The Adventurer System

Despite his calm outward appearance, Yumiro heard the side comments of the other adventurers around them.

"This duel is a mismatch."

"I know it's boring, but I want Grim Draigh to destroy by this lowly adventurer."

They were talking to Orlan, who that looking at Yumiro with suspicious eyes.

'Tell me whatever you want to say because after this I'll climb in your realm. And destroy all of you." Orlan thought as he observing the timer expires.

[00:03]

[00:02]

"Good luck, Adventurer Grim!" Chirla yelled from afar.

Even though Yumiro heard her word he won't respond with it. As he didn't let his concentration be distracted by the occurrences.

[00:01]

[00:00]

As soon as the timer turned into zero, Orlan made the first move. So he could easily take the favor of this duel with his side.

He dashed, then pulled the brown that was placed on his cowboy belt. Orlan starts snickering meanly while swaying his right hand in Grim's location.

Splash! Splash! Splash!

The sound of whips slashing the air was perceived by their eyes. Enough for the audience to suddenly step back.

White sand shattered all over the place as Orlan continues manipulating his brown whip.

"What's the problem, Grim? Fight back. This is what you want, isn't it?" Orlan mocked him with red fury.

However, Yumiro could still saw his brown whip. Yet, he didn't know how to make a distance as Orlan already anticipated where he would go. 

In these instances, Yumiro figured out the importance of having too much experience in the battle. Although Orlan attacking uncontrollably or whipping his weapon in an opposite direction, still, he knows what Grim would do by just looking at his movements.

The white sand was started to plaster on his feet and some wet parts of his body. Because continuous it consumed some fatigue, so it was the probably reason why his body releasing sweat. 

He bit his lower lips, as the white sand could slow down his movements. "This is bad, he had a weapon in mid-range combat." Yumiro murmured. 

Orlan swayed his right hand in front of him along with the brown whip. "Quit mumbling around! It wouldn't save you!" He yelled as he seems going to use his power without holding back.

Inside Orlan's mind, they just had 5 minutes duel. So if no one could land any single damage, it means the duel was just a draw.

[Celestial whip!]

The [Celestial Whip] skill is one of the rogue skills. This skill is ST type or also know as a singer target. This skill is enhancing the whip by using the magical power, to be specific, the adventurer converting its mana into damage. It can deal +120 damage in a single attack along with the binding skill that could drain the opponent's HP -8 health points for every 45 seconds.

His brown whip turned into an orange one, as Orlan was starting to transmit his magical power into it.

Swoosh!

Orlan pulled it back to gather momentum, then swayed again in Yumiro's location.

Boom! Boom!

His physical strength and magic strength were enough to create a tremendous explosion. As he leashing his whip without stopping, in the place where the last time he saw Grim.

"Hahaha! Take this! This is what you get if you mess in the adventurer that is stronger than you!" Orlan chortled, then thinking after this the journalist would make an article about him. Since he acquired the two elemental items, the Kariki knife, and Gerete swords.

Although Orlan couldn't see his opponent because of the thick dust. Still, he used his ability to sense a magical power to know where Grim's location was.

'It isn't my fault, you bet your precious items without knowing that complete the mission in the academy.' Orlan uttered to his mind, as he saw a dark aura on Grim's body. To be specific, his eyes saw a magical shadow.

Boom! Boom!

Seemingly the explosion wouldn't want to pass off. So the crowd's thoughts, Grim Draigh's HP was already under 50%.

"How boring... The duel ended in how I predicted it." A man wearing a mask from the audience. "Why am I wasting my time in a place like this?" He took a glance at the woman next to him that also wearing a black mask.

"Alison, let's go! This is a waste of time."

"It's just 5 minutes, so you can go. I'm just watching here, for a moment." Alison replied.

2 minutes had passed, and they still had 3 minutes before the duel ended. Moreover, Orlan lowered his guard as he thought Grim lost consciousness while standing by.

"He didn't even land any single damage." Orlan chuckled.

He planned to wait for the thick dust to fade away, to see the bruises he made from his body.

As soon as there was a hole transpired, Orlan crossed his arms. Since suddenly a young man who had long white silver hair appeared in front of him.

[Dash!]

[Physical transmission!]

In an instant, his left arm gleamed while swinging it directly in Orlan's face. However, his experience saved him from taking damage as he already his body in defensive style before his fist hit.

Boom!

Unexpectedly, even though Orlan blocked his attack. His was still sent far away from Grim, and the accumulated distance was around 15 meters.

He rolled many times and took some bruises on his body. So when the moment he regained his footing, the remaining time was one minute left.

"I'm the winner here, the damage I received it's nothing than he recei..." He couldn't complete his words seeing the green health bar over Grim's head was over 90% and while Orlan's HP was down to 85%

How did this happen? More likely, Yumiro used his rusty gauntlets to block all his attacks. Even some of it he missed, yet he already minimized the damage by just absorbing the force before its lands.

"Hey, Grim! I have a proposal, why we should add more than 20 minutes so we can battle until our HP turned into zero!" Orlan exclaimed.

Yumiro promptly sauntered closer to him, then snickered. "Why I should do that? I already win this one."

Orlan clicked his tongue. "I admitted, you're quite stronger. So none of us would be satisfied if you win just because you landed more damage." He stuttered.

Yumiro looking at him with lifeless red eyes. "I'm not competing who is the stronger among us. Since I'm playing how's this game works." He responded in a cold tone.

In his mind, the title of Chirla here was on the line. This means in the next one minute she probably will be free out of Orlan's hands.

'What the heck! I get careless.' Orlan was frustrated so he schemed for a new idea that popped inside his mind.

"If I were you, I should attack now. 5% gap with my health power is not that hard to reach." Yumiro said with a weak tone. 

Nevertheless, Orlan thinks this young man looking at him lowly. "Arrogant man, let's see you if can still talk after this."

[Guardian whip sealed!]

Then suddenly, his brown expanded with a couple of meters along with the golden gleaming light.

"?"

Yumiro wondered where this man aiming his attack as Orlan's whip went in a different direction. Then word from Chirla reminded his mind.

'Be careful he has full of hidden trick.' Those the exactly words he recalled.

To avoid the worst case-scenario, he leaped away within 20 meters from his current situation.

[Dash!]

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Everyone was astonished in the movememt Grim's made. Seeing him, they could tell he was not just an ordinary adventurers.

"That's so fast, huh, this why you want to watch this duel, Alison?" A man with wearing mask said.

"No, I just want to clarify something." Alison replied with a weak tone. "Don't mind, go ahead and back to our guild."

...

Clasp!

Then suddenly, Yumiro's eyes and mouth were widened. As he discovered he wasn't the one who aiming by that whip. Since it was actually aiming to Yuki.

His whip grabbed the waist of Yuki, and he forcefully tugged her closer to him. "Come over here, if you want accept my propasal then I will take this little girl." Orlan chuckled of desperation.

As soon as he grabbed Yuki, a young man glared in front him.

"What are you doing?! This is not in our rules!" Yumiro yelled, after seeing choked Yuki's neck.

"We don't have rule, the thing we have is just a bet." Orlan replied while showing the whip was getting tighter and tighter.

"Release her, if you don't want to get die." Yumiro said with furious eyes.

"Oh, I'm scared. Cut that crap! Let's have 20 minutes duel, and I'm going to release her." Orlan was optimistic that he could win since he thought he just lowered his guard the reason why he received high damage.

"Then, fine! I'll make sure you will regret this!" Yumiro cast his [Physical transmission] skill all over his body.