Chapter 829: Core Members Tournament 7

Chapter 829: Core Members Tournament 7

Bella went silent at that, shocked into a stupor. She truly did not understand what this fellow was getting at by saying all this. Sure, he might be too shy to admit it, but wasn't it obvious that her beloved Astarte had truly enjoyed all the love and care she had been giving him since they were young?

So why? Why was he continually insinuating that Astarte had suffered under her? That he had hated his treatment? How could that even be possible?

She had made sure that Astarte would enjoy all of their encounters!!!

Bella was confused and angry, she began to feel hate towards Nightwalker for all he did, thinking him to be a bully who just did whatever he wanted because he had a bloodline!

The God Serpent Inheritor could easily sense her emotions through various means, so he sighed and snapped his finger. With that, the still open Calamity Portal manifested Jormungandr's large head which roared towards the sky, immediately bringing back the light of the world.

Of course, by this time, Bella was already properly dressed again, but her hate filled look remained. Nightwalker simply looked down on her from where he stood with his pockets in his hands before smirking slightly with a 'hmph'.

With his right thumb he gestured to the side of the arena where the core members stood. Bella's eyes involuntarily followed the direction and was shocked to find her beloved Astarte crying with his head lowered.

Boyd, Uno, and Kiran, had each silently placed a hand on his shoulder and back, comforting him as their fellow Five General and brother-in-arms.

"Astarte…?" Bella uttered with a look of utter confusion on her face.

Seeing her like this, Nightwalker frowned, then sighed. "He isn't crying because of whatever reason your brain will likely make up to trick yourself into believing everything is fine."

Nightwalker opened his inventory and held a bottle of cognac under his nose, enjoying the scent before taking a small sip.

"The reason he is crying is simply because until today, there hasn't been a single person who had been able to describe his suffering so succinctly and so piercingly to the point it made him feel cathartic, as if the world had finally acknowledged his suffering."

Nightwalker walked over to Bella slowly. "That is the only reason a tough fellow like Cobra would cry so openly."

Bella's lips trembled and her whole body shook like someone had electrified her, but it was simply that Nightwalker's words were like whips lashing upon her mind, causing her severe damage.

"A-astarte…" She murmured weakly, as if her whole life's belief was crumbling.

Nightwalker stood in front of her and leaned forward. "Oi… you know he hates you, right? He hates you more than anything in this world... yet at the same time, part of him must still love you, simply because you are his family. That's the only reason he hasn't gone crazy and killed you yet."

Bella shook even worse, blood trickling down the side of her lips as she bit her tongue hard.

"After you respawn, I want you to do one thing. Stop looking at his actions with the view that he is simply playing 'hard to get' or is going through some sort of rebellious phase."

Nightwalker sighed and leaned back, shaking his head at Bella who was still staring at the sobbing Cobra with a lifeless gaze.

"Look back at his actions with the simple thought that 'he fucking hates me'. Trust me, you'll learn something new."

Nightwalker then placed a hand on Bella's head and opened a small Calamity Portal. Immediately, she was burned to death by a stream of fire from a Blazing Apocalypse, ending her life easily and quickly.

6th Battle: Nightwalker wins!

7th Battle: Cold Summer vs Misery, begin!

Cold Summer breathed out lightly as he came onstage, his expression severe as he faced of against Misery. The Lineage member appeared pretty casual as he gazed at the former Hydromancer with a strange smile.

Cold Summer had recently been promoted to core member after the First Inter-Player International Competition. His first act had been to rely on guild funds to upgrade his class accordingly, raising it from Epic to Legendary.

After all, the predominant reason he had been suppressed in the earlier competition was precisely because of the gap in classes. Now, just when he had secured his heart, he found out that there were freaks with bloodlines that got Divine Classes.

Now, he was facing one.

Deep down, he couldn't help but sigh at his luck, but even more, he couldn't help but marvel at his guild, Umbra. They were able to constantly attract and spit out such talents like they were cabbage.

Cold Summer was willing to swear that Umbra had the top 0.1% of the Earth's best talents gathered in its fold.

Now, for the classes.

?Aqualord - Legendary Class (Rank 4)

Skills:

Rank 1: Perfect Manipulation (Passive), Aqua Domination (Passive), Tsunami (Active), Behemoth Marine Summon (Active)

Rank 2: Aqua Dragon (Active), Water Cannon (Active)

Rank 3: Fire Suppression (Passive), Nature's Pardon (Passive)

Rank 4: Water Body (Active), Rainfall (Active)

Starting Stats: Str 10, Dex 10, End 10, Int 80, Spr 80, Cha 10, Lck 10

Exp gain rate: 90%

Rank up difficulty: 45%

Class weapons: Staff.

Class skills: Any Water.?

?Perfect Manipulation – Passive skill

Effect: The User is able to freely manipulate all forms of water and water bodies with their mind. All offensive and defensive moves created through this skill are buffed by 40%.?

?Aqua Domination – Passive skill

Effect: As an adept in the Water element, you possess total immunity to all attacks using the same element. All your water related attacks are increased in potency by 60%.?

?Tsunami – Active skill

Effect: Summon an huge wave of pervasive water that submerges an Area Zone, drowning or sweeping away all those within range.

Cooldown: 12 hours.?

?Behemoth Marine Summon – Active skill

Effect: Instantly summon a powerful beast from the depths of the underwater world to fight for you. The power of the beast is capped to your Rank and Level, but its race and quality is at least Legendary.

Duration: 30 minutes

Cooldown: 12 hours.?

?Aqua Dragon – Active skill

Effect: Summon a consistent and pervasive flow of water that possess the form of a dragon. This dragon can make a single target attack for 1,200% water damage or act autonomously for the duration of its existence.

