23 Chapter 22: Tournament .2
I'm Back! The exams were hell and exhausting but I made it through them with almost no difficulty. Also, I decided to temporarily lower the weekly update to 3 chapters a week until I can confidently write a chapter a day.
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(Xander pov)
Getting an opponent right away surprised me since I thought that everyone would have to wait a moment for a match, but I guess it will be more like that later in the matches.
Soon after receiving the opponent notification, I was surrounded by a flash of light and when the flash of light dissipated, I saw that I had been transported into a coliseum, and in front of me I saw my opponent.
In his hand he was holding a dark green long sword, on this sword was a light blue lighting pattern that ran from the hilt of the sword to the tip.
Turning my gaze away from his sword and looking at him instead, I looked at his physical features.
He was a tall man with messy blond hair, and on his head, he had two twisty black horns, with huge black bat wings on his back.
By his physical appearance, I guess that he was a type of demon, but I couldn't confirm which type yet since there were multiple different kinds of demons.
When I was looking at him I noticed that he was looking up towards the middle of the coliseum, wondering what he was looking at. I looked in the same direction.
What I saw was that there was a safe time above counting down from 10 seconds. "Oh, how kind of them to give us some time to observe our opponent," I thought to myself.
As the seconds ticked away my opponent got into his ready-to-fight stance, seeing him getting ready with his sword drawn, I put on some special gloves that I had commissioned.
Putting my fist up in a ready stance I waited for the starting alarms to go off.
*Beep*.
Hearing the alarm go off my opponent ran straight at me, and with his first move, he brought his sword up and started to bring it down on my head.
Instead of dodging I thought of one of the things that I wanted to try and do ever since I came into the VR world.
Extending my arms above my head I prepared to try and catch the moving sword.
Waiting for the sword to get low enough for me to catch it I thought "Hasn't almost everyone had the fantasy of catching a sword before it hits them, and then rubbing it off like it's no big deal."
When the sword finally went low enough I caught the sword, and then after catching it, I pulled it towards me.
Since my opponent wasn't expecting that to happen he was pulled forward with the sword and once he was close enough I kneed him in the stomach, which was followed by me taking his sword from his hands.
Getting kneed in the stomach made Kryptic drop down in pain momentarily, but he wasn't down for long and tried to back away from me.
Before he could get too far from me I swung his sword at him once again, and instead of aiming for a vital part immediately I swung toward his shoulder to see if I could chop it off.
Unfortunately for him, he was unable to back off far enough and had his arm slicked into, but not fully taken off.
Because I was unable to fully slice off his arm the sword was stuck in his arm with his crimson blood slowly seeping down the blade.
Taking advantage of his falling blood I used it against him and made his blood into bullets and attacked him with it.
After that attack, it made Kryptic fall down and not get up when a few seconds passed, and while he was falling there was a notification that popped up.
[Winner – Zero Alucard]
Getting this notification I was suddenly put back into the original coliseum I came from.
When I was back I looked around and saw that every single other person that was originally here wasn't here anymore, and I started to guess that everyone was taken into a match.
Deciding that I should scroll through and see what was going on the the other realm I pulled up the screen and started to search for anything that looked interesting.
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(3 hours and 30 minutes later)
Looking at the remaining people around I only saw two others, and I had just come back from finishing my match, which meant that one of these two would be my final opponent.
I looked over them and what they were wearing for a brief moment, and then after scanning over them momentarily I ignored them and turned my focus back on the match I was watching.
The realm I was currently watching was the Álfheim, and in the match, I saw Touch Me fighting against another warrior class person.
Touch Me was in a slightly different armor than what was shown in the anime. Instead of his armor being the shiny silver it was a glossy white with cyan accents now and then.
Pretty soon he started to overwhelm his opponent and in the end, he got his victory and was also now one match away from getting the title of world champion.
Scrolling through the other realms to see if there was any else that would catch my interest, but unlucky for me no one else caught my attention since they were all fairly close in combat prowess.
Laying down I was just being lazy and staring outside when suddenly I was rudely interrupted and had to go fight my final opponent.
