Chapter 121 - Challenged (1/2)

(Fight Club Chat)

Red Dagger: Ya. I don't want to stay in the city any longer than necessary. Is he going to come anytime soon or I will test him myself.

Red Path: Yes. Red dagger you go test him

Clear Sky: +1

Mass Raja: +1

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King Rex: Please, wait a few moments, he is stuck with a few monsters and is unable to use his hearthstone as he is in battle state.

Star Lord: Please make sure, he attempts it within 10 minutes. Else Red Dagger please administer the test in his Boris Blade's place.

”What is wrong with this Jinx?” thought King Rex as he sent out the message. ”Wasn't it his own guild leader that told Boris to test that Shadow Tyrant guy.”

He had half a mind to put the same thing in the chat group but before he could do that Star Lord's message stopped him. Everyone who saw that knew that Rex was just trying to get more time and those who were spectating put in similar messages to Jinx asking Boris to come quickly.

”I never thought that you would suggest using someone else for the test,” said Nix Maester to Jinx.

”Why not?”

”Cause guild leader was the one who suggested Boris to test Shadow in the first place. Did you even realize that you were crossing him?” asked Nix as he saw Jinx put on a sheepish smile and looked at Oceanis to apologize.

”Leave it. I don't care for such trifles. I am as bored as the rest of you. Even if you didn't, I would have a minute later,” said Oceanis as he put in a +1 for Jinx's statement in the chat. With that as precedent the other administrators also did the same for Jinx and Star Lord's statements.

Rex quickly contacted Tristar who was helping Boris level up. ”What is the delay. I thought he was quite close to reaching level 12. Is it not done yet?” he asked.

”He is at level 12, we are just browsing through the market to get more equipment,” replied Tristar.

”What is wrong with his equipment? We already gave him the best in the guild.”

”Well. The ones we sent to check out Shadow all confirmed that he had high attributes. Probably very good equipment. So, we were seeing if we could get any better,” said Tristar. Even though he believed that the previous incident was an accident and was confident that Boris Blade's technical skills would be better than a newbee's, he wanted to make sure that the attributes were as close to the opponent's as possible. Even with the best technical skills, one would find it hard to defeat his opponent, if the attributes differed by a significant margin.

”You are unnecessarily worried. Just stop buying and get to the colosseum. They are suggesting that Red Dagger take Shadow's test and Merlin's contract wouldn't be valid if Boris doesn't take the test,” said King Rex and cut the call. He also teleported to the city and went to the colosseum to check out the fight.

By this time, Shadow had already fought with twelve players and had managed to secure 130 combat points. He was about to chosoe the next one when Boris Blade's name finally appeared on the challenger's list which immediately selected.

”He finally came,” said Oceanis as he noticed the next participant and put in a message in the fight club chat for any other interested parties to join. The last few fights, Shadow didn't use any assassin skills provided by skill books and began to take down his opponents just by using the skills he learned in his previous life. The garnered the interest of quite a few players who were in the fight club

”Care to make a bet?” he asked Boris before starting the match. There was always an option for the players to bet other things than combat points for their fights. Sometimes, they could even put in more combat point that they have other than the 10 that are taken per fight.

”What do you have in mind?”

”You got more combat points?” asked Shadow and found Boris immediately putting up a 100 combat points for the bet and an addition 50 gold which Shadow immediately matched. He had the portal of Cave of Wargs which had been raking money continuously after the upgrade due to the mass quest. He could even bet upto 5 times the amount and not even care about it, right now.

Once the fight started, Shadow did the same as the last few times and decided to confront Boris head on. Boris was quite surprised that his opponent didn't even go into stealth but waited for him near a tree looking out for Boris. As he got close, Shadow who had advanced perception easily noticed Boris' outline and dashed towards him.

”You are very daring to attack me head on,” thought Boris. He already knew that Shadow had better attributes than him, but he still thought that it wasn't enough for his opponent to put him at a disadvantage. He also released stealth and used his skill teleportation stab to cover the distance between them and make a quick attack.

As soon as the Shadow saw the flickering visual effect caused by teleportation stab, Balthazar knew the skill that he had used. Though it was a rare skill, it didn't faze him. He simply side stepped avoid the path of Boris Blade's attack and kicked at his back causing him to tumble down.

Boris was quite shocked by the way that his opponent countered him. The skill was a special effect on one of his weapons and was considered a rare skill. Even for a person who was a real-life expert, it was supposed to be impossible to counter as such effects are not physically possible in real-life as there is no magical element in real-life. Apart from him, few others were also surprised as the visual effects clearly showed it to be one of magical nature.

”How did you do that? There aren't many players who can use this skill” asked Boris as he got up angrily. Though the kick caused negligible HP loss, it was clear that Shadow managed to land the first hit which was very important as an assassin could use the first hit to build up a combo. Moreover, the way he countered with a simple kick, he could have easily followed up with a few attacks as Boris fell down, but didn't do so. Boris felt that his opponent was looking down on him for not using the chance.

”I have seen the effects of teleportation before. So, I guessed you would try to get close to and jumped to the side,” replied Shadow nonchalantly. Though this seemed to be a valid reason, any player could see that it required perfect timing and wasn't an easy feat to do.

Angry at missing the first atttack, Boris lunged at him again. This time he used another skill which allowed him to rush towards Shadow at a high speed. It was a special effect from his boots as they glowed in a weird light before the skill happened.

Shadow decided to attack with his weapons directly this time. Their weapons struck each other, and Shadow was pushed back when he blocked his opponent almost falling flat on his face. It looked like the skill caused a bit of blow-back effect. He quickly changed one of the talons to the piolet form and swung it on the ground to hold him in place and then using the same as a hold, he lunged forward and the second talon was used to strike at his opponent who was moving towards him.