DokuNeko and Tokyo Tokyo. These two are part of the founding members of the Ashura Guild. The former is its current Vice-Guildmaster and the latter is simply one of its executives. The current Guildmaster of Ashura along these two are relatives outside the game, being the old man's grandchildren to be exact who had dragged him over to the Eternal World months after its release and had been playing since.

They were Ranked 11th and 9th respectively by the end of the Eternal World's life, and had proven their skills numerous times in the past.

Although they were very skilled enough to make the Top 20 of the rankings, their combined might were not enough to overwhelm the likes of Yuuki. Despite that, they are more than capable of stalling him for a period of time. The only reason they were a quite a bit confident in taking him down this time was because of how early the metagame still is, knowing that since they are part of a large guild—Japan's number 1 guild to be exact—they had the resources to gather the best equipment currently possible and the manpower to deal with most opponent.

However, Yuuki proved to them that that would never be quite enough, as his skills were just on an entirely different level.

"We're fucked, gramps."

"Not exactly, we just need Kiera to finish this damn trial, and we're set."

"Can we really stall this guy more? There's only six of us now..." DokuNeko asked as he wiped the sweat on his forehead out of nervousness.

"We can only try." The old man answered as he took aim with his rifle and fired.

As the old man engaged Yuuki from a long distance, DokuNeko then ran hurriedly to gather the remaining four players to follow him. "Everyone! To me!"

The players quickly exited their hiding spots to congregate around DokuNeko. They ran around as he instructed them while Yuuki was still occupied with Tokyo Tokyo gunning him down.

"Guys, don't engage him up close, alright? Just throw any ranged attack at him and run away. We'll simply stall him! The Guildmaster will deal with the rest and end this trial, so let's do our best!"

"Yes! Vice!" The remaining players shouted in unison.

"Alright! Let's get this going!"

…

"Damn… this geezer's shots are getting more accurate as time goes by..." Yuuki grumbled.

He continuously dodges the shots as he closes the distance, but with each shot, they were getting more and more accurate that as of right now, he's needing to parry most of them to not get hit instead of being easily able to dodge it.

"Shit!" He exclaimed as he quickly parried a bullet towards his head.

Yuuki traversed the hill at an astonishing speed wanting to catch up to Tokyo Tokyo. He then quickly fired off another form as he did so.

"Ninth Form…"

As soon as he was done charging up, he let go of the wind in his scabbard and formed a massive projectile towards the hilltop where the old man lies.

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However, before the projectile had hit, the old man quickly sprang up and away from the area. Using the earth, he pull it up from below his feet and catapulted himself away from harm's way.

Yuuki caught on to this and quickly used Lightning Chariot to catch him from mid-air, however, the old man had also finished charging up an attack.

"Take this, brat!" As the bullet had exited the barrel of his gun, it quickly grew to be a few meters in diameter, completely swallowing up Yuuki in terms of size. With the distance between them, Yuuki could either dodge rather effortlessly or worse, he might parry and deflect it back to him, which is why someone else had to buy that time.

Yuuki's eyes widened as he quickly prepared to use the Third Form. However there was already a threat from behind him.

"You're too brave, senior!" Yuuki smiled and without looking, he flipped his sword and stabbed it behind himself.

"Damn…!" DokuNeko exclaimed, but despite being struck on the abdomen, he gathered all his strength to hold onto the weapon while holding onto a single piece of chain in his palm.

Right after firmly grabbing the weapon, the object within his palm shone brightly as chains magically materialized all around the weapon then tethering it onto the ground.

Shiiing—!

Because of this sudden materialization, some of the chains got tangled around Yuuki's feet, leaving him unable to move.

"Shit!" He exclaimed, he quickly let go of his katana and swung a punch towards DokuNeko right after facing him. Instead, before he manages to even lift his arm to do so, the latter spat a translucent liquid towards his face.

"Pthu!"

Yuuki quickly reeled back to wipe it from his irritated eye as he heard a system ping.

[Envenomed:

-130 HP every 2s.

-130 SP every 2s

Duration: 30s]

This was the crucial moment in this battle, they could have won against Samurai_HeroHero now with just a few more moves. This is the moment where he needed to retreated and just allow the bullet to hit and weakened the enemy somehow, however, DokuNeko made a blunder... Greed.

"We've lost way too much. There's still Alchimie to take care of. I think I can just finish it here now that he has no weapon!"

With his remaining hand, he retrieved a dagger from his Inventory and plunged it down with conviction towards Yuuki's chest who's still recovering from the venom in his eye.

"I'll take you down with me! Even if I have to die from gramps' attack!"

However, as he continued his motion, Yuuki faced him with his bloodshot eyes widened, obviously fighting against the urge to close it.

"He didn't fully remove it!?"

Yuuki quickly countered his strike by catching his arm and thanks to his superior stats in strength, he was able to stop it dead in its tracks.

He smiled to the horrified DokuNeko, as he reeled back his other arm and it ignited into blue flames.

"You know… once you've become good enough, a sword could be anything! Thanks to you, I discovered I could do this here!"

[First Form: Thrust]!

As he stabbed forward his "sword," it immediately went through the opponent's chest without much resistance and puncturing the heart.

"W-what…? You couldn't do that… before…" Yuuki immediately retracted his arm without answering, leading DokuNeko to collapse but was teleported away immediately before death thanks to the moderator's protective measures.

Yuuki quickly hurriedly up his sword and transferred the flames from his hand to it. In an instant, the chains were all disintegrated by the intense outburst of it as he quickly slashed upwards to the ginormous bullet, splitting it in half.

Boom—!

The two sides of the projectile made a loud explosion as it landed around him, causing the earth to rumble a little even.

The remaining players watched in horror as their final effort were utterly wasted. This was supposed to be the plan before they will launch their most powerful projectiles once again, but a misstep from their Vice completely threw off their supposed plan.

Tokyo Tokyo clicked his tongue as he complained, "Damn you, brat. You're putting us in an even worse position!"

A sound of metallic armor then reverberated behind him. He immediately knew who this person is.

"Kiera! What are you..."

"Well, someone's gonna handle the point, I should just help you guys out."

"DokuNeko's killed..."

"Oh... Then let's beat the asshole who did that!" She spoke with determination and anger as she retrieved a helmet from her Inventory onto her hand.