[Zero Alucard vs HaloKing]
"Halo King? That's quite the interesting username, and he uses a stupid spear that's also quite interesting" I said in a whisper to myself.
By his appearance, because he had no other extra features to put him in any other race I guessed that he was a human and just came to the Niflheim realm to bully heteromorphic characters.
"Oh right, I forgot that a heteromorphic player would get bullied because they are so different from the human and humanoid player. I can't believe that I forgot that most players would bully and kill heteromorphic players over and over again." I thought to myself while standing up from lying down.
Starting to stretch my body to make sure I wasn't still from now I thought about how I should bully him in return for what he has more than likely done to all the other heteromorphic players.
Before the match started he looked at me and said " Oh woah I can't believe I get to destroy another heteromorphic player one last time before I win this tournament."
With saying that a huge grin formed on his face after the beep he charged straight at me.
Seeing him charging at me a smirk started to form on my face, and when he was a few feet away from me he started to slow down.
When he noticed that he was slowing down his facial expression started to deform since he didn't know what was happening.
"What in the world are you doing to me, in all of your previous matches you would injure your opponent and then use their blood against them." He said with a distorted smile on his face.
When he said that I was curious about how he knew this fighting style of mine, but after thinking about it I guessed what he did.
"Huh, I guess he must have a friend from another realm watching the Niflheim fights and informing him about other combat styles," I thought to myself as I took a step to the left dodging the spear that he thrust toward me.
After my sidestep, I decided to use the Hemokinesis ability to try and force his blood to come out of all of his glands, and unfortunately for him my ability worked and he started to bleed uncontrollably.
Since I made him bleed instead of using the blood in his body to slow down he got his usual speed back, but it wouldn't matter since he wouldn't last for much longer.
"What the hell are you doing to me, I knew that all you heteromorphic players were just sicko's who want to hurt humans," He said while he started to charge at me.
Even though he was charging at me at maximum speed it was fairly easy for me to dodge him, so I just continuously dodge him and sometimes he missed a few times in a row I taunted him.
When he was closer to dying he started to lie on the ground, seeing this I slowly approached him.
Once I was above him I crouched down towards him and said, "Who stated that I need my opponent's blood to be out of their body to manipulate it?"
Hearing my words, I saw his once confused look turn into utter fear of me, and trying to get away from me, I saw that HaloKing tried to stab himself with his spear.
Taking the spear out of his hands I tossed it away and just stared at him while he slowly died, and before his final breath I asked, "Hope you don't try and bully any other heteromorphic player, or else I'll come after you."
Transforming into the terrifying appearance the vampire once was I gave him a bloody smile, with this smile of mine I could see a white thing gradually flowing out of his body.
Walking away from him I soon heard the announcement say.
[Winner Zero Alucard]
Hearing this announcement, I noticed that it had only taken me a total of five minutes to let him bleed out, and it was only after that I was declared to be the winner, and when I won another notification popped up in front of me one more time.
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[User: Zero Alucard]
(Congratulations on winning the Niflheim tournament)
You will be contacted by the dev team within this next week, while we sort everything out please figure out what kind of item and class you will want to have.
If it is something too strong of a class or item our dev team will determine how to adjust it and make it balanced.
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Getting that notification I had a small celebration by taking off my gloves and throwing them up into the air, I then went and picked up my gloves and after I did I was transported back to where I originally was.
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(A few hours later)
"Ohh Yeah that was a nice time, it was kinda sad that my best fight was the very first one I had though," I said out loud to myself as I got off the neural nano-interface.
Walking towards my room my thoughts were going wild thinking about what kind of racial class and Item I would want.
Laying in bed it took me a while to fall asleep, but once I did I was in a deep sleep and dreamed about flying marshmallows when all of a sudden a volcano appeared out of nowhere and had Multan lava spewing everywhere.
*BEEP, BEEP, BEEP*
"NOOO NOT MY FLYING MARSHMALLOWS, WHERE ARE YOU STUPID ALARM CLOCK, I WILL DESTROY YOU," I said flying out of bed.
(Score, Alarm clock: 813, Xander: 1)
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An (Sorry for not doing too much of the fighting scenes that you may have been looking forward to, I'm just not confident with making a full chapter about combat yet)
