As Abriel stood still, there were many thoughts racing through his head wondering what was going on. As he stood there, a blue hair girl with an electric current traveling along her arms to her hands was about to charge at him. He felt, not only nervous, but adrenaline traveling throughout his body wondering if he would have enough time to jump to the left or the right.

As he stood, he was consumed with nervousness that he didn’t have a chance to move once she started to charge at him. Thinking how fast she’s going with those sparks coming out of her hands, he felt one blow was going to kill him. Thinking his life was about to end at that moment, he never had the chance to say goodbye to his mother or his childhood friend Chelsea. At that moment, he felt his life was flashing right before him wishing he was still on the bus going to school or even seeing Chelsea again one last time.

As soon as Unica’s electric punch was about to hit, Abriel closed his eyes and decided there was no way he’s going to survive her punch because the impact would cause severe damage to his insides or worse… impale him. His final decision was to close his eyes and crossed his fingers that her fully charged punch was going to end his life so quick that he won’t feel any pain.

With the force behind Unica’s punch, she made contact to Abriel’s chest and sent him flying straight forward and made impact to the side of a car. The impact was so great, as soon as Abriel’s body hit the car, his body rickashaded off the car door while the car flew backwards from the side and landed upside down on the street. Abriel landed face first onto the pavement and felt as though a train just slammed into him.

As Abriel’s eyes were still closed, he heard Unica’s voice, “Get up and open your eyes user Abriel.” Abriel slowly opened his eyes wondering if he was about to die from internal injuries. He slowly got up on all fours and realized he wasn’t coughing up blood or impaled from the blow as he was filling out where he was hit at. “I’m still alive right?” he looked up in Unica’s direction, “Am I dead…?”

“Of course your not dead silly. I just punched you really really hard that I sent you flying, making you ricochet off a car and you landed on your face.” Unica demands, “Look at your phone screen attached to your armband.”

Abriel viewed his phone and seen his HP was now at 375. “Holy shit! I lost that much over that one punch to the chest.”

“Yep, that punch was registered as a critical hit. I took out at least 25% of your hit points from that punch.” Unica responds.

“Okay”, as Abriel got back up slowly, “So why is my body still in one piece? A punch like that in real life would’ve caused some broken bones and internal injuries. It did feel like a train just slammed into me though, but the pain was like a painful pinch.”

Unica responds, “Because the thin blue shroud that covers your body acts like a pain absorber. It will absorb the amount of pain you would’ve taken from my attack and it’s registered to how much HP you will lose. Of course, the thin blue shroud isn’t perfect. You are going to feel some type of pinch sensation instead of real life pain. And if you were wondering what would’ve happened if my punch impaled you. Instead of my punch going straight through you, the blue shroud would’ve registered it as an impale. My arm would’ve just ended up on the other side of the blue shroud.”

Abriel started to believe the situation he’s in. To summarize what Unica was saying; being inside the BattleCube, a two-mile radius cube, forms some type void space known as a Battlefield Zone which he’s equipped with the equipment and garments he chose during the set-up process. Then with the thin blue shroud that covers his whole body, he is protected from being inflicted by real pain because it acts as a pain absorber. The blue shroud absorbs the pain and turns it into a mere pinch and depending on the attack, it’s registered to take away HP from his hit point gauge.

So this really is just like a game. But how can something so sophisticated exist right now? Just for this being an app is another thing. Something like this is way too advanced to be just an app. As Abriel’s questions were being answered, more questions started to surface from his head. Abriel shook his head to realize he’ll think about all the small details later.

“If this really is a game, then I have nothing to worry about.” Thinking about the role-playing games he’s played and anime he’s watched, he recalls different types of stances characters would take with swords. As he thought of one, Abriel put his left leg forward while his right leg is pushed back with his sword drawn. “Okay, I’m game.” as he took a deep breath, “I promise you though, there won’t be anymore free hits from here on out.” With the look of determination on his face, he looked at Unica determined to beat her even if this battle was just a pretest.

“Whoa! Now that was the expression I was looking for.” as Unica got into her fighting stance again. They suddenly charged at each other with looks of determination.

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As Abriel charged in, he seen she was about to punch him again with the same straight right punch that sent him flying. He quickly moves to the right and lifts his sword and goes for a downward slash. Suddenly, Unica swiftly moves to the right.

With Abriel missing his attack, Unica balls up her left hand, quickly kneels and goes for a left uppercut to Abriel’s gut which lifts him off floor. Unica then jumps and balls up her right fist to punch Abriel in the face.

Abriel feeling a strong pinch on his abdomen and face after being punched, he lands on both his feet. He gasps for air, wipes his mouth, “Oh my gosh, your fast for a little girl.”

