Chapter 74: Spirit User (1/2)

Bill had just finished playing a game of VSW. He was currently in the middle of his promotion games. A promotion occurred when you were in the top sub division and had reached a 100 points. In Bill's case, Bill was a Diamond rank 1 player. For each game won, you earned a set amount of points and the same was for each game you lost. The more games you won in a row, the more points you would gain.

This was why Noivs was able to rank up the ID Pendragon so fast. The system assumes that if you keep winning your games, that you are too high ranked and give you more points. This is to get your ranking higher, as soon as possible.

Bill was playing his promotion games to go from Diamond 1 tier to Master 5. In the promotion games, there were five matches in total and you needed to win 3 out of 5 of those games to move up. Bill had just lost his final 5th game meaning once again; he was unable to move up from diamond to master.

Bill had just finished cursing out loud and decided to sit in his chair to calm down a bit. That was when he saw Novis come into his room.

”Oh, hey bro, need help with anything?” Bill asked.

Looking at his brother getting all excited and ask so many questions about the game, always cheered Bill up. It reminded him why he fell in love with the game in the first place.

Novis then went into his black bag and threw the bamboo sword over to Bill. Bill caught the bamboo sword easily. Bill had always had good reflexes and was quite decent at sports at his school. Many clubs offered him to join but of course, Bill turned them all down.

”Why you give me this crummy old thing?”

”Do you notice anything on it? Like a marking or something?” Novis said as he looked over his shoulder at George and Arthur who were also watching intently.

”Other than the fact it's old, although this marking on the bottom of the dragon looks kinda cool,” Bill said as he threw the bamboo sword back to Novis.

”It looks like my theory was correct,” George said with a smug look on his face.

Just to make sure Novis also brought out the longsword and walked over to Bill in his chair.

”Whoah, did you take that from grandpas”

”Yeah, he let me have it as a gift for clearing out his dojo, any way you see right here.” Novis pointed towards the bottom part of the blade near the hilt. ”Don't you think the markings look the same?”

”Yeah what about it? Are you trying to test my eyesight or something?”

”No, no, it's just I got the bamboo sword from a friend and wanted a second opinion whether the markings looked the same, maybe they're related?”

”Can you hear me?” George suddenly said. This time when he said these words, he was projecting his word's outwards rather than inside Novis's mind.

”Huh, Novis did you hear that?”

”It's probably from your headset,” Novis answered nervously.