Chapter 7: Champion Tournament - Part 4 (Final Part)
(AN: Sorry for the late chapter, college is getting back into the swing of things after midterms and I found out that my grades are atrocious. Now I'm trying to balance Studying, Writing, and Gaming so chapter releases might dwindle. There'll still be at least 1 chapter a week but I don't think I'm going to be able to write 3 of them anymore, this will probably be the last week that there are 3.)
The grim dread of the son's atrocities,
make plain the sins of the father.
-A Lingering Sol
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"Ok, what the actual fuck? Did my game get switched to Bloodborne or some shit?"
I say this because I'm in the last round of the tournament, and my opponent looks eerily similar to the Orphan of Kos. Shrimp hammer and everything. The main difference is that they actually have clothes on, as cheap as the clothes look. The bad news is that for the final round, we don't have the ability to check who our opponent is, so I'm going in blind.
As soon as the horn goes off my opponent starts racing towards me and swings their hammer towards my head, I roll out of the way and switch to Lifehunt Scythe. I swing my scythe at their hammer arm diagonally, hoping to cut it off and slice through their chest, but they dodge out of the way, making me only cut their chest slightly. 1 hit.
I continue my onslaught, swinging my scythe around me and twirling it like second nature. 5 years of experience will make you at least average with any weapon but I'm far from average. My ability with the scythe looks like I was born with it. I swing my scythe at their waist, they dodge out of the way but still get cut. 2 hits.
I swing it at the leg they have their weight on, cutting it deep. 3 hits. Now they have a slight poison, weakening them further, they also can't support the weight. I swing it at their arm but they block it, they clash together for a few seconds before my superior strength topples them, cutting their chest. 4 hits.
I swing once more at their weapon arm, nicking it due to the rolling. 5 hits, jackpot. A special effect of my weapon, if I can get off 5 hits without taking any damage or being stumbled, my opponent becomes Slowed, Inhibited, and Bleeding.
They were already slowed due to their fucked up leg, now at, maybe ¼ of their original speed. Inhibition makes it so they can't use any spells or abilities, pretty much locking their mana, which sucks ass in a tournament that restricts potion usage. While Bleeding deals damage over time, it also makes it easier to track a running or hiding opponent.
Yet despite all of the status effects stacked on them, my 5 hits only did maybe ⅕ of their health. I run at them, hoping to take them out quickly, but what they do next surprises me.
???: "<Blood Sacrifice: Status Break>, <Sonic Boost>, <Dragon's Strength>, <Dragon's Pride>"
Their health immediately dropped to ½ and all the status effects disappeared. Their stamina gets completely refilled and they disappear from their spot before appearing right behind me. The swing their hammer up, knocking me into the air. Taking nearly ¼ of my health.
"What the fuck?!?!" I turn in midair and switch my weapon to the Swordspear for its lightning magic spell boost.
"<Demonic Lightning>!" a large bolt of black lightning launches from my weapon and hits where they are, the after-explosion covers half the arena while simultaneously launching me higher due to the blowback. But what scares me the most is that I can see them looking at me from the opposite end of the arena explosion, ¼ of their health left with their opposite arm blown off.
???: "<Wrath of the Gods>" after they finish the spell a dark red fire lance launches itself towards me.
"Alright! Let's fight fire with fire! <Will-O-Wisp><Hell Lance><Converge>!" 9 whitish-blue balls of fire and a dark blue fire lance surround me before melting together and forming a light blue lance of flames with a black-ish core before launching itself towards the opposing fire lance. They combat each other for a moment before an explosion of Dark Red and Blue occurs, making me blind to the field. I take the time that the explosion is blinding my opponent to vanish back on the ground of the arena.
My weapon switches back to the scythe form as I sprint towards their last position. I swing my scythe towards the outline only for lightning to erupt from it, paralyzing me. My opponent breaks out of the ground from underneath where the lightning clone was and grabs my leg before pulling me down.
???: "<Live Burial>!"
"<Outbreak>!" I immediately break out of the paralyzation and burial and swing my scythe at their only remaining arm. The surprise at me breaking out shocks them enough for me to cut their arm off before they dodge out of the way of any other damage. But it did enough, they have the Heavy Bleed effect from getting their limb cut off and in the next second, before they could cast any healing spell, they die.
Niflheim Champion: Alastor
"I did it!" I say before my avatar gets transported to the player room where my guild is waiting. I arrive to the sound of cheering as Pero and Touch lift me up on their shoulders as Ace uses a skill to shrink himself a little before jumping on my shoulder. The cheering gets quieter as Momon approaches me as Pero and Touch let me down on the ground.
Momon: "Congrats on your victory Alastor…"
"Thank you, Mama Momon!"
