Is this really a Game?!

Reign and Wolf move together before splitting up and each going after their perspective opponents. Reign looks at the calm blue-colored hobgoblin while the latter smiles kindly at him and puts his hand on the sword at his waist.

Reign smiles back as lightning flickers around him, pointing his sword at the hobgoblin he swiftly draws it back and disappears as the usual trail of lightning was left in his wake.

Clang!

Two swords collide with a violent force and Reign widens his eyes in surprise that his combo of lightning charge and stab was actually blocked by the opponent who was forced to take a couple of steps back to stabilize himself from the force of the attack.

“Phew, that was dangerous human, my hands hurt a bit even though I managed to block that.” The hobgoblin surprisingly speaks while shaking his hands with the smile still plastered on his face. That was yet another surprise as the only monsters Reign heard talking were Greenie and Groll together with his shaman and captain. Miriam didn’t count as she was miles away in terms of power.

“You can talk?” Reign questions the hobgoblin as sounds of battle rang out around them, the others had also started fighting. The hobgoblin nods politely at Reign before asking him.

“Yes, what’s your name human?” The hobgoblin asks him before his face changes as he jumps a little bit. “So rude of me, to ask your name before introducing myself, please do excuse me, my name is Imris.” The hobgoblin bows at the end of the sentence while looking at Reign who takes a battle stance again.

“It’s Reign.” The very same second Reign tells his name he springs forward and attacks Imris who welcomes him with his sword, the two go toe to toe for a couple of rounds as Imris manages to block every single attack from Reign while not changing his expression at the least.

“So young Reign,” Imris swings his sword casually while fighting Reign. “Why did you come to this place, hmm?”

The image of his opponent not taking him seriously was becoming infuriating to Reign who couldn’t believe that a monster could have such skill with the sword.

“You’re becoming angry Mr. Reign, please do calm down, this battle will become much less interesting if you go crazy.” Imris calmly tells Reign as his eyes become a bit more serious, hiding great ferocity behind his calm demeanor.

With a flick of the wrist, Imris deflects Reign’s sword and stabs at him, prompting Reign to hit the side of the blade with the back of his gloves, striking it with the iron that was embedded there.

“Good reaction, again!” Imris smiles weirdly before attacking again, the katana slicing through the air from the right. Reign swings his sword in an attempt to meet the attack head-on. Something incredible happens at that moment, the blade that was coming to him changes direction, the whole sword plunges down and scrapes the ground, prompting sparks to appear.

Imris was no longer standing, his body was in the air as he was able to somehow jump and redirect the force of his attack completely. He spins while airborne and makes a whole circle before coming down at Reign’s head with enough force to cut him in half.

Reign was stunned for a second before he uses lighting body for a moment, allowing his body to turn to the side immediately and let the blade pass by without harming him, Reign stabs forward at the now vulnerable Imris.

As his arm starts straightening for the stab he widens his eyes at Imris whose cheeks were swollen up. Imris opens his mouth a bit and spits out a highly condensed ball of wind, Reign had already anticipated something like that and had luckily changed his stab into a slash. The sword hits the air bullet and manages to cut through it, dissipating it into a wind that blows Reign’s hair up.

“Very good, it seems you have some interesting skills after all, but beware,” Imris applauds Reign and commends him for the short bout they just had before his smile disappears and a stern look appears on his face, twisting his lips upwards he gives a ferocious smile to Reign as he says. “I will be fighting you seriously now.”

Imris’s arm shoots upwards as he launches a wind blade from his sword, the blade travels swiftly towards Reign who dodges it, not sure whether it would be a good idea to try and block it.

“That was the correct action.” A whisper was heard from the side as Imris had already closed the distance between them, his speed was way above Reign’s expectation as he didn’t move so fast previously.

Clang, Rip!

Imris slashes downwards with his sword, aiming at the area between Reign’s neck and shoulder. Reign manages to bring his sword up and block the attack, but the quick reaction didn’t allow him to get into a good position for blocking and his sword was pressed down immediately. As Imris’s sword touches the armor it gets jerked back violently and rips apart the leather, cutting open Reign’s skin.

The wound bleeds right away and Reign pants a bit, the wound wasn’t deep nor serious, but it was the fact that Imris was still playing around that made Reign worried, the opponent was strong, incredibly strong.

(How is he an ELITE?!) Reign screams in his mind while looking warily at Imris, an opponent of such caliber was definitely not someone that was only an elite in power, his speed, strength, reflexes and proficiency with the sword were above those.

“I know you can see some of my status with those eyes of yours Reign.” Imris looks over at Reign who was calming himself down.

“You should know one thing about the system.” Imris takes a step forward. “It’s not omnipotent and there are many ways of tricking your opponent into thinking you are weaker.”

Imris snaps his fingers and Reign sees the status from the system changing.

[ Imris of the three Divas ]

Lvl : ?

Race: ?

Strength: ?

Agility:?

Endurance: ?

Vitality: ?

Willpower: ?

Spirit : ?

Reign’s eyes widen in horror as he looks at the status screen, his whole body was on full alert mode when looking over at Imris now.

“Why, why are you here?” Reign puts his sword in front of him and gets ready to use everything he has to fight him, victory was impossible but he might be able to damage the opponent enough for the others to defeat afterward.

“Oh?” Imris raises a brow at Reign’s behavior. “You are willing to fight me even after seeing my status, that truly is commendable.”

Imris’s figure disappears while Reign quickly slashes behind him, only to find his sword caught in the hands of Imris. The hands holding the sword were like a pair of steel pincers that would never release the target, even after Reign used all of his power it would still not budge for even a bit.

“Relax, I’m not here to kill you or your teammates, just call this a surprising inspection.” Imris smiles at Reign as he releases the sword from his grasp, Reign almost falls over as the momentum from pulling the sword throws him backward.

“I need to go now, I have already broken a couple of the system’s rules.” Imris moves away from Reign and slashes at the air, opening a pitch-black passage through the space. An identical figure walks out from it while in trance.

“This is your real opponent, and don’t worry, he’s a bit weakened by me as you might not be able to quickly defeat him after what just happened.” Imris calmly smiles at Reign and steps into the passage while waving to Reign. “See you later!”

Reign tries to go after him but gets stopped by the real Elite hobgoblin in front of him. The hobgoblin looked exactly the same as Imris, well to be more exact it was Imris that looked the same as he was the one to use the identity.

With the katana the hobgoblin slashes and stabs at Reign, giving his all to wound him. He was fast, but compared to Imris he was simply like a little kid that still hasn’t trained the basics fully.

Reign fights his new opponent unwillingly as he was now worried if the others were in a similar situation or not.