

"Hey, hey, is anyone there?"

"I want to ask where this is?"

His words echoed through the house, and unsurprisingly, there was still no response.

"Hey!" With a soft sigh, he began to look around again.

There is no difference from before, at a glance.

The house is not large, and the whole is made of stone, with irregular stones piled up into the walls, and the gaps are filled with earth.

There was no door in the room, only an open window on the wall, and the window was gray outside, and only the sky could be seen from Chu Ge's angle.

Yet the sky was also gray, with no sun, no white clouds, and no clear blue.

The last time Chu Ge watched all this, he actually had some hope in his heart.

After all, he has read a lot of online novels, and the main god space and the like may have been churning in his head.

He guessed that he was going to be developed, and then he was going to start the legendary road of God blocking and killing gods and Buddhas.

However, the pain of death clearly told him the true face of this world.

Without the brilliance of the protagonist in the novel, and without those well-known pretenses, in this world, it seems that only death and pain are the most real.

He subconsciously recalled the pain that seemed to be bombarded by a giant hammer, and the hideousness of pain appeared on his face again.

"Whew!"

Chu Ge gasped violently, trying to calm himself down.

But the pain seemed to befall him again, so clear and unbearable.

At this point, he felt as if something had changed, but he didn't know what it was.

And suddenly, there was an inexplicable burning pain in his chest, which was very different from the pain in his memory, and it was not unbearable.

The burning pain wasn't intense enough, but it didn't make him ignore.

So he took off his clothes, and then a scene of surprise appeared before his eyes.

That's an hourglass.

The quaint pattern was imprinted on his chest at some point, and the intricate lines that shimmered with gold outlined a delicate hourglass.

But what shocked Chu Ge the most was not this, but the golden sand in the hourglass was still flowing slowly.

Although it flowed very slowly, there was not the slightest gold sand at the bottom of the hourglass, so Chu Ge could see very clearly that the grain of gold sand slowly fell into the scene below.

"Goldfinger?"

Without much speculation, Chu Ge thought of this for the first time.

Then he laughed to himself.

Just now he thought that this world could not be as beautiful as in the novel, but he didn't expect that the next moment something suspected of being a golden finger appeared in front of him.

It's just that...... What is this gold finger for?

"System?"

He shouted, but unfortunately there was no response.

Then he reached for the hourglass again.

And the moment his hand touched the hourglass, something happened, and an obscure but reverent voice sounded in his head.

"Praise be to Akakkillon!"

Akakilon?

Who's that?

Chu Ge's face was full of doubts, but there was nothing else in his mind except this voice.

He reached for the pattern on his chest again, but there was no sound other than praise for Akakillon.

Chu Ge frowned, a little at a loss, not knowing what he should do, after all, he was only a 996 worker a day before.

However, at this moment, his heart suddenly moved, and subconsciously, obscure words came out of his mouth fluently.

"Praise be to Akakkillon!" He said.

And just as he said this, there was a sudden chaos in his mind, and countless complicated things flashed through his mind.

Towering mountains, huge forests, churning oceans, hideous beasts, sharp axes, and burly giants...... And lastly, that quaint and delicate hourglass.

It's like there's an epic blockbuster projected in his head, but unfortunately, it's just an edited version, no plot, no story, only blood throughout.

Because even that last hourglass was stained with a few drops of blood.

And as these things passed, as if there was a bang, his mind returned to normal, but his consciousness was still a little trance.

Then, in this trance, a huge familiar hourglass appeared in front of him.

The shape of the hourglass is exactly the same as the pattern imprinted on his chest, simple and delicate.

And the distribution of gold sand is exactly the same, there is only a very little gold sand below the hourglass, and the gold sand piled up above is constantly flowing downward, the flow rate is slow and even, and it seems that the gold sand falling is almost the same every time.

Those golden sands didn't seem to be ordinary, Chu Ge could see those things that had appeared in his memory through the golden sand, mountains, giant beasts, and so on.

They are reflected in the gold sand, but they continue to emerge and disappear with the flow of gold sand.

"I have finally seen you, my dear."

Suddenly, a voice sounded above him.

This voice was similar to the indifferent voice that was neither male nor female before, it was all obscure, but in Chu Ge's ears, he could clearly understand the meaning.

Chu Ge looked up and followed the sound, and then he saw that above the huge hourglass, there was also a golden throne.

The golden throne seems to be made of the same gold sand as it is in an hourglass, and the golden light is shining while constantly flowing, but it maintains the shape of the throne.

On the throne, a figure sat silently.

The reason why it is said to be a figure is because Chu Ge can't see his appearance clearly at all, and he can't even see his clothes clearly.

The other party was shrouded in a light that was not dazzling, and all that could be seen was a humanoid light and shadow.

"Who are you?" He asked.

"I am the keeper of time, Akakilon."

"Of course, you can also call me the god of time."

The god of time?

What's that?

Such a thought flashed in Chu Ge's heart, but soon he restrained the surprise on his face, looked at the figure on the throne seriously, and asked the first word.

"What is a dependent?"

As a dead house, the word "dependent" undoubtedly occupies a great place in his heart.

"You are the darling of time, so naturally you are my favorite."

The darling of time?

Hearing this, while there were some regrets, the doubts in Chu Ge's heart were even worse.

He opened his mouth to ask.

However, a violent tremor suddenly came, and he stumbled and fell to the ground.

At this time, he looked up and was horrified to find that everything in front of him began to fall apart, like a mirror being broken, and countless fragments were dancing in the air, and many of the complex scenes made Chu Ge dazzled.

And the huge hourglass was directly shattered, and countless golden quicksands gathered together, surging like a turbulent river, rushing towards Chu Ge.

However, the golden quicksand penetrated through Chu Ge's body again, leaving countless beautiful colored phantoms around him.

In this terrifying shattering, apart from Chu Ge, the only one who could still maintain his form was the god of time on the throne.

At this moment, the light and shadow of the self-proclaimed god of time seemed to be staring at him from a distance, and then a majestic voice came from the air.

"My Dependent."

"The Buried Bones is repelling the power of time, and I can't stay here for long."

"You need to remember that what you have experienced before is about to happen, and time has blessed you with a glimpse of your future death."

"But time never obeys fate, resisting him, confronting him, defeating him, it is my mission and it is also your mission."

"So, may you be able to try to survive the gladiatorial arena of the gods under the guidance of the hourglass of time."

"Time is guarding you."

didn't give Chu Ge a chance to interject, and as soon as he finished speaking, the light and shadow representing the god of time shattered into a streamer, and then disappeared into the shattered pictures around him.

At the same time, Chu Ge felt that his brain was also booming, and countless complex and incomprehensible knowledge appeared in his mind.

That's the knowledge of the hourglass of time.

Unfortunately, that knowledge seems to be missing a lot, and it only tells him how to use the hourglass and some of its functions and introductions.

According to the knowledge in my mind, the hourglass of time is a broken artifact, and its only function at the moment is to predict the future, and after using it, it can allow people to experience important events related to themselves in the recent period of time in the future.

The condition of its use is that it needs to be stored, and it consumes the power of time, and when all the gold sand above the hourglass falls below, it means that the energy storage is completed, and in layman's terms, the skill is cooled.

Feeling this knowledge, Chu Ge was a little dazed and stunned.

If it is true that he will be killed by the slime in humiliation afterwards, then what is the use of just knowing in advance that he will die?

Could it be that there are other means to fight against this fate?