Everyone burst out laughing at that as Momon sweat drops. It gets quiet again as the Orphan of Kos copycat comes up to me, this time the atmosphere turns somber.
???: "That was a good fight… I had fun."
"As did I, say, are you a fan of Bloodborne?"
???: "Oh? I should've expected that, as your weapons and armor are a mix of Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and a touch of Code Vein. Yes I am, my username is actually inspired from my love of it."
I take the moment to look at his username, Sanguisomnium, a mashed together version of Blood Dream in latin…
"Ah, now I see it, Blood Dream huh? Pretty cool I have to say."
Sanguis: "Yes I thought so too, anyways, I should go, thanks for the fight… Alastor."
As soon as he leaves, Buku, in her dark elf form, runs and jumps on me congratulating me on winning before I have to leave to collect my prize. I walk into a private room and lock the door after finding no one in there. I open the 'Reward' tab on the interface and click on the present icon.
[Congrats on winning the tournament Player Alastor! As a reward, you get the following:
World Champion Title - Evolvable
+20 to Lvl Cap - New Cap: Lvl 220
6 NPC Tickets - Companions
2 Upgrade Ticket - Divine Tier
Special Reward from winning Special Event, Beat an Admin:
Admin beat - Sanguisomnium
Reward:
Race Naming Ticket
Note: Found you while looking through the player files, wanted to see how you'd do against someone who was matching your level, got to say, I'm impressed. Anyways I also say that your races are a mouthful, so here's a ticket, it will combine all of your races into one "race" with all the abilities and free up some levels for you.]
"Pretty good I have to say, that guy was an Admin and he equalled my level? That explains why the fight was so much more difficult than before, he got me down to nearly half my HP. Hmmm, let's see, I have an idea for my NPC's but I won't use them until we raid Nazarick and I can get my floor set up. Higher level cap is always welcomed. I'll use my tickets on Hollow Lost and Unholy Reverend now. Hmmm, for my race, I've been acting like one and a lot of my stuff is from it so, Set Race Name: Soulborne."
[Granted, using Upgrade Tickets - Divine Tier… used.
[Unholy Reverend] has been upgraded:
Magic < 7th tier won't affect Player.
Entities < Lvl 60 won't hurt the Player.
[Hollow Lost] has been upgraded:
Instacast <= 8th tier magic. (this means he won't have to say the name to cast it)
5 Hit Status Cause → 3 Hit Status Cause.
Using Race Name Ticket… used.
Race(s):
<True Vampire: Racial Class - Max Lvl 10>
<Arch Devil: Racial Class - Max Lvl 5>
<Demon God: Racial Class - Max Lvl 5>
<Incubus: Racial Class - Max Lvl 10>
<Overlord: Racial Class - Max Lvl 5>
Have been compiled into Race:
<Soulborne: Racial Class - Max Lvl 5>
Active Title/Effect Added:
<Primordial of Death:
Necromancy:
Access to High Tier Death Spells
Aura of Death
Deal damage overtime to entities half Player level in 15m radius>
Active Title/Effect Added:
<Lord of Cinder:
Pyromancy
Tephramancy
Typhomancy>
Active Effect <Lord of Cinder> has evolved:
<Hell Lord of Cinder>
Fire now defaults into Blue Flames]
"Eh? EHHHH!?!?"
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Hey everyone, thanks for reading this chapter.
He couldn't use High Tier necromancy before due to not specializing in it.
Tephramancy: Ash Magic
Typhomancy: Smoke Magic
Demonic Lightning: 7th Tier, creates a black bolt of lightning that deals Heavy AOE Electric Damage
Curse Break: Apart of the Blood Sacrifice Abilities, 8th Tier, consumes a massive amount of HP to remove all Status Effects
Sonic Boost: 5th Tier, 300% increase target speed
Dragon's Strength: 7th Tier, 500% increase target strength
Dragon's Pride: 5th Tier, Fully restores stamina at cost of faster drain rate
Will-O-Wisp: 6th Tier, Summons 9 Whitish-Blue fireballs that guarantee heavy burn effect
Hell Lance: 8th Tier, Summons a Blue Fire Lance that explodes on impact, deals dual HP and MP DMG
Converge: 3rd Tier, Combines 2 or more spells together into one powerful spell
Live Burial: 5th Tier, Drags target deep underground to a 'cell', restraining them
Outbreak: 5th Tier, Removes restraints and breaks 'cells'
Wrath of the Gods: 9th Tier, Summons a Dark Red Fire Lance that explodes on Impact, deals heavy HP DMG
Will-O-Wisp + Hell Lance Converge Spell, Unofficial Name: Consuming Flames: 10th Tier, Creates a light blue lance of flames with a black-ish core, deals heavy dual HP and MP DMG, 'consumes' spells under 8th Tier.