Rivalry: Infinite Buff

Chapter 8- Tough Ivan

As a group of strong men waving their axes rushed toward him, Ivan made a split-second decision to run. 

"Hey, hey, hey! Calm down! I know your leader King." Ivan tried to find some connection between them.

Clearly, SovereignWolf didn’t buy in Ivan’s explanation. He threw an ax at Ivan and yelled,  “Go to Hell!”

The ax hit Ivan in the thigh, leaving a cut and causing Ivan to lose 1 HP as a result. Although there was not a lot of damage, players still needed to pay more attention. 

Also because of the ax hit, Ivan could speed up so he anxiously said, “Hey! You don’t want to do this! You know you will get more Sin if you kill innocent people?” 

SovereignWolf laughed out, "Ha-ha, yeah, Sin! You’re talking about the Sin I couldn’t get enough?”

After trying to run from the group, Ivan ended up on the edge of a cliff. Looking at the men chasing behind him, he was desperate. Ivan could see the clouds in the sky and he began to sarcastically laugh. He didn’t know when he had become such a coward, he was even scared to die in a game. 

"Well, I have nowhere to go know. Will you please let me live?" Ivan figured he would try on last attempt to reason with the group. 

SovereignWolf thought for a moment, and laughed arrogantly, "I will think about it if you down on your knees.”

Ivan was speechless. Was he going crazy or did this guy just watch too many movies?

"You i***t! f**k you!” Then Ivan jumped off the cliff and killed himself. 

System: You are dead. Due to the first death, you get the achievement "Laugh at Failure"!  AP+10!

“s**t!” Ivan swore. He took off his helmet and smashed it down on the sofa. He wondered if it was his destiny to be bullied by rich people in real life and in games. 

Pulling out his cell phone, Ivan saw that it was already 3 a.m., Leo and Claire were still happily playing the game. He just shook his head and walked out to the balcony to have a cigarette. 

Thinking about the game while he smoked, Ivan seemed to suddenly figure it all out. It was natural for a poor uneducated guy to need to put more effort in if he wanted to beat the so-called elites. 

After finishing his cigarette, Ivan re-entered the game and the first thing he did was to pin FierceKiller. 

"Leo, I found Sovereign Guild in the game."

Leo answered immediately as if he was waiting for Ivan’s message, "Are they in the game? Where are they? I’m gonna tear them apart!" Ivan could almost see Leo clenching his teeth.

Ivan sent the coordinate directly. "10002 Novice Village".

"No way, I'm at 10003. I wish I could cut them into pieces right away, but I guess we’ll see them in the main city later."

Ivan agreed, "Yeah, they are always with guild members. Let’s not rush until we reach a higher level.”

Leo couldn’t agree more, "Definitely! Talk to you later. I'm transferring now."

After the chat, Ivan started his game again. Due to the suicide, Ivan had to restart his game at the bind of a novice village.

He opened Stats, only to find his level dropped from 3 to 2 and his XP from 100% to 90%. Ivan started to believe he made the right decision to kill himself since he wouldn’t keep 90% XP if he was killed by other players.

"s**t! It’s time to leave. I have to join ToughBlazer and get out of the novice village. And food and potions…" Ivan thought.

Open the Bag

"Are you kidding me? Only one copper here?" Ivan had wasted too much time on chasing dogs and collecting urine, and it turned out he only earned one copper after spending so many hours in the game.

Poor Ivan went to the shop to see if there’s anything he could get there. Actually, he did find something; lesser heal potion that restores 100 HP worth 30 Coin, lesser MP potion that restores 50 MP worth 20 Coin.  Now that he mastered Lesser Heal, Ivan believed it would be good to have several more MP potions.

Ivan bought two MP potions and then purchased some bread. He figured it would be better to be killed by others than to starve to death. 

When he was done shopping, Ivan decided to improve his Heal skill, so he left the center of the village and tried to find a quiet area. However, Ivan found that there were quite a lot of online players already, and he even saw a beautiful woman being chased by a Ferocious wild boar. Seeing her super low HP, Ivan knew this was his opportunity to be a hero.

Ivan quickly approached the beauty, buffing the beauty and getting her HP up back to a safe level. The girl in turn used the opportunity to kill the wild boar. 

Looking at the 10 more points on Skill Proficiency, Ivan couldn’t be prouder of himself. What he really wanted to do though was say hi to the girl. 

She didn’t give him the chance to speak before she turned to him, causing him to jump back several meters. 

The beauty talked with a rough voice, "Thanks for your Heal, bro. I'm about to fall in love with you, you know?"

Ivan couldn’t believe the beauty he thought before was even more muscular than him.

"Holy s**t!  Are you a man or a woman?" Ivan shuddered looking at the ID SweetPeach.

"Come on, I am a man 100%. I am just really into role-playing. How do you think about the suit? Isn’t it elegant?”

Ivan took a deep breath, "I love your ID. What special taste you have, huh?”

The ripe peach said with joy, "Oh, I’m so touched. Thank you!”

Having no idea what to say to the muscular man, Ivan knew he had to get out of the situation. “So, it was really nice to meet you! See you later!” Ivan stammered and ran away like a scared rabbit. 

“Hey! Please! At least let me add you to my friend list!”