The Strongest Wizard

Trouble Brewing? No Problem, MINDBURN Is Here...!!!

28th December 1018 / 2018 1245hrs

We had just walked into the main gates of Votrieburg City when the trouble began to brew among the gamers. Some of the gamers stood along the walls of the City, while others had assembled to form a party. It seemed that the gamers had a kind of murderous aura around them as they watched us walked through the gates casually.

It had been 3 days since the start of this MMORPG platform, and the wooden staff that was gifted to me had already lost its unique abilities. It had turned itself into a piece of driftwood to most others as it had only a +15 damage to it.

There is another wooden staff that I had stored inside the inventory. It was called the Oathbreaker, Favour of the Immortal, which had a +35 damage to all attacks and defences. It was as good as the ones wielded by MageHunter and PuppetMaster. My outfit had no changes to the attribute as I had a pair of gauntlet and gloves that would enhance my speed casting.

There is no need for me to draw the runes in the air or chant any ore spells since all had been placed under a shortcut and had commands instead to bring them up. I have not allocated any of the points into my attributes so I would just leave them there as it is. I do not have any plans to go dungeon diving or catacombs crawling this time, and I would have to concentrate on the administrative side first. How I wished I had my sidekick SnowBunny before who is yet to be found in the playing fields. She is a good Tank as well as a good second in charge. In case I am not around and got stuck in some place or event that cuts me off from the world as well as the virtual, she would take over the command.

"Hey, are you from SilverBane? The workshop that had just made the first clear of Hellish Mode dungeon of the Phoenix Delves in Hamcona Timberland Forest some time back, yeah?"

"Look at all of you...! You are now the top #7 names on the Leaderboard right now, are you proud of it, boys and girls?"

"You may feel mighty proud right now, am I right, to be able to top everyone and suddenly the 7 of you are Level 21...?!?!"

"How the f**k you doing that and I am sure that all of you are cheaters...! You must have used a hacking code and bypass the system to earn this Level...!!!"

"Your weapons and equipment could not even surpass our Leather and Bronze set of armour...!!! One hit from our weapons would make you lose at least 70% of your HP for sure...!!!"

"Why are you 7 so quiet? Feeling kind of guilty eh since we had uncovered your secret? Come one, hand over all the equipment and credits to us so we could spare you. Or else, we will spam kill you back to Level 0...!!! H A H A H A H A H A...!!!"

The gamer that stood in our way was a Level 12 Guardian Knight. He was holding on to a Halberd with an unfamiliar name on top of its head. He was known as "ASKIKR". He was clad in a mix of leather and bronze pieces of armour. It looks like another gamer who wanted to take advantage of the situation.

Acting like an NPC, I moved ahead among the group and addressed the provocateur. "So, what are you going to do, oh mighty adventurer? Do you seek justice or would you like to personally find out if your weapon and armour combined could beat this Level 21 Warrior? Or maybe you would like to pick someone of your own size, like this Level 21 Healer. Definitely, she would like to squeeze one out with you, oh mighty adventurer?" When the rest of the members heard I interfered the earlier provocation made by the Guardian Knight, they knew that there would be some surprises going on soon.

"Oh, look at what we have here. A female NPC decked out as a Wizard. A simple plain looking Wizard in her own pathetic simple-looking robes. I wondered how does having an NPC as a girlfriend would feel like, eh? Maybe you would like to share some pointers?"

The Guardian looked at me and expecting me to be an NPC since I had a poker face on and also had my name hidden from everyone. In this way, no one would be able to know who is the leader of the workshop.

"Yeah, we are from Silverbane. We are proud to be the first one to clear the Hellish Mode of the Phoenix Delves of the Hamcona Timberland Forest. Have you made A N Y clear yet from any dungeons?"

"I don't think I had ever seen your name elsewhere on A N Y of the leaderboards somewhere. However, if you think we had used a hack code or something to get to where we are, why not you go and report to the GM instead? You would get a name for yourself after reporting the matter to the GM. Go on right ahead and note down our names or best still, record every single one of us through your built-in camera, unless you do not know how to operate it yet?"

Snowball sneered at the Guardian Knight named "ASKIKR" and was mocking him since none of us has heard of his ID and achievements. We guessed he was one of the renegades that made trouble around in this MMORPG platform.

"BAH...!!! You S N O T T Y children are out here to make fun of this old fogey, am I right? Well, let me tell you this, smarty pants... I am going to report to the GM regards all of you 7 here and well, I am sure going to make a name for myself...!!! No one else here is close to Level 21 and the highest one there it was a Level 16 Warrior named BULLBEAR. There is 5 levels difference, and I know for sure you are using a hack code...! Wait till BULLBEAR hears about this, and he would be after your throats. So before he goes after your throats, let me go through your equipment and credits...!!!"

ASKIKR knew about the rules of PVE and PVP, and there was an arena around Votrieburg City. However, the Player Versus Player arena would only be available after several system updates. However, if a PVP occurred in a PVE environment, the player that struck first would have a RED NAME over his head instead of a white coloured ID.

"Hand the God Damned equipment boy, don't make us repeat this twice." ASKIKR suddenly had a murderous aura around him as he swung his halberd in the air and slashed it down to the ground.

"Cool it, old man. Or would you like an NPC Wizard to take care of this matter for you?" I asked as I raised my so-called driftwood in the air and cast a spell that I had just learnt.

"M I N D B U R N" I muttered under my breath without completing the spell since I knew what would happen when I released the full spell command on those bastards before us.

"H A H A H A H A...!!! Do you think you can pull this trick on us...?!?! You pulled it on Butthole Surfer, and he got locked up for some of his login hours, and now you are going to do it on us instead? Are you an NPC or happen to be someone who masked its ID, huh? You little scrawny bitch...!!!"

ASKIKR raised his halberd once more in the air and swung it at my direction, and I have no choice but to call out the complete spell.

"G O"

"V V V O O O M M M P P P H H H"

The Guardian Knight dropped his halberd and immediately went on all fours as his armour caught fire. The same could be said to the adjoining members and friends of his.

"H H H U U U A A A R R R G G G H H H"

"A A A R R R G G G H H H "

"N O O O O"

"F F F I I I R R R E E E"

"Silverlight Knights...!!! Guards..!!! Save U S...!!!"

The Mindburn spell, when it was cast, would engulf the target with fire and would burn through his armour and it was unblockable. This spell was also unbreakable in case another wizard comes in to render aid to the target that was burning.

The Mindburn spell has a burning effect that could jump from one foe to another. It would deal -10/-20/-35 damage to the enemies for 1/8/15 seconds respectively, and right now it was on the highest damage for the longest duration.

A gamer was too shocked to understand what was happening, that he ran over to the Silverlight Knights and informed them that there was a fight between players here in the safe zone. This sort of news brings the Silverlight Knights running towards the so-called crime scene...!!!