”…!”
Gildarts dropped his sword and yelled in pain.
”Aargh!”
Everyone looked with a baffled expression on their faces as Gildarts fell to the ground while grabbing his nuts.
Zach stood in front of Gildarts and raised his leg. Seemingly, trying to kick him again. But Gildarts started crying while grunting in pain.
”I surrender!” Gildarts bellowed while trying to crawl out of the ring.
Zach could have let Gildarts go after that, but since he had tried to kill Zach, Zach thought it would be fair for him to accept his surrender.
Zach once again kicked Gildarts in his nuts and said, “I accept your surrender.”
”Aargh!” Gildarts screamed.
Zach felt good, so he kicked him for the last time and threw him out of the ring.
Then, Zach cracked his neck and stretched his hands in the air. Seemingly, he was trying to intimate other opponents by showing them that he was simply warming up and hadn’t gone serious.
”Next!” Elliott yelled with a furious look on his face.
Ishajreon walked into the ring and invited Zach for the duel.
Zach immediately accepted the duel and got himself ready to equip weapons before the 10-second limit ended.
He waited for the first five seconds for Ishajreon to take out his weapon, but he didn’t.
”…” Zach raised his brows and thought, ‘What is he planning? If he doesn’t take out any weapon, then we both have to fight unarmed.’
Ten seconds passed, but neither of them took out their weapon.
’I highly doubt that this player knows any closed ranged combat style. Not trying to be a stereotype, but nowadays, no one cares about learning anything. Everything is automated with the help of A.I, robots, and alien technology.’
’So this guy has to be a ranged attack user. But he didn’t take out any weapon that could be used by the ranger class. So the only possibility is that this guy is a mage.’
’But if that’s the case, then what’s his primary class?’ Zach thought.
Zach had to inspect every opponent he had to fight because that was the first step to take in a duel.
Knowing an opponent could give out many clues regarding opponents fighting styles and attacks, and Zach was trying to exploit them all.
’The other primary classes are swordsman, ranger, and bandit. He didn’t equip any weapon, so he can’t be the first two. But he may be a bandit, and he has a skill that hides his weapon. Or maybe a hidden blade or something?’
Ishajreon had researched quite well on Zach, and he had already prepared for the possible counterattacks. He was sure that he would win as long as he didn’t reveal anything and kept Zach curious to divert his concentration from the duel.
’He must have figured out my classes by now, but he is wrong. My second class is indeed a mage, but my primary class is not a bandit; it’s a swordsman. I will let him think that it’s a bandit, so he would anticipate a surprise attack from me, only to get killed by my class mage skill— Mana Zone!’
’Something is wrong…’ Zach uttered inwardly. ‘Why was this so easy to guess? Have I suddenly become smarter? No, I was already the smartest.’
’Could that be that these players are just dumb? That could be possible, but if they Manage to surprise and level up quite nicely, I don’t think they would be that dumb. In other words, something is wrong, but I don’t know what.’
Ishajreon smirked inwardly and thought, ‘Yes! Yes! Worry more, Zach. I have got you right under my palm!’
Ishajreon took the opportunity and activated his skill— Mana zone— that created a small domain within a three-meter range.
Then, he activated the second phase of the skill that covered the domain with magic.
’This skill cost me a lot of MP, so I can only use it once! But I will need to use it once because I have already won!’
”Hehe! The outcome of this battle was already decided the moment I used this skill. Now, even if you surrender, I am not going to stop! Or rather, I can’t stop even if I want to, because this skill can’t be stopped once it has been used!”
”…”
Ishajreon couldn’t stop smirking, but his smirk vanished when he heard Zach’s scoff.
Ishajreon had truly cornered Zach, and the skill was a top-tier skill that could easily kill an average player.
It could have hurt Zach severely, but it wouldn’t have killed him. Still, if it wasn’t for Ishajreon’s bad luck.
A Witcher, later mage, and then Warlock; they could use a variety of elements using magic that cost them MP.
In the Mana zone skill, Ishajreon could have used any element, but he decided to use water.
SIGH!
Zach sighed after seeing the domain getting covered in water.
Ishajreon had collected all the information he could— about Zach— from the guild members who were in the dungeon expedition and witnessed Zach’s prowess.
However, there was no one to accompany him on the 100th floor except Aria, Victoria, and one guild member who went with them to commit suicide. And because of that, no one had seen Zach use his Sea’s blessing which later changed to Sea’s Wrath after it recognized Zach as a Sea God.
Zach waited until enough water had filled in the domain, then, he smirked at Ishajreon and uttered, “You were saying something?”
Ishajreon started sweating as he couldn’t fathom the reason behind Zach’s smirk.
’Why is he not afraid?’ he panicked. ‘Does he think he can escape my Mana zone skill?!’
Ishajreon’s face turned pale when he realized his Mana Zone skill was no longer responding to him.
Zach had taken control over the domain using Sea’s Wrath.
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Total players in the game- 1,482,126
0 new players logged in.
14 players died.
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Author’s Note- Poor dude got worse luck than negative karma.
Rest in peace!