Chapter 94

"Impossible!"

Jeff opened his eyes wide with a grim expression staring at his greatsword that suddenly stopped just right before it hit Zephyr.

He continued to slash, strike, and thrust as he unleashed all of his skills in his arsenal. But unfortunately, no matter how he tried, his efforts were no avail as his attacks could not land and reach Zephyr no matter what.

He could also feel his body was becoming more heavy and felt a slight dizziness as his stats was rapidly decreasing due to the effects of the [Fighting Spirit].

Looking at the greatsword that attempted to hit him but could not and only landed the air around him, Zephyr muttered in his mind.

'[Infinity Barrier], what a convenient skill. It's good to be a Nephilim hmmm.'

Seeing the effects of the [Infinity Barrier] that is one of the innate skills of the Nephilims just like the [Absolute Defense] of the dragon race, Zephyr found this skill convenient as with this, he no longer needed to bother defending from any forms of attacks as long as they had no way of deactivating the skill.

He was satisfied that he had the chance to copy this skill from Eliazar. Gazing at the opposing player that had a grim face also with a visible despair as he was unleashing everything he got but to no avail, Zephyr muttered in a monotone voice with eyes that was devoid with emotion.

"Is this is all you got? Unfortunately its a pity."

Saying that, arcs of raging black lightning gathered around him. With the high intelligence stats and infinite mana, tremendous magic power was released.

"A mage?"

Jeff felt offended by his opponent's remark but he couldn't find the right word to rebuke him as he couldn't land any attack no matter how he tried and the effort he put on it. He gritted his teeth as he had no idea how to break through this broken skill but he was even more surprised as a sudden, magic power began gathering indicating that his opponent was a mage.

Not just he was on a casual attire and is not wearing any armor at all, it made his theory plausible that he was not facing a tanky warrior or a close combat class but a mage. However his heart sink seeing the intense magic power that was gathering in the arena.

Suddenly, a black lightning rushed at him with an extreme speed. Knowing how fatal that attack is, he tried his best to evade it but unfortunately, aside from the black lightning was very fast, with the effect of Zephyr's divinity, all kinds of attacks of Zephyr were guaranteed to hit.

It didn't took long for the most basic spell of Zephyr, the [Black Lightning Blast] to reach its target and made it scream in pain. As Jeff was engulfed with the black lightning, he cried in his mind.

'Why am I feeling pain?!'

As a player, he naturally set the pain perception to the minimum as he didn't want to feel any pain but unfortunately for him, all attacks of Zephyr ignores any pain reduction effects and increase the pain by 500% of the taken damage.

For Jeff who was not mentally prepared for this, disappeared in the Arena without actually knowing what really happened.

[Player 'Zephyr' had won.]

After Jeff, Zephyr won easily against any casual players, professional gamers, and all types of rankers. It was a massacre. Zephyr literally crushed even the arena's rankers. They collapsed hopelessly in front of Zephyr's [Fighting Spirit], ridiculous stats, and many debuffs from Zephyr's passive skills.

『Kufuahahahaha! Any players even rankers are being slaughtered.』

Hyrkan's amused voice was heard in Zephyr's mind but Zephyr ignored it. He considered that this might be the interesting things that Hyrkan wanted to see.

After several domineering victories, a system prompt appeared.

[You have reached 'Grand Master'.]

Zephyr then looked at his rank as he wanted to see the difference between the Master and Grand Master Rank as it would be stupid if there wasn't as it was hard for the other players to win a match among the billions of players.

[Arena's Grand Master]

[Given to those who reached Grand Master Rank in the Arena.

* All stats 150+.]

Zephyr maintained a completely indifferent attitude. He resumed the ranking battle like nothing had happened.

'Now I am still the ranked 1.'

Even he hasn't played any ranking match in the PVP Arena for a while, he was still the first ranked with a 100% win rate with all of his matches unlike the others who surely experienced defeat atleast once or even maybe more than twice.

'In any case, they are all weaker than me.'

After fighting against the other players for a while, Zephyr had now confirmed that his power outclassed the others as aside from they couldn't damage him due to the [Infinity Barrier], all he need is just one attack to finish them off.

'It is weird that their growth is slow.'

Seeing with his own eyes how weak the other players is, Zephyr wondered what they had been doing until now.

『Kufuahahahaha! I couldn't help but agree with you my BFF. They were quite pathetic but I think you didn't even consider your ridiculous growth.』

Hearing it, Zephyr muttered.

"Then doesn't this...is just a waste of time?"

『My, my. Don't be like that.』

Zephyr remained indifferent with no change in his expression or emotion. Just plain boredom was expressed but still couldn't be seen in his emotionless expression.

『Hmmm. If this is really that troublesome and boring for you, why not reach try the highest rank. The divine rank.』

Hearing that, Zephyr immediately became interested on what the highest Arena rank holds as it should be a rank that couldn't be easily obtained.

"I got it. Let's see what the highest rank holds."

With the goal of seeing with his own eyes what the divine rank holds out of his and Hyrkan's curiosity, Zephyr decided to remain at the Arena for a while and raise his rank.

Just like that, numerous players who would report to the developers of how they suddenly felt an excruciating pain that could almost kill them even in reality.

