[Welcome to the Nostalgic City!]
The moment Ling entered the portal, a blue elevated screen appeared right before his eyes, welcoming and informing him into a new place where the portal brought him.
Hmm... It was natural to blink his eyes in astonishment, at the same time, dropped jaws because of the wonderful settings of this place. To describe it, the place was full of unknown rankers, stalls, establishments, and 12 meters height water sculptures.
"What is this place? My eyes don't deceive me, aren't they?" He said inwardly, excitedly to wander around like a child. However, he minded the screen, knowing it would be better if he have small information, especially in a new place. So he shook his head and added these words "this is not the right time to act like a child. I came here to earn money so I have to gather information where I can earn monster's cores."
Well, he was well savvied that his screen name Blood spread online, so he was planning to use a fake name just to avoid unnecessary happenings kooo like being PK or being targeted by someone. Though, he heard it from one of his classmates, that's why he searched for it.
PK. It's a term where the player attacked other players while inside the game. It had different reasons, it could be personal matters or because of the ranker's items.
[Nostalgic City. It's a place for new rankers and level 20 rankers. Also, it's a place where they can find all the resources need, information, quest, etc. Plus, once you died this is the place where you respawn to be exact.]
Hmm... The information was too narrow, it appeared that he must be the one who gathered the information, instead of the screen giving him information. It was understandable since it was one of the essences of this game.
After a quick scan of the screen, he closed all the tabs and looked around. Everyone has their own business while some of them were gathering in a certain position as it was like they were forming a party raid for an expedition.
He was surrounded by numerous rankers, luckily, they hadn't cared about him, except they were that he was a new ranker because of the blue badge over his head.
That blue badge signified a Novice ranker. This was an explanatory word so anyone can understand it easily.
He continued to walk until something piqued his attention. Yes, it was the rankers that gathered around the rounded marble. And based on their voice and expression, it seemed like they were cheering for someone.
Start the match quickly!
Just fight already!
Place your bets!
I put 30 bronze coins on the swordsman!
Move away, I'm betting 50 bronze coins on this Archer!
As soon as he was getting closer, the voice of rankers was getting louder. When arrived at the area, he can't see what was the thing inside since the rankers already occupied all the spots. Fortunately, there was a 4-meter-thick tall post next to him, so he used the [Pounce] skill to climb it without making any second thoughts.
Swoosh!
Soon, he managed to reach that area and now vision within the vicinity. Under him, were the rankers standing on the rounded marble platform that had the size of 70 Square meters.
"What's going on here? Based on those rankers it seems like there's a battle that is about to happen. But why?" He asked himself inwardly, then backed his glance towards the rounded platform.
On the right side was a ranker who had spiky blue hair, brown eyes, white skin tone, 178 meters in height, and armed by slim sword or easy to say a katana. By simply looking at him, he could easily tell that the young man belonged to the swordsman class, and even though, he can't see his level that man's expression was enough to show that he was skilled.
On the left side was a middle-aged man who had brown hair, a bulky physique, an eye patch on his left eye, wearing a brown robe, and armed by a green bow. Yes, he was the Archer mentioned by other rankers earlier.
Technically speaking, the swordsman has the advantage in this battle because of the mismatch due to their classes. To be more specific, if the swordsman attained a closer distance within the Archer, the Archer would be having a hard time firing his arrows. The winning condition for the Archer was to maintain their distance from each other, but he don't think that would be easy as the swordsman was well aware of the situation.
10...
9...
8...
7...
When the 10 seconds countdown appeared in the middle part of the platform, the two rankers put their fighting stance and had serious expressions on their faces.
Moreover, this occurrence was called Duel. It was one of the system functions in this world so that the rankers can show their skills to each other. While the other rankers used the Duel to gain popularity since the battle record always showed after the match finished. Aside from that, the Duel function could be used to fix the misunderstanding with the members of a certain. Yet, the Duel function had a limitation as it can only use inside the safe zones to avoid PK. Plus, if the ranker dropped its HP to 5% the battle would end and its HP gets back into the original state.
Yes, some of them can't control their emotion due to the fight so it was inevitable they continued to attack even after the fight has ended. If that kind of scenario, that was the time when the Royal Guards guarding the area would intervene. Once that ranker was caught, that ranker could be imprisoned he/she character would be imprisoned immediately just like in the real world.
But it was not ended with that as the ranker caught should pay its fine that around 2 or to 3 thousand dollars. So if the ranker doesn't complete the requirements, he/she character could be deleted permanently, items and skills as well.
3...
2...
1...
As soon as the countdown expired, it was given for the swordsman to play this battle aggressively to not give a chance for the Archer to make his attacks. Yet, the engagement of the swordsman was easily read as the Archer point his arrows at the path where the swordsman was dashing.
[Arrow chain!]
[Arrow mist!]
[Arrow bomb!]
Three different arrows were cast at the same time, which made the audience hyped up.
What the heck?! 3 skills at the same time?
Is this really possible?
Does it look like this Archer is not easy to deal with...
Ling had wide eyes, and can't believe the occurrence happening in front of him. "This battle... It's so interesting!"