As Novis entered the ga lobby he was bombarded with a 100 friend request.
"What are all these?" he said.
Novis had only gone online once using the ID pendragon, it was hard for him to think of an explanation for this. After a while of thinking, one of Paul's lessons ca to mind. He had heard of sothing like this before. Were lower-ranked players would try to add better players in hopes they could team up and help them win gas.
It was a way for weak people to rank up higher on the ga. Novis ca to the conclusion that people must have seen Arthur get a gold rank on his first try, then tried to add him.
Novis wasn't interested in the online community of the ga. He never watched any matches outside of his lessons either.
The only thing Novis was concerned about was getting strong at the ga. He wanted to see how good he could get if he finally dedicated his mind to sothing like Lucas had. So Novis amazingly managed to avoid all news and talk of the ID pendragon at the ti.
Since it had been a couple of months since Pendragon had played, many people forgot about it. The fanfare died down and the search for the pro-Pendragon with it. The friend request was from the ti Novis had last played.
Novis found the notifications annoying and began to go through each of them one by one, declining them until he ca across one he recognised.
"Hey, Arthur do you rember this guy Realhastam?"
"Ah yes, the powerful spear user, has he asked for another match?"
"I don't know, he's asked to be our friend."
Novis thought about it for a while, Arthur had said the man was strong and had even lost the ga to him. It was impossible for this guy to be adding Arthur just for the sake of ranking up together. Novis accepted the invite in the hope that he could see another duel between the two. Before Novis didn't know much about fighting so he couldn't learn much. But now he had a basic understanding there was much he could learn from a fight between two strong opponents.
Hastam was currently relaxing on his bed reading a book. He had just finished a stream and was done playing VSW for the day. Suddenly, his phone chid. As Hastam picked up his phone he was surprised at the ssage he had received.
"Hey Xin, do you rember that swordsn you t a while back? He just accepted our friend request."
Xin Mao was an ancient spirit from china. One day Hastam went on a trip to China, he was visiting an ancient city that they had recently discovered underground. China had just opened it up for tourist to see and Hastam was one of Lucky first to win a trip to see it. Inside the temple lied an ancient red spear with a carving of a fla on the side. As Hastam got closer suddenly white mist started to surround him and when Hastam ca too, he could see the spirit known as Xin Mao.
Xin Mao had no clue why he had been summoned when he t Hastam, many people before him had co and seen the spear but there was no reaction. Hastam was the only person able to see the fla carving on the spear. Allowing Xin Mao to be summoned and enter Hastam body.
Xin thought for a while about what to do with the unknown warrior. Even though he won the match last ti he had lost the battle.
"Let's go online send him a party invite," Xin said.
Xin didn't want to fight Arthur just yet. He was hoping that by playing a few matches with him he would learn Arthur's sword skills and a way to beat him.
Novis then received the request for a party invite.
"What do you want to do?" Novis asked
"Let's do it."
They accepted the invite and the two of them entered a lobby together. Novis had now given control of his body to Arthur. But on the other side, Hastam was the one currently playing not Xin.
"Hey so why don't we play in a lane together lets both go bot," Hastam said.
The two of them didn't talk much, as they weren't really friends. They had only t twice and the last ti they had fought each other. The two of them entered a ga and went bottom together. Hastem picked the character, Xin Mao, while Arthur picked Dragonslayer.
Hastem would lead while Arthur acted as a supporting character, in between gas they would switch roles. The two of them won all of their gas and a couple of people began to recognise them.
"Hey isn't that the pro Hastam."
"Yeah, but who's he playing with, that guy is just as good."
As the two of them continued to play, Arthur began to notice sothing different about Hastem. His attack style and patterns were completely different from the last ti they had fought. Hastam was still very skilful but the style felt different. Unknown to Arthur, the was because Hastam was the one currently playing and not Xin Mao.
Hastam himself was also a very skilful player. Hastam was already a pro player before even eting Xin Mao. The two of them often switch places when fighting. This ti Xin had asked Hastam to play this way Xin could observe Arthur.
Arthur learnt a lot while playing with Hastam, Different tactics of the ga. The way opponents would usually act. It was a learning experience for Arthur. He even found out that there were healing supplies you could use at the base.
After five matches with each other Hastam eventually called it a day and went offline. Arthur and Novis too had called it a day and decided to go offline.
"So did you find out anything about him?" Hastam asked.
"No, the opponents were far too week, we need to wait for him to rank up before we try again."
Hastam smurf account and Arthur were currently ranked gold, this was a good rank for most of the population but nowhere near the levels of pro. Arthur would have to play several more matches before he would be able to face strong opponents.
As Novis was getting out of the capsule his bedroom door slamd open. It was Bill and he wouldn't stop fidgeting about.
"Hey, Novis! Have you seen they just announced a new warrior coming to VSW."
"Oh, that's good and all but did you really have the barge into my room like that."
"Sorry bro, it's just that the new character. He kind of looks like you."
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