Chapter 329 – Tournament – Part 23.
{{Some time ago.}}
"Okay. This is all? All of them?" – asked Diamond while kicking off the body off the player into the canyon.
"Yeb boss. All 8 of them are dead." – said Barge.
"Man. I though these guys would be SOME challenge, but this was pathetic as fuck!"
"I guess these guys had really fallen off grace as an Esport team."
"Well, times are changing and these guys were about keyboards and mouse, pretty much we all were, so why the hell do you think that everybody who were good with those will be good in here?" – said Diamond.
(We lost only 1 scout when he was ambushed, but when it came down to the head on fight, we pretty much destroyed them one sidedly.)
(We did suited some damage, but nothing too scary….. Still, that message regarding the Wanderer guild defeat is worrying.)
(Only Magnus went there and he destroyed them? All on his own?)
(….)
(If these guys were on our left, while the Wanderer were on the right…. Then that means that the Helmet team is right next to them.)
(….)
(Hm…..)
"Barge."
"The area next to the Fast Food team is Helmet team territory."
"If so, then take 6 of our team and go between them."
"Don't fight directly and instead aim for their flag."
"If one of them had stolen the flag, the try and take it away from them and bring them to our base."
"You two, we will be going to the Scorpion Snake team and steal their flag, we will also need to hold the two remaining members of their team in place in order for us to take the flag and get the buff. We need the buff at all cost if we want to win this."
"If we secure two flags, our victory will be assured."
[Back to the present.]
"Hey, how about you hand me over that flag?" – asked Barge while aiming with her at the Hunter alongside multiple players who were wielding miniguns created by the Phantasia and wore the special made mechanical armor.
"…."
(FUCK!) – though Thanatos.
(Why the hell are they here?! And why are they attacking me HERE?! This is an open space fucking field!)
(I already used all of my escape skills as well as all of my shadows skills.)
"…"
"Fine!" – shouted Hunter as she raised up the flag.
"YOU CAN FUCKING HAVE IT!"
"???" – the Blue Diamond guild players were confused, but were also wary.
"HERE!" – shouted Hunter as she threw the flag in the distance towards the forest, distracting the Blue Diamond players for the moment as they gazed at the flying flag.
But Barge quickly looked back towards Hunter and saw an slash of blood coming her way, making her to jump up in the air, dodging the attack, before then counter attacking with gun fire as the Hunter tried running away.
However, moments later the minigun users began firing the barrage of bullets towards Hunter, forcing her to deploy an barrier of blood to block the attack….
"!?"
But the barrier couldn't handle the continues barrage of multiple miniguns, resulting in the barrier shattering, causing Hunter to get hit by countless bullets.
(DAMMIT! HE WASN'T KIDDING WHEN HE SAID HE MADE THEM STRONG?!) – though Hunter before then panicking away after sustaining a lot of damage.
However, none of the Blue Diamond team members even wanted to gave her an chance and continue firing nonstop with their guns, forcing Hunter to run around while using any defensive skills she had… But it wasn't enough as more and more damage was pilling up, causing her health to reach critical level.
However, this wasn't the only problem as the Barge rushed towards the flag, trying to claim it, alarming Hunter.
"!?"
But in that very moment, right next to the assassin, the air began cracking, before moments later it was shattered as the assassin from the Fast Food team leaped out of the crack, alarming Barge who only now noticed assassin rushing at her.
"!"
Barge tried defending herself, but the assassin was way faster and he used [Earth Impalement], impaling Barge on the earth spear that emerged from the ground and lifting her off the ground and then fallowed up with the assassin rushing in, trying to decapitate Barge.
"!?"
However, the assassin was forced to retreat as an barrage of magic bullets flew at him, making assassin leap away, dodging the attacks and making the bullets demolish the earth spear, freeing Barge.
"…"
An three sided battle between 3 different teams.
However, Blue Diamond team had an clear advantage in the situation, since not only they had number advantage and the fact that both of the other sides were already exhausted.
