Chapter 35: Duel Challenge (II)
Lars and Sarl, seeing everyone comfortable, also looked at the other recruits and Nova, before Lars shouted.
"Well, it's time for it to begin, The challenge of...!"
"Wait!" shouted Nova, interrupted directly to the two masked men.
At this point, drawing the attention of others didn't matter to him as long as the plan he had in mind would be executed to perfection.
According to his memories, he knew very well that at the beginning of the game, you would have to create an avatar that would have a quality and element for which he had more affinity. With this, he can learn more easily, spells and skills with this same quality and element.
'And level 5 is where you will be given a skill that has a relation to your affinity and element,' Nova thought with anticipation.
He was nothing away from leveling up to level 5, which would have an ability that has a relation to his affinity, but Nova hadn't created an avatar or anything, he just appeared with an ability....
'Copy', Nova's eyes suddenly glowed with compression.
He doesn't even have an affinity or element in his appearance in the world, only one ability, Copycat.
Nova quickly concluded that when he made it to level 5, would he end up getting a similar or related ability to his unique ability? This was a strong possibility in her mind.
Thinking about this, Nova couldn't help but let his eyes flash and, for the first time in his life, a faint murderous intent would escape his body.
Everyone, even the newly arrived high commanders, was surprised by the murderous intent they were feeling.
They were all experienced, assassins and mercenaries, they could even sense a small amount of murderous intent, however slight.
But what surprised them even more was that the murderous intent was not bent on anyone. Particularly, moreover, the murderous intent was being combined with the desire for greed.
They were even more surprised, but as soon as Nova's murderous intent appeared, it was suddenly gone.
They could only watch Nova now, both because of his murderous intent and the sudden interruption.
"Ahem, two masked, I passed the first and second challenge, right?", clearing his throat, Nova spoke still sitting on the seat.
At his words, the two masked ones, Lars and Sarl, nodded with confirmation, but also attentive to Nova's next words, which he wasn't finished.
"And I passed the first place in both the first and second challenge, didn't I?" asked Nova in a loud tone, for all present to hear.
At Nova's words, the two masked men froze for a while, before reluctantly nodding.
Observing the nod from the two masked men, Nova instantly smiled, filling himself with happiness.
He knew he had made the top spots, after all, he took out two cockroach dummies in the first challenge, demonstrating both tremendous offense and decent defense.
In the second challenge, he showed great speed in answering more questions, loyalty, and intelligence, demonstrating quick judgment and confidence.
It was obvious his first place in the two challenges, but already with confirmation from the two masked men, he moved on to his next plan.
"Well then, as first place in the two challenges, shouldn't I have a couple of simple advantages?" asked Nova with an innocent smile, but several could see the malice under his "innocent" words.
Sarl and Lars were surprised by the request for perks, which were rewards, for their performance.
But the more they thought about it, the more logical it sounded, seeming like a reasonable request.
Sure, they both instantly thought of killing him. From their perspective, it would only take a snap of their fingers, but also in their minds, they found Nova too promising to let him die.
"Fine, spit out your requests," Sarl said, his tone much colder than before, dropping his little remaining amusing side.
Lars also looked extremely serious, side by side, the two of them looked like twin mountains, pure ice from the cold they exerted.
'It's working...', Nova smiled as he watched his blatantly ambitious plan give its effects.
He knew that the two masked ones were currently also planning on killing him, especially if he made ridiculous requests and perks.
So Nova planned to confess his first and simplest request to lighten the pressure and coolness exerted by the masked ones, standing proudly at the epicenter of the platform.
Taking a deep breath to calm himself, he became serene and calm again, hiding the smirk of satisfaction that his plans went according to his thoughts.
"My first request is to be the first to have a duel in the challenge," Nova stated in a high-pitched tone.
Hearing the request, although it seemed simple, exerted several advantages such as faster recovery mentally for the finals in case of winning, as well as watching your enemy's last fight before the finals.
It was simple, but at the same time a great advantage, but as they did not find the request unreasonable; they nodded in agreement.
Nova, seeing again his cold and distant nod, became much more relaxed, and the atmosphere as well, but soon swallowed a little saliva as he thought of the next request he was going to state.
Filled with determination, he suddenly rose from his seat and this time demonstrated the most indifferent and aloof expression he could muster to hide his growing nervousness.
"There are five recruits...that's an odd number," Nova declared, at that very instant everyone present understood the meaning of her words.
Smiling slightly, he stated. "How about eliminating the missing one?"
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