"So, today's the big day huh? You ready for this?" Quentin asks towards Zavier as He looked around at his group of friends. Who was waiting on his reply at the lunch table.
"Yeah, I am bro I'm tired of the rumors. Saying the ranger class is the weakest. I will show everyone how strong we are. plus winning this tournament I will be good on cash for a while meaning I can get a better VR POD." Zavier says towards the group with confidence.
"Ah! Man! Too bad I couldn't join in. It would be great to show the world how powerful a dragon knight really is. My folks planned a getaway this weekend, but I will be cheering you on from the live streams." Tony says patting Zavier on the back as the rest of the group gave him encouraging words.
"Thanks guys. the competition is going to be a little tough with all the legendary class players being invited personally to join in, but I heard only two will be participating. We all know one who is." Zavier says looking towards Tony.
"Yeah, Apollo is indeed joining the tournament. But we still don't know out of the other three legendary class players who is the other one joining in." Tony says with a worried look.
"It is what it is I say, no matter the obstacles I will get through them." Zavier says with a smirk as his group of friends at his school lunch table all cheer him on and kept talking about nerdy anime or gaming stuff in till the school bell rang for lunch to end.
nothing exciting happen throughout the rest of the school day as the end of school bell rang everyone was released from school. Zavier rides the bus home like always. Arrived at his home as he run pass his mom to get to his room. She yells at him for running in the house. Zavier closed the door to his room and began taking his school uniform and backpack off and changed into something more comfortable.
Once he did Zavier looks at his VR Pod and nods with confidence as he enters it and was now standing in the VR lobby, he was instantly greeted by a message from project Yggdrasil. It was the invitation to the tournament as the servers for Your Fantasy will be down in till the event is over.
Zavier clicked on the invitation. A countdown timer could be seen in his view. As it showed, he made it right on time as he only has 5 minutes remaining as he was lost in his thoughts waiting. Then he saw Katsumi, legend and Tsuyoshi appear not too far from him as the three of them was also Participating. They all meet up and looked at one another.
"Looks like it's finally time." Tsuyoshi says as they all nod.
"My soul is ready for some action!" Legend yells out as Katsumi looks at him with annoyance.
"Unlike this muscle head, you two lazy bums. I did some digging and figured out who is the second legendary class player that is participating." Katsumi says suspense making both zero and Tsuyoshi gulps in anticipation.
"Who?" All three asked at the same time.
30 minutes before Zero logs on to the VR Pod, In a one bedroom studio apartment in New York city....
A slim white skin tone curly short red hair woman was rushing getting herself together as all kinds of alarms was going off in her apartment.
"Damn it! who idea was it to setup multiple alarms!" The woman yells out as she falls over a pile of pizza boxes.
"That was your idea, Miss Samantha." A robotic British voice spoke up as Samantha sighs and looks annoyed at a holographic glowing light blue ball that had a black digital face.
"No shit Connor! Now how much time do we have?" Samantha question Connor.
"You have less than 5 minutes miss Samantha. "Connor says as Sam hurried to get ready and logs into her VR POD as she arrives in her VR house a nice condo with a beach in the background.
She instantly pulled up the link project Yggdrasil sent her as she clicks it. She was transported into "Your Fantasy". Her outfit was that of a pink and white bunny suit that she personally craft with her tailor class skills.
Sam took in the sight before her she was standing in a stadium like booth. As she walked towards the window seeing a whole different place than Euphoria. but a massive Continent with over 6 different biomes from vast mountains, small islands in a vast ocean, Farmlands, snowy ice lands, endless green plains, ancient fallen cities, gigantic trees in a lust forest, and a desert with ancient ruins and canyons, for players could randomly spawn in but one thing stood out for Sam was the massive Volcano in the middle of the map that made Mt. Everest look like an amusement park for kids.
"Whoa! no wonder they made the player count for this event max out at 10k." Sam says still gawking at the beautiful scenery she was seeing.
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Two multi-colors lights appear behind Sam as two figures was shown, Sam smiles at the two players.
"Yo! Sammy baby! how's it cracking? whoa! Bloody hell look at this old man! Project Yggdrasil got us a fancy booth. Is that also a snack bar over there! Man, and here I was planning on participating in the tournament ha!" Silent Monkey laughs while rushing towards the snack bar. He looks slightly different than the last time people seen him in the spotlight. Now he wears a smiling wooden mask that looks old as dirt. With a brown and black colored suit & tie outfit. Carrying a black smooth umbrella.
"Indeed, it is way fancier than I thought. Hello, miss Samantha thanks for having me here on the show today." Old man says towards Sam while he walks to one of the three seats in front of a table looking out towards the event area.
Sam looks at the legendary [Sage] class player the old man looks like a typical loving grandpa with a long white as snow beard hanging down to the floor, with a bald head, his eyes were fox like. Even with him looking like he was 70 years old, his body was that of a young body builder, with white fitting robes that look so clean it was almost shining.
"No, I should be the one thanking you two. For coming to the show, having two legendary class players being spectators/Announcers will be insightful, and my viewers will have a field day just seeing you guys. I'm starting the stream up now. We go live in 3...2...1" Sam says counting down as she gets into her streaming mode.
