[VRMMO] Dead One

"…"

(Can't really say that this hurt.) – thought Mug.

[Item – Equipment: Leviathan Lord Chest Plate]

[Rarity: Legendary]

[Item Skill – Treasure Of The Sea Lord: Bounty]

[Passive]

[Automatically actives when the users suffers set amount of their max HP.]

[Upon activation, provide the user with powerful HP regeneration buff for few seconds.]

[Cooldown: 72 hours]

(5 spells… That is definitely new.) – thought Mug.

(If it wasn't for my armor and skills providing me with regeneration buff, I would probably end up in shambles.)

[You have been afflicted with {Curse} status from [March Of Cursed King].]

[Skill: [Sea Bounty] tried purging the negative.]

[Failure.]

[Skil: [Berserker Blood] tried purging the negative.]

[Failure.]

[Skill: [Warrior Stand] tried purging the negative.]

[Failure.]

"…"

[Status: Cursed]

[Decrees all the user stats by 10% and any of their self-recovery power by 10%]

(I can't get rid of this thing…. Must be strong freaking curse.) – thought Mug.

"…"

The two men stared at each other.

One on the ground.

While the other in the sky.

"…"

(How do I kill him?) – thought Mug and Doom as both men did not dared to make any move.

(He has teleportation skills?! But maybe it was his only one! But he definitely has some other ways of catching up to me!) – thought Doom.

(I can get to him… But he maybe expecting this…. Should I go all out? But what if he ends up using [Blink] or other instant teleportation skills? He already shown me his [Space Mage] class.) – thought Mug.

(Should I start off with bombardment now? But what if I need to cast a big spell to keep him at bay?) – thought Doom.

(Undeads…. He can use them to slow me down…. But not keep me in place.) – thought Mug.

(Should I summon the 10 swords and use them on him?) – thought Doom.

(NO! I can't sent them at him! I NEED THEM TO PROTECT ME!)

(He probably has some other nasty attacks or undeads in store…. Should I bait him out or force him to use these all?) – thought Mug.

(I could try focusing on cursing him…. I can see…. No! The curse of the [March Of Cursed King] is a top tier curse!) – thought Doom.

(He already somewhat got rid of [Curse Of Hundred Grudges] which was only bit weaker than it.)

(But he can't have many powerful cleansing skills or items too!)

(At one point he will run out of them and my curses will stack up at the rapid rate.)

"…"

(But the problem is that I won't be able to hold him off in the meantime.) - thought Doom as he looked around, noticing that his initial undead army took some heavy losses from the start.

(They won't hold him back.)

(Undeads…. I need to play it safe and summon undead!)

The first one to make the move was Doom, who instantly began raising more undeads to his side in order to entrap Mug's movement.

"[Fishing Hunt: Dolphin]." – and in response to that, Mug threw his fishing hook into the air, manifesting water around which then took a form of a dolphin that swam through the skies.

The creature of water swum towards the lich, while dragging along Mug by the fishing rod line.

"!"

(Fast movement skill!? Shit! He is coming too fast!) – thought alarmed Mug who instantly realized that Mug was about to reach him.

"[Death By Betrayal: 10 Swords]!" – Doom in a moment of panic, unleashed his ultimate, summoning fourth a group of 10 swordmen.

A group of 10 swordmen from different races, each undead that looked almost alive, if it wasn't for their dead looking skin and eyes.

….But as they were manifested, they instantly started falling down, straight towards the sky climbing Mug.

Mug was able to manipulate his dolphin to move around, dodging both goblin and dwarven swordmen that just fall down past him.

"!"

But the orc swordman who he thought he had dodged, ended up instead grabbing onto the man foot, before moments later the katana wielding kobold dropped down, slashing the dolphin creature in half, destroying Mug's skill.

After that, the female elven warrior with her two long swords swung her blades at Mug, who just easily knocked away the elf with his trident, before then shaking off the orc.

"…"

"Ah." – and instantly, Mug started falling down.

"[Water Jet]!" – Mug tried recovering by launching himself with his skill, unleashing a blast of water behind himself.

