Axie Online

Chapter 51 - Debut

After a while of attracting the attention of the monster army, finally, a large swarm of level four or fifty mob monsters emerged from the gates of Viredeta village. That seems to be the main force of the monster side.

"Ramsey, Kynel, let's retreat after dealing the most damage."

"Okay!!" 2x

While giving directions, Rudy was also taking out five low-level Orcs in one s***h using Swing. It didn't stop there, Rudy also stabbed the Blackstar Sword into the high-level Orc's chest and absorbed its energy into the sword's food.

The reason Rudy pierced and absorbed the monster's body was that he wanted the Blackstar Sword's level to increase in this battle even if only by a little. According to his solo fight against several mob monsters that were chasing him before meeting up with the Raid squad, Rudy had just figured out how to give his weapons experience.

Even though absorbing it took a second, at least Rudy could still level up his sword little by little and make it stronger without needing to forge it.

"Rudy, they're shooting some magic here."

"Ah yes, I saw it."

From the front, several Magic skills are aimed at them. Seeing this, Rudy immediately took the front line to take and devour all the magic skills. Ramsey and Kynel were a little confused watching the silver-haired player.

Rudy's level had increased by one level when fighting hordes of 300 monsters before so he became more confident to face these few magic skills. If the level is not sufficient, at least he still has Health Potion I which can be used to replenish his lost Health Bar and this action can reduce the damage they can receive.

"Eat them!"

With one s***h, the Blackstar Sword devoured all the magic skills thrown at him. This left Ramsey, Kynel, and the other players watching from afar shocked half to death. Absorbing Magic skills? So far, no one has seen this kind of skill in the world of Axie Online.

Even though Rudy doesn't really want the Blackstar Sword's secret to be exposed, what can you do? Even though Ramsey was fine with that many Magic skill sequences without fear of having his Health Bar drop a lot if a bunch of Magic-type skills attacked simultaneously Rucy and Kynel would surely die in an instant.

"Okay, counter-attack time!"

After all the Magic skills that were directed at them were all absorbed by the Blackstar Sword, Rudy then swung his sword once again casting a Magic-type skill towards the mob monsters in front of him.

In a few moments, fires, water, and earth elemental Magic skills came out one by one from the Blackstar Sword and started destroying dozens of mobs that were the monster side's secondary troops. The explosion caused by the collisions of the Magic skills is quite large in terms of sound and shock.

"Ru-Rudy, what skill is it? Absorbing Magic skill?"

"Maybe you could call it that."

Getting a surprising answer from Rudy, Ramsey, and Kynel were shocked. As far as Axie Online was officially released for the first time there was no skill similar to this, which was why they were both surprised and confused.

"Hey, don't daydream. Let's back off."

"Oh, okay."

"Yes."

Rudy, Kynel, and Ramsey immediately retreated as soon as the enemy formation was shattered and engulfed in chaos. While jogging, Kynel and Ramsey looked at Rudy with curious expressions considering the skills Rudy used were able to absorb Magic skills.

Rudy is also thinking about how he can avoid the hype and gossip on his behalf. He had no choice when using Magic Devour mindlessly to devour and reflect those magic skills at the enemy.

"By the way Rudy, what skill was that?"

"Secret. I can't tell anyone about this, not even you, Ramsey."

"Ah, that's right, huh."

Even though Rudy can actually trust Ramsey in the real world, there is still a possibility that Ramsey is also being targeted by some players to hunt for information about this skill. Rudy and Ramsey have shown how close they are in the world of Axie Online, of course, this can bring problems for Ramsey in the future.

Not to mention how terrible it is for info brokers to find detailed and accurate information, Rudy really needs to avoid that. If the Blackstar Sword's abilities were known to only one of the information brokers, then both he and Ramsey could be in danger later.

That's why Rudy had decided to go solo without any party members for the time being in order to avoid the attention that might be directed at him after this war. Of course, playing solo will be harder at this time, after all The Monstrous Invasion Event is in progress, but he can also use the Event as a leveling field.

"All troops ready!"

