Chapter 14 - Captain Zark

"You have levelled up."

The fight was over and in the forest, there remained 3 players. Sato started to loot up the Demons that were lying on the ground.

"Halt Player." A voice rose from Sato's backdrop. "These Demons that you see on the ground were partly killed by my team. I hope you will take into consideration of this for we are part of the Triple Threat Guild."

The cocky survivor spoke out and wanted to scare Sato. The Triple Threat guild was the 20th placed guild in ROL. They are notorious for abusing their power to get what they want in the game. However, he had unfortunately bumped into Sato, who actually doesn't care much about human guilds anymore. In his eyes, they were simply just preys.

"Whitie, go ahead." With Sato's command, the Tiger activated Wind's Wrath as the sharp wind blades started cutting through the skin of the two guild members. As they got lower, Sato instant killed them.

"You will regret this!" Was the last words that the man spoke. Sato started allocating his new found stat points. Every time you level up, you will be able to distribute 5 stat points to any attribute (Strength, Agility, Intelligence and Stamina). Deciding that his stamina is still not high enough, Sato added the majority of his stat points into strength and the rest into Agility. He was confident in his reaction time.

*Name : Dawnlore

*Lv6 : 50 / 1000

*Race : Elf

*Job Class : Elven Assassin

*Strength : 30 (+30)

*Agility : 20 (+80)

*Intelligence : 10 (+0)

*Stamina : 10 (+40)

*Health : 500 / 500

*Mana : 100 / 100

*Active Skills:

Dagger Throw

Advanced Stealth

Blink

Assassinate

*Passive Skills:

Night Hunter

Breath Of The Wild

Tamer Skill (Beginner)

Wind Runner

Bounty Hunter

Backstab

*Pets:

Whitie (Roaring Wind Tiger)

*Equipments:

Leather Shoulder Plate - Gives 5 Armour to character (can block 5 physical damage)

Sato went forward to pet the tiger's head. He leaped onto it's back and left towards the waterfall. He was prepared to fight the boss alone. The worse case scenario was just death afterall.

Sato and Whitie stood on the periphery of the water. They waited. A man with twin horns left walked out of the waterfall. He was half-naked, his chest filled with numerous green tatoos. He looked intimidating.

*Zark the Demon (Weakened by the Poison of the Great Sage)

*Lv50

*HP: 800 / 800

*Mana: 400 / 400

*Active Skill:

???

*Zark had it's stats weakened by 50% due to the poison that circulated in his body for a long time.

"You have killed my underlings havent you?" Zark enunciated his words clearly. His eyes emanated a terrifying aura. This Demon was a Lv50 elite in a Lv10 beginner village. How was this even fair?

"I'll take the silence as a yes." The aura surrounding Zark thickened and expanded. It felt like death was approaching Sato and Whitie. "You shall now pay for your actions!"

Zark leaped out as he ignited both his fists into two flaming balls and smashed downwards at Sato.

"Leap away, Whitie!" The tiger immediately reacted, jumping backwards into the trees. Zark relentlessly chased after them and eventually caught up. "Split up!"

The master and pet disassembled and dodged in two different directions. Zark's fist had slammed into an Ironwood tree and immediately disintegrated it into nothing. He was terrifyingly strong.

What would have happened to me if that had landed, thought Sato. He wielded both of his blades as he used Dagger Throw. It had barely scrapped his skin. Zark had the passive skill "Stone Skin" that reduced any physical damage by 50%. He was basically a Demonic tank.

Realising that it did nothing, Sato went into stealth, while Whitie went into hiding. He needed a plan.

What was a Demon's weakness? It was it's horns. When a Demon's horns were destroyed or cut off, it's powers tend to start dissipate over time. I have to destroy it somehow! That was Sato's final plan. It was all or nothing.

Looking for an angle to strike, Sato jumped from tree to tree, searching for the most optimum sneak attack route. Zark on the otherhand, was rampantly destroying the trees, in search of the young man.

"Where are you, you little shit?! Come out and face me like a true warrior!" Zark shouted. The Demon eventually reached a wide grass plain. It was now or never. He had to make use of the tree to propel himself onto him, before brawling it out on the plains.

Sato activated Blink as he appeared directly behind Zark. He used Assassinate for the extra damage. In addition to the Backstab critical damage, Sato manage to slice off both of his horns before somersaulting backwards. It was a clean and precise attack.

"Arghhhhhh." Zark screamed in pain and anger as he spun himself around, trying to hit Sato. But to no avail, Sato's reflexes were too good and had managed to barely sidestep all of the attacks. "I will use all my strength for this one final attack! You must follow me down to hell!"

Zarks hand started charging up a giant flaming ball. It was his "Flamestrike" that could instantly kill anyone character below Lv40. It was powerful.

"Whitie!" Sato now called out his pet that was stealthily approaching Zark from behind. The owner and pet had formed a telepathic bond and now could communicate through thought. Whitie jumped on top of Zark as it pushed him towards the ground. He was about to combust his own self.

"Noooo! I have not gotten my revenge!!" Zark blew up in Sato's periphery.

"You have leveled up."

He had ended the Demon's revenge in a clean and simple manner that resulted in him losing 0 health. If anyone had saw this, they would have thought that this feat is impossible. It was very hard to even sidestep an enemies attacks, but to do it without taking a single damage, that was insane.

Sato started looting up the combusted body, to which he attained "The Necklace Of Sorrows"

*The Necklace Of Sorrows

*Character gains 10 strength, but loses 5 stamina

This equipment was perfect on Sato, for he did not actually need much health as he was basically a god at dodging attacks. He immediately equiped it on himself, bringing him up to two equipments that brought him additional stats.