"One of those two is watching us." The woman says. "Must be an attribute." She adds.

"Hmm, so they are gonna run away now?" The strongest player among the group, and also their leader asks.

The leader is holding an extremely large sword over his shoulder.

No one really knows why doesn't he just put it in his inventory.

"They seem to be on move, but they aren't moving too fast." The woman replies, she points in their direction.

"Then let's hurry before they get away." The leader says.

He starts running towards Mikey's and Lucy's location at an unreal rate.

"How does he expect us to catch up to him?" The man with ranking 388 asks.

"Let's just go." The guy with ranking 257 sighs.

The leader is running at an absolutely insane speed. Since he's in a forest, he should be dodging all of the trees in his way.

But he's actually doing the very opposite of that.

He's holding his sword in front of himself, destroying every tree in the path.

He is ranked 87 so he must be strong. But this is pretty crazy.

Eventually, he stops.

"Well, my ability won't be up for a minute, might aswell catch my breath." He says and sits down, seemingly exhausted, but without a single drop of sweat on his body.

Lucy was watching him this whole time.

She's completely shocked by what she just saw.

"The strongest one amongst their group is incredibly fast, he's faster than Christina." She tells Mikey.

"Seriously?" Mikey says in surprise.

"Well, we might just need to abandon our traps, these guys won't get caught by them. Let's hurry." Mikey says and starts going through the tunnel which him and Lucy dug out.

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Unfortunately for them, the woman's tracking skill works differently than Adam's.

Adam's tracker skill allows him to see invisible footsteps.

This woman can mark one singular player of her choice.

ANY PLAYER.

This will give her bonus damage towards that player, and the ability to see their exact coordinates at any given moment.

So, even right now, at this very moment.

The woman knows where Mikey is headed.

This means that those four are definitely not getting caught in the traps.

They aren't even going to enter the house in the first place, they are heading straight for Mikey and Lucy.

And that's obviously a huge problem, because these four aren't no joke.

Thankfully, Lucy summons a dragon and decides to actually head towards Zoro, Christina and Ragnar.

Mikey's crew is trying to reunite after several days of being split up.

If they manage to reunite, they might just become untouchable.

(Three days later)

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

There are explosions everywhere around the area.

Three days ago, Mikey, Christina, Lucy, Ragnar and Zoro met up, everything was going really well.

The situation escalated insanely two days ago.

What pretty much happened was that the bounty event got updated.

It was officialy announced that it's going to end after seven days.

But with that... Every single person with a bounty got marked.

And not just that.

Everyone up until rank 10 000 received a bounty.

So now, there were 10 000 marked people walkinf around the map with a bounty on their heads.

Mikey, as the ranked one player, had the highest bounty of 1 000 000 Emerald Nuggets.

Along with that, the "game master" mentioned that you can only upgrade your statistics till a certain point, which no one has reached yet.

This means, that if someone killed Mikey or someone else with a really high ranking, they wouldn't be able to spend all of their Emerald Nuggets ever.

And with that, he announced that there will be revealing an Emerald Nugget Shop that can be used by anyone after the event ends.

These announcements made everyone go wild.

And now, it's just pure chaos.

Mikey's crew got completely split up after reuniting for one day, and no one has received a message from Lucy yet.

(Mikey's Pov)

He's fighting the man who started targeting him three days ago. The man with ranking 87 and a bounty of 200 000 Emerald Nuggets.

They just started fighting inside a huge crater that was created from all the fights and explosions which took place up until now.

The man who is fighting Mikey introduced himself as David.

One of David's attributes, which is the one that made him run insanely fast back then in the forest, is similar to Mikey's Ultimate Fighter attribute.

The only difference is that David's attribute is more strenght focused, while Mikey's attribute is more on the technical side.

Thanks to this, their fight will be actually very equal.

However, his other attribute is unknown.

There are fights happening all around them too.

Mikey jumps high in the air.

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

Mikey lands a Freestyle Kick on David, or so he thinks.

He starts beating up David from all sides, David is defending himself quite well, considering the fact that he is using a comically large sword to do so.

Once the dust settles, David is still standing on his feet without any major injury.

What do I do? Mikey thinks to himself.

Even if I somehow defeat this guy, I will have to face the other players that will come after me...

Mikey suddenly gets an idea.

He pulls out his Diamond Pickaxe and starts mining as fast as he can below himself.

The first golden rule of Minecraft is: Never dig under yourself.

This is because of two reasons.

The first one is the chance of falling into a lava pool while mining down.

The other one is the chance of accidentaly digging into a cave and falling to your death.

But Mikey doesn't care.

He simply judges that this is the best course of action.

And to his unluck..

Mikey digs into a cave and starts falling down dozens of blocks.

David doesn't care, and jumps right after Mikey, completely ignoring the fact that he might fall to his death.

In the end, Mikey breaks his fall by summoning two spectral pirates and using them as a cushion.

David tanks the fall too, simply because of his boosted physical strenght and durability.

But when David falls down, Mikey had already gone through half of the cave and just kept running.

David knows Mikey's location, so he follows him.

This is beneficial for Mikey, because he can fight David in an enclosed area.

But will that be enough to help him defeat David?