Guild Wars

Kiran and Slim Fatty continued to clash wildly in the center of the stage. Seeker and Wilde were two swords with separate yet similar purposes.

On the topic of her four swords, they all had different specialties.

Swordblade was the most offensive sword that weighed more than an entire ship filled with tonnes of cargo.

Seeker was the speediest of her swords that was light as a feather but faster than a bullet.

Forte was the most sturdy sword, heavy even to her, but durable enough to tank more than a few hits from real powerhouses.

Wilde was like a support character, the sword had an all-round design and featured enchantments that were extremely useful to Slim Fatty.

Each of them had a role to play in this fight, with Forte defending Kiran's powerful strikes, Swordblade being wielded by Slim Fatty herself as she sought to cut Kiran down. Seeker was flying around her, swinging its sword aura that formed sword lights in the air, rushing towards Kiran in all their deadly might. And Wilde flying around rapidly, looking for any opening in Kiran's defenses to deal a devastating blow and create leeway for combos.

The enchantments on these blades allowed Slim Fatty to not have to control them manually at all, they all had something akin to sword spirits. Even then, with Slim Fatty at Tier 3 Control, such a thing was not a problem.

In fact, compared to the First Inter-Player International Competition, her fighting style which included the use of these swords was much more potent and deadly. After all, within her VoP, nothing could hide from her.

Alas, while Slim Fatty had powered up, Kiran was more than twice menace with Tier 4 Control. With both the BoG and the VoP, he was totally unassailable, like a moving fortress despite his thin protection.

He only cloaked himself in Internal Force, yet Slim Fatty felt like she was attempting to cut down the Eiffel Tower with a toothbrush.

The attacks Kiran could avoid, he would easily do so thanks to his reactionary abilities, and as long as it wouldn't deal him a massive injury, he would tank some hits, to dish out even more pain.

The battle intensified when he suddenly punched out, using one of his earliest class skills called Qi Wave!

Immediately, a giant wave of converted Internal Force formed and hurtled like a cannon towards Slim Fatty. This made the Sword Supreme's expression change as she knew she could not tank this and none of her swords could.

As such, she roared and activated one of her new class skills, Golden Cross!

She cut a cross shape with Swordblade, forming a giant 'X' in midair that paused in place for a second before rushing forward with unparalleled speed.

This golden X met with the Qi Wave and caused an explosion in the middle of the arena, forming a dust cloud and cracking the earth.

Kiran and Slim Fatty both rushed into the dust cloud with solemn expressions, clashing within for two seconds before the force of their fight dispersed the soot from the way.

They were currently locked in an intense face to face clash, glaring at each other as hand and sword pushed against each other, causing sparks to fly.

They broke the stalemate and separated once more. This time, Slim Fatty decided to go all out and raised Swordblade up. She entered an overhead slicing pose and Kiran's eyebrows rose greatly.

Slim Fatty suddenly opened her eyes which flashed with endless sword aura and martial finesse.

"Ash to ash, dust to dust, return to the earth whence you came." She murmured calmly as she brought the sword down.

The entire world went silent as the greenish-silver light passed through everything, even leaving a canyon in the middle. However, to the shock of all onlookers, the wave was actually captured by Kiran as he tried to push it back.

Slim Fatty herself was dumbfounded, having known that this skill's damage and ability to ignore defense was unparalleled, which was why she had been considered as #4 in the competition almost all the time.

However, as everyone gained more power and became stronger, powers and limitations that were absolute before became less comprehensive and compelling.

It was simply the way of the world.

Kiran roared and exploded his Qi on either side of his body through his hands in a pose similar to Goku's Kiai Cannon. This dispelled the skill and resolved the danger, but also left Kiran opened for an attack from Wilde.

The sword rushed in and pierced Kiran's abdomen, lodging itself in slightly. Kiran spat out a mouthful of blood as Wilde cruelly dispersed sword aura into Kiran's body, ravaging his organs and depleting his HP by more than 50%.

Unfortunately, before the sword could continue, it was grabbed by Kiran from the hilt and pulled out. His wound healed rapidly thanks to his opening of the second gate, and his HP rapidly returned to its max of 80% of his total.

The sword struggled in his hands. But he simply pierced it into the ground and punched with a huge amount of internal force, damaging its hilt as he sent it deep into the earth.

Slim Fatty's expression changed as she rushed forth to save her other sword. Kiran ignored the incapacitated Wilde and charged at Slim Fatty right after activating his final two skills, opening the Gate of Life and the Gate of Pain.

Unlike the first two which gave him 100% Strength and some strength with plenty of regen, these two gave him equal amounts of speed and endurance. His Hp reduced to 60% of its total, but in terms of vulnerability, Kiran was far less killable than before.

He simply disappeared from sight for a second, then appeared behind Slim Fatty, placing his palm on her abdomen. He then roared and released a powerful Kiai Cannon, causing the shockwave of raw Qi to blast open her stomach and send her innards flying out.

Slim Fatty died before she could even tell what was going on, turning into pixels as she went to respawn.

Kiran struggled to control his growing powers and switched of the gates slowly, recovering from the intense boost with a deep sigh.

16th Battle: Kiran wins!

With Round 1 over and done with, Group A and B looked like this;

Group A!

