"Where is the woman?" Kayn asks. (He's the man with blood manipulation.)

"I don't know, maybe they split up?" Their leader says unsurely. "What do you think, Adam?" He asks the Tracker.

"No, she is definitely around here, watch your backs." Adam responds.

Just as he finishes that sentence, Miyu appears behind him, and backstabs him. Adam starts bleeding badly and falls to one knee.

The other two turn around to face Miyu, but she had already dissapeared.

"Watch out guys, he's getting closer." Adam says and aims his crossbow at Mikey.

Mikey's spectral pirates shoot their flintknocks at the tracker. Kayn creates a blood barrier from the tracker's blood.

[Your ship is ready]

"Perfect timing." Mikey smiles and points his finger above the three men. He summons his spectral ship. They notice the ship falling at them. The leader, who is significantly larger than Adam, grabs him and runs away with him.

Once the ship drops down, dozen of spectral pirates come out of it and start chasing the three men.

Kayn starts fighting them, in order to buy some time for leader and Adam. Mikey starts fighting Kayn. Miyu appears behind the leader who just dropped Adam on the ground.

She tries to backstab him.

"Parry." He turns around and knocks away her dagger. He equips his rapier and pierces Miyu's stomach. However, that wasn't Miyu this whole time, it was actually just her clone.

Miyu's clones can't contain poison the same way they do in her domain, but she still used this little time to kick Adam in the head and knock him out completely.

The leader acts quickly and attacks her before she can dissapear. He hits her in one of her weak points and her vision blurs. He unleashes a flurry of attacks on her.

Meanwhile, Mikey is fighting Kayn. He anticipated that Miyu might have some problems with the duelist, so he sent three spectral pirates her way.

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One of the pirates shoots his flintknock.

"Counter." The leader counters the attack and the bullet is sent flying at the pirate instead, the pirate gets hit and dissapears.

Mikey wants to give new orders to the pirates, but he is too busy fighting the other guy. So far, Mikey has the edge in his fight against Kayn.

Kayn is fighting Mikey defensively and is able to block a lot of Mikey's attacks thanks to his blood manipulation. He even created flying blood daggers to match Mikey's pirates.

"Binding blood." Mikey's ankles get caught in the ground by blood, which takes shape of cobwebs.

"Pool of blood." Kayn summons more blood out of nowhere.

He creates a blood spear in his hands and several flying blood daggers and starts attacking Mikey with them.

Mikey finally pulls out the duskblade and teleports behind Kayn. Kayn turns around and just barely manages to block Mikey's attack.

They start clashing with their weapons.

Meanwhile, Miyu and the leader of the hunters, who's name is still unknown, are fighting in a different fashion. The Duelist is defending Adam, while Miyu is trying to finish Adam off.

Miyu has been throwing daggers at Adam, going invisible, creating clones, and making sure that the hunter leader is extremely annoyed by her constant pestering.

"Assassin's Mark." She says. A black cross appears on the man's leather chestplate.

[You have been marked by an Assasin]

[You will receive debuffs based on their type of Assasin's Mark]

Those are the messages that appear to the duelist, he isn't given any information about what exactly those debuffs are. But right away, he starts feeling very dizzy. This dizzines lasts for a few seconds.

Miyu uses this time to create yet another clone, she orders the clone the attack Adam. The Duelist's black cross mark shines and he is taunted by Miyu's clone.

Miyu's clone throws a dagger at Adam.

"Parry." The Duelist barely saves The Tracker from Miyu's clone.

The real Miyu appears beside Adam and pulls out another dagger. The duelist quickly grabs him and backs away.

Miyu sends her clone after him while she sneaks next to Mikey and Kayn. The only problem is, she can't find any openings. The two are way too close and their fight is too chaotic for Miyu to interrupt, and help Mikey. Miyu suddenly spots a lake nearby, thanks to her attribute.

Miyu throws a smoke bomb at Mikey and Kayn. Neither of the two can see inside the smoke, but Miyu can. The Kayn entombs himself in blood, in order to protect himself.

Miyu grabs Mikey by his hand, Mikey realizes what's happening and simply follows Miyu out of the smoke.

"Where are we going?" He asks.

"I spotted a lake nearby with my attribute." Miyu responds quickly.

Adam finally wakes up, the smoke clears out, and Kayn finally reveals his other attribute, he starts healing Adam with a special spell. While Kayn is healing Adam, the leader starts running after Mikey and Miyu. They join him as soon as Adam gets healed.

Kayn is at the moment the fastest out of all five humans in the vicinity, this is because he is using his blood to skate across the Nether floor.

Mikey turns around for a moment and summons three pirates. Two of them to get into the Kayn's way and slow him down, and one more further back. That one is supposed to use his flintknock to shoot at him.

This kind of works and helps Mikey and Miyu buy a little bit of time.

Mikey can finally see the lake too. He takes out his lava bucket and starts going as fast as he can. Out of everyone, he reaches the lake first and pours the lava bucket perfectly into the lake, which creates an obsidian block.

He mines it with his diamond pickaxe and picks it up. Miyu throws smoke bombs all around the area, grabs Mikey by his hand again, builds a nether portal and as they enter it, she puts down dozen of TnT's, and sets them on fire.

"I thought you had no TNT's on you?" Mikey asks.

"I had, but I wanted to save them up for this situation." Miyu responds.

They go through the portal, back into the Overworld, the portal in Nether explodes and is scattered around the area.

"They escaped." The leader says angrily as he sees the ruined portal.