Chapter 44: Rivals on meet
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Less than an hour is left before the battle Island event ended. There are only 89 players in total left roaming around.
Astonished and left in disbelief. That is the emotional player is feeling right now after seeing how strong Kaede became. After defeating hundreds of players she started to create a mark for herself in the game.
Including the fact that she already defeated multiple top players. Her fascinating journey continues to impress many players.
“This is insane… I really thought Assault will enter the top 20. To think that the two rabbits defeated them that easily.”
“Well, that why you should not judge the player by its appearance.”
“I know that just looking in how angelic Kaede’s face was. Her character is more like a demon. She is using high-level sword skills. She did level up quite fast.”
“That’s expected, with that devastating attack she did and after defeating hundreds of players on her own. She will surely level up for sure. It's terrifying how good she was in this game. She is lucky and talented at the same time… I feel like an i***t comparing myself who play this game since it was launched.”
“I kinda understand that… Kaede is just someone beyond our reach.”
…
Continuing on Kaede.
Kaede left the forest after examining her new skills. Most of her skills are all attack skills that used player SP instead of MP. Because of that Kaede can use it freely than her other skills.
“Yuki will be surprised when she saw my level… I don’t want to brag about it, but I feel like I really want to tell you about it. What is this feeling.”
Kaede has mixed emotions about it.
While frustrated. Some players tried to assassinate her while she was alone and failed miserably. Everyone who attempted to defeat Kaede was killed before they were able to land a proper hit.
After walking for some time, Kaede already reached out to her comrades. Yuki, Clover, Saya, and Ronie run toward Kaede. They leap and hug each other with smiles on their face. They are all feeling relieved that they are all able to survive such a harsh environment.
“I’m really worried about you Kaede!”
Ronie said with a crying face.
“I fell to opponents trap but I was lucky that I survived… My luck sure is devilish. I’m quite scared to myself now… Ahahahaha.”
“Kaede is learning to act quite cocky right now.”
“Eh? I guess I’m not Cocky and confident are two different things.”
“Yes… Yes… Anyways, it's sure that we’re already in the top 20 teams. Even though die in this event. Surely, we’re able to join the Summer cup.”
Saya announced the great news that put smiles on everyone.
But the event is still ongoing and the true victor is the one at the top of the leader boards.
It's hard to believe it. Even Kaede did her best and eliminated many players. Some players eliminated more players than her.
While the girls are cheerfully celebrating their achievements. A threat suddenly comes on their way.
Moving at high speed faster than the naked eye. A black figure appeared behind Clover. Using a dagger on its hand. Clover was decapitated instantly.
The shadow immediately moves around to Yuki attempting to do the same. Yuki with her fast reaction time manages to block the dagger with hers. The shadow figures the targeted Ronie who has the slower movement speed because of her great shield.
“Guillotine!”
Player Ronie and Player Clover were eliminated instantly by a one-hit skill.
The shadow figure then comes to Kaede.
Kaede manages to avoid the blade and counter back with her sword. The shadow figure was blasted away with Kaede’s attack.
“She survived that attack.”
“Appraisal.”
Saya activated her skill to look to her opponent's HP. The shadow figure Hp was 1. It was immediately increased back to normal after it drinks the healing potion.
“... Be careful this one has a skill called sturdy body like Kaede.”
“I see that’s how it survived Kaede’s high damage attack. That means all we need to do is attack it twice! Extreme speed!”
Yuki appeared to the shadow figure’s front. She slashed it with both of her daggers downward and then rise her arms upwards. This was followed by a kick toward its guts.
“Recovery!”
The shadow figure's body was then enveloped with the limelight. Healing all its injuries.
The voice and the chanter of the skill are not the shadow figure. Looking in the direction where the voice came from.
The other four players appeared right before their eyes. And two with very familiar faces.
“Yuki the time has come for us to face each other.”
“Elise…”
“Kaede-chan! Kaede-Chan I saw what you did earlier. You're so cool! Very cool! I wanted to defeat you more than ever!”
Melida said to Kaede.
Melida is acting excited equipped with her white sword. Instead of her having her white fortress activated. Melida's body was glowing with divinity. Halo on her head and a pair of pure white wings on her back. Floating around she looks toward Kaede with a sweet smile.
“She looks like an angel.”
Currently, Melida is on her Angel form. Angel form grants all her allies resistance to all special status effects and can share some of Melida’s passive skills. The shadow figure didn’t really have the sturdy body skill. The one who truly has it was Melida. Melida simply shared her skill with her ally.
Just like how she looks like. Her current form was like a guardian angel to all of her allies.
Like Kaede’s demon king guild. Melida’s party also consist of five members. The guild's name is opposite to Kaede’s guild. Melida’s guild was called “Holy Heroes Guild”.
The angels team versus the demons team.
“You sure did manage to give us a surprise attack… You’re sneak as ever.”
“Please don’t call my strategy sneaky. A game is basically a battle of wits. Physical power and status numbers are not everything. Players must have mind and plan in order o take down their enemies.”
Elise replies to Yuki. Yuki after hearing her words gotten more serious looking and her gaze was focus toward the enemies. Kaede held both her sword tightly and get herself ready for anything bad. Saya has her arrows ready to strike.
“Kaede! Yuki! We’re doing that!”
“Yeah!” 2x
With loud response. Saya fired three arrows as fast as she can away from the current battlefield.
“Arrow Switch!”
The three players swapped places with the arrows fire from a huge distance.
“There are running away!”
“And they called themselves demon king army?!”
“Running away won’t do…”
Melida goes on a chase and immediately catches up. Then she finds out that the one she’s chasing is just an illusion created by dark magic.
“A bluff?!”
Melida got separated from her comrades. It will take some minutes before she goes back to the main location she left which is the mountainside.
A few minutes is enough for Kaede and the rest to make their counter move.
Elise meanwhile was attacked by a kick from her side. Leading her to fall to the nearby cliff. Down to the ground.
The shadow figure immediately moves as fast as it can to attack Yuki from her blind spot.
“That won’t affect me!”
Yuki manages to stab the shadow figure's body. She then kicks it to its head knocking it off for good.
“Impressive… Without skill in use, you manage to catch up with our Chris speed.”
Elise complimented Yuki.
Up in the mountainside, Saya and Kaede comes face to face with the Heroes marksman and swordsman.
“Scared sword s***h!”
“Sword fire!”
“Light arrows!”
“Explosive arrows!”
Both team hastily launched their skills toward each other. Creating an explosion-like effect as their skills collided with each other. After the smoke thins out. The hero's party swordsman and Marksman were defeated.
The angel comes back and her right arm transformed into a rocket blaster. Multiple rockets were fire to Kaede and Saya.
“Biscuit use protection barrier!”
A magical shield made of pure energy appeared in front of them. Protecting them from the rockets.
“Biscuit do your best!”
“Nyaa-!”
Biscuit cries and pushes herself. But the barrier still cracks and the rocket broke through. To save Kaede. Saya sacrificed herself and hugs Kaede to protect her.
“Saya!”
“I don’t have a chance to defeat something like this one… It's you who can defeat her. Do your best Kaede!”
“Saya…”
The barrage of rockets and ended. Same with Saya’s HP bar decreasing into zero. After that, her body turned into light particles and she was eliminated.
“I won’t let your sacrifice be in vain… I will definitely win this match with her.”
Kaede and Melida look toward each other with fierce eyes. Kaede vs Melida round two is about to begin.
- Writer
