The people watched as all the participants disappeared. Where they went, no one knew.
The hologram was still in the sky. The man had never left. He then started speaking.
"So, for the remaining people here, you are given a live stream directly into your capsule that you can view using the competition button in the settings. You can freely navigate the stream and see whatever you want."
"To hide the player's information, you will only see their numbers on top of their head or on the ranking board."
"For those at home, you can either watch the delayed stream or just wait for another day, and we will upload all the content to our website. Now, have fun watching the competition."
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Obcisor opened his eyes in an unfamiliar place. The land around him was scorched and black all over. The surface was crusty, was radiating heat all over.
That was a negligible amount of damage to him. He looked around. It seemed he was in a high place.
"Am I near a volcano?" he said out loud. He didn't summon the skeletons immediately as they might take too much damage from the heat underneath.
He walked around and soon found a monster. The monster was a goat-like a creature with short red fur all over and spiraling horns with a magma-like texture to it.
[Observe]
[Lava Ram: Level 32 2200/2200HP]
He walked towards the ram. The ram saw him coming and started charging at him with its horn.
BAM
The ram smashed into him, but he took no damage. He used the [Spider Fang] to make a few cuts on the ram, and before he knew it, the ram died.
"Oh! 32 points for a level 32 monster huh," he wondered if the points were related to the level.
He soon found another ram, this one at level 35. This ram gave exactly 35 points.
"Well, the monsters give the same points as their levels. That's good to find out." He was glad.
He needed to quickly find a way out of this place so he could safely summon his Skeletons and not worry about them dying.
He started walking in a random direction. Soon, he realized that the heat was getting worse and he was starting to take around 20 damage per second.
"Am I walking in the wrong direction? " He wondered.
Soon, he found out the answer. He saw a massive lake with a small piece of land in the middle. The lake was of course made up of lava.
He was at the mouth of a volcano. The opening wasn't very big, maybe, 15 meters in diameter.
He wanted to turn around, but out of the corner of his eyes, he saw something. In the small piece of land, untainted by the volcano, there was a bright, blue flower growing in the middle.
"That must be one of the materials that we have to gather." He wondered if he should go get it or not.
There were about 7 meters of land between him and the flower. He couldn't jump that far.
"Hmm... Maybe the assassin can jump. He is pretty good with AGI" he thought.
[Summon Skeleton: Rouge]
The Skeleton Assassin appeared where he wanted it to. The assassin's eyes wavered a little as it realized that it was taking damage from the ground. It wanted to run away but there was nowhere to go.
"Can you jump that far?" Obcisor asked the skeleton. He knew they had some little form of intelligence so he asked.
The skeleton looked at the place Obcisor had pointed and cocked its head, almost as if it was wondering if he could do that.
Seeing no sort of answer coming from the skeleton, Obcisor sighed. "Jump over there and get me the flower" he ordered.
The skeleton shook a little, almost afraid to do that. But, it couldn't disobey his orders. So after a little bit of hesitation, it ran and jumped.
It easily crossed the lava and landed on the little land. It reached to grab the flower and slowly plucked it.
"Alright, now come back," Obcisor said, when suddenly.
Longlonglonglong
The ground started shaking. He looked around and saw something emerging from inside the lava.
Slowly two cone-like protrusions appeared in the lava, both black and sharp. As it slowly rose, more of the protrusions appeared. Soon, he realized what the two protrusions were.
They were horns on top of a giant head. As the head slowly popped out of the lava, Obcisor could fully see what it was. This was a draconic head. Meaning, the monster was at the very least in part a Dragon.
[Observe]
[Lesser Drake: Level 70 14000/14000]
"A Wild Boss" Obcisor was surprised. The host had said that Wild Bosses were a thing and they would encounter it a little more frequently than the normal game.
To Obcisor who never met a single Wild Bosses in the wild, this was a 100% increase in encounter rate.
The drake slowly brought its entire body out of the lava. It was about 10 meters long and 4 meters wide. Its entire body was glowing red as its scales shined in various shades of red.
The drake slowly opened its lizard-like eyes and looked at the Skeleton Assassin. Obcisor realized what was happening. The drake was either rearing or protecting this flower. Now that the skeleton picked it, the drake was going to kill it.
[Air Slash]
He immediately used [Air Slash] to aggro the boss and pull it away from the skeleton. The boss looked at Obcisor and opened its mouth.
FWAAA
A massive breath of fire appeared from the drake's mouth intimidating to turn him into cinders. He wasn't sure if he could tank it, but he wanted to try.
His HP was about the same as the drake itself, he should be able to survive this. He immediately turned the color of his pants to red.
<'Lesser Drake' dealt 2400 damage>
"Woah." That was a lot of damage. He needed to retaliate but he couldn't do anything unless the drake left the lava.
[Vocal Taunt]
He immediately taunted the drake and ran away. As expected the taunted Drake started following him and got out of the lake. He was about halfway out onto the black rocks when the taunt ended.
The drake wanted to go back to the lava, but Obcisor wouldn't let it.
[Shield Bash]
The drake was now out, so he had no trouble attacking it all he wanted. The drake tried to hit him with its talons, but that did nothing to him.
Obcisor was taking 0 damage from a Level 70 Wild Boss. 'It feels like when I fought those random monsters after defeating the Demon King' he thought to himself.
The drake kept on hitting him, but he took no damage. While he was steadily dealing a lot of damage to the drake.
After some time, the drake jerked back and its body started glowing bright red. Slowly, its body radiated heat more than the lava below it.
[Observe]
Obcisor used the second [Observe] on the drake.
[Lesser Drake: Level 70
HP: 6800/14000
MP: 4260/5000
STR: 500
DEF: 500
INT: 1000
VIT: 1400
AGI: 300]
The drake was now in its 'Battle' form.