Chapter 2: Number 10

As the game progressed, an odd player dressed as a golden knight caught a glimpse of the dark wave that was coming for them, this player prepared well and leaped towards this wave. The players that were near the dark wave saw as it stoped, and there they saw the villain everyone has been talking about, the Crow, each player in an attempt to take down the Crow shot at him with all they had but it was useless, he looked at them and waved his hand destroying a large area and every player that was in the range of the attack, he was then given a message "You have leveled up, current level is 89, aim has been 89% complete.", as the panel closed, he took his time to take anything of value to him, which included weapons, skills, and accessories. It was not long before he found out that a powerful player was nearby. Crow stood still and waited. As he waited, he created a chair and sat down.

Before all this, a player who was part of the top 20 came to participate in the game. The name of this player was Queen. She ranked at 10, and was like Kat. All that was known about her was that she would have reached the top 5 if not for her level restriction, which was gained from one of her skills. Though she could learn more skills, she needed to take down an enemy of "high grade" power before she could pass level 60, but still, all knew she was a force to be reckoned with. As Queen entered, she landed and took many players out. Some she took their skills, and most of their weapons. This was due to her subclass, weapon master. About 30 minutes into the game, she received a notification which warned her of a "high grade" player in the region. At first, she thought someone in the top 10, but when she saw the dark clouds, she knew it was none other than the Crow. She left the area to confront him, but as she got there, she was taken by surprise to find the person she saw was not the same person the rumors described him to be. Crow was powerful, even more powerful than she was.

"So you are the notorious Crow?", she asked, "Queen, a player I always admired.", his voice was doubled like a light echo, "Is your voice always this scary?", "Do you always wear a helmet cuz most at times you don't", Queen took of her helmet, as her long golden hair covers her face as it came to rest were blue eyes were revealed so we're her small pink lips and cold gaze. "Hm I thought you will be more comfortable with you head outside so that our fight will not be so uncomfortable", "You Crow are so romantic, how thoughtful of you, I could have a crush on you but I have another, and will be happy if I found him.", "I have to be, romance is a good battle practice so if you are ready let's go". Crow got off his chair and Queen dropped her helmet, in a split second both blitzed and were engaged in combat, as Queen tried to cut him with daggers, Crow weaved all the attacks and punched her back, he blitzed to her area and gave her a heavy punch in the face, she recovered and run to him shouting her lungs out, created a bone blade, jumped and tried to smash Crow, he weaved to the right and tried to smash her but was stoped by a bone shield, Crow jumped back, his hand covers with a dark blue aura, he dashed with his aura coved hand leading, he failed to hit Queen but waved the same hand and a red mouth made of aura came and bit her(Hell's fang). Queen realized that move took her HP and added it to his, Crow stood still then vanished, Queen was in shock and looked left and right for him. She felt a presence behind her, she turned just in time to block a punch. When she got out of guarding position, she summoned a long big buster blade (Buster). She pointed the blade at him and dashed at him, hit him, and flipped up and bashed him away. Crow landed and complimented her. He then jumped and two black wings spawned behind him. He covered her and raised her up. She cut his wings. She was dropped and when she landed, she saw Crow come down like a bullet, and she created a scythe and held his head and smashed it to the ground. She leaped back and held him in position with the scythe. The scythe was covered in white aura. Another blade appeared at the back of the blade with an eye in the middle. She waved the scythe and a huge slash was thrown at him (Witch hunt slash)..The slash was devastating, a light shined covering that whole area, but as the light cleared Queen realized that Crow was still standing, this time his red eyes reflected a symbol, a symbol that looked like a paper fan, his eyes charged to rotate and she knew the item he used, the mangeko sharingan, Queen stoped and closed her eyes, which left her opened to all forms of attacks, that would have been the case if her other scenes were not sharpened, with the ability to smell aura and hear like a bat she was able to deflect most of crows attacks, he also knew what he was dealing with so turned off the Sharingan. The exact moment that happened she blitzed behind him and hit him away, this put crow on guard and he knew that she wasn't part of the top 20 for no reason, a thick red aura burst from his body and and lined his body, a panel appeared and read "You have activated blood cain, as long as this ability is active all attacks drain your enemies HP, but you loose HP as this form is active, all attacks that required MP now take up more of your HP." This ability was one Crow used as a last resort never to be used unless necessary, thus this was no time to joke and went straight for the attack he dashed and uses hell fang which was cleverly dodged he flipped and hit her reducing her HP drastically, she was shocked and punched to a wall, the next second a golden beam of light hit her and swords formed at her back like wings, this was the EX mode a form that showed ones powerful state, but like all buffs this one also had a limit, Queen swung once and a barrage of blades swept the area some damaging Crow, in order to stop it he created a feather shield and made an explosion this was enough for him to damage her and let her lose her EX mode. "I must admit you are strong, really strong, I thought you were all tactics, but you are strong.", Queen said, "I can say the same for you, but I'm done here you and I can play again later.", Crow said as he turned away," Huh what do you mean by play.", "As I said, play, you are only at no 10 due to a level restriction, right check your level and take it as a parting gift from me to you.". As soon as he said that he vanished, at first she thought he was bluffing but then when she checked her panel she had lived up 5 times just from that fight. She knew now that Crow was her only way to level up.

To be continued

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