Duel Arena Ranked Matches

Henya:

[I’ll finish this quickly and go to Gospel!]

[Hehe, once this is all done, my legend begins.]

Henya sent a message.

She sent them frequently.

She declared to Lord Losfelt that she wouldn’t party with Heroes weaker than her.

She fought and won against Lord Losfelt’s son, the Hero, who was supposed to be her companion.

She sent messages saying she had dinner.

She sent messages saying she was training.

She sent messages saying she was showering.

Me:

[Uh… okay.]

I didn’t tell her to stop sending them.

It was annoying, but within acceptable limits.

Henya:

[I’m going to sleep now!]

[By the way, where are you sleeping, Americano?]

Me:

[Me?]

[I’m not going to sleep?]

[How can I sleep outside?]

It was night.

Henya:

[???]

As expected of the Princess.

She didn’t know what happened when you slept outside.

Me:

[Undead come out.]

[I can’t sleep because I’m catching them.]

I finished typing.

After sending it,

From the sky,

[Lich]

Red letters.

[Lich]es boldly revealed themselves.

They appeared because they had all their magic prepared.

The [Lich]es, who flew down from the sky and landed, cast magic circles on the ground as soon as they landed.

The magic circles, filled with thick Dark Mana, swirled and clung to Americano’s body.

[Ice Crystal]

Dark Mana froze.

Along with the frozen Mana,

[Moonlight Sword]

I swung the sword down.

The [Lich] blocked the [Moonlight Sword] with a barrier, but the [Moonlight Sword] shattered the Dark Mana and reached the [Lich].

‘Effective.’

Anti-Magic Power was effective on regular Mana, but even more effective on Dark Mana.

Come to think of it, the reason I was able to defeat the [Death Knight] was because I could deal damage beyond a certain level.

If I only dealt 1 damage at a time, how could I have caught the [Death Knight] in that time?

Other attacks didn’t work at all, but only the [Execution Sword] worked, and it wasn’t just that it worked, but the damage was significantly different.

Long live the Northern Empire.

I swung the [Storm Sword].

A hurricane arose.

The [Lich]es were swept up in the storm and flew away.

The storm itself had no attack power and didn’t deal damage, but the [Phantom Sword]s mixed in the storm tore the [Lich]es apart.

I saw the information windows disappear, and after dealing with them, a message came in.

Henya:

[It’s dangerous!]

[Sir Cainbell says a Death Knight has appeared!]

[It’s dangerous to wander around outside alone at night. No one can catch it unless there’s a Priest.]

[No matter how strong you are, Americano, it’s impossible to fight a Death Knight!]

Me:

[I already caught it once?]

I sent the message.

I [Leap]ed.

Entering the [Duel Arena] is after arriving at Dwarfneer.

After using [Leap] several times, a familiar information window was waiting for her at the landing point.

[Death Knight]

Ominous black letters.

‘Speak of the devil.’

As soon as I landed, I jumped into the [Death Knight]’s arms.

I had already switched my sword to the [Black Sword], and clashed with the [Death Knight]’s sword.

Americano, who didn’t use [Boost], was unilaterally knocked back. She activated [Boost] and collided again.

Day breaks.

I fought all night.

But I couldn’t reach a conclusion.

Time over.

“….”

“…Tch.”

The [Death Knight] disappears like a phantom.

Americano was able to understand the [Death Knight] and deal with it more easily.

But the [Death Knight] also learned Americano.

Overall, it became easier to block attacks, but the occasional strike that pierced through was more breathtaking than the last fight.

I took the [Death Knight]’s sword to my body several more times.

“Hoo…”

I collapsed on the floor.

I’m dying of exhaustion.

“Yaaawn.”

I’m also sleepy.

I groped my arm.

Each of those strikes was sharp and pierced deeply, tearing her arms, shoulders, and legs.

The wounded areas tingled.

The tingling sensation was strangely refreshing.

You know that feeling?

It’s similar to that satisfying feeling you get when you have muscle pain after exercising.

I massaged my arm and got up from the dirt floor.

The terrain, which was once a forest, was destroyed by me and the [Death Knight] and became a dull, earth-colored land.

“Yaaawn.”

I slowly turned off [Boost].

The blue flames subsided, and I reduced the Mana on my body to reduce the chill.

As I got the hang of it, [Boost], which used to be a suicide skill, became a reusable Skill.

This was because there was a limit to [Boost], and the limit that Americano could handle exceeded the limit of [Boost].

‘Who would have known that Boost would freeze if it overheated to a certain level?’

Anyway, that’s what happened.

I turned off [Boost],

And went to Dwarfneer.

After returning to Dwarfneer, I met Lee Su-ju and called Hite.

He still says loyal things, and that “my lady” thing still pisses me off, but he had been collecting useful things in the meantime.

The essence of Demonic Energy stolen from the [Ancient Nightmare]s.

I received it from Hite and gave it to Cappuccino.

Cappuccino’s humanization.

The ingredients needed for that.

