Prologue...

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As the onlookers cheered and applauded, Eudora gritted her teeth and hurled several spells at her opponent; all of which were different arts of magic.

She was a mage and the leader of the number one guild in Exelcia Online. She had a slightly curvy build and purple colored hair. The weapon she had started with was a legendary staff, but her opponent had destroyed that not long after the match began. Her eyes were blueish purple, and the clothing she was wearing had seen better days.

The question that she kept asking herself in her mind was how?

She couldn't understand this. She couldn't understand any of this, she was losing, and horrendously at that.

She had earned the title, the Sorceress of Exelcia, due to her mastery over almost all types of magic, so how was she losing to someone that had what was considered to be one of the, if not that, worst classes in the game.

How was she losing to a Jester?

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As Loki used Dummy to take the Firebolt Eudora had launched at him, he couldn't help from smiling.

When he had first joined the tournament, no one had cheered for him at all, but now, everyone in the crowd including their mothers were crying out his name and offering their support to him.

He had won over their hearts, and in a few minutes, he was going to win the Championship of Exelcia Online Season 1.

"I cannot lose." Is what he told himself before somersaulting over a very advanced Arcane spell, which was known as Eclipse, and vanishing into thin air.

Loki had used Disappearing Act, and after five seconds had passed, he had reappeared, but not in the air.

"What the-"

No, he appeared directly in front of her, much to Eudora's shock and surprise.

"Hello there~!" He greeted happily before grabbing ahold of her and dipping her like how you would in ballroom dancing only to then let go of her and allow her to fall onto her back, thus preventing her from casting any magic.

As she began to sit up, Loki casually pulled a sword out of his coat, and aimed it at Eudora causing her to stop moving, and look up at him.

His attire consisted of black tailcoat with a white dress shirt underneath it, and black gloves. He had a red rose, and red bowtie on as well. He wore black pants, and black and white dress shoes, and he had on top of his head a black and red sombrero like hat. He also had black and white face paint.

The expression he had written on his face was more along the lines of neutral, but the look in his eyes were telling her one thing.

It's over.

"How?" She asked in a low tone through gritted teeth. "How were you able to best me? I have done hundreds of duels and have not once ever came close to losing, so how did you do it? Especially as a Jester?"

"... Because I felt like it." He declared after several seconds, which felt like several minutes to her.

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"Huh?" Was the noise she made with a slightly confused look upon hearing his answer.

"I saw a video of one of your duels, and after reading the comments, I was like, I could beat her, and so I put in the work." He explained as he kept the blade aimed at her.

"I-I," She stuttered, not exactly sure what to say to this information. "but as a Jester? I mean, I could understand that mentality, but why did you pick what is considered to be one of the worst classes in Exelcia?"

"Oh, I liked the Jester's look." Loki revealed with no traces of deceit in his voice, which made her even more confused.

"The Jester's look?" She asked after a couple of seconds.

"Yeah, I mean, don't I look pretty cool?" He stated with a smile as he gestured to his attire with his free hand.

"I, I honestly don't know what to say." She told him with a baffled expression. "I really wasn't expecting that to be your reasoning."

"Yeah, well, it is, so deal with it." Loki declared before plunging the sword into her chest and making her gasp for air only to then disappear into a puff of smoke.

"What?" He said aloud in surprise before hearing somebody say from behind.

"Fire-"

The word was drawn out, but he knew who had said this, it was Eudora.

"-Beam!" She then yelled with all her might as he turned around only to see a wave of fire before everything turned black.

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As silence filled the stadium, Eudora huffed and puffed.

"I did it." She said to herself as she continued to breathe heavily. "I did it!"

She doubted her plan would work, but to her surprise, she had managed to pull it off. She had casted an Illusion spell called Mimic, which was basically an advanced version of the Jester's ability Dummy, and used that to get behind him.

Not long after the stadium fell silent, did the onlookers begin to cheer again, except this time it was for Eudora and not Loki.

Meanwhile, as they were applauding her, Loki respawned.

Eudora had noticed him spawn back in, upon doing so, she immediately called out to him.

"Hey, Loki." Is what she said as she rose to her feet, still a little surprised by the fact that she was able to beat him.

"Yeah?" He responded as he removed the face paint from his face that increased his Luck, Perception and Charisma while she approached him.

-Facepaint of the Fleeting Jester has been unequipped. 

"I just wanna say that it was a good game, and was wondering if you were-"

Thanks, but I'm going to have to refuse." He interrupted as he took off his hat that increased not only his Luck and Charisma, but his Agility as well and dropped onto the ground.

-Hat of the Fleeting Jester has been unequipped and dropped.

"Why?" She asked with confusion in her voice. Eudora didn't even finish the question, but she had planned on asking him if he was interested in joining her guild.

"Because I'm done." He told her as he began to remove his gloves which increased his Luck, Strength, and Agility. "It was fun and all, but it's time to move on and focus on Irl."

"That's-" She started with a frown decorating her face. She couldn't understand his reasoning at all.

"What I want to do." He affirmed as he finished taking off his gloves. "So uh, goodbye."

-Gloves of Slickness has been unequipped. 

With that said and done, Loki pulled up the menu and pressed the logout button, and it wasn't until this moment she asked him to wait, but unfortunately, Eudora was too slow and was unable to stop him.

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After logging out, the person who created the character known as Loki on Exelcia Online deleted his character and exited the capsule.

As he did so, he let loose a sigh that was mostly full of sadness.

"I can't believe I choked at the end there."

It was the truth, he honestly couldn't believe that, and it was because of that, he felt like lynching himself. Of course, he wasn't going to do this, but the feeling was nonetheless there.

"Oh well, things like this happen, and it's not like it really matters." He told himself as he twisted his body around to pop his muscles. "I was going to quit regardless of the outcome."

He wouldn't have deleted his character had he won, but he still would have quit the game, for what he had told Eudora was the truth. He had to move on and focus on the real world or else he would fail and end up being a bum.

He may not have wanted to, but he was going into his third year of high school in a week from now, and he had barely passed last year, so this year he had to do really good to increase his chances of getting a scholarship and to make his parents happy.

Once he was done popping his muscles in his back, he grabbed his phone that had been sitting on the nightstand next to the capsule, checked to see if he had any messages or missed calls, and then unplugged the capsule from the outlet and turned off the lights while on his way out.

He didn't return to what his mother called the cave for an entire year.