Legends Rise 33 The Tokyo Boars! Pt. 1

"Hey, captain, landing in the north west was definitely a good idea huh," Akiza, the Tokyo Boar's Status Mage and vice-captain, celebrated, "We were able to fight against a lot of people!"

"Yeah but those were low-quality fights," Yuumi, the Tokyo Boar's Cleric, lamented, "Despite our captain being a Samurai Berserker, we never got to see his dual sword techniques."
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"Yeah, he only used punches this whole time huh..." Chika, the Tokyo Boar's second Samurai Berserker, agreed, "Hopefully Hiroki comes back soon, I'm getting bored waiting around.

Hiroki, the Tokyo Boar's a.s.sa.s.sin, had gone ahead to scout the ghost town and lure in unsuspecting players and parties. He utilized a Full Stealth a.s.sa.s.sin build with skills such as the Thief's skill [Stealth], the Thief's skill [Shunpo], the a.s.sa.s.sin's skill [Shadow Sneak], and the a.s.sa.s.sin's ultimate skill [Malevolent Blade from the Shadows].

Normally, he would start matches off with [Stealth] to move around the arenas silently and choose an area to lurk in, which would normally be an area predesignated by the captain. [Stealth] had a long cooldown period of a minute and fifteen seconds, but would keep the player fully stealthed for an entire minute.

If no players showed up by then, he would use [Shadow Sneak] to sink into the shadow of a structure to lurk even more. Just like with [Stealth], [Shadow Sneak] also possessed a long cooldown of a minute and fifteen seconds, but this skill would be refreshed if the player scored a kill.

By then, his team would chase at least one enemy towards him. As soon as the main target that had been predesignated by the team got within his range, he would activate [Shunpo] and strike that target in the vitals. He had put all his stats into strength and critical strike damage, meaning that a strike in the vitals would increase his damage by 800%. However, this also left him quite vulnerable to counter strikes and counter magic.

If his team was doing their job right by applying as much pressure while chasing them, the enemies would have no time to expect his ambush. If the target is still alive at this point, Hiroki would use [Malevolent Blade from the Shadows] to strike the vitals again.

[Malevolent Blade from the Shadows] was an a.s.sa.s.sin's ultimate ability, which would generate a shadow clone for every critical strike landed in the past 2 seconds. The Shadow Clones would then stab the target for the same damage dealt during that critical strike that generated each respective shadow clone. While that was going on, the player would be stealthed.

Normally, [Malevolent Blade from the Shadows] was used after the skill [Violent Strikes] which would buff the player's attacking speed by 1000% and guarantee a critical strike each time, but the player would take 1000% damage after Violent Strikes was over. By using [Malevolent Blade from the Shadows], the player would be able to wait until the debuff was over to continue combat.

But the way Hiroki used the ability was akin to using it as an execution ability. Even if a target could tank the first strike, they most definitely couldn't survive the follow-up [Malevolent Blade from the Shadows].

However, in this Battle Royale setting, the Tokyo Boars had used Hiroki's stealth ability as more of a scouting role. After spotting an enemy, Hiroki would expend his damage combo on their weakest member, and proceed to run away using [Malevolent Blade from the Shadows]'s stealth. He would always leave their mage alive so that they could always trace him with their trinkets.

Hiroki would lead them straight into the ambush that the Tokyo Boars had laid out to have his team finish off the now uneven fight.

This time, however, Hiroki had been away for longer than 3 minutes. The last round of the battle royale event had a time limit of 15 minutes. Hiroki could only maintain his stealth for a maximum of 3 minutes, but if he used the terrain properly, he would last longer.

Then suddenly,

"Sh*t! Hiroki got eliminated!" Yuumi exclaimed. She was keeping her eye on the kill feed so she could alert her team on when to expect Hiroki to start returning. However, to the surprise of her team, Hiroki got eliminated by Team 7's Player 5. Hiroki had just watched Team 1's Player 2 and Player 5 take out team 14's remaining two players at the expense of putting both of Team 1's health at below 10% each.

Hiroki had eliminated one of them, before the kill feed showed Team 7's Player 5 eliminating Hiroki and Team 1's Player 2.

"What?" Kou was surprised. Eliminating a pro player was difficult, even if the pro player wasn't trying his best. He lamented, "He must have gotten careless."

*** A few moments Earlier ***

Li Ming was extremely excited. He was currently spectating an a.s.sa.s.sin who was spectating a battle between two parties. The two parties appeared to have two player each. However, it wasn't the prospect of getting to target the a.s.sa.s.sin that was planning to flank the survivor of the two parties, but that the a.s.sa.s.sin was 'SwordBreaker', played by Hiroki from the Tokyo Boars!

Suddenly, the a.s.sa.s.sin used [Shunpo] to appear behind the mage that had just finished off the enemy's swordsman! The Mage instantly fell, and the a.s.sa.s.sin followed up with [Malevolent Blade from the Shadows] on the Paladin Knight.

Just as Li Ming expected, the a.s.sa.s.sin had perfectly timed the [Shunpo] to the death of the swordsman. This would be when the Mage and the Paladin Knight would lower their guards slightly. Unfortunately, Li Ming had plans of his own.

He used [Shunpo] to follow the a.s.sa.s.sin. As soon as the a.s.sa.s.sin had used [Malevolent Blade from the Shadows], Li Ming stabbed his spear through the a.s.sa.s.sin and struck the Paladin Knight. Because his spear struck the Paladin Knight before the shadow from [Malevolent Blade from the Shadows] did, Li Ming scored the kill on the Paladin Knight.

Not only that, but because Li Ming had struck the a.s.sa.s.sin right when the stealth would have activated, the a.s.sa.s.sin couldn't enter stealth. Li Ming, not wanting to give his ident.i.ty away yet, placed his foot on the a.s.sa.s.sin's back and pressed the a.s.sa.s.sin straight down into the ground.

"Well well well, if it isn't 'SwordBreaker' from the Tokyo Boars!" Li Ming said as he steadily held his spear firmly in the a.s.sa.s.sin's back, which slowly dropped the a.s.sa.s.sin's health over time, "Tell me, Hiroki, are the rest of the Tokyo Boars here?"

'Sh*t!' Hiroki panicked. This was the first time someone had countered him this well. Had this been a regular match, the a.s.sa.s.sin that was targeting him would have prevented him from executing the a.s.sa.s.sin's ally. But this a.s.sa.s.sin was using a spear, which was a weapon that was uncommon for stealth cla.s.ses. How had this player managed to sneak up on him if he wasn't an a.s.sa.s.sin though? There was even a lower chance that the player was playing a Thief would only use daggers and knives.

Hiroki struggled to turn his head around to catch a glimpse of the player that had bested him. Unfortunately his face was met with the sole of a boot that pushed his entire head into the dusty cobblestone road.

"Well, since you're going to get eliminated here anyways, why don't you just tell me?" Li Ming teased.

"Nope, it's just me." Hiroki lied straight through his teeth, "I'm in a party with my friends from back in highschool. Congrats to you, I guess you've won this battle royale since you've taken the great me out."

"Sure have." Li Ming smiled as he pulled his spear out of Hiroki's back. He then kicked the a.s.sa.s.sin over so that the a.s.sa.s.sin could have a good look at him and his emblem. As he stabbed the spear right into the a.s.sa.s.sin's neck, Li Ming commented, "Don't you know you're known as a sore loser? Thanks for letting me know that the rest of the Tokyo Boars are here."

The last thing Hiroki saw before being turned into a cloud of pixels was the emblem of the Phoenix on Li Ming's white, red, and gold armor.