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Chapter 48 - Duelist

Chapter 48 - Duelist

The Zombie Pigmen charge at the hunters.

"Guys, they will only come after me because it was my grenade. Pursue them, I will catch up with you." The hunter with ranking 1009 says with confidence. The other two smile aswell and walk past the Zombie Pigmen.

As they leave him behind, their leader says: "Don't die on me, Kayn."

"Bloodthirst." The man who's name seems to be Kayn pulls out a katana and stabs himself. Blood pours out of his body. He starts controlling it and creates multiple blood daggers that start flying around him, killing

the Zombie Pigmen in his way.

Meanwhile, the two men charge at Mikey. The hunter leader jumps at him at an incredible speed. Before he can reach him, Mikey comes up with something.

"Freestyle Kick!" Mikey jumps high in the air, using Freestyle Kick in his current state is almost self-destructing.

[You have activated an ability of the "Freestyle Fighter"]

[Duelist]

The man takes a strange defensive stance and when Mikey crashes at him, he just says: "Counter"

Mikey's Kick is half countered and turned around at him. The other half hits the man with quite an impact. Several bruises appear on both of their faces and arms.

Damn, even though he's completely exhausted, his kick packs this much strenght? I used only a half-assed counter because I didn't wanna spend too much energy, but it seems that I have underestimated him.

Miyu appears behind the man with a dagger in her hand. She tries to stab him in the back.

"Parry." The man automatically dodges and counterattacks Miyu with a karate chop on the shoulder, making her drop her dagger. She instantly dissapears and jumps away.

The Tracker guy pulls out an enchanted crossbow, he also surrounds himself with lightning, just like he did against the eyeless dog.

The man with the crossbow shoots right at Mikey. Mikey dodges just slightly, avoiding the crossbow bolt, but the crossbow is enchanted. The lightning surrounding the bolt extends, which damages Mikey's nerves, and also leaves a small burn mark on him.

[You have activated an ability of the "Durable Fighter"]

[You have activated an ability of the "Persistent Fighter"]

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Mikey's mental fortitude and physical abilities spike. He receives an adrenaline rush and is able to percieve things at a high level.

[You have activated an ability of the "Adaptive Fighter"]

The leader of the hunters attacks Mikey and uses different kinds of martial arts. Perfect ability for dueling.

But something is wrong, Mikey is able to respond to almost all of his attacks and moves. Mikey even counterattacks a few times. He also makes sure that his counterattacks aren't too powerful, that way, if the man uses his counter, the impact won't be as bad.

The man pulls out a diamond enchanted rapier out of his inventory.

"Lunge!" He lunges at Mikey. Mikey attempts to parry the lunging attack.

"Parry block!" The man uses a skill, which literally disallows Mikey from parrying. As the man lunges at Mikey, instead piercing his body, he instead performs a quick triple stab at him, the stabs don't seem to do much, but the man actually applied another one of his skills with them.

[Weak Points]

[You can see weak points of your enemies, if you hit them in the weak points, they will take extra damage. If you hit someone in multiple weak points in succesion, they will take even more damage]

What the man did there was hitting Mikey in three of his weak points at once. Mikey, even though he didn't feel that much power on the impact, has fallen to one knee. He has only two hearts left on his health bar, and he actually can't move a muscle.

The man steps back and enters a strange stance from which he can easily dash at Mikey and finish him off.

"Come on, get up. I know you still have some moves up your sleeve." He says and points his rapier at Mikey.

Miyu, who is fighting against the man who has lightning and tracking powers notices Mikey's situation. She dissapears and manages to create a clone of herself, just like she did against Xander.

Normally she can create only one clone, while in her Domain, she can create several.

By dissapearing before creating her clone, it appeared to the man as if she just reappeared again, but in reality, Miyu is already on her way to backstab the duelist.

The man who is fighting all the zombie pigmen by himself is slowly clearing out the massive horde. Mikey and Miyu have to hurry up and get out of here while setting on the explosives. Because once he finishes the horde off, it's over for them.

Mikey's black aura appears around him, the same way it did when he was with Zoro and they encountered the Old Man.

Mikey looks the man dead in the eye and literally challenges him:

"Throw your strongest attack on me."

The man stays calm and breathes slowly, Mikey's scary aura and fearless words don't make him waver.

"Alright." He says calmly. His sword starts glowing with bright green color.

He dashes at Mikey with a thrusting attack, the speed of his attack is so fast that almost breaks the sound barrier.

Mikey can't move, but he summons two pirates and orders them to push to the side.

"How?!" The man asks in disbelief, and drops his guard down. That's when Miyu shows up behind him and puts a poisoned dagger through his stomach.

"Huh? How did you get here?" The man asks and coughs out blood, he looks at his hand as he falls to the ground.

"Mikey, let's get out of here." Miyu throws smoke bombs all around.

They are exhausted, so it takes them a little bit of time to get out of there. The hunters don't chase after them however, they take their time to regroup and plan their next move. Once Mikey and Miyu get out of there, they detonate the TnT's by a lever about two hundred blocks away from the explosion area.

(Several minutes pass)

"Now they either die, or it will take them a really long time to find us." Miyu says confidently while laying on a bed in their hideout.

"I still don't understand why did we need to do all of that to make his attribute unable to track us, but I trust you." Mikey responds.

"Well, to put it simply, one of my attributes is based on being able to analyze and find weaknesses of other attributes. His attribute allows him to track other players or monsters by using several factors. Which is why we blew the place up, and gave him no leads to begin with." Miyu replies.

"I see, but what if they just get out of the exploded area and randomly get back on our track?" Mikey asks.

"Yeah, that will happen eventually I think. But we did this because we wanted time right? I mean it was literally your idea." Miyu crosses her arms.

"Yeah, I just underestimated how strong someone in the top one thousand is. Thanks for that save." Mikey thanks Miyu.

"Don't worry about it, I didn't save you because I want to save you, I saved you because I need you, remember that." Miyu responds cold-heartedly. "I have three blocks of obsidian, for that portal we are going to need seven more." She remarks.