Chapter 25: Vol 1 – Chapter 25 (Battle Royale 3)

Sometime ago…

*THUD*

A muffled sound can be heard as a lifeless body fall to the pile of sands. Judging from the equipment that body wore such as leather gear & quiver strapped on his back, he is an archer type class, but he did not manage to draw or unsheathe his weapon so it can be assumed that he never seen what had hit him.

Right behind that player body are two daggers that lodged in deep before disappearing & leaving behind two holes. Soon after, a figure appeared on top of that body as the fallen archer figure vanishes to thin air.

That figure wore black tattered cloak that hide his limbs and a face mask covered his facial characteristic except his black eyes that seemingly stare into the void & soul of its victims.

“One down”

Night Edge commented seeing the vanishing body as his point in the ranking raised by one. In total, he has accumulated around thirty points in this event. Only focusing on low defence characters such as archers or magic casters so he can one shot them due to his [Ambush] passive skill.

His first advancement class [Rogue] gave him that skill which increased the damage he dealt to target that is unaware of his presence. Night Edge looked around the vast expanse of the sands before crouching and his silhouette vanishes.

That’s another skill [Hide] activated, This ability allowed him to camouflage to his surrounding reducing chances to get detected. But it gives him penalty of movement speed & constantly consume a little bit of SP (Stamina Point).

But contrary to magic caster’s {Invisibility] spell. This skill doesn’t have a cooldown allowing him to activate it whenever he wanted as he trudges on through the expanse of reddish-brown sand.

*RUMBLE*

From above, he can hear a storm is brewing as he looks up & see the cluster of grey clouds begun to cover the clear skies reducing light level making his presence even harder to detect.

Beneath his mask, he smirks thinking that it is quite lucky of him to get this weather effect. In the world of ‘Eidolon’, weather could affect players to some degree but most of them are negligible side-effects. But one in particular such as dimming the light level, enhance his [Hide] skill making it harder to notice his presence.

*Whoosh*

Soon after, he found a player appearing out of nowhere. Wearing beautifully embroidered robe with a familiar symbol of an eye inside the centre of a magic circle. She carries a thin iron staff & on top of that staff is a tennis ball sized glass orb seemingly glow in eerie cyan light.

She crouch letting her robe dirtied by the sands and a little bit in haggard as a part of her clothing is torn with several arrows stuck on her back.

Night Edge smiles in glee as a scrumptious food just lies before him. A basically free point in his eyes as he move closer readying his daggers. Due to that combination of effects, the exhausted mage haven’t noticed the approaching danger.

She continues to crouch and take a breather from hectic chaos, she had escaped from those battles not knowing that she teleported herself to another danger.

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A glint of light caught her eyes but before she can react to that.

*CRASH*

A loud thunder almost tear up the skies and massive bolt of lightning directly struck at her, in which Night Edge cancelled his [Hide] skill and immediately dashed backward not wanting to get caught by the lightning area of effect damage.

Upon the sand settled down, while readying his dagger in defensive position Night Edge sees nothing left of that mage. Its true that some ‘Extreme Weather Effects’ can deal damage to players but it is almost unheard of in Battle Events that ‘Eidolon’ usually have.

Knowing this… most likely, this is caused by a magic caster player. His mind begin to connect the pieces.

Leading to that conclusion, almost instantly he kicked up the sands below him making a cloud of dust preventing people to gain vision to him. This is a smart move as it makes any long-range attackers have trouble targeting him.

Activating his skill [Hide] his silhouette vanished as the dust settles with Night Edge figure nowhere to be seen. Upon leaving that area he pursed his lips and gritting his teeth. Knowing his kill have been stolen. A question perked in his mind...

“Who casted it?”

That question lingers as he look up to the brewing storm. Wanting to know it, he activated a skill, this is his second advancement class skill.

There are many things considered in PVP battle. Firstly, their status & levels the differing range between them allows player to dominate the other party. Second is their skills or spells, there are special or unique skills in the world of ‘Eidolon’ that’s considered as overpowered or handy spells to be used in battle.

The third and the most important is experience. It is clear that Night Edge is an experienced PVP player, but what other people doesn’t know. Is that he hides his true class by wearing something stereotypical of his first class [Rogue]. This is already well-known by veteran PVPers making it hard to predict what their original class are.

Its commonly known for Rogues to advance into Assassin’s class as it is the on-going meta in terms of DPS in PVE or getting kills in PVP. Yet, his advancement is something else.

He chooses to be [Spell Thief], an advance class of rogue & in combination of magic casting. Many players doesn’t like this branch though as it doesn’t offer magic resistances even with the name [Spell Thief].

His activated skill [Spell Trace], allows him to trace of where and when the spell is casted. It function similarly to magic caster spell {Detect Magic] & it also provide information of who’s casting the spell.

It shows in his panel

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