Chapter 1097: Immune To Cheats
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BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Several explosions happened, engulfing Planta on deadly flames. The audience gasped, many of them shocked. Some of them laughing at her misfortune, while other seemed genuinely concerned.
“W-What?! Planta already got hit too?!”
“No way…”
“Hahaha! Happens because she lowered her guard and thinks she’s smarter and better than others!”
“Dumb bitch, she thinks she’s so special! Well deserved!”
“Yeah I hate her so much man, fuck her. She thinks she’s special because she’s a woman or something?”
“Bitches like her should go back to the kitchen!!! Hahahaha!””
“Yeah, right? Hahaha- UGH?!”
Some of the audience was going too far though, and they were unlucky to be all Players, because her daughter was lurking around, her blade slicing their throats before they could continue talking nonsense.
SLASH!
Their heads rolled, their entire bodies fell, and then their remains turned into pixels and disappeared. Elena sheathed her blade, looking around.
“Whoever makes fun of Planta again will have the same fate. Mind your words.”
The Players were shocked, even the NPC too!
It was all well known that PVP couldn’t be forcefully triggered like this, both parties had to agree.
But Elena was different, her Special Title granted her the ability to start a PVP battle with anybody, nobody was protected, not even NPC.
But that also made her non-protected either, the thing is, nobody would ever dare attack her anyways.
“S-She killed them without a request for PVP?!”
“N-No way…”
“So the rumors were true, DarkReaper has a title that let’s her start PVP without requests?!”
“Shit…”
Many of the audience remained in silence. The NPC did nothing because Players getting killed all the time was common. They could revive after a couple of hours, so it was not a problem, and they often did not interfere on affairs between Players.
“You think she fell for that? Look closely.”
Elena walked back to her seat as she said those words, Arthur by her side smiled, looking at the Arena. The rest of her group, including her friends and also Acorn and Nieve nodded as well.
“There’s no way Lady Planta would fall for that!” Acorn said.
“Indeed, my liege is strong. Foolish tricks do not work.” Nieve nodded.
As the smoke spread around the arena, the people watched in silence, waiting to see what was of Planta. Some cocky people still dared to defy Elena’s words.
“Hah! As if! I recognize she had some skill, but she got blasted with ten bombs in the face, she’s done for,” Jackinston said.
“Hmm, indeed. Isn’t this good news though? Now Melisa has some chance!” smiled Teressa, clapping.
“Do you want your heads sliced too?” Elena groaned.
Before she stepped out, Anna grabbed her and pulled her back into her seat.
“Calm down! You can’t just go around killing people like this, sit down and relax,” Anna sighed. “Let your mom prove them wrong.”
“Hahh… Okay,” Elena calmed down, glancing down. “Mom…”
As the people watched attentively, the trio of Forgery Brothers laughed.
“Hahaha! Well deserved!”
“That plant woman was too cocky after all.”
“She needed to be put on her place.”
Ambil was furious, glaring at them while tightening his hammer.
“You damn fu-”
However, before he could say anything, Mark’s large, wooden hands covered his mouth.
“Don’t insult them, it’s against the rules.”
“Hm?! Hmm…”
Ambil calmed down and sighed.
Mark seemed oddly confident.
“But she got-”
“She’s fine.”
“Huh?”
The smoke dissipated, showing Elayne completely unscathed, her equipment, everything was completely fine. She was smiling, continuing her work, the flames covered something else though, a near-transparent green and gold barrier, glistening with rainbow sparkles.
The announcer was going insane.
“W-What is this?! I just can’t believe it! Planta is fine after being blasted by ten bombs out of nowhere! Is this the true power of this rising star?!”
And it wasn’t a weak barrier either, it was a combination of her Spirit Magic Barrier, combined with her Telekinesis Barriers, and further enhanced by her Barrier Master Title Effects.
It was always conjured around her, and it would let only those she allowed to get closer to her.
Naturally, attacks like these would never harm her.
“W-Wha…?!”
“How strong is that barrier?”
“No, that’s impossible… The spell used was-”
“Hmm? Would you mind telling the audience what you’re discussing right now, young men?” the referee quickly walked towards them.
Admitting an indirect attack would also count as a direct attack, and if enough evidence of the culprit was showed to the public, they could also be disqualified!
“N-Nothing!”
The Forgery Brothers quickly went back to work.
And about Planta?
She had just finished her sword.
“And done! Heheh, it looks pretty nice, I am quite proud of it.”
The sword’s design was quite simple, it was a bronze sword with a bronze color, imbued with a red stone in the hilt and several runic inscriptions of red color.
It emanated a powerful Elemental and Spiritual Aura that made even the other old masters participating put their eyes into that weapon.
“Interesting…”
The black cloaked person smiled, their hands overflowing with dark powers, as even their smithy’s fire was blackened. Their sword was also finished, the metal had gained a black color, and the red stones were all merged into a single eye-shaped jewel, giving the sword a macabre appearance.
“Not bad, huh… Spirit Power into Smithing, and those techniques… She knows of the old master’s ways.”
A dwarf with a red beard and long crimson hair, and fiery orange eyes, with a fiery, spiritual aura smiled. His sword was also similar to Planta but imbued with even more firepower.
“My oh my! Isn’t that interesting, you guys?”
A brownie woman with short blonde hair and sharp blue eyes giggled. Her golden hammer emanated an aura that created many little golden creatures, which helped her finish her sword, that had become completely gold-colored, and regal in appearance.
“Not bad…”
And then there was a tall draconic man, with red scales over his body, sharp claws, horns, and wings, with long black hair and golden eyes, he glanced at Planta’s sword with a smirk.
His blade was decorated with draconic appearance, and he even had used his own blood and scales, which weren’t against the rules.
Ambil and Mark quickly continued working after seeing Planta finish, and after some time, there was only 60 seconds before the hour of the test were to end.
“The first trial time is about to come to an end! All participants please bring the sword that represents you or your group to the testers!”
Ambil, Titan, and Planta were looking at the four swords they made.
“Definitely Planta, her sword is the best! I went too much for aesthetics with mine, haha. But I think it looks cool.”
Mark’s sword was much larger than the mold provided, and it was made for heavy fighting warriors, with a large blade.
“Hmm, mine is pretty close, but hers… I suppose the apprentice has finally surpassed the master, eh? And very quickly at that! Yeah, Planta should show her sword.”
Ambil’s sword looked incredibly good yet simply, barely not as good as Planta, as his had no spirit power.
The fourth sword was another that Ambil made, almost identical, but he added more fire stones.
“Well, why don’t we do this then? {Synthesis}”
“Huh?!”
“Wha…?!”
Ambil and Titan gasped, as Planta combined all swords together!
FLAAASH!
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