And in the middle of them all, the flag stood still.
"Fire." - said Barge, ordering the behemoth gunman's to fire with their miniguns at both of the assassins that started running around, trying to dodge the bullets.
The assassin and Hunter used their earth/blood magic to counter attack, hitting the heavy gunman's…. But even after getting hit directly, they still stood like nothing had happened.
(Oh, for fuck sake dude!) – though annoyed Thanatos before then starting to run away as the bullets chased her.
While both of the players were distracted by the gunman's non stop fire, Barge rushed in and this time claimed the flag, before then starting to run away, alarming both Hunter and assassin.
Assassin player rushed through the bullets while using skill [Ninjutsu: Clone], creating an clones that distracted the players who didn't know who was the real one.
The assassin clones were shot one by one, but they didn't managed to get assassin in time as he run past them and aimed for the Barge who was already running away with the flag.
However, as the assassin was about to reach Barge, an wave of fire came his way, hitting the assassin who could not dodge the attack and end up getting send flying.
"Hey! The fun is here buddy!" – shouted the behemoth armor wearing player who has way bigger and different equipment than other players.
[Cheese Hands]
Cheese Hands aimed with his flame thrower, unleashing an large blast of fire that made assassin run away in order to dodge the attacks, keeping him away from the Barge who kept on running.
Hunter was occupied by the machine gun users while the assassin was occupied by the Cheese Hands flame thrower, giving Barge time to easily and safely run away and head towards her base.
However, as she was running, an cat eared girl popped out of nowhere and almost stabbed Barge in the face, only to then get pushed back as Barge fired with her gun, hitting the cat girl.
"!"
(SHIT! IF I WASN'T READY FOR THE AMBUSH I WOULD HAD DIED JUST NOW!) – though Barge as the cat girl in front of her stood up.
"Tch."
(Well, now I know why he was panicking.) – though Coin before then rushing in towards the Barge who let go of the flag and took out her second gun.
"[Bullet Hail]!"
Barge began firing an hail of bullets towards Coin, hitting her….
"?!"
Only for the Coin body to suddenly turn into the log and next moment Coin leaping at the Barge from above slashing her.
Coin had also the same [Ninja] class that the assassin had.
Barge tried firing her guns at the Coin, but she used [Ninjutsu: Smoke Bomb], covering the area right around the two with smoke, before moments later Barge fired with her guns, only to hit the smoke.
"Tch."
Barge looked around while being on the high alert, waiting for the Coin to show herself up.
"!"
Barge fired with her gun, headshoting Coin right in the head and killing her….
"?!"
But then she saw multiple Coins leaping at her, trying to attack her.
"[Kill Fire]." – Barge fired an barrage of bullets with her gun, tearing to shreds Coin copies and killing them all.
But after killing all of the copies, another smoke bomb burseted out, alarming Barge who then started running away.
"?!"
(Plague?!) – though Barge as she found out by checking her status that she was inflicted with the plague effect, alarming her as she run as fast as possible, trying to get out of the cloud of diseases.
Barge managed to run out of the cloud, but as soon as she did, she turned around, ready to fire with her guns.
"…"
But the Coin wasn't making an move, alarming Barge even more…..Before then she realized something.
"?!"
(WAIT?! WAS SHE AIMING FOR THE FLAG?!)
Yeb, she was, Coin had picked up the flag and was now running at full speed towards the base the forest.
However, as she run, bullets started flying past her, with even some of the bullets hitting her, making Coin look behind herself as see Barge already chasing her.
Coin ran straight towards the forest, re-entering her own team territory while the bullets continue to fly by.
However, as soon as the Coin entered the forest, an tsunami of mist flew Barge, alarming her as moments later the mist surrounded her.
"!"
(Mist! That means-)
"!"
Barge was forced to use her guns as an shield, blocking the spear that almost impaled her, resulting in the Barge getting pushed back.
"Sorry."
"But you are dealing with me now, buddy." – said Mara.