1st Match: Elle Leone vs Hades

2nd Match: Essence Stalker vs AP_Berzerker

3rd Match: Intellectual Monkey vs Nightwalker

4th Match: Misery vs Boyd

Group B!

1st Match: Ghostprotokill vs Tunder Power

2nd Match: Cobra vs Shadowheart

3rd Match: Rambunctious Buttlover vs The Showman

4th Match: Kronalord vs Kiran

From here on out, the matches were about to reach a level of intensity that could not be imagined. They were about to becoming burning hot! They were about to be brutal, full of power and-

"Alright, STOP!"

Suddenly, the narrator was interrupted by AP_Berzerker who had a dissatisfied expression on his face. He pointed to the matchups and swore before complaining.

"Why the fuck do I have to face that monster so early? I am a seeded character, a SEEDED CHARACTER. Do you understand what that means?"

The narrator had a headache. "What do you want then?"

Misery swirled his bottle and took a swig before adding his opinion. "Swap me with Boyd. Let me face this freak."

Oh?

The narrator was interested, while the editor simply let out a mischiveous smile.

The narrator 'glanced' at Boyd to see what he had to say, but the Maverick laughed and shrugged.

"Sure, why not. Winning the first round was enough for me. I'm man enough to admit it that I'm gonna get face planted into the dirt no matter which one of those three freaks I have to face."

Similarly, Essence shrugged. Tossing Boyd over to him was a free pass to the next round, so why would he complain?

The narrator could only pinch his nose and accept the changes with defeat. The editor simply laughed uproariously, enjoying the narrator's suffering, as he copy pasted the changes.

Group A!

1st Match: Elle Leone vs Hades

2nd Match: Misery (new) vs AP_Berzerker

3rd Match: Intellectual Monkey vs Nightwalker

4th Match: Essence Stalker (new) vs Boyd

1st match, start!

Elle Leone faced off against Hades. This time, both parties didn't hesitate to unleash their bloodlines at full power and even rev up their classes based abilities. There was no need for posturing or making any sort of noise.

Elle Leone glowed with Chaos Energy while Hades roared with Darkness Energy and the depth of Devouring. Both forces clashed in the air, one warping and twisting the latter while the other devoured and digested the former.

Hades did not gain the power to use Chaos Energy from this because Chaos was not something just anyone could master. In fact, he actively converted Chaos into a lower energy form, similar to what he had done with the elements he had stolen from those retards from that company.

As such, he lit up with fire, water, wind and earthen energy as he charged at Elle for close combat. Hades removed his hands from his pockets for the first time and merged his elemental powers into his strengthened blows.

Right now, he looked and fought like a person from the world of elemental benders, only that Hades moved much faster than they did and the forces he released though the elements required far less 'dancing' but far more energy.

Elle was not to be outdone. She was not a sword user, but rather was skilled in the usage of a glaive. After all, before joining Umbra and becoming an elf, the System had assigned her the class of a War Cleric.

As such, she manifested a glaive made of chaos energy and swung it about to meet Hades' strikes head on. The effect was that the fire, water or whatever he used to strike her would be warped into something harmless like pebbles, candies or even ice cubes.

Hades did not relent for a second, and neither did Elle. Both understood the kind of power the other had, so this fight was not going to take a few seconds. They have crazy bloodline energy regen, so trying to exhaust the other was futile.

They would literally have to keep fighting at high intensity until they found a weakness and capitalized on it, or just try to win using some clever 10,000 IQ strategy thought up on the fly.

Watching this fight, the core members by the side were enraptured. The kind of power these two were releasing could shatter entire Area Zones if they were unscrupulous. It was no wonder they got to Rank 4 so quickly with divine class, which fucking monster could withstand such a beating?

Sublime especially was rubbing her chin. She still had access to Eva's old Divine Dungeon, Plains of the Colossus, and was thinking about finally genociding the invading race - as well as the natives - and developing that lush plane into a resource farm for Umbra.

However, she didn't initially dare to because there was a Rank 7 World Boss leading the invasion, the Mad Titan. With him in the way, that plane would always be out of reach.

But looking at the explosive power and the longevity of the high-powered bloodline users, Sublime's eyes narrowed. Of course, if she could get Draco and Eva to lead, it would be easy as pie.

However, those two had their own things to do, and the core members were too proud to burden the Guildmaster and Lady Boss for every small obstacle they encountered.

With the titanic battle as a backdrop, Sublime made an important decision.

However, this did not affect the ongoing battle. Hades broke off from Elle and placed his hands on the ground, devouring the life force of the land below them. The tiles of the arena decayed and became brittle, cracking them turning into ash.

Elle snorted and stomped her foot, sending a wave of Chaos Energy through the remainder of the area which turned the hard arena into deadwood that had no energy of any kind within.

Hades' expression became ugly when he saw his 'food' source being cut off, but he sighed and stomped the ground. A jet of flame erupted from beneath his feet that sent him upwards and continue to flare at a stable rate.

It was almost as if he was Iron Man!

He then gazed down on Elle who was confidently waiting for his attacks with a calm frown, and decided to play it big. Soon, he released all the energy his class had stored so far and absorbed it with his actual bloodline.

Saturated and on the verge of exploding, he struggled to turn all that energy into what he needed, causing a shocking development.