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Chapter 60 - The Last Challenger

Chapter 60 - The Last Challenger

"Wait, you fought an underground monster?" Christina asks Mikey after he explained pretty much how he got here and decided to chase the ranked 18 player.

"Yeah, honestly, it was probably the scariest experience of my life, but that thing should be dead, since I buried it alive," Mikey remarks.

"In that case, we can't hide underground because there could be something similar there, right?" Christina questions unsurely.

"Probably yes, but I am not one hundred percent sure," Mikey responds. "In any case, we should get out of here. There are many players coming towards us," he adds.

[Few days later, one hour left until the bounty event ends]

Arthur came back to fight Mikey, and they have been fighting for some time already.

Their entire fight revolves around Arthur placing traps around Mikey without him being aware of it, and baiting Mikey into them. This worked out a few times, but Mikey soon realized that he can't just chase after Arthur.

There are hundreds of players spectating them. Almost all of them are low ranked so they can't intervene. However, even if they wanted to, they couldn't.

(An announcement that was made when the last of bounty hunting day began)

[For the last day, you have a chance to duel any person you want. You can simply come up to anyone with a bounty. Then all you have to do is say "Duel." Both of you will be automatically surrounded by an unbreakable barrier for one hour. This barrier surrounds you from the sky and from underground as well, meaning there is no point in trying to escape]

[There's only one catch, you can only use this spell if you have an intention of actually fighting that person, otherwise you could just hide with someone]

Since it's the last hour of the bounty event, Arthur is the only one who can fight Mikey for his bounty.

"Domain Expansion... Trap Zone."

(After fighting for a few minutes, Arthur unleashed his newly founded domain)

"Are you kidding me?" Mikey asks nervously, this is officially the FOURTH time that someone used a domain on him.

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Mikey and Arthur disappear, all the spectators get confused as to where they could've gone.

Meanwhile, Arthur's domain was appearing around Mikey. Surprisingly enough, Arthur's domain looks like a building, a modern building at that.

Mikey is standing in a long hallway, there are several doors all around the place.

He walks for a bit and opens one of the doors. The doors are actually trapped. Once Mikey fully opens them, the ceiling of the hallway starts quickly collapsing down on Mikey's head.

He is left with no other choice but entering the room.

Once Mikey comes inside, the doors behind him shut in and disappear...

The room is very basic, there's actually nothing special about it, besides the five chests right in front of Mikey.

Arthur appears right beside Mikey. "Open one of them," he says. Mikey punches Arthur, but nothing happens. Mikey's fist goes right through him.

"So your domain is the same type as Ronnie Kingston's," Mikey says. "No clue who that is, but the time is ticking." Arthur snaps his fingers, disappears, and the wall behind Mikey starts moving towards him.

It looks like if he doesn't choose a chest he will get crushed by Arthur's domain! But Mikey starts thinking out of the box.

He takes out his almost broken pickaxe and starts mining the moving wall; this seems like a great plan, until Mikey actually mines one of the blocks and realizes that it won't work.

Why?

Because the entire room he's in, is surrounded by a bunch of lava, which starts pouring right inside the room after he mines one of the blocks.

"Well, here goes nothing," Mikey opens one of the chests, the chest has a portal inside it.

Mikey quickly opens all of the chests, each one has a portal inside, and each one has a different color.

Green, Black, Purple, Red, and Blue.

Mikey instinctively chooses the chest with the blue portal. He jumps inside it.

Mikey appears inside a forest. There's a river flowing next to him.

Arthur appears on the other side, the river is separating the two men.

"Interesting choice Mikey. Now then, let's get to fighting," Arthur says.

"Can you tell me what was all of this doorpicking, chestpicking, and portalpicking all about?" Mikey asks.

"You were choosing a condition and a location. The condition was chosen by you picking the random door. And the location was chosen by you jumping through the portal," Arthur replies.

Arthur's reply leaves Mikey puzzled as it doesn't tell him much.

"I have no clue what you just said, but whatever," Mikey disappears and reappears behind Arthur.

After fighting The Cave Dweller, Mikey's dusk step has evolved. He can now effectively use it without having to hold his Duskblade, this came as a surprise to Arthur, and he wasn't really ready for it.

Arthur turned around and blocked Mikey's incoming punch, he then started running away from him.

Mikey started chasing after Arthur, who is much slower than Mikey, so he can't really outrun him, but that's not the point.

The entire forest is actually trapped, and it doesn't take Mikey too long to figure that out.

BOOM!

Mikey stepped on a wooden pressure plate and set it off. The explosion set off another trap, a lava trap.

Two of the trees that were nearby quite literally turned into flowing lava and set the nearby area on fire.

"Well, shit," Mikey says, he starts carefully maneuvering around the entire forest.

BOOM!

Mikey accidentally sets off another explosive trap.

After about five minutes, Mikey finally escapes the area that's on fire.

He sits down by a tree, without realizing that Arthur is right above him.

Arthur throws a dagger at Mikey. Mikey remembers what happened in that one cave where he fought Arthur about one week ago.

When Arthur threw a dagger at Mikey, Mikey dodged the dagger, but it still somehow managed to hit him.

That's why this time, Mikey dusk steps above Arthur.

Arthur anticipated this. He quickly jumped down from the tree and started running away again.

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

Mikey's steps quicken, as he chases Arthur.

BOOM! He sets off another explosive trap, but this time, since he was moving too fast, the explosion radius didn't manage to damage him in any way, and his pursuit of Arthur simply continued.

He reached Arthur, and just when he was about to punch him, Arthur transformed into a TNT which got lit up right away???

"What the!"

BOOM!