"Hey guys!! welcome back to another episode of Cyber watch! Today is a big day for all you "Your Fantasy" fans. Today I'm being sponsored by project Yggdrasil to host "The World Strongest" event along with two other co-host some of you might know them. We have the "Trickster" and "The Sage" helping me out today with the spectating both are legendary class players that has insightful knowledge and are experience players that will be helpful with today's event." Sam says as she introduced Silent and old man to the stream as the event was about to begin.
5 minutes before the event starts back in the VR central Hub where Zero and his friends stood around waiting on the event to start....
"So, that just confirmed from the cyber watch stream that both Silent and the old man are just spectators that only means what we expected." Legend says as they all nod.
"The Demon Lord Akujin is the other legendary class player to enter the tournament." Zero says as they all went into deep thought about the news.
"We still sticking with the original plan?" Tsuyoshi asked as Zero and the rest nods.
"No matter what. team up against all legendary class players and then go back against each other, once they have been dealt with." Zero says with confidence as the other three nods along as they look at the countdown and only had a minute left.
They all wished each other luck as the countdown went to Zero as everyone who was in the hub waiting like them vanished one by one as Zero was filled with excitement.
"Time to show the world, what a Ranger class player can really do!" Zero yells out as he starts up "Your Fantasy" and blinding light consumed his vision.
Zero blinks and saw that he spawned in some sort of ruined town as he was inside of one of the destroyed houses. before he could really start to get adjusted to his surroundings a system announcement blares out for all to hear.
[ World Wide System Announcement: Welcome Travelers! To "The World Strongest" Event tournament! Battle royale style! Here are the rules! Last one alive is the winner. There are chest everywhere to loot for better gear! and even better items come from powerful boss tier monster in each biome! every 15 minutes a deadly fog will get closer and closer to the middle of the map make your way there if you do not wish to die by this all-consuming fog. there is no penalty for teaming up with other travelers but remember there is only one winner good luck travelers! may the best win!]
Zero read the announcement and couldn't help but sigh at the teaming up part even though him and his friends were going to do it to the stronger class players but that was only fair since legendary class players don't exactly need pro gaming skills to be powerful in "Your Fantasy". but the downside to this is the weaker class players who will probably get ganked by stronger guilds and longtime party comrades that will team up in till the end.
Zero examined himself seeing that he doesn't have none of his class gear on. nothing but the tutorial outfit on the usual white tunic, brown pants and brown boots on. zero hurried and check to see if they also took away his skills. to his relief they haven't touch or rework the skills for both his class and character for this event. With a smirk Zero walks casually out of the house and activated one of his character skills [ Life Sense].
This skill allows him to detect any lifeforms in a certain amount of radius with the use of Ki he can expanded it to cover the whole town and that's what he did. unlucky for him it doesn't help find loot like the skill [Treasure Sense] that rouge like classes have.
("Lucky thieving bastards!") Zero thought to himself but then smirk as he realizes that maybe his luck is starting to pick up as he senses other players in a few buildings looting. instead of him doing the same maybe he should let others do it for him and he just reap the rewards from their dying hands and that's what zero did for the next 15 minutes the other players didn't suspect a thing before the darkness consume their vision.
Zero arrives outside of the ruined town walking towards another location before the fog arrives. it seems like his luck was indeed no good. no matter how many players he got the drop on, none of them drop anything that was compatible for his class. well, he did find an all-black cloth mask that cover half his face, so he put that on. now he looks silly with the tutorial outfit on, but the odd thing beside his appearance was the gear the players drop on death was compatible for their class.
"Do I actually have to open a chest to get the right gear for my class? nah there's no way project Yggdrasil would make the event loot system be like that. but how didn't one leather piece equipment drop? I'm sure I killed a few classes that sync with leather armor." Zero says out loud talking to himself as he casually walks to the next biome which was full of colossal trees.
Right before he took even one step into the biome something clicks under his foot along with his [Sixth Sense] skill activating. a massive explosion rocks the area where zero was just at as the black smoke consume the area where no one could see if the Ranger survive.
Not too far from tree line where zero was about to head towards a group of players emerge from their hiding spot.
"Did we get him?" one of the players says
"Not sure, didn't get a kill notification. but I'm certain he didn't come out of this unscathed. he's only a ranger." One of the players said as the black smoke slowly faded away the group of ambushers were shocked to see not even a dirt stain could be seen on zero outfit as he stood there looking bored.
"Guess it's my turn now." Zero says in a nonchalant way as he summoned a golden bow made out of Ki, zero pulled back the string as an arrow slowly forms humming with power. before any of the players could move or jump into action zero release the powerful shot as it exploded with more force than the planted bomb. Eradicating the players from existence as they screams drifted off with the wind as the dust clears showing a large crater as if a meteor crash landed.
Zero was ecstatic to see that those few months of training at the peaks paid off. these new character skills of his was coming in handy first [Life Sense], now [Ki Barrier], [Bow of Ki], and [Ki Arrow]. which was now a character skill instead of a weapon one. He was worried he made a mistake by putting in time to develop the skill when he could just use the weapon for the skill. zero smirks at the fact he made the right choice being able to use the skill here at the event without the weapon.
Zero looked at the scattered loot everywhere in awe from the players death. than he looks back at the kill feed to make sure all the ambushers were dealt with. the life sense skill picked up 10 of them and he counted all 10 on the feed.
"Time for some loot baby!" Zero yells with excitement as he was dashing to every item that was shining white to blue.