Ramos remained unmoved, his gaze fixed on Andrew, a flicker of amusement in his crimson eyes. The scenario Andrew performed seemed to amuse him rather than alarm him.
"Great job" Ramos voice echoed across the room, his voice laced with mockery and tease. "For a mere mortal, you posses such strong ferocity."
Andrew still panting, covered in blood, held his dagger tightly. His adrenaline-like strength fading, replaced by fatigue and bone-deep weariness.
'Darn!! 90 mana points left'
An E4 rank elf with fire powers will surely drain his mama power in seconds.
"Underestimation can be a fatal flaw" Ramos chuckled. "However," his tone became colder, "your tantrum ends here."
The room started heating. It was as if they were in an heating furnace studying the mixture of Sodium with graphite.
'Darn..could it be more worse than this?' Andrew thought.
The air around Ramos began to shimmer. His body started emmiting smoke which was slowly turning to red-blazing fire.
'C'monnnn!!! Andrew you just had to think about a stupid suggestion...look!! It got worse!!' he thought, reprimanding himself.
Elemental Mage!! Fire!! He had a bad feeling about this.
'Bad feeling? What part of this game has a good feeling?'
Playing it on the VR was much fun. Aetherial fire balls were being thrown at him and he dodged swiftly. 'Ahhhh' he enjoyed it. That is totally different; he could get killed.
'Yes!! Fire balls!' he thought, remembering Ramos Fire Balls from the VR.
The prompt appeared in front of him again
[ALERT!! ENEMY USING SKILL!!]
[EVADE IMMEDIATELY!!!]
'Evade?With what mana?..who the hell made this game?'
'Making a level one opponent this strong.. that's just sad'
Different stupified thoughts ran through his mind.
Before he could move, a swirling sphere of fire appeared in Ramos' right hand taking the form of a medium size ball. The heat emitting from the ball could be felt despite the heating environment.
[AETHERIAL FIRE BALLS]
[THREAT LEVEL: HIGH]
'I know I'm dead meat, no need to translate' he muttered to himself, annoyed at the system neverending "death messages".
Different fireballs of the same size started forming in mid air above Ramos. Just before Andrew could make a move, the first fireball shot forward with terrifying speed, a searing projectile aimed directly at Andrew's chest. His instincts kicked in at the right time, as he moved sideways. The fireball missed him, leaving a trail of slight contact on his cheek. The fireball hit the stone wall behind him, leaving an impact on the wall and making a deafening sound.
Before he could move again, the other fireballs shot at him. Andrew jumped and moved sideways avoiding the fireballs. His body was slowly forgetting about the fatigue, changing into a mixture of courage and adrenaline.
One of the fireballs exploded close to his leg searing through his worn trousers. Another grazed his shoulder leaving an overheating mark. He could feel his mana draining slowly.
'Think Andrew! Think!!' he mentally yelled at himself. Charging at Ramos directly was suicide. Ramos was busy making mockery of him, his eyes filled with arrogance and pride.
He noticed Ramos didn't move, but just controlled the fireballs with a wave of his hand. Instead of trying to outrun the fireballs, Andrew began to move with no direction, he will feint in one direction and abruptly change course. He used the remnants of broken furnitures as shield.
A fireball shattered into a fallen table sending pieces of woods flying in room momentarily. Andrew uses this opportunity and darted towards a pillar, creating a barrier between him and Ramos.
'He's depending on fireballs' Andrew declared mentally.
Fireballs slammed into the pillar, cracking the stone. Andrew knew the pillar won't hold for long. He needed to act fast.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh"
With a guttural yell,he created a blind spot and sprinted towards Ramos from behind the pillar, moving erratically in zigzag manner with the dagger firmly in his hand. The fireballs seemed to track his movements, but the unpredictable outburst of Andrew caught Ramos off guard. Ramos was surprised and prepared a fireball attack. Just as the fireball was about to be unleashed, Andrew threw his dagger with his whole strength. The blade spun through the air and separated Ramos left hand from his body, thrusting into the wall behind Ramos.
Ramos groaned in pain and fell to his knees, the fireballs in the air dispersed immediately rendering Ramos vulnerable, blood splattering out of his left arm. Andrew didn't hesitate, he immediately threw himself in mid air and swung his legs, kicking Ramos with great force. Ramos rolled on the ground still going through a lot pain from his left arm.
He tried to balance himself, but Andrew wasn't willing to give him time to catch his breath. Andrew pulled the dagger out of the wall and sprinted towards Ramos, with a swing of his dagger, Ramos right hand came of his arm. Ramos yelled in pain with blood splattering from his two arms.
Andrew glared at the helpless elf with merciless eyes.
"Tchkk... you will surely pay..just wait till my family get you" Ramos yelled in anger.
"I also can't wait to meet them"
Without hesitation, Andrew decapitated his head from his body, and his body fell to the ground with his head rolling across the room.
[MISSION COMPLETED]
[LEVEL PASSED]
[REWARD: 2000 COINS__ELEMENTAL POWERS: 10/1000]
[ADDITIONAL 25 KILLS__REWARD: 25/1000 ELF MONARCH POINTS__FREE SPIN WHEEL]
[GUARDIAN SPIRIT: 10/10000 POINTS]
"Huh?"
"Elf Monarch? Guardian Spirit? Elemental Powers? What does this mean"
He immediately accessed the system with different prompts appearing in front of him.
[MONARCH]
[ELF MONARCH: 25/1000 POINTS]
[DEMON MONARCH: 0/1000 POINTS]
[MABEASTS MONARCH: 0/1000 POINTS]
[TITAN MONARCH: 0/1000 POINTS]
[MONSTER MONARCH: 0/1000 POINTS]
"Hmm.. interesting" Andrew muttered with pleasance. "One kill means one point for a monarch huh? Still need 975 kills to gain elf monarch huh?..hmmm"
[ELEMENTAL POWERS__POWERS TO CONTROL ALL ELEMENTS OF LIFE (WATER, FIRE,EARTH,AIR)KILL ALL ELEMENTAL LEADERS TO EARN]
[GUARDIAN SPIRIT__A SPIRIT THAT APPEARS WHEN YOU NEED, DIFFERENT FROM A MONARCH, IT'S LIKE A GOD EVEN STRONGER THAN THE GAMER_TO GAIN MORE THAN 10,000 KILLS AND MORE THAN 500 LEADER KILLS]
" This game is more complicated than I thought"
"Well who cares...ooohhh..my spin wheel"
[SPINNING.....]
[CONGRATULATIONS: ENHANCED BODY ENGAGEMENT BY 3X]
"Huh? What's that supposed to mean? You couldn't even give me a better weapon?"
"Darnnn. I hate this game"
[MP: 1000/1000]
[LEVEL TWO__COMMENCE]
"Commence!"