Zephyr on the other hand who had just another match raised his rankings easily, but strangely, the matching speed was too slow.

'It is weird that it is slower.'

The average waiting time to be matched for the next fight was 30 minutes. However, Zephyr didn't play a match until 40 minutes later.

'What should I do? It is too long...'

What he didn't know was that there hasn't any player yet that reaches his Grand Master rank which means he wouldn't be able to fight any players anymore.

He was also avoided on purpose. Unbeknownst to him, many players who were defeated by him posted in the forum their experiences of their attacks that couldn't land on the target, the instant death and the excruciating pain they suffered.

It became a topic as it would be seen in the match on who would win as the name Zephyr is very famous in the player base of Tensura. The heavy prestige of the number player became even more solid after the post of the forum about their continuous defeat in the hands of Zephyr.

Knowing that Zephyr is playing in the PVP Arena, many players stopped the ranking battle. As they were probably afraid that their rankings would decline, so they stopped the ranking battles.

However as the Arena was not just a fighting place for the players, it was also a place where several NPC who wanted to fight in the city in hoping to earn money would be found.

It was like a gladiator style where several spectators would watch and would bet on who the winner is.

Several strong NPCs were also holding many higher ranks and it was just that Zephyr was the first player to reach the Grand Master Rank and being the fastest to reach the rank as he had no records of being defeated.

Zephyr watched and examined the opponent that appeared. The person is wielding a bow and a staff was placed on the back. He could guess that his opponent was a Tier 2 and in the level 80+ at that.

At the same time, it possessed a dual class. Just like the players, NPCs were also allowed to have two classes but the process of acquiring was much more harder and complex than the players.

[The ranking battle has begun.]

Zephyr turned his head back toward the man in front of him. This person seemed to be relaxed. However, he shouldn't have such an attitude considering his fighting ability.

'What are his skills?'

As Zephyr was wondering what his opponent was capable of, he knew that Zephyr wasn't weak at all so he didn't utter many nonsense. He was the first to act as he threw a lash of green colored magic skill at Zephyr.

With his evolution and acquiring the passive skill [Divine Demonic Arcane Dragonoid's Knowledge], Zephyr knew that this skill is called [Potent Smog].

It is a skill that reduces opponent's agility and defenses. It would also inflict some damage on the target per second. This was known as a Dark Shaman Class' torture skill.

What made this skill special was that this was a target-type skill and there was no way avoiding it. It then followed by firing several arrows using the bow as it also released [Crippling Arrow] and [Icicle Arrow] at the same time.

Both of these skills were meant to reduce the opponent's speed as well. Looking at the well coordinated release of skills, Zephyr could praise him as he knew it was hard to perform something like this.

The speed of the skills differed greatly. The arrows was the fastest while the magic debuff was the slowest.

To ensure the three attacks would hit a single target in a short amount of time without missing a single one, the coordinations of the attacks had to be extremely good.

He could guess that this one is a named NPC but he didn't bother to inspect even he knew that the growth rate of the Named NPCs was slightly above the growth rate of players.

If you compare named NPCs and players of a similar level, the named NPCs will always come out superior in all abilities. This was because a setting to protect certain NPCs that have effect of the worldview of Tensura.

However this no longer applied to Zephyr as his stats and skills had transcended several NPCs already. The NPC who fired the skills on the other hand was bewildered seeing Zephyr had no intention to avoid his attacks at all.

'Is he a moron or he's just confident?'

As someone who had reached the Grand Master rank in the Arena, the NPC didn't underestimate Zephyr as far as he knew one not could reach the rank of a Grand Master easily.

Just like all attacks that had been fired at Zephyr since the first match, none were able to hit as it exploded and disappear just before it reaches him. The NPC's eyes widened as he couldn't explain what happened.

"How?"

However as an experienced fighter who had reached the Grand Master rank, he immediately regained his composure. He grasped his weapon—a long red bow. He pointed his bow at Zephyr, who was watching him with indifferent and cold eyes.

"Bah, do you think I will lose so easily? How did I get to my current position?"

Then he moved as he positioned himself. The NPC's movements made him seem like a leopard racing through the Serengeti. It was extremely fast. He then fired another debuff spell and releases a searing arrow seemed like a beast that was about to bite Zephyr. "Huup!"

However, if the NPC was a leopard, then Zephyr was a dragon. He didn't care about fast movements as in his eyes, it very slow. Even he remained standing without doing anything, he easily blocked the NPC's attack.

Zephyr was covered with an intense [Fighting Spirit] that pushed the NPC's pure energy. The leopard couldn't penetrate the dragon's defense.

The subsequent battle was extremely one-sided. This was Zephyr's overwhelming dominance. The NPC was crushed beyond belief without Zephyr doing anything.

I'm going crazy, crazy.'

The NPC bit his lips. This was a scam. How could there be such a skill difference between them? It was like an adult playing with a child.

As he was beginning to feel despair, he froze when he heard Zephyr's indifferent remark.

"I'm getting bored by this so let's settle this right now."

Saying that, black lightning appeared as Zephyr pointed his hand at the NPC. With eyes that held no emotion, Zephyr mumbles.

"Farewell."