Ashley
I feel the corner of my lips turning downwards ever so slightly as I read the message playing across my interface.
User 'Balrach D'T'chlo' has refused your challenge request.
You may no longer challenge him until you have won two more challenges.
And I don't seem to be getting any other challenges right now as another pair appears on the platform instead.
That's annoying.
Overall, this event seems to be based around a few things.
How fast you are at challenging someone or accepting a challenge, since only a single pair can be on the battlefield at a time.
How good you are at picking apart which competitor would make for a good enemy for you, assuming you aren't just strong enough to steamroll them all.
And how much stamina you have. Since there aren't any ways to recover outside of your own abilities between each match.
Although some people may have potions. Like me.
Most people won't waste them on an event that doesn't have the threat of permanent death though.
I put my hands in my jacket pockets as I watch the two people begin their fight, with one of them clearly being a mage and the other a warrior. Meanwhile I open up my Skill Trees to look at the Skill Tree I took from the guy I killed in the council meeting.
Which, if I'm being honest, was a major boon for me.
It may just be one of the strongest Skill Trees I've gotten so far.
The Skill Tree has about the same number of skills in it as the goliath's Skill Tree, which is a good number in and of itself, but more importantly, it has the first area of effect finisher skill I've gotten.
I focus on the new root skill I got.
{Frigid Tempest Call – Allows the user to summon forth a tempest of ice and wind using twenty-five percent of their mana. The more mana is used in the attack, the stronger the attack.}
It's a very powerful skill.
But from what I researched on the man himself through the internet, and his previous uses of the skill in public, it takes a while to charge up. Upwards of ten seconds. And there's no way to change how much it drains from you.
Although, I can't help but notice something about the skill that has the corner of my lips quirking upwards.
The skill is level 14.
So I really did just plain steal all of the work he put in to level it up.
"I told you ya would," Chaos says, returning from wherever he had been. "Sorry, sweetheart. I was at a meeting of the Primordials."
Hmm.
I continue watching the two on the battlefield finish up their duel. Then I immediately challenge another competitor who is a lower level than me.
User 'Rachel del Ral' has refused your challenge request.
You may no longer challenge her until you have won two more challenges.
Seriously?
Making them pierce straight into her back and begin mutating her.
Until she falls to the ground, dead.
Giving me the messages I'm looking for and making me teleport back to my platform.
{You have been granted 10 Skill Points for killing a user within the System Event.}
{You have slain a being while Assimilate is active. You have now unlocked the Skill Tree: Third Nature's Calling}
{You have unlocked a new Skill Tree, therefore the root skill of the Skill Tree, Nature's Wrath, is now unlocked for your usage.}
{Congratulations, you have now reached level 24. Your PHY and MEN have increased by 1 point, and your MAG by 2 points. Please choose where you wish your 1 Free Point to be allocated.}
I go ahead and allocate my points before finding an interesting message appearing in my vision.
{Congratulations! You have reached over 50 points in the MAG stat! From now on, you will have 5 more units of mana!}
So I go ahead and open my status.
Ashley Sinclair *
25/34 #
27/27 #
Level 24
46
PHY
45
MEN
51
MAG
Chaos Energy
24/29 #
Successor of Chaos
Nice.
Very nice, in fact.
I quickly try to challenge someone else, but I don't do it quickly enough as someone else ends up on the battlefield.
It's fine though. I'm currently winning.
No one else has won more than one battle already after all, and I've won three.
So I'm safe for now at least.
I still want more Skill Trees though, so I hope they hurry up this battle.