Zach looked at them one by one and read their name and level.
The first one was ‘Gildarts’, but Zach wasn’t sure whether it was a real name or nickname. He was level 71
The second was ‘Ishajreon’, and Zach couldn’t even pronounce it in his head. He was level 95.
The third was ‘Jeremy’, and Zach was certain it was his real name rather than a nickname. He was level 69.
The fourth was ‘Razeir’, and he was level 85.
The fifth was ‘Gramir’, and she was level 77.
The sixth was ‘Kevin’, and he was level 80.
The seventh was ‘Evonik’, and he was level 82.
The eighth was ‘Crazy Bitch’, and she was level 88.
The ninth was ‘Thomas’ Chick’, and she was level 86.
The tenth was ‘Kira’, and she was level 99.
Zach sighed in relief after looking at them all, because he didn’t recognize any of them. However, Elliott did that on purpose because he didn’t want to send them to fight Zach since they had already witnessed Zach’s true strength. So if he had sent them, they would have surrendered as soon as the match started.
While it may be strange for Zach, he had spent over a week with the guild members of Risen Warriors during the dungeon expedition, and they all had worked hard to survive.
Zach thought the rest of them would be petrified and undergo trauma after experiencing the tragedy on the 75th floor, but most of them had already recovered.
’Well, it’s also a bad thing that I am seeing them for the first time,’ Zach uttered inwardly. ‘I don’t even know what classes they belong to!’
’Some of them are higher level than me, but that doesn’t mean they would be stronger. However, there are chances that they have got some OP skill, or maybe even one of the gods’ blessings.’
’Players have already started worshiping the gods to gain favor. I don’t know what they could ask as a favor, but naturally speaking; any sane person would obviously wish to get stronger.’
Everyone had their own fighting styles that differed from another, and it was safe for Zach to assume that the 10 ten guild members would be worthy of being the top ten.
Elliott called a flying carrier that was specially made for the guild master.
He got on it and flew it a few meters above the ground so that he could watch the battle without any interruption or anyone blocking their way. He also felt a sense of superiority by being above everyone else.
”You can start any time now!” Elliott said out loud while sitting in a haughty position in the carrier.
He also had a few guards on the carrier to take care of him. Two girls were massaging his shoulders and hands. While the other two were massaging his legs. Two more girls were sitting on his lap and feeding him fruits and drinks.
He was showing everyone how luxurious his life was.
Gildarts stepped forward and requested to start the duel.
A screen appeared in front of Zach that said:
[Gildarts has invited you for a duel! Press ‘Yes’ to accept and press ‘No’ to reject.]
”I don’t have time to fight you one by one!” Zach beckoned everyone and uttered, “All of you, come at me at once.”
”It’s called duel for a reason, you dumbass!” Elliott commented from his flying carrier. “You have to fight them one by one!”
”Argh!” Zach groaned in frustration and accepted Gildarts’ invitation.
’I don’t have my gloves right now, so I can summon weapons. I can fight without using any weapons since that would give me +500 ATK because of my skill. However, I can’t use martial arts on the players who use ranged attacks.’
’I will decide what weapon I would use after seeing what classes my opponents belong to. But I will have to do it within ten seconds once the duel starts, or I will be unable to equip weapons after that.’
Zach narrowed down the possibilities of the classes of his opponents.
’There is no way any of these ten players have healer class. Elliott is stupid, but he is not stupid to send a player with healer class in a duel.’
Gildarts took out his sword and said, “Let’s fight fair and square. Take out your weapon.”
Zach scoffed and uttered, “The battle would become unfair the moment I decide to get serious. So spare me your ‘nobility’ and let’s start this duel already.”
”Fine by me.”
Gildarts’ sword suddenly turned color and became red.
”…” Zach raised his brows in amusement and wondered, ‘Sword magic?’
Zach wanted to use a weapon since sword magic wasn’t something he could scoff at. However, he was low on MP since he was coming back directly after clearing the dungeon of the higher realm.
He cultivated some MP passively while spending his time with Aria and Aurora, but it wasn’t much.
Zach still had to fight the rest 9 players, so he was saving up his ace cards for the last and trying to fight without tiring himself.
Gildarts dashed at Zach while aiming the tip of the sword at Zach’s neck. It was as though he was trying to kill Zach.
According to the rules of the game, killing other players in duels wouldn’t give a red name tag to the player, and there was no penalty such as negative karma.
However, one could always retreat in the middle of the battle once the player’s HP decreased to less than 5 percent.
Zach easily dodged all the Gildarts attacks, but there was something wrong.
Normally, one would get tired and slow down after moving and running around in the ring, but Gildarts was becoming faster for some reason.
The red fire covered Gildarts’ sword and its shape became bigger.
”I told you to take your weapon out,” Gildart smirked at Zach and dashed at him while swinging the sword like a professional.
A few seconds into the battle and it had already ended.
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Total players in the game- 1,482,140
0 new players logged in.
29 players died.
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Author’s Note- Thanks, @Abloec, for the gift!