Chapter 10: A lesson (2/2)
”Oh, are you all done then?” Sophie asked.
”I guess it's still too early for me to play against people I'm still a bit slow so the match took a while. I'm all tired now.”
Sophie went underneath her desk and pulled a leaflet out placing it on the counter.
”I think you should check this out, it's happening this week.”
Novis picked up the leaflet from the table.
”A Children's VGW tournament.”
”There will be a lot of kids from all over the country attending.”
Novice decided to take the leaflet and started to leave the shop. ”Thanks for everything today.”
”Please come again.”
The middle-aged man looked at the kid as he walked off. ”Is that the kid that went up against Lucas, give him another 20 years maybe.”
”Yeah, he was a strange kid,” Sophie said while chuckling to her self.
As the old man looked at the playing area he could see that everyone had gathered around one screen.
”I wonder what's going on there?”
The people were in an uproar about something. The screen at the table was still displaying the ending results of the match. Everyone standing there couldn't believe their eyes.
”Did you lose Lucas!”
”That's impossible.”
”He had to have given him a handicap right?”
”When I was looking earlier the kid was swinging his sword about as if he had never played before.”
”That has to be impossible, we know that Lucas is basically a pro.”
”How long did the match take?”
The crowd started to look at the information that was displayed on the screen, the match took around 30 minutes. This was rare for a solo match. A team match would often take anywhere between 30 minutes to two hours depending on how much stronger one team was compared to the other.
But a solo match, people didn't bother with the strategy of taking the other base's flag, nearly everyone played it as a one on one fight. The crowd could clearly see that Lucas had lost because his character had died. If the match had taken 30 minutes it must have meant the fight was close between the two of them.
”It took 30 minutes, that means the fight was quite close, maybe Lucas was just having an off day.”
Lucas heard this and thought he wished he was having an off day. Maybe then he would have some sort of excuse about how he lost, but he knew that the person he had just faced was many levels higher than his own. Arthur hadn't even used his full strength against him.
Sophie came rushing over after hearing all the customers chatting to each other.
”Did he really beat you, Lucas? but that can't be true the kid didn't even have a rank.”
Lucas thought that had to be impossible, he had clearly fought against someone who was born to use the sword. The opponent he had faced was a complete monster.