Why, why is this bounty on my head? Zoro asks himself as he runs away from the battlefield.

Several players are chasing him down.

I am so exhausted, way too exhausted...

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Zoro threw explosives behind himself, that's what he always does. They exploded and created more mix of debris and smoke in the air.

Zoro's mental state is at critically low level right now. The reason isn't what you might actually think.

It is not because of the fact that he's being hunted down by several players. Although, that is a factor too.

But the reason... are actually his very own explosives.

Because of the insane amounts of explosions he heard in the past hour, his brain just simply isn't able to withstand it anymore.

If he won't stop using his attribute for a while, which is the only reason why not a single bounty hunter has touched him yet, he WILL inevitabely suffer.

So he is in a lose lose situation right now.

Zoro is actually starting to become aware of it. Which is exactly the reason why he is running away.

"GET HIM! DON'T LET HIM RUN AWAY!"

"WE NEED THAT BOUNTY, KILL HIM!"

It's crazy how much the way these hunters act changed after the bounty event started.

From normal peaceful human beings... to feral monsters.

Zorosignalized for help by shooting his rifle filled with fireworks in the air.

Christina who unlocked a new skill from her gunner attribute, shot at one of the players.

The player's head literally splurted, and his lifeless body came falling to the ground.

Keep in mind, that Christina is over two hundred meters away from Zoro.

Zoro throws even more explosives, when suddenly, a player appears in front him.

Zoro stops and prepares to throw an instant explosive at him. When the man suddenly... gets tackled by Ragnar.

Ragnar sprinted here full speed to help Zoro.

"ZORO, GO, I'LL BUY SOME TIME!" He shouts.

Zoro nods and without thinking twice starts running further away from the center of the fight.

Christina is keeping a track of Zoro, she is pretty much just looking around him, searching for threats.

Because of course, there still might be several players in hiding around them.

Meanwhile, Ragnar is knocking out bounty hunters left and right, he has an advantage, since the bounty hunters all want Zoro's bounty for themselves, they can't waste their strongest attacks on Ragnar.

Not like they could beat him if they did.

Ragnar has the highest rank among everyone in the vicinity, excluding Zoro of course.

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Zoro finally got far away from all the players, when suddenly, someone sneaks behind him.

This player has some kind of an assasin attribute.

Zoro doesn't notice this person AT ALL. Even though he is right behind Zoro.

He is dressed like an Assasin from a game too.

The assasin prepares to stab Zoro with a dagger glowing with purple color, this dagger is enchanted.

BANG!

Christina shoots the dagger out of the man's hand.

Zoro turns around and realizes what's going on. He quickly catches his breath and prepares to fight the man.

Thank you Christina, without you I would have probably died there.

Now that Zoro's special eye is locked on the Assasin, there is no way that he will lose the sight of him.

Or will he?

The man, who grabbed his dagger, ran up to Zoro, dissapeared, and reappeared behind Zoro.

This ability is exactly... like Mikey's Duskblade.

Or is it?

Mikey can't use his Duskblade that often.

Unlike this man, who keeps teleporting behind Zoro, lightly stabbing him, and before Zoro reacts, he dissapears again.

He isn't doing that much damage to Zoro, but he is being careful, he simply can't stay at the same place for too long.

If he does, he gets sniped by Christina's hand cannon.

This young man, who's rank is exactly 100, with a bounty of 1000 Emerald Nuggets on his head, is no joke.

Christina can't help Zoro in the current situation, and neither can Ragnar.

Zoro gets hit a few more times before he finally adapts.

He predicts the player's next move and throws a small instant explosive on him.

This explosive is very small, if Zoro used a bigger one, he would be caught up in its radius.

The explosive goes off and buys Zoro some time, he uses that to jump back and create distance.

The assasin doesn't use his ability. Instead he starts walking towards Zoro.

BANG!

Christina shoots the man, he has to jump back in order to avoid her shot.

Zoro realizes something.

There's a difference between this guy's ability and Mikey's ability.

Mikey can use his Duskstep only once every few minutes or so.

The man can use it like instantly.

But there is one big difference.

Mikey can use his Duskstep on long distance.

This guy doesn't look like he can, because if he could, he would have already done it.

Once Zoro realizes this, he does one thing, and that's simply running away, while throwing more explosives behind himself.

"Damn it, he found out about how it works?" The Assasin mumbles to himself.

He looks directly at Christina.

Christina is dazed. Afterall, she is over two hundred meters away from him. Not only that, she repositioned after each shot too.

This means that the Assasin has an exceptional sight, perhaps some kind of a tracking skill too.

The man ignores Zoro as he realizes that he can't catch up to him. So instead, he heads for Christina, even though there is no bounty on her head.

Christina laughs and says: "Well, he is not gonna expect this, that's for sure."

[World Class Runner] [EPIC]

(For the record, when it comes to running speed. Christina is even faster than Mikey, which is a really weird pair with her gunner attribute, but it works)

Christina runs in the direction of the Assasin.

This might not make any sense, but Christina can't lose the sight of Zoro, if she does they will get separated.

With that said, Ragnar completely lost them.

Lucy who is hiding with Mikey, is watching the entire situation through her attribute.

She wrote a message to Ragnar, telling him where to go if he wants to meet up with Zoro and Christina.

About one hour later of chase, hiding and fighting, Zoro finally managed to get some rest.

He even met up with Christina and Ragnar, Lucy let them know of her situation and that she met up with Mikey.

Zoro, Christina and Ragnar are all good for now.

"Mikey, there are four players closing in on our location." Lucy says.

"Are they going straight for us?" He asks.

"I am not sure, but it looks like they are. One of them must have a tracking ability."

Lucy's attribute allows her to look at people from Bird's eye's view.

The four players are all really high ranked.

144, 87, 257 and 388.

One of the players suddenly stops walking and starts looking around, she's a young woman.

Then, out of nowhere. She looks directly at the spot where Lucy is looking at her from.

"What the." Lucy stops using her attribute.

"What happened?" Mikey asks concerned.

"One of the four, a young woman with ranking 144, she literally looked right at me." Lucy says in fear.

"What do you mean she looked right at you?" Mikey asks.

"Well, I was looking at her from my attribute's point of view, and somehow, even though it's invisible, she spotted my attribute."

"She has an extraordinary tracking ability. Something on the same level as mine."

Just when Mikey and Lucy thought they would get some rest, they were wrong again...