'He took them all down… without even shooting multiple arrows simultaneously! I did my best to lock him out of options, but he destroyed them all!' Last Coin thought as he was forced to shift his plans after this failure.
Jake was supposed to be wounded, at least a little.
Yet, he defended himself so well against the rain of rocks.
Seeing sothing like that at such an early level was unbelievable.
How could he even learn this?
What kind of a monster taught him the basics of sothing so difficult?
'Damn! He's attacking!' Last Coin jolted back to his senses as he noticed Jake stuffing another thunder arrow onto his bowstring.
He could tell that from the flow of mana around Jake. It was such an odd flow, too, as Jake took mana from a source on his right arm to the arrow.
Last Coin was intrigued by that, but he couldn't let his curiosity take over him.
'I will take a page from your book, Archer!' Last Coin shouted.
When the arrow darted at him, Last Coin used another basic skill—a mana step.
He teleported.
That said, he went against the norms of mages and appeared beside Jake.
'It's one versus one. We can't fight like we normally do since we're both strong,' Last Coin said as he extended his hand toward Jake's face.
Before Jake could have jumped away, Last Coin detonated his Gust Of Wind.
The pressure was so imnse that Jake had been swatted away like a fly.
He bounced off the ground a few tis before landing.
He was battered from head to toe.
As the ga system's ssages popped on Jake's retina, the cloudless skies were taken over by a snaking lightning bolt. He dismissed all ssages and prepared to face the second attack from his opponent.
Using the force of inertia and gravity, the lightning bolt dropped like a dragon.
The rain pelted Jake as well.
'He's using water to strengthen the lightning bolt, right?' Jake thought as he turned his bow into two twin short swords.
He elongated their blades through [Expand/Shrink].
Jake crossed the blades before his chest and waited for the impact.
BANG!
Jake montarily lost his focus as the lightning bolt barreled into him. He'd given up on his swords' handles for a second before clenching his teeth and enduring the imnse pain going through him.
He didn't even bother checking how many health points he lost.
Which was because Last Coin wasn't done.
The lightning elent had crushed Jake deeper into the arena. It caused rocks to blow up around him, which Last Coin snatched through his wind magic and accelerated to pepper Jake with.
He was so simple and basic, but this simplicity was what turned him so powerful.
Jake felt like thousands of pebbles had hurt him from top to bottom. He was riddled with bruises.
He coughed up a mouthful of blood.
'He's… burying …' Jake thought. 'If I only had released arrows before using Odin's arrows… I was too hasty, but it doesn't matter now.'
As Last Coin's skill heavily weighed on Jake, he appeared beside him and pinned him down to the crater with his wind magic. He used the second skill simultaneously, erecting a wall from beneath.
The wall threatened to close on Jake like a coffin's lid.
"Isn't it about ti you used your strengthening skill?" Last Coin asked. "And why are you still laughing so much? Is this your coping chanism?"
"Haha," Jake laughed. "I'm laughing because you and magic are amazing."
"You… you don't hate magic?" Last Coin asked.
"Why would I? Idiot. It's amazing… and makes want to harness it even more through archery! You're also aweso… I like how strong you are! You make stronger. You inspire !" Jake shouted.
In that mont, Last Coin saw his monotone life.
A particular mont in middle school was like a trauma to him.
[Leave that loner alone. He's a nerd. Nerd, I tell ye. He's just playing gas and nothing more. Our teacher asked him what high school he wanted to go to, and he said he had no clue! Then she asked him what he wanted to do in life and he said he wanted to play gas!
Haha! He's so dull! I know sothing better. He isn't even the best in this MOBA ga that he's been grinding for years! Soone else has snatched the top one and never dropped from that rank! He's a loser through and through!]
'Though a few players and The Instructor Randal told that I'm talented, I thought I'm this strong because of the ti I put into honing my skills… that anyone could be like because those are just basic skills…' Last Coin thought. 'But no one has ever told that I'm aweso with such a genuine smile…'
Last Coin said with a bright, confident voice, "I really want to win against you."
The coffin's lid collapsed.
BANG!
It was over.
No one could survive such an assault of magic. It was perfectly executed, too.
The crowd cheered while Archer's fans sighed with disappointnt. It would have been so much better if Jake had won against Last Coin! He'd really make a na for himself!
Alas, he lost.
Last Coin started at the ground.
He was overwheld by emotions that he'd never thought would appear here.
That was when an arrow whistled and lodged itself in his right chest.
Last Coin opened his eyes wide.
The crowd gasped into silence.
'He's alive?' Last Coin thought as he mantled himself in his mana barrier. An unknown sense of joy wrapped around his heart as the battle wasn't over. 'I don't know how he survived that! He must have hidden an arrow to teleport, right? He really waited until the last mont with this one! So patient!'
He kept smiling.
'He should be behind the leftovers of my earth walls. I'll expose you, Archer!' Last Coin shouted with newly found passion, pride, and rivalry.
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