The Adventurer System

• [Asarki's party] stones collected 1 total of 2.

Grim easily defeated the adventurers located in the northern part of the forest.

Zing!

After he took their transparent blue stone. The party he defeated vanished from his sights as it was one of the rules.

"It's a lot easier than I expected." He muttered, then took a glance at the woman sitting on the thick branch tree. "How long do you want to sit there, huh? Our ranking stones are way farther than the number one party."

Swoosh!

Her hair was uplifted while gently falling to the ground. "Just slow your pace, so I wouldn't overuse my physical strength." She explained along with admired eyes. As it was the first time she could see that kind of move.

Attacking the vital points was one of the modifications to the Adventurer System 2.0. In order to enlarge the damage and determine the weak spot of a certain creature.

"Why are looking at me like that? There's something wrong with my face?" Grim said, then gently rubbed his face.

Asarki whirled around, to hide her blushing face. As she realised the more she was looking the more she wanted to not remove this man standing in front of her.

"No, let's keep moving. The two parties are still battling with each other." At this point, she decided to take the lead in their plan. So Grim wouldn't pass her.

Since they were going to the different sides of the forest. The meters between them vastly increased.

Swoosh!

It took 10 minutes before they reached the place. "That's my full speed. I apologize if you find my pacing slow." She said while having heavily breathing.

"No, that's fine." In his mind, this was the first time he run inside the forest without bothering that someone would take his virtual life. At the same time, he was thinking about where were the monsters located in this place.

"Asarki, when did you use your zexel do you find any monsters existed in our fighting place?" He asked and looked around. He was still seeing the tall trees and high spiky bushes.

She gradually nodded her head at him. "Yes, but I decided to avoid them, so they couldn't slow down our movements."

He slightly raised his brows, as now he understood why they taking so long passing inside the forest. "Is that so... Good job."

Asarki didn't know how she was going to respond to him. Since this type of scene was unusual for her. "Y-Yes."

They were hiding behind the thick tree, seeing assortment of magic skill and hearing sound their sharp weapons slashing the air.

"What we should do, join the fight? Or wait them to finish?" She said with a weak tone, also observing them how much power output they could release. However based on what she saw, none of them had the ability to stop Grim from attacking.

"You already know the right answer, Asarki." Grim said in a serious tone.

"Wait for them to finish, and attack them when they're exhausted from the fight?" Asarki suggested as it was the best plan to do in this circumstance.

Yumiro slowly shook his head. "Wrong answer, Asarki, we should engage them right now because we had no idea how long this game would last."

Well, his answer was reasonable. On top of that, Asarki wasn't in the right position to disagree so she just raised her shoulders as she agreed to him.

She took her magic staff, then raised a bit above her head. "Don't move, Grim, to assure your win let me buff you with my new skill."

Grim stopped from his attempt. "Just do it quickly."

[Grace!]

And all of a sudden, a golden light occurred on her magic staff. She then utilized the power directly to her party member.

[Grace] skill could help to increase your physical defense by eleven percent and plus forty magical defense. At the same time, this skill had a purification effect that lessen the stunning duration and any skill that had a knockback effect.

Grim quickly felt the changes after he received the buff spell. "Hmm... This is the skill you mentioned? It's quite useful."

Swoosh!

Even though Grim started to move. It seemed like, none of the ten adventurers could notice him. So he used this big opening to knock them down at once.

"This is a game, I will not give any mercy to everyone."

[Piercing Cobra!]

Swish! Swish! Swish!

His left hand that forming like a king cobra, pierced everyone's napes and vital points. It was enough reason to couldn't move their body.

Who are you?!

How dare you to do this to us?!

The masked guy!

We will help you to get the other stones, just let us to continue to participate in this game! Please spare us!

These were the mixed emotions of the two parties lying on the ground in just blink of an eyes. Also, knowing if the masked guy took their stones, they were immediately eliminated from the match.

"Better luck next time!"

He took their stones, and went back to Asarki's location. He looked at the sky to see the stones ranking. "As expected it's hard to catch up with their stones. Since the number of stones they had is increasing every minute. I should do it faster?" He asked himself, but eventually shook his head. "Just continue what I'm doing and handle them later."

[Zexel on!]

Asarki voluntarily activated her zexel. To find adventurers that were closer to their area. "600 meters in the west, there's a war happening there within the four parties."

Swoosh!

After she spit these words, she went to the west part of the forest. As she saw Grim looked wouldn't holding back.

Ring... Ring... Ring...

While dashing in the amid. She received a call from Hippie by using the system function. She accepted the called as she thought there was something bad happen to their current base. "What is your problem, Hippie? Why call us in the time like this."

After the mini screen appeared next to her. She discovered Hippie was sitting the wet surface and hearing the water drops.

"No, I just feel boring here." Hippie responded and added. "What happen to our plan? Do you have already collected a stone?"

She deeply sighed and replied. "We already collect three stones. Also, don't bother us in the meantime and inform us if there's something there."

Hippie found it her words suspiciously, so questioned her before she ended the call. "Why, Asarki? You have look in a hurry."

"That's true, Hippie. Because me and Grim are heading to the clash of four parties that gathered in the same place."

Hippie inhaled with an uneasy expression as she was also eager to use her new sword. "I hope, I'm there."

Yumiro heard her, so he moved closer to Asarki. "Just listen what we said. Since if it just both of us would hunt the other adventurers it will eat a lot of time." He explained because it was a problem for him if no one guided him in this place.

Hippie shook her hand at the camera. "I understand, Grim." She replied, then pushed himself into a stood-up position. "Okay, I'll just check the area if there's something suspicious.

Brr... Brr... Brr...

The called dropped, then two of them started to focusing to their path. As they were perceived of their attacks were taking the place.

"We are almost here, Grim, be ready!"

In front of them were high bushes the stopped to see adventurers behind it. So she that chance to give him more buff.

[Grace!]

[Feather!]

Two consecutive buff skill she cast to help her party member to win from this match. "Now, Grim, attack them. If you succeed we will take the number ten spots."

[Speed star dash!]

Her eyelids were widened after seeing Grim's clones leaving from his behind. "What the heck? A clone? How he possibly acquired a skill like this." She said while continuing to catch with Grim's speed. As behind this, there were forty adventurers battling around.

Swoosh!

She slashed the bushes to perfectly saw the scene, at the same time, hearing a solid sound falling to the ground one by one. And as soon as she entered, she stopped from her flashy pace, shocked at the scene she witnessed.

Total of 34 adventurers were lying on the ground. The other six looked vanished before Asarki and Grim arrived at the place.

"G-Grim are you insane? How did you knock down these adventurers in just a short of time."

• 13 [Asarki party] stones collected 8

She thought they will gain the number ten spot, but the thing happened differently. As their opponents were also stolen stones.

Grim snickered, then looked to the right side, noticing occuring creatures under the solid earth. "Stop asking me, Asarki, there's a monster approaching in our location." He warned her.

The ground was slowly having numerous as the monster looked inhibated beneath. Then suddenly, the earth was scattered all over the place.

"Sh*t! Why there's a red gigantic centipede here?!"