Unica responds, “Well, you act like I’m not going to counter your strikes. Sorry, but I won’t sit here and take your attacks freely. Remember, I’m testing you to see where your stats are at.”

Abriel quickly wipes his mouth and starts to dash toward Unica and goes for multiple slashes. As Unica is evading each slash with ease, “Come on user Abriel, your attacks are too predictable.” Uncia swiftly grabs Abriel’s hand wielding the simple sword and goes for a strong slap to Abriel’s face. The slap was so strong that both Abriel and Uncia froze in place wondering what just unfolded.

Abriel standing frozen, eyes bulged opened, realizing he was just slapped silly by this little girl with blue hair. As they stood still, Unica was doing her best to keep her composure until she just couldn’t take it anymore.

Unica takes some steps back and starts laughing hysterically, “BLAHAHAHAHA..BLAHAHAHA..BLAHAHAHAHA! OH MY GOSH! LOOK AT YOUR FACE! HAHAHAHAHA!” as she points laughing at Abriel, “Oh my gosh, the look on your face after I slapped you was too priceless.” as she continues to laugh.

Abriel shouts, “WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!” as you can see smoke coming out from Abriel’s ears. Noticing Unica was still laughing, Abriel realized she left her self-wide open for an attack. He then grasps his sword and charges for an attack with a downward slash. Unexpectedly, Unica guards his attack by using both her arms to guard herself, “There we go. Now your getting the hang of it. You took advantage of the opportunity while I was laughing at you.” as she backed away.

“Okay, let’s see what you’ll do next.” Unica quickly sticks out her arm with her palm open aiming at Abriel, “SPELL: SPARK BALL!”

As soon as she pronounced the mysterious phrase, the sparks in her hand started to form a sphere like projectile that was big as a basketball. With no time to think, the object launched toward Abriel. He quickly guarded with his sword as soon as the object was about to hit.

As soon as the projectile hit his sword, it caused an explosion of electricity as he was soon feeling small sensations of pinches throughout his entire body. The blast from the projectile even blinded his eyesight for bit as he tried to open his eyes. The blast was somewhat compared to being blinded by some type of flash grenade.

Not noticing, he seen Unica right in front of him and felt a barrage of punches hitting him as he was trying to evade each punch and guard at the same time. Doing his best to evade her small punches, he kept trying to slash Unica but she was just too fast for him as Abriel started to feel winded from swinging his sword. Noticing he couldn’t keep up any longer with her punches, he quickly ran the other way to open the space between him and her.

Abriel trying to keep his composure, he suddenly notices his HP was at a measly 24. Thinking to himself, he needs to find someway to at least hit her once. There’s got to be a way to hit her at least once. I know I’m fighting a losing battle, but I’ll be satisfied if I just hit her just once. He recalls when she spoke that phrase, How did she do that with her hand moments ago? Suddenly, he was hit with a sudden idea as a light bulb just went off in his head.

Abriel quickly rushes to hide behind a nearby car, “You know, hiding won’t help you now. You’re just avoiding thy inevitable. Here is a hint? Use your imagination user Abriel.” as Unica shrugged with a smug expression.

Abriel thinking about what she said, Use your imagination? I was going to see if I can use my sword to cut off the car door to use as a shield. But just maybe… Abriel puts his new plan into action. He closes his eyes and thinks about different sword attacks he’s seen in video games and anime. Visualizing an attack, he puts up his sword in front of him and thinks of what the attack is going to do, This is going to be a gamble but I’m hoping this is going to work… please work.

Not noticing his sword glowing, Abriel opens his eyes and yells, “BEAM SLASH!”

Swiftly swinging his sword downwards, he shot a projectile out from his sword that resembled a sword slash. The projectile that came out of his sword from his swing was so sharp that it cut right through the car as a knife was cutting through butter. The beam acted as a projectile that had its sights on Unica as it was fast approaching her. “AAAAAAHHHHHHH!” as Abriel swung two more times to create the projectiles.

As the three projectiles were fast approaching Unica, she had an expression on her face as she was proud of Abriel what he just accomplished. Unica put her arms up to guard against the projectiles. As they made contact, a small explosion was created from each hit. Abriel took advantage of the situation and circled around her from far away making sure she didn’t notice him. Once behind her, he quickly charged in and went for an attack, “AAAAAAHHHHH.”

He felt the attack made contact as she was still standing still guarding the earlier projectiles. As Abriel was standing still with his sword pointing to the ground, “I’m impressed user Abriel. Good job on your pretest today. But I have to end it here.” As soon as she said that, she quickly turned and went for an uppercut to Abriel’s chin. Abriel was launched mid-air from the uppercut and landed on his back onto the pavement of the intersection.

As Abriel was laying on the pavement, he looked at his phone and seen his HP was now 0.

The battle was over, as Unica was victorious.