Apparently, by making the [Ancient Nightmare]’s Dream Ability her own, she completes the puzzle needed for humanization.

And I entrusted Lee Su-ju with the appraisal of the armor and broken sword obtained from the [Death Knight], and her surprised expression was a sight to behold.

“Hoo.”

I finally finished.

I’m so sleepy that I don’t even remember what I did.

I booked a room and sat on the bed.

Cappuccino was trying to do something with Caramel, but I didn’t care.

“Yaaawn.”

Because I was very sleepy.

Americano yawns.

I pondered.

Should I sleep?

Or not?

Honestly, I was sleepy, but it was still morning.

It’s still a waste of time to sleep.

I entered the [Duel Arena].

You enter the [Duel Arena] in a soul state.

Americano shouted energetically.

“As expected!”

The fatigue that the body had was gone.

Still,

“Still…”

Not even the mental fatigue was completely gone.

‘At least the physical fatigue is gone.’

The [Duel Arena] was crowded with people.

Transparent shadows went back and forth between the doors attached to the walls of the [Duel Arena] plaza.

It seemed like there were more people than when I came before, was it because of the Hero Tournament? In the [Duel Arena], you could kill each other through player-versus-player combat without any risk.

Americano stretched.

She also grabbed a door.

In the waiting room, which resembled a karaoke room, she chose [Ranked Match].

She was summoned to the [Duel Arena] stage,

And the opponent was also summoned to the stage.

The matched opponent was a mannequin.

It was a Muskin.

I chuckled, thinking that I would look like that to the opponent.

The sword Americano took out was the basic weapon.

The opponent also takes out a sword, which is the basic weapon.

A number appeared in front.

The countdown dropped.

[3]

[2]

[1]

[Fight]

I immediately slashed.

[YOU WIN]

“Let’s go quickly.”

Currently, Americano’s rank is unranked.

This is her first time in a Ranked Match, but

She was strong.

After earning 1 win,

She earned 2 wins,

She earned 3 wins,

She earned 4 wins,

She earned 5 wins.

The opponent’s rank also changed each time she won.

At first, it was unranked, but

Next was F grade.

Next was E grade.

Next was D grade.

Next was C grade.

The next opponent was,

[Clock]

[Rank] [B]

B grade.

When the countdown dropped, [Clock] put his hand on his forehead with one hand, crossed his arms with the other, and struck an exaggerated pose.

He was wearing a murderous skin and stretched his mouth wide.

“Khehehe.”

When the starting count was 1 second left.

“A corpse is talking?”

“Wh…”

Moment.

In the chest,

“…Huh.”

A sword was stuck.

Suddenly, I was stabbed through the heart.

I was surprised and took a step back.

There was no process of flying.

A sword suddenly appeared in my chest.

Americano quickly analyzed the opponent’s method with a dazed face.

Awakened Ability.

What ability?

Space movement?

Teleportation?

No,

‘Time Stop.’

After regaining the balance that was about to collapse, I grabbed the sword stuck in my chest.

[Clock]. As the name suggests, he manipulates time.

I’ll have to wait and see if he can only stop it or if other transformations are possible.

Time Stop consumes a lot of Mana, or maybe the stance of throwing the sword was released from the stop, but he quickly corrected his stance.

Funny.

I grabbed the sword tightly.

“Ugh…”

I pulled out the sword.

A blade passing through the heart.

The texture is not good.

It’s disgusting.

But it’s fun.

It has to be like this.

‘It’s more fun this way.’

I completely pulled out the sword.

I aimed the sword, which was dyed bright red, at [Clock] and threw it at him. It bounced off the floor and slid away.

I put my hand on the chest with a hole in it.

[Heal]

The wound heals.

“Come.”

“…I’ll make you regret not dying quietly.”

“Whatever.”

[Clock]’s face turned pale.

I guess he doesn’t like not being able to kill me in one hit.

As I picked up the sword, he suddenly accelerated.

The action itself is a normal run.

But it was fast.

It wasn’t just fast.

It was unnaturally fast.

It’s like speeding up a video.

In the slowed-down time, only [Clock] moved at a normal speed. It just seemed to her that [Clock]’s appearance was faster.

Of course, it would be easier to avoid all attacks by the same amount of time that was sped up.

Because all attacks would look slow.

“Time Ability, huh.”

“H, how…”

It must be nice to be comfortable.

Electrical Ability is good too, but is it as good as Time Ability?

[Clock] couldn’t finish his sentence.

Half of his upper body was cut off towards the side.

The moment he knelt down.

He became a Polygon fragment.

Still, I answered.

“It’s because you’re too slow.”

This was a rebuke.

What’s the point of having a strong Awakened Ability?

If the Ability user himself is weak.

Even if you speed it up 10 times, the [Death Knight] was 10 times faster than that.

There was a reason why he was B grade even with Time Ability.

The body was restored,

The next opponent came.

This opponent was also wearing a skin.

(Flame Silhouette Girl)

[Bomber Witch]

[Rank] [A]