[VRMMO] Dead One

"HELLO AND WELCOME EVERYBODY!" – shouted Ande as she stood on top of the podium located in the colosseum lobby map.

"It is the time!"

"It is the day!"

"It is here!"

"The long-awaited event has finally come!"

"The finals of the second event will now commence!"

"Only two teams are now remaining, and these very two teams will now be fighting between themselves! Trying to claim the crown of this tournament!"

"The first contestant is one of the most well-known teams in the game."

"Their team is part of the guild that currently have the biggest amount of the influence in the world of fantasy and not only that, but their team consist of the players of the players that had managed to make their way to the finals during the last tournament AND they also have player that had managed to obtain the title of the "strongest" from last tournament!"

"Welcome with the applause!"

"The 'monsters of present'!"

"Purple Hyena guild!" – shouted Ande as the Purple Hyena team teleported onto the podium.

"And now, for the team that had managed to squash everything and everybody in their path!"

"A team that many people wonder if they will be the next "strongest" with their current firepower!"

"The 'monsters from unknown'!"

"The Drowned team!" – shouted commentator Ande as the Drowned team got teleported to the podium.

"These two teams of 'monsters' will now be competing against each other to claim the first place and show here and now, who the real 'monsters' are!"

"But first things first!"

"Purple Hyena. Drowned."

"Do any of you have anything to say before the match starts?"

"…"

"Nah." – said ClownFrog.

"Same here." – said Mug.

"…"

"Eh?"

"You sure you don't want to say or talk about anything?" – asked Ande.

"Nope. I would rather not bother with that kind of talk." – said Mug.

"Yeb. It's pointless trash talk now like idiots…. It's better if we just murder each other and see how it goes." – said ClownFrog.

"…"

"Okay…..Welp, you heard it, folks." – said Ande as she backed away from the pair.

"With that small introduction over, shall we start the "shuffle" you had been waiting for?" – said Ande as she snapped her fingers and the maps started getting shuffled.

*Snap*

Ande snapped her fingers again, resulting in the shaffle phase ending, and with one map being shot out.

"And here it is!"

"The map where the final battle will take place!"

"And the map name is….."

"City of war!"

"A settlement type of battlefield where the entire city is the playground!"

"The rules?"

"The same as before!"

"There will be no such thing as the closing border!"

"Nor is there anything like a time limit or capture the object!"

"The only way to win this is to completely wipe out the entire opposing team!"

"Not a single player can remain on the opposing team if you wish to win!"

"Fight with respect or without mercy! Nobody cares what method you use as long as you win!"

"That is all!"

"And without further ado, let's start the long-awaited finals!"

"The final match of the final round that will decide the winners!" – shouted Ande as she snapped her fingers, and both teams started being slowly teleported.

"Good luck, have fun." – said Ande before moments later, every single player was teleported to the battle area map.

[The preparation phase has started.]

"…Huh… Is it just me, or does this city look the same way the lobby does?" – asked Oron while looking around.

"…Yea…. This is exactly the same thing! But I don't see anywhere any of those giant ass towers." – said Rampage.

"…. But I do see the colosseum there" – said Rampage while pointing at the colosseum at a distance."

"So…. What do we do?"

"With the plan, no matter what map." – said ClownFrog.

"Heh… Okey Dokey." – replied Rampage with a smile.

[Both teams had announced their ready status.]

[The match will be starting.]

[10]

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[6]

[5]

[4]

[3]

[2]

[1]

[FIGHT!]

As soon as the bell rang, the Drowned team went on the offensive and instantly started running.

But on the other hand, the Purple Hyena team instead had started summoning their monsters, quickly filling up the area around them with their armies.

However, this also made them easily noticeable as the Drowned team, who were running through the city, didn't have a hard time spotting the ever-growing army of monsters on the horizon.

"!?"

"Damn. They are not even hiding it at all!" – said Dance as she lifted up her brush, only to then, in hurry, swing her brush and create an arm made out of rocks that took on a burning bolt that blew up, hitting Dance and pushing her away.

"…"

(Huh. Her reaction was somewhat scary….) – thought Oron, who was hiding, and then fired another bolt that was blocked by the Paintjob but barely.

"!"

(There!) – though Dance before starting to paint.

