The first thing I notice is that, The arena is big, like really big, and the second thing? The whole thing was only stone.
and the third thing? Well...
For witnessing the Arena's beauty you are imbued with +1 WILL
yea... so that's good but where will I find teammates? I spent the whole time we got sleeping or thinking about that guy I killed. Uhm 'Solo' I tried
would you like to fight solo? you will still fight groups
I looked around, there were no other people who were alone, I sighed and look back at the panel
'Yes.'
a white light enveloped my vision, and I disappeared.
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a few minutes later I appeared in a stark white room that was honestly hurting my eyes.
Welcome to the waiting room! you can change it with your mind.
first off? turn off calm, I have time
next, change the walls to blue?
the walls changed to blue.
nice. next... a nice couch
a couch appeared below me and I sat
ahhh... the only thing that could make this better is a tv.
and one appeared
I guess that's all then
are you finished decorating?
I really hope i can change this after I complete this
You will be sent here after every match! You have one minute before your next match
ah. Another short timer? I swear, this system is bias. I guess I should get ready, first of all, calm back on
second. Stretching for a few seconds and a deep breat- and I was gone
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I was back in the arena. there was a team of 5 across from me, this... is bad.
"is that dude solo?" one of them said, obviously making it just loud enough for me to hear, a bit of mockery in their tone
"I can take this dude on solo!" one said then started running at me with an axe, honestly, I thought that was only something that happened in stories, but its good for me so i dont care.
Even with calm activated, it feels wrong to take out a knife to kill, but I have to.
they ran at me fast, when they got close enough I grabbed the knife and stabbed it out, and they swung.
time seemed to slow down as their axe swung down and my knife stabbed, i could feel my heart beating fast.
And we both hit.
my knife stabbed into their gut and their axe hit my shoulder Ding!
I screamed,the pain so much much calm couldn't hold it back. I screamed more as calm tried to dull the pain, Ding! the pain dulled, if only a little. the person fell to the floor and the kill notification sounded, I fell over, my knife was out of my hand, and the axe must have been in my bone, Ding! the pain fell into the background as my calm slowly receded to give way stark focus on what I needed to do to survive. Ding! I grabbed the axe in my shoulder and in a pure force of WILL pulled it out, the pain not even noticed.
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and so I charged
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I was slower than these people but they just saw their teammate die. I lobbed one's head off, Ding! then moved onto the next one, by now all of them had snapped out of the shock and were trying to prepare, similarly to me, none of them seemed to have been trained with a weapon, so we were on equal grounds. Good. The one I'm moving on has a knife, let's call them A, while the others (B and C) are unarmed, hopefully meaning they were weaker. A hastily tried to stab at the heart, luckily they got the wrong trajectory, so im able to lob their head off with ease. 2 Down. ding! I move onto B, they try to punch my axe out of my hand but I just move it slightly, then lob their head off, Ding! , and finally C. They are stunned from fear, they clearly wouldn't put up a fight. They die to a single slash.
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Welcome back to the waiting room!
and a torrent of messages appeared
you have gained skill: stab! effect: your stabs will dig deeper and deal more damage!
Calm is now level 2!
Congratulations! You have killed a level 3 no {class}, experience allocated!
calm is now level 3!
you have gotten skill: focus (uncommon) effect: you can focus on whatever you are doing, and block out unneeded information
Congratulations! You have killed a level 4 {no class}, experience allocated!
you are now level 3!
you have gotten skill: slash effect: your slashes will dig deeper and deal more damage!
Congratulations! You have killed a level 3 {no class}, experience allocated!
Congratulations! You have killed a level 2 {no class}, experience allocated!
you are not level 4!
slash has leveled up to level 2!
Congratulations! You have killed a level 2 {no class}, experience allocated!
you have gotten a title: one hit, one kill (rare) [upgradeable] description: its not at cool at it sounds. requirements to get: kill 5 enemies in a row with one hit effect: 10% damage increase on first hit
I just managed to read it all before I passed out