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Chapter 25 - Disciplined Trickster

"You have better skills to navigate the source so you do it."

Game God assessed the floating head of the Frost Bull and the Frost Bull suddenly coming to a stop and calming down.

"Someone got a top tier summon. The Trickster. Pretty cool combination of imitation magic to calm down the contestants so that the Frost Bull can't feed on fear."

"I've never heard of the Trickster. Is this a new entity made by the System?"

"Look, Yami. Even I myself don't know when the System will make something new. I just know System keeps working hard."

"Bulls***. Why do you allow System to do as it pleases? Fix the damn game."

"If I fix the game, you'll lose everything you have. So from now on...don't question administrator decisions. I'll tell you this. I've left System that way so that the game still stays number one. Players hope for something randomly good to fall into their hands all the time."

"Fine I've found its master. I'll watch what else she does with the Trickster summon. Can Puppet Master tame it?"

"Nope but she can tame the Puppet Master's Reaper. She's stronger."

[The Trickster adapts the same height as its master but its original appearance is similar to a jester with alternating red and green patches on its suit. There is no face. The Trickster rarely stays in its original appearance and prefers to shapeshift to other creatures as a whole or rip off one limb which can shapeshift into a full body of another entity.]

"So it acts like a stand?"

"What's a stand Yami?"

"Never mind. She's making a move."

"Forget her for now Yami. Let's take a look at what Lucifer did. Hopefully it's less brutal than what the Frost Bull did."

"I might breathe life into the nice sculpture he molded with weaklings. The contestants are just running away or hiding from the bosses. It's boring."

"You're only the Dark Lord and not the God of Darkness but yeah it's fun to play god so go ahead."

Yami turned the ball of slime, goblin, bats and summoner corpses into a sentient entity named "Party Slime".

The Party Slime was not given legs so it would leave a trail of organs and blood behind after "moving".

Yami grinned after praising his own creation.

"This should scare them to death or stun them. Even better, this will heighten their fear and the Frost Bull will appear."

There were only 5 summoners left and 4 necromancers of high level until...

"I've contacted the guild since the interference rule is gone...they'll help us deal with the bosses then I'll go look for them. Trickster should've distracted the judges."

Amanda the summoner spoke to her friend Lilith, a necromancer.

"You're leading them to slaughter!None of them are strong enough like the two of us..."

"They are strong together. Stop being pessimistic about this."

"I'm being practical. There are no friendship or group buffs for players...You don't get more Attack if you're together with a party!"

"I'm being hopeful and faithful. Teamwork works."

Furious red eyes and an omnious presence entered the magic barrier of the summoner and necromancer.

"Your train of thoughts are very interesting."

It was Lucifer who shapeshifted into Yami.

"Reveal!"

Lucifer's glorious fallen angel avatar appeared before them. The pale white blonde was different from other fallen angels who have black feathered wings and body parts covered in gray.

"Imitation f***ery won't fool me. I'm quite the summoner myself!"

Lucifer summoned "The Unholy", another of The Myths, trapped in a Higher Demon's body but with angelic white feathered wings and a black halo above its head.

The Unholy swiftly took Lilith with its grotesque bloody fingers and diced Lilith to death but she dissolved into a cut up limb of a jester.

"S*** they escaped. This is entertaining!"

The Unholy is currently 10 times faster than the Speed boosted Frost Bull of which Amanda already calculated hiding in the wheat fields leaving behind doubles to distract Lucifer.

"You can run but you can't hide from the devil's favorite angel!"

Lucifer flew high above the dome and commanded The Unholy to dice up the remaining contestants besides Amanda and Lilith. Amanda did not bother to save the other contestants with imitation magic and whenever their faces were splashed with red blood from the death of a contestant nearby, they ran the opposite direction dashing through the fields.

"I'm almost out of mana Lilith!"

"This is our end Amanda...You have to kill me to win!"

The limbless Trickster right above Amanda was about to kill Lilith as she wished by using fine strings.

"No! There's another way, I'm sure with this plan..."

"No because I'm here to foil it!"

Lucifer charged towards their direction distracted by the emotional moment and Amanda received Lucifer's right fist at the gut while the left fist felt like a bullet through Lilith and both spat blood kneeling to the ground.

"You're plan fails if you can't speak! I win!"

"Lucifer that's enough. I was going to kill you after you defiled my image."

Lucifer's body was suddenly planted deep in the ground and only his blond hair and pale sinister face could be seen smiling widely. The Dark Lord looked down on Lucifer and stepped on the fallen angel's face.

"I am entertaining, yes? no?"

Lucifer got knocked out after joking.

"So it wasn't Amanda and Lilith who came to our table and demanded a verdict of two champions...Game God, such strategy is-"

"not cheating. Let's 'grant' them their wish."

Game God looked uneasy with the plan they've also setup for the two.

"Alright. Amanda. Lilith. Face each other. I'll old Lilith's hand and raise it as we declare the champion for this class battle. The monk will hold yours and raise it to victory and you can both smile at each other knowing that...you more of survived than won."

Amanda failed to notice the Dark Lord particularly referred to one single champion. They were teleported to a newly created woden stage outside and above the dome in space.

After 3 seconds of holding both their arms in victory and appreciating the glorious moment, The Lord of Time stopped all that was happening and took out Nightslash to cut Lilith in half. He continued the timeline after the blade touched Lilith's skin so that Amanda wasn't fast enough to cast anything.

"I'm sorry dear...I also wanted just one winner..."

Game God held her down on the ground as she howled and grieved and the Trickster swiftly attempted to assassinate the Dark Lord from behind.

"I don't wanna hear what she was to you. Be grateful I chose your prize and fate for you because you're f***ing indecisive. It's just a ga-"

"Yami that's enough! She was a dead player. Resurrect her now!"

"Make me."