However, he had to deal with 5 remaining swordmen that dropped down.

The human swordman with short one-handed sword and demonoid with a great sword fell down next.

"OH, PISS OFF!" – however, with just one hand, Mug was able to counter attack both of their attacks with his trident, knocking away two opponents to the side.

But as he dealt with them, a third one came, an angeloid with rapier that instantly stabbed Mug's chest, landing a solid blow, which also ended up stopping the man in place and getting rid of his [Water Jet] skill.

"Tch! I SAID PISS OFF!" – shouted Mug in anger as stabbed the angeloid right in the guts with his trident, before then just throwing aside the angeloid.

But again, he wasn't given a moment of peace, as all 2 remaining swordmen, the fang edged blade wielding lizardman and cat beastman wielding whip sword attacked at the same time.

However, Mug fishhook in a form of the swordfish made out of water had ram into the side of the lizardman, before then then hitting using them as a weapon against the beastman, using one foe to hit another, before then launching them away.

"!"

(The fuck!?) – however, right as Mug got rid of all the swordmen, he quickly realized something.

Doom was nowhere near him.

"[Sea Ride]!" – Mug manifested a small torrent of water around his legs, which grabbed the hold of them and straight up kept the man right in the middle of the air.

(Where is he? Did he teleported?) – thought Mug as he instantly started looking around, trying to find the missing lich… But not spotting him anywhere in the skies.

"!"

(WAIT!)

Mug quickly realized what was going on and turned around… But as he did, he saw a barrage of bones and ghosts coming straight up him, before then making a contact and blowing the man up.

"…"

"Tch. Even this isn't enough?" – said Doom who was now on the ground and summoning more undeads to his side.

"!"

[Tsunami]

As the lich was in the middle of calling fourth more undeads to his side, the Atlantian suddenly fired off the [Tsunami] midair, straight up turning the attack into downpour of water.

Doom instantly started flying away alongside his undeads, trying to avoid the area where the massive wave of water was about to fall down.

(Its distraction!) – thought Doom as he looked upwards, trying to spot the atlantian…. Only to then realize that now HE was nowhere in sight.

In panic, Doom instantly fired off his detection skills, trying to locate Mug…. And right as the massive amount of water was about to hit the ground… He detected Mug's presence.

It was inside of the water.

And right before it even touched a ground and Doom was about to look in its direction, Mug who was covered from the head to toes in water suddenly appeared right next lich.

"[Sea Trident: Saw Shark]!" – Mug thrusted his trident forward, striking one of the liches three heads and instantly shattering it.

Doom tried counter attacking with his magic, but as soon as he even dared to move, Mug fallowed up with [Sea Trident: Tide], unleashing a powerful hammer a hammer like attack from his trident, which shattered Mug's second skull from the side.

"[ARCANE CANNON MAX]!" – Mug tried going for the third head, but this time Doom was able to launch his attack, unleashing a beam of pure arcane energy that hit the atlantian at the point-blank range, which sent the man flying through the battlefield while also colliding with many undeads on his way.

"…."

(Dammit! He took down both of the skulls?!) – thought alarmed Doom.

(Those things aren't only for vision and looks!)

(I freaking need them to cast additional spells!)

(Did he knew it!?)

(No! He couldn't possibly knew!)

"…"

"And I kind of guess why are you bloody alive…" – said nervous Doom.

"For fuck sake."

"Why the hell everybody is using a god damned berserker build!?"

"Well, you can't deny that it ain't good." – said Mug as a burst of water erupted, sending the waves of undeads around him flying or just straight up destroying them.

"I mean, at this point every single warrior bastard out there has it."

"Since it does gives quiet strong buff to the physical power as well survivability."

"….By the way… Is it me or are you…. Bit slower?" – asked Mug a question, which instantly filled Doom with a feeling of dread.

"Why are you no longer casting 3 spells at the same time?"

"Is it by any chance exhausting?"

"Or is it some form of a skill that has a limit?"

"Either way."

"It seems you are running out of the tricks, right?"

"So how about I finish this up."