"You're not eating?" Opal asked her when she was about to log into the game
"You should eat first," El turned to her and she almost cussed and scold herself aloud
With all those that had occurred so early in the morning, the thought of eating breakfast nearly had escaped Key's mind.
"Right," she placed her phone on the table next to the keyboard before she stood up and went to the kitchen, just as Rio and Alexei did
"So, last night… hmm?" there was mischief in Rio's eyes and Key just rolled her eyes and shook her head then proceeded to get her food as Rio is not making any sense to her
"Wow, the way you roll your eyes are just the same," Rio said in amusement and Key just ignored him because she couldn't understand what he's saying then headed to the table and began eating
"Same with who? I think you should eat already, Rio, we still have training." Key said as politely as possible even though this guy is probably just a couple of years older than her
"Someone from a tropical country I used to visit during holidays," Rio answered and then Alexei sat next to him after placing his food on the table
"So, what's the topic here?" Alexei asked
"I'm not sure, he just said about someone from a tropical country I don't know." Key answered and continued eating in peace
"So, you haven't been to Seryphil?" This question stopped Key from eating her breakfast
She looked at Rio in confusion but in her mind, she was already starting to question if she did any error, if she went overboard with her adventures, or if she left some loose thread in her past rendezvous.
She began recalling her actions, thinking that she must've overdone or lack something since those are the only possible reason she could come up with at the moment for someone to ask her about Seryphil.
"What do you mean?" she asked hiding her nervousness
"Well, I know someone who looks quite like you in Seryphil." With this answer, Key felt relieved
"I have, but that was decades ago." She answered truthfully and continued eating her breakfast
"You speak like you're already old," Alexei commented which Key shook her head on
"Enough of your chitchat, we have training in thirty minutes," Rasheed said
"I'm done eating," Key said and stood up just their captain had placed his food on the table and sat next to his cousin
Key headed to place the dishes on the sink, they don't have to worry about the dishes, or the chores, because a house helper comes to do those every day.
She then headed to the gaming area and sat in front of her computer before logging into the game.
"Alright, since everyone's here, let's have a four v three, for now, until the other team contacts us for the training match." Bright announced
"Huh? A four v three, Bright, but who's going to team up with whom?" El asked and turned his head to look at Bright
"Key, Rio, and Opal against Nico, Paul, Alexei, and El," Dewy called them
"Captain, create a room." Bright told their captain who just nodded and started creating a room
"Looks like I'll be in the line-up, huh?" Alexei grinned at Key who just smiled at him
"We'll see about that," she said as the banning part appeared
"Why did you ban Foschia, Captain?" Alexei asked his cousin
"No reason," he replied while Key began rummaging her mind for any possible gameplay now that their Captain banned her favorite shinigami, Foschia.
"Opal, can you ban Bellum?" Key asked when it was their turn
"Okay," Opal said and banned Bellum
The other team then banned Luccicare, in return, they banned Chasseur, and at the end of the banning part of the game, Chikara and Laidir were banned.
They started choosing their shinigami, their captain, Rasheed, chose Blitz, Rio chose Pylae, Alexei chose Maesta, Opal chose Coraje, El chose Fidens, Key chose Lann, which made them look at her in disbelief as this shinigami is undeniably the hardest one to operate. Quant then chose Luxy and their match began.
They were on the opposite sides of the game, after appearing at their base, they began roaming the map to level up.
Key and Alexei are off-laners, they don't have a specific lane, as they don't have a Forward, Key decided to occupy the bottom lane and began fighting the minions trying to cross their tower to level up while Alexei chose the top lane because their team doesn't have a top-laner.
The other team members did the same, they also leveled up within their territory until a certain shinigami began attacking the support of the opposing team.
With Cacciatore and Scoilt simultaneously used against Luxy, Lann managed to get the first blood and began battling the tower just as their captain began using Blitz's Cor truncates against her Lann.
After losing half of her blood and reloading her Scoilt, Key used Lann's second skill to deal damage against their captain. She contained him to stop him from further developing as she know that a max leveled Blitz is capable of dealing 50% damage with only the first skill.
After seeing Blitz, Key knew that next to Foschia, which their captain had banned, Lann is the only shinigami capable of containing Blitz from the early part to the late part of the game.
Off-laners are not expected to contain anyone, they are responsible for ensuring that no gold in their respective jungles is taken by another team ahead of them.
On the other hand, Opal and Rio have been dealing with the kitsune, while Alexei and Fidens are dealing with the manticore.
"Opal, Rio, can you construct a team fight in the Hydra's lair? I'm heading there right now." Key said as she navigated her shinigami into the jungle to the middle lane after killing Blitz for the second time.
"Okay," Opal said just as the Kitsune dropped the gold
They met at the Hydra's Lair in the middle of the map, four against three is not really an ideal battle, especially with the Hydra attacking them as they deal damage against each other.
"Faster, faster,"
"I'm low on blood!"
"We're friends, right?"
"And I'm dead!"
"We'll fight you later, okay?"
"Shouldn't we fight the Hydra first?"
At the end of the team fight, Key's Lann, El's Fidens, Alexei's Maesta, Opal's Coraje, and Quant's Luxy were drained and resurrected back to their respective bases.
Rio brought his Pylae back to the towers to level up, and he can't fight their Captain's Blitz who still has more than half of his blood with his shinigami who only has half of its blood remaining.
After resurrecting, Key used Lann and Opal used Coraje to begin destroying the towers.
A fight occurred between their captain's Blitz and Key's Lann when Key was already trying to destroy her opponent's second tower but she was then drained of her blood when Quant's Luxy arrived and used Caeles against her.
Meanwhile, Rio is currently dealing with El on their first tower, El is the one attacking while Rio is defending their tower, and his Pylae was already on the lower hand with only a little blood remaining.
El won just as Alexei's Maesta and Opal's Coraje clashed on the top lane in an attempt to destroy each other's towers.
They both have their blood still full as they have both just had resurrected. Using his Punch and Trajectoire, Opal's Coraje managed to drain Alexei's Maesta half of its blood, just as his Maesta's Conventus and Freccia managed to deal damage draining more than 60% of Coraje's blood.
"I'm near!"
"Faster!"
"I thought we're friends!"
"I need help!"
"Team fight,"
"We're still friends after this."
At the end of the match, Lann, Coraje and Pylae were drained of their blood while defending their base.
It really was a narrow escape, Coraje and Pylae were close to draining Maesta and Fidens's blood, but then Blitz and Luxy interfered.
After teaming up against Lann, who had drained both of them of half of their blood before her own blood was drained, they helped Maesta and Fides drain Coraje and Pylae of their blood, and so, the victory was claimed by Blitz, Maesta, Fidens, and Luxy after they had successfully destroyed their opponent's base.
"Congratulations, Rasheed, Quant, Alexei, and El, and you did well with your numbers, Key, Rio, and Opal." Bright congratulated them and they nodded with a smile
At the end of the day, they are still a team and it was just training to enhance their skills, although, Key had already set a goal in her mind to beat them one day even if it's just training.