Arriving in the forest, Rudy immediately shouted to prepare an army of Raid players. Immediately, the Raid squad players followed Rudy's orders and got ready in their respective positions.

Rudy, Ramsey, and Kynel brought a large number of enemy troops to the scene so this was a good opportunity to open battle.

"Army of Mage, make a line of smoke explosions at the enemy!"

Hearing orders from Rudy, dozens of Mage immediately cast their magic soared upwards which then fell right on the mob monster army. From the dozens of explosions that created a line of smoke that blocked anyone's view.

"Everyone forward!!"

"Ooooo!!!!"

The players immediately went forward to attack the monster army with permission from Rudy, the strategist of this Raid army. Raid troops focus their defense and strength on Tankers, while Healers and Mages will be the core forces that must be protected.

Braaakkk!!!

The clash between the two strongholds of the Raid troops and the mob monsters was violent, shaking the ground around them.

 "Mage, cast Chant Skills on Tankers! Make their defenses increase! Healers, give Chant Skills that can increase Tanker's Health Bar and do healing every 15 seconds!"

"Ready!!"

The Mages and the like immediately deployed Chant-type skills to the front row of Tankers so that their defenses increased to strengthen their troops. Then the Healers also followed with the Healing type skill, a type of skill that includes Chant but is slightly different, and the Chant type that increases the Tanker's Health Bar.

"Archer, it's your turn!"

"Ready!!"

Archers from a medium-range instantly fired hundreds of arrows into the sky aimed at the enemy troops. Of course, the number of archers is not so much, but many of them have the Multiple Arrow skill that can multiply arrows in one attack.

As soon as the army of arrows attacked from behind, the army of monsters suffered a sizeable miscarriage. Job Class Archers and the like have fairly high Strength and Intelligence status points as advantages. This is one of the reasons why Job Class Archer is quite popular among Axie Online players.

"Continue with area damage type skills! Mage!"

"'Understood!!"

As soon as the Archer troops moved, the Mages continued to attack with the attacking skill that had the strongest damage area respectively. The combined attack of these two armies makes the enemy troops lose many lives in one attack. Because the skills that are launched have a large amount of damage area, it is natural for the opposing troops to lose a lot of personnel.

'The surprise attack is complete, but... just how bad is the impact of a full-power Raid army attack?'

As soon as the smoke from the explosion caused by the attack skills of the Mages thinned, the conditions of the battlefield began to be seen little by little. This scenery not only surprised Rudy but all the Raid troops were also stunned by the result.

This surprise attack planned by Rudy turned out to have killed 9/10 of the enemy troops in an instant. Of course, this made the enemy lose their fighting spirit and at the same time, the combat spirit of the Raid squad players soared to touch the sky.

"Enemy's reinforcements are coming from the village!"

Rudy who heard that immediately responded to the call from a nearby scout.

"Amount?"

"About five hundred and almost all of them are high leveled."

Hearing that, Rudy subconsciously clicked his tongue, then shouted again to give orders to the Raid squad players as strategists and troop commanders. Even though Rudy is a strategist, he is the one in control of all the troops in the current war. This special right was granted by Dalon personally in front of all troops.

Right, in other words, Rudy was the leader of the Raid squad for a while.

"Prepare for the next wave! The strategy remains the same!"

'Ready!!"

Although it sounds a little strange because this second wave of enemy troops is stronger but the strategy is still the same as before, no one doubts Rudy. After seeing the results of the surprise attack which was initially doubted by most of the troops turned out to be able to finish off 9/10 enemy troops, of course, there is no harm in repeating the same strategy even though the chance of victory is lower.

"Ramsey, tell the number two surprise squad when it's time for them to fight."

"Roger that!"

After responding to Rudy, Ramsey immediately ran towards where the number two surprise squad that Rudy was referring to was. While Ramsey was gone, Rudy started to look at the enemy reinforcements from the branch of a tree.

A commander is supposed to be in a highland area in order to monitor the conditions of the battle, but what Rudy is doing right now isn't that a little weird? Even he was given a look of astonishment by most of the players who looked at him.