Chapter 7: Zobendio

In the middle of a circular area, a fighter coated in black cloth that had his face concealed had two small axes which he held one on each of his hands.

He appeared to be facing multiple enemies by himself but he wasn’t fazed in the least.

He stood there as if he fears nothing and no one.

The wind was blowing loudly and aggressively, the coated fighter’s clothes where being swayed at its will. The battle map lives up to its name, Windy Arena.

Windy Arena: A spacious circular arena with a statue of a goddess in its middle, other than the statue there are no other obstructions in the arena. Unlike normal obstructions, the statue in the middle cannot be destroyed.

Facing him were two players; one is an archer while the other was a swordsman wielding a large great sword.

The archer starts the initial clash firing 3 consecutive magical arrows.

Teamwork was observed by the tag-team archer-swordsman for the swordsman quickly dashed towards the dual-axe wielding fighter using the magical arrows as his shields against counter attacks.

~In Alctuz, when in group battles, attacks of your allies will just pass through you.

Thinking swiftly on his feet, the black coated player heads toward the archer to keep him from firing cover fire for the swordsman.

Even though he thought of it, it was no easy task; the swordsman was a fast runner and did not make his intentions easy for him.

The in game name of the fighter in black was also concealed from other players besides him already concealing his face.

~In Alctuz, there is an item called “Identity Cloak” that hides the player’s in game name and/or face, it is black in color and extremely expensive.

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The pods slowly opened with a sound of trapped air finally being free.

“Eh? What is this? Why do I have this mark on my left arm?” asked Rei while being confused yet again

“Oh that’s just the mark that Alctuz has measured your mana size, it shouldn’t hurt but does it?” replied and asked by Glace

“Well it doesn’t but I was just surprised, by the way, where could Master Feld be?” Rei thought out loud

“He’s probably out gambling or maybe “hanging out” with women” Glace answers with her vast knowledge of Feld’s personality

Glace hatched an idea and said “It’s probably a waste of time to be waiting for Master Feldgrau, let’s go back in game. I want you to see more battles.”

Having nothing to lose and something to gain Rei quickly agreed.

“What are you doing?” asks Rei

“Can’t you see I’m writing?” sarcastically said by Glace

“Well even I could notice that; but what for?” said Rei

“I’m just leaving a note here saying we’ll log out on about 7:30PM; so if ever Master Feldgrau returns he knows what time we’ll be out” explain by Glace

“I see, good thinking!” Rei said while doing a gesture of agreement and awe.

They proceeded to lay inside the pods yet again put their headbands on and logged in into Alctuz.

Wist and Froststone were connected via call in game while browsing rooms; they stumble upon a room for 4 people but there’s only 3 people in it. It was a public room open for spectators, the map was Windy Arena.

This room piqued Froststone’s interest and told Wist: “Hey Wist, I think this’ll be a good room to spectate; let’s watch them fight.”

Not really knowing what is good or bad Rei just plainly said “Alright”

They both pressed “Spectator” mode then entered the Windy Arena.

What they saw was a two versus one battle concerning a lone fighter in black with dual-axes and a duo consisting of a long and short range combatant.

Rei was surprised in how well the lone warrior stood against two enemies that are clearly not inexperienced.

His eyes showed how he was at awe while watching such a battle.

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The fight was about equal, but that also means that the lone warrior was capable enough to withstand two aggressive opponents by himself and currently hasn’t received any damage at all.

*Let’s call the lone warrior “Jin” even if his name was hidden and the archer “Ark” and the swordsman “Bord”*

Jin thinking to himself “The archer is saying something, hmm; they’re probably gonna use arrows as cover fire for the sword user”

~In Alctuz, in group battles, there is a function that is “Team chat” wherein you can only hear and be heard by your teammates; you can toggle between other chat functions like “All chat”, “Guild chat”, “System chat” etc.…

Ark fired 3 magical arrows and Bord used them as cover.

“Ah, I was right!” Jin thought to himself

“I’ll have to first get rid of that archer”

Jin ran towards the archer with Bord just right behind him

Jin thought: “Damn it, their tactic is working; I can’t get close enough and dodging arrows just gives this sword user openings”

“In that case I just have to get rid of the sword user first”

Jin stopped running, instead he faced the swordsman and turned his back on the archer.

He started fighting the sword user.

High level plays were displayed, Jin was amazing at blocking and countering at the same time; for every slash he blocked with one of his axes the other axe will try to strike.

Bord wasn’t just gonna let Jin hit him with a counter, he was fast too, and he either blocks or dodges the counters before trying to strike again.

Bord’s great sword was proven very useful for block and counter techniques as well because of its massive size and durability.

While the two close range fighters are having a clash, Ark wasn’t just gonna sit around; he boosted his jump with mana and fired multiple at Jin while he was falling down.

(Okay, before anyone starts asking why does he need to jump to fire , the thing is that he doesn’t, but attacks coming from above are harder to dodge and since has mini explosions being caught in it even if the arrow did not hit directly causes flinch and damage)

: The user will fire magical arrows in the shape of stars when seen from the tip. Each arrow cause mini-explosions when in contact with objects or players.

(Average damage per arrow: 4%) (Additional damage of the mini-explosion: 3% and causes the target to flinch)

Jin having his back turned on the archer and was busy fighting the sword user, he was vulnerable for arrow attacks.

Or so they thought, Jin was able to dodge every arrow Ark fired; Ark was shocked for Jin shouldn’t have been able to dodge his attacks.

Ark, midway before reaching the ground, he created a mana platform to step on to jump again and fired three s simultaneously so at least one on them will hit Jin.

Mana Platforms: A technique used by many players to be able to replicate flying by standing on a platform midair; this technique uses a significant amount of mana so spamming it and keeping a mana platform for a long time is highly un-recommended. (It was used by Gran in the first chapter)

After dodging Ark’s first barrage, Bord increased his aggressiveness and unleashed insane number of slashes powered with his mana which made Jin unable to divide his senses for dodging arrows and keeping up with Bord.

Jin in the middle of this predicament thought:

“Damn, I sense 3 arrows coming at me; I can’t shake this guy off, he’s a fast runner so he’ll catch up to me even if I do pull back, the archer will have the advantage if the try to flee. His slashes are getting too powerful for me to block without using mana.”

One of the three arrows was just about to hit Jin, Bord prepared a massive attack to hit Jin after he’s flinched by the arrow and started a stance that is used for a powerful slash.

The hit Jin and a mini-explosion occurred, Bord was about to unleash his skill but he was surprised as Jin wasn’t flinched at all and was surrounded by Red and Black aura of mana.

Jin used a mana powered punch which then knocked him back cancelling his skill.

The two opponents of Jin was stunned and was trembling, their opponent was completely out of their league.

The archer out of shock muttered: “T-t-two, TWO COLORED?!”

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Author's Note: I think I'm in a slump but I'm not~ I kind of know what I'm going to write but I was just unable to write it in one go, and besides, Dragon Nest SEA had an update and I played for long hours; by the way, this fiction was inspired by the PvP system of Dragon Nest. It's an awesome game, do try it out, especially the PvP combat system.

This chapter isn't done yet there is still 7.2 which I haven't finished since I just can't write it in one go and I wanted to give you guys something to read at least so I just divided it in two parts.

Thank you, cheers~