Duration: 1 minute

Cooldown: 3 hours.?

?Water Cannon – Active skill

Effect: Generate a flow of high pressure water that is at least 36 meters in diameter, tearing through a single target or a line of targets. It does 500% water damage per second.

Duration: 10 seconds

Cooldown: 5 minutes.?

?Fire Suppression – Passive skill

Effect: After bonding deeply with the water element, the Aqualord has gained a powerful elemental superiority over his nemesis element, fire. All damage towards fire based foes and abilities is increased by 300%.?

?Nature's Pardon – Passive skill

Effect: After bonding deeply with the water element, the Aqualord has developed a severe weakness to the earth and nature elements. However, after training, the user has developed a 20% resistance against these elements.?

?Water Body – Active skill

Effect: Turn the cells in the body into their elemental form of water, achieving a body that can enter, merge and act as water itself, no different from a water spirit or Undine.

Duration: 1 hour

Cooldown: 1 day.?

?Rainfall – Active skill

Effect: Concentrate the particles of water in the atmosphere, allowing it to fall down as rain. Wherever this rain falls, your skills and abilities are buffed by 500% and all skills have no cooldowns.

Duration: 10 seconds

Cooldown: 5 minutes.?

?Shadowy Hound - Divine Class

Skills:

Rank 1: Hound of Culann - Rank 4 (Passive), The Shadowy One - Rank 4 (Passive), Knight's Honor (Active), Sorcerer Supreme (Active),

Rank 2: Spear Shadows (Active) Spell Ward (Active)

Rank 3: Spear Heir (Passive), Witch's Descendant (Passive)

Rank 4: Bloodlust (Active), Magician's Luck (Active)

Exp gain rate: 0.5%

Rank up difficulty: 50%

Class weapons: Spear and Tome.

Class skills: All Spear, Magic.?

?Hound of Culann (Rank 4) – Passive skill

Effect: The Hound of Culann has blessed you with the legacy of his power. You gain a portion of his martial prowess with the spear, his spear arts, and a part of his divine nature. All physical stats boosted by 200% and lance damage is increased by 7,000%.?

?The Shadowy One (Rank 4) – Passive skill

Effect: The Shadowy One has blessed you with the legacy of her power. You gain a portion of her magical prowess in the arts of sorcery, her spells, and a part of her divine nature. All mental/magical stats boosted by 200% and magical damage is increased by 7,000%.?

?Knight's Honor – Active skill

Effect: This active skill allows you to create a geas, an unbreakable oath to limit yourself in one physical stat in order to gain a proportionate amount in another.

Duration: 40 minutes.

Cooldown: 12 hours.?

?Sorcerer Supreme – Active skill

Effect: With this active skill, you can pay a price of your HP bar permanently in order to increase your magical power proportionately.

Duration: 40 minutes.

Cooldown: 12 hours.?

?Spear Shadows – Active skill

Effect: Thrust your spear outwards many times within a second, creating 300 spear shadows that strike all enemies within a 1 kilometer range. Each spear shadows deals 30% spear damage.

Note: The number of spear shadows that strikes each enemy has to do with their remaining HP, with spear shadows prioritizing those with lower HP.

Cooldown: 3 minutes.?

?Spell Ward – Active skill

Effect: Create a magical barrier that reduces the power of all incoming magical and physical attacks by 40% and 20% respectively.

Duration: 30 minutes

Cooldown: 1 hour.?

?Spear Heir – Passive skill

Effect: The User is able to further display the prowess of their legacy title. You gain an increased 300% to attack and movement speed when wielding a lance.?

?Witch's Descendant – Passive skill

Effect: The User is able to further display the prowess of their legacy title. You gain an increased 300% to casting and movement speed when wielding a tome.?

?Bloodlust – Active skill

Effect: Sacrifice 5% HP per minute to increase all physical stats by 90%, Damage and Defense by 200% and become completely immune to spear and sorcery damage.

Note: HP lost will only recover at the end of the cooldown.

Duration: Variable

Cooldown: 1 day.?

?Magician's Luck – Active skill

Effect: Exchange 30% of your defense and reduce your mana pool by 50% in order to gain spells that have random effects.

Note: During the period of activation, you can use your default 'auto-attack' for magic, which would warp into any spell and that spell would have a unique effect attached.

Duration: 5 minutes

Cooldown: 1 hour.?

Misery flashed a gentle smile and nodded to Cold Summer. Cold Summer didn't hesitate to use his Aqua Dragon skill, spawning a huge Asian style dragon that was made of water. It roared and immediately charged towards Misery, who only glanced at it with interest.

"Erm, according to the Little Princess and the Alabama Brat, all status effects and cooldowns refresh after each battle, right? So let's not use bloodline and try out these fancy new skills."

Misery checked his skills out with interest even while the Aqua Dragon was rushing at him, its size threatening to engulf the seemingly tiny him in comparison.

"Lets try these two then." Misery stated casually.

Spell Ward!

Magician's Luck!

A blue spell barrier appeared around Misery which soaked the blow from the Aqua Dragon, not even forcing him to move from his spot. However, Misery noted that he still lost a chunk of HP, given that this was, after all, a powerful spell from a Legendary Class.

Cold Summer did not wait to give Misery a turn and immediately cast Behemoth Marine Summon and Water Cannon!

From a giant and manifested pool of water, a whale like creature floated up into the air, releasing a cry that was like the loudest and deepest horn. Many core members were spared the effects of it except Misery who was knocked back a few steps and coughed a bit of blood due to the sound damage.

Before the behemoth could make another move, Cold Summers' desperate Water Cannon attack had appeared before Misery, being a large jet of high pressure water that could even cut through a bunker's walls.