Chapter 16: Stop Chasing (1/2)

Arthur was standing by his second tower down the middle lane, while Lucas was stood by his. A distance of about 80 meters of ground stood in between them. To left and right of the path was the forest.

In the middle, the NPCs were fighting, locked in a stalemate. As one knight would die wearing a red sash a blue knight would die wearing a blue sash. As soon as the ten of each army had died they would be replaced with another ten.

The two of them stood just staring at each other from the other side of the path.

”What are they doing, they've been standing like that for five minutes.” A man said watching the game.

Arthur was giving Lucas all the time he needed to prepare for this fight, while Lucas was picturing one more time how he wanted the fight to go. He wasn't planning to lose like last time.

Finally, Lucas made the first move coming forward towards Arthur. At the same time, Arthur decided to match and meet him in the middle.

Lucas drew his long katana blade and struck straight down. Arthur simply flowed the path of the sword as it came down and used his sword to alter it's the path to the side making the strike avoid him.

Lucas continued attacking him aggressively putting his full energy into every strike, afraid that if he put any less in he would be defeated.

The two of them continued like this for five minutes with Lucas attacking and Arthur blocking.

The crowd outside were getting excited.

”Wow, could you attack continually like that for five minutes.”

”Of course not, I would be worn out by now.”

”Lucas is amazing!”

VSW was known for its realism, as you attack more with your character in the game, it would take a toll on your mind. You could feel the tiredness of the characters being reflected back onto your body. It was a true game that tested your will power, mental capacity, reaction time and skill.

To everyone on the outside, it looked like Lucas was dominating the match and all Arthur could do was block. Lucas was the only one getting more and more nervous as the match went on.

”Why don't you attack back, you did the same thing last time!” Lucas shouted.

Lucas was baiting him, he had watched the fight between him and Novis over a hundred times. He felt that Novis excelled at blocking but was weak at attacking, that was where he would counter and win the game.

Then, like a flash of lightning Arthur swung his sword and sliced Lucas's body in half.

Lucas was sweating but then realised that his body was completely fine. To everyone outside Lucas had just suddenly stopped attacking for no reason.

But Lucas was sure his body had just been sliced in half. Lucas decided to ignore what just happened, all he knew right now was that he was fine, he went to attack Arthur again.

But then the same thing happened, Lucas felt like Arthur had attacked him and cut him in half.

Lucas's body was now shaking, he couldn't believe what had happened. His mind was on the verge of breaking, in his head he had just died twice but for some reason, he was standing there alive.