Chapter 53 End (3) (1/2)
Despite being just a simple stomp, the sound echoed like a rolling thunder.
Overwhelmed by Phante’s aura, the players had to back away a little. The pressure even made some of the weaker players turn pale.
It was only a few hours ago that they had agreed to join forces to knock the two of them out of the battle. But as things turned out, none of them could even get close to the two people.
The force that Phante emitted was much greater than they had expected.
No, maybe the information they originally had was actually correct. However, that was before the tutorial.
Phante and Edora had gotten much stronger during the tutorial. Those two, who to begin with were already monsters, had become even greater monsters.
“What are you doing? Didn’t you guys want my Karma? Then come and get it. Don’t just stand there. Because if you do,”
Phante’s two canine teeth were revealed as he grinned savagely. It looked almost like a ferocious predator getting ready to hunt for prey.
“I’m coming to you.”
*Kwaaang*
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Phante leaped forward as he kicked off the ground. His speed was almost as fast as a bullet.
“Damn it!”
“Don’t let him get close!”
Even under panic, the players moved in perfect sync. All sorts of dazzling effects glittered over their heads as they cast skill after skill. Different kinds of magic circles overlapped with each other on the ground, providing several buffs to the coalition of the players. Players wearing heavy armor or carrying shields stepped to the front to block Phante’s attack.
And then, there was a clash.
*Rumble*
Phante’s level of skill was something Yeon-woo had never seen before.
Every time he swung his fist, the atmosphere was torn apart, producing thunderous sounds, and the air swept through where his fists passed by, making the earth shake repeatedly.
Players were like candles in the wind in the face of his attacks. Even if they were putting up relatively well, it was only ‘relative’.
Phante pierced, smashed, and trampled several times the barriers that the players built.
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The player’s barriers shook with a stomp of his foot, and a number of players were blown away with a swing of his punch.
*Kwang* *Kwang*
Phante’s aura amplified with every explosion he created, further adding to the pressure that the players around were facing.
It seemed like it wouldn’t take much longer for all the players to collapse.
Above all, Phante was enjoying the fight, as if it was part of a game.
‘He’s strong. I can see how they could kill Akasha’s Snake.’
Yeon-woo recalled the carcass of Akasha’s Snake that he saw in Section E.
They had taken the Neidan, thus his power should be far greater than their original estimation.
“Did they really think they could kill this guy? That’s impossible. The gap is too big.’
Over the fighting zone, Phante was dominating the whole stage.
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There were only two people who were out of his influence. One was a tall man standing in the backlines issuing orders as if he was the commander.
He had three different sized swords next to his waist.
Yeon-woo noticed there was some kind of energy flowing out from him that traversed through Phante’s aura and into the other players. It seemed like the energy was providing the players with boosted power and morale.
The magic circles on the ground also seemed to belong to him.
‘A Lord? No, not yet. A Lord Candidate’
Lord is a class that is specializes in leading and commanding multiple players, and possibly organizing a legion.
A majority of rankers and heads of most clans were Lords.
The original owner of Bathory’s Vampiric Sword, the Lord of Vampires, and the Eight Kings of the top eight clans all had this class.
And the swordsman leading the players in their fight against Phante also had this trait.
‘I don’t think it has fully bloomed yet.’
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And then, the other was the woman behind Phante.
The woman was completely detached from the fight, standing with a long sword that was much taller than her own height, holding it firmly in her arms.
She was an absolute beauty, but she also gave an impression as cold as ice.
Especially, the horn sticking out of the left side of her head added a certain sharpness to her looks.
‘Edora.’
Phante’s sister, the unrivaled first rank of the tutorial ranking.
When Yeon-woo had asked about Edora, Kahn said this about her.
‘Phante is strong. Ridiculously strong. I felt like I was in front of a huge mountain when I faced him. But Edora… she’s a little different. She is definitely more gentle than Phante, but she feels… deep. Like the abyss of a sea. That’s why I was more afraid of her. I can at least see the top of a mountain when I raise my head up, but I can’t see the bottom of the sea.”
Yeon-woo began to understand why Kahn was more afraid of Edora.
‘She’s hiding something. Something very big and ferocious. But what is it?’
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The moment Yeon-woo looked at Edora, she suddenly turned her gaze away from the fight and looked back at Yeon-woo.
Her calm eyes looked straight at Yeon-woo.
No, to be precise, she was also looking into Yeon-woo, looking at something inside of him.
*Grin*
A faint smile replaced her indifferent expression, as if she had found something fun.
‘She saw me.’
Yeon-woo realized that Edora saw something in him, just like he did. So he smiled back at her.
Apparently, it was time to stop just espectating.
‘If so.’
He had no choice but to step in.
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Yeon-woo took out a fairly large pouch. It was a pouch full of Tokens.
The players in the safe zone turned their eyes towards Yeon-woo. Their eyes started to glint with greed.
From the looks of it, Yeon-woo had enough tokens for them to jump a few ranks ahead if they managed to take them from him.
However, the rules didn’t allow aggression inside the safe zone. If players didn’t follow the rules, they could be expelled from the stage.
Even for items lying on the floor, players weren’t allowed to take them if they still had an owner. So the only thing they could do was to stand still and watch what this guy was doing.
But suddenly, Yeon-woo turned the pouch upside down and began to pour the Tokens onto the floor.
*Clatter*
“What is he doing? Why is he dumping ’em all out?”
“I think he is chickening out.”
“Damn, What a waste! He could have given them to someone else.”
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Everyone around him thought he was out of his mind. They started laughing or cursing at his doing.
But as the pile of Tokens grew bigger, no one could continue speaking anymore.
“Wh, what the fuck? How many is he gonna take out?”
“Is, is that a thousand? Two thousand?”
The players on the edges of the stage became boisterous. And as they grew noisier, the players who hadn’t paid much attention to Yeon-woo began to look his way too.
Phante also stopped his fight and jerked his head towards Yeon-woo’s side. Edora’s eyes glittered with interest as she looked at Yeon-woo.
And when he finished pouring out the Tokens, there were more than 3000 of them piled on the floor.
Yeon-woo then muttered a command in a low voice.
“Convert.”
*Whoosh*