"Free painting! Brutal saw of heat!" – Paintjob created a giant saw blade and launched it towards the buildings, hitting and flying straight up right through them, resulting in the buildings getting completely cut in half that were hit by Dance saw.

"…"

However, right after the saw destroyed the buildings, another crossbow bolt flew towards Dance, this time from a completely different direction that was nowhere near the spot where Dance saw flied through.

Dance tried raising up her guard, but she didn't have time.

This time, the bolt would hit her.

…

"!?"

Or so Oron had thought as a giant, muscular Merfolk with a ginormous shield suddenly appeared and used his shield as well as water magic to block the attack.

"…"

(This bolt had defense-piercing effect.) – though Oron.

(I've also activated multiple skills on top of it….. As expected.)

(These guys were hiding their power.)

"!"

Dance suddenly jumped above the shielded and swinged her brush, creating a giant whale made out of water that flew towards and then crushed on top of them, crushing them.

"…Did you get him?" – asked the shielded.

"Nah. No way that had killed him."

"…. If anything, we should be more worried about THOSE things!" – said Dance as she spotted a giant army of the monsters coming the group's way.

"…You know…. When they were on our side, it was "cool" and stuff… But now that we are facing it…. Yeah…. This is "scary"." – said the shielded.

"Let me!" – shouted Mug, who suddenly appeared and rushed ahead while wielding his trident.

"[Mad Sea: Tsunami]!" – Mug manifested a giant tsunami that confronted the undeads, crushing on top of them and then taking away some of the undeads away.

"…"

"!?"

"Eh?!"

However, unlike Wretch undeads, a lot of ClownFrog monsters were able to survive the tsunami and not get swallowed by it.

"I fucking told you that it won't work on this bastard!" – shouted Dance.

"This bastard- "

"!?"

"ABOVE!" – shouted Dance, causing the entire group to look up and spot the ClownFrog flying in the air, while emitting necrotic fire from his mouth.

"!?"

"New Drawing! Sheep Of The Lord!"

In panic and hurry Dance drew an painting using 3 different paints while ClownFrog fired his breath attack, raining down a ginormous blast of the necrotic fire that hit the ground and instantly spread everywhere, hitting the buildings, rotting and melting them.

"…"

The fire stopped and the smoke settled down, revealing a giant white sheep-like barrier that had crumbled upon receiving an attack.

"For fuck sake, dude! A big ass attack like that from the get go?" – shouted Dance.

(Dammit! If it wasn't for the Oliver {shielder} putting up his own barriers, we would have gotten hit directly.) – though Dance while looking around and noticing the destruction caused by the ClownFrog's breath attack.

"!?"

However, when Dance was distracted alongside everybody, the army of monsters began running towards the group once more, but it was no longer only from behind. The two alleyways from the sides had also started pouring out undeads.

"!"

"[Bone Barrier]!" – ClownFrog suddenly deployed a barrier of bones, protecting himself from the bullet surrounded by the water that blew up on the impact.

"!?"

(Sniper?!) – though surprised, ClownFrog.

(They had one?)

(But I didn't saw even a single of them carrying around a gun…. Bastards. They were hiding it.)

"…"

(I can't detect them. I detect the attack since it was magic-based, but I can't detect the user anywhere.)

"!"

"[Flesh Wall]!" - ClownFrog deployed a wall of flesh in the air, blocking a hail of the daggers made out of mist and earth that tore through parts of the flesh wall, but didn't managed to land an single hit on the ClownFrog himself.

"Damn. I thought I would have gotten you." – said Dance as she flew up in the air.

"Sorry, but I kind of got used to being a target for assassination." – said ClownFrog.

"Yeah, I can imagine that." – said Dance.

"…"

"Anyway."

"Rematch?"

"Rematch." – replied ClownFrog.

"You better not have been slacking off, Paintjob."

"Same to you, Dead One." – replied Dance.

"…."

"Huh. I guess they're going to have a little duel, eh?" – said Mug while standing on top of the corpse of the slain undeads.

"Yeb." – said the voice from behind, alarming Mug, who raised up his guard, only to get then sent flying and crushing against the wall.

"…"

"So… She is dealing with the number 1." – said Mug as he got up.

"And I'm dealing with the number 2?"

"You guessed it right." – said GreyHunt, who was now standing on top of the corpse.

"No hard feelings, but I need you to be eliminated."