Rivalry: Infinite Buff

Chapter 20- Fierce Fighting

SovereignKing and SovereignWolf led their people and rushed toward Ivan and Left-handedLove.

“We can’t be surrounded by them.” With a roll, Left-handed Love struggled away from the arrow shot by a Ranger hidden at the rear of the rival group. The nearby flower stem was pierced by the arrow and black liquid flew from the hole. It was a poisonous arrow. Fortunately, he avoided it, he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Ivan was hit with a Fireball thrown by the rival Mage while running. He hurried to hide beside Left-handedLove and replied in panic, “Got it.”

Both of them knew clearly that if they were surrounded they wouldn’t survive. 

“You think you can run? Not that easy. Feel my Whirlwind Hack!” Playing the role of an anxious pioneer all the time, SovereignWolf rushed toward them, swinging his ax.

Left-handed Love worried the ax would injure Ivan and hurried to raise his rapier to confront it.

Slurp, Slurp—

The ax and the rapier met in the air and the intense friction made orange sparks. Neither of them was willing to give in to the other. 

“Boss, let me assist you.” Some Sovereign sidekicks rushed forward to besiege Left-handedLove. He was forced to withdraw the rapier and turn to deal with them.

All the people locked in battle were in close-combat occupations. They produced deadly weapons to s***h each other. As newcomers to this new game, none of them had magnificent skills. Consequently, they fought like street gangsters, competing utterly on the attack, defense, and blood volume.

Agility was of great importance in such a brawl, it could affect the speed and dodge of a player. Unlike most Priests who added attribute points to Intelligence, Ivan added them all to AGI. As a result, he was able to dodge the attacks from the Sovereign Mages and Rangers very easily. They were all novice Mages and Rangers with terribly low hit rate.

Yet, the danger was everywhere.

“Bully, let our mates delay Left-handedLove. Don’t kill him unless it’s absolutely necessary. He’s from the Theron Family after all so we want to antagonize him. Come over here and help me take out this nasty Bishop.” SovereignKing came shouted. He raised his huge sword as he was instructing SovereignWolf.

“Okay, bro. I would have taken this bugger out a long time ago,” SovereignWolf responded with arrogance.

Left-handed Love was frantic. He hadn’t expected SovereignKing to be so villainous, he not only killed his boss but also wanted to take the life of his new friend. However, there was nothing he could do because he was heavily surrounded by the crowd. He just closed his eyes in anguish. 

Though Ivan looked calm, he was actually rather nervous as he said, “The brothers both chose the occupation of Warrior and have many people behind them. It’s very easy for them to approach me. How shall I avoid Attack Damage then? I am stuck and haven’t transferred yet. How am I going to knock them off without any attack skills? Am I going to suffer a similar fate as the last time?”

Staring at the enemy getting closer and closer, Ivan felt more helpless than fear. He hated his own weakness and failing in repeatedly when he was trying to seek revenge. His desire for strength was extraordinarily strong, he was so angry that he knelt and banged his fist on the ground. 

At that moment, Ivan caught a glimpse of the black pool in the distance. The pool was large, covering an area of several thousand feet, and it was surrounded by a stone wall about thirty feet high. Several wild goats’ carcasses floated in the middle of the pool. 

He suddenly had a crazy thought, he jumped up with confidence. He was like a slave who finally gained his freedom after years of oppression. Ivan’s mouth twisted in a contemptuous sneer, “SovereignKing, this is all you’ve got? You’re slower than a tortoise crossing the road. I have been waiting for ages for you!”

Ivan continued to mock the group, “Hurry up. I’m eager to beat a dozen of you at the same time.”

SovereignKing and his mates were dumbfounded. They all thought that Ivan was out of his mind, it was as if he was asking for them to kill him. However, Ivan knew he would not be able to beat a dozen of them, so when they got closer to him he ran toward the black pool. While running he challenged them to catch him, which outraged everyone in the Sovereign.  

The Sovereign chased Ivan for at least two minutes before they reached the black pool. It was not until Ivan got near to the pool that he saw the black water was bubbling. There were more wild goat carcasses than he had thought in the toxic water, but he threw himself in without a second thought. 

Neither SovereignKing nor those in the group wanted to jump into the eerie pool, but the momentum was too strong. There were some like SovereignWolf who dived into the pool. After seeing his pursuers fall into the water, Ivan laughed with smug satisfaction, “Haha, you were pulled in. Now get ready to die!”

SovereignKing felt a wave of panic. A lot of “-50” numbers kept rising above his people’s heads, things were getting worse. He rushed to the bank and attempted to climb up but there was no way that he was going to be able to climb a wall thirty feet high. He quickly said, “The water is toxic but don’t panic. Use the Health Potion in your backpack to sustain life and our friends will come to our rescue once they s*******r Left-handedLove. Humph, the bugger is also here so I guess he is too poor to buy Health Potion. We can definitely outlast him.”

Hearing what SovereignKing said, Ivan burst into a laugher, “You expect to outlast me? In your wildest dreams,” Ivan said and threw one Heal on himself. He thought that it was funny, he had the Guru’s Heart and they had only had Lesser Health Potion, which was not comparable in the least. 

-50

-50

All of them were losing blood in the large dark pool. It was surprising that SovereignWolf could bear sure t*****e. However, he was not going down without a fight, he wielded his large ax and rushed toward Ivan, “Whether I die or not, I am going to doing hacking you to death.”

It would have been better for him not to move because once he did, “-150” started floating above him. Just like in reality, in the game, the movement would speed up the spread of toxins in the blood and bring on death sooner. 

It was a joy to see the corpse of SovereignWolf three feet away from him. “Thank you for your present.” After SovereignWolf’s corpse disappeared, Ivan saw an ax left behind and filled delight immediately picked it up to put in his backpack.

SovereignKing gnashed his teeth with anger. “You’re too quick, bro. Bishop, don’t you dare take my brother’s ax!” he huffed.

“Why haven’t our people come to save us?”

Just then, Left-handed Love appeared on the stone wall. He looked down at SovereignKing and said faintly. “I’m afraid they won’t be showing up.”

Knowing Left-handed was still alive, Ivan clenched his fists.