Chapter 7: Cursed
"An epic curse, damn it," Auron cursed. "How can I get inflicted by this curse?"
"Ha, ha, ha. You only have 25% of your health left. Let's finish all of this," While Auron daze in thought, Darius laughed loudly and started to attack Auron.
Auron reflexively moved to the side. He succeeded in dodge the attack. However, he still thinking about the epic curse. So, instead of counter-attacking, he walked away from Darius and made some distance.
"Don't you run away! What a shame, the number 1 player, is running away so miserably! You don't deserve the title. Let me take that title today!" Darius mocked Auron and started charging toward Auron.
"Damn this curse! Looking at my attribute right now, I still have a 70% chance to win this match. However, in the next 10 secs, my chance of win reduced to 60%. Another next 10 secs and it will go down to 50%. Another 10 secs, and it will be almost impossible for me to win this match," Auron calculated in his mind.
"I need to finish this before 30 secs mark," Auron made up his mind. He started to attack aggressively. Auron attacked Darius like a madman possessed him. Auron swung his sword, whether the sword connected or blocked by Darius, he immediately moved circled Darius and launched another attack.
This strategy succeeded. Auron managed to reduce another 9% of Darius' health, but he also left with 12% health.
"He is so defensive before. Why he attacks aggressively right now?" Darius, shocked by this sudden change. "He tried to finish me quick. He must have a reason to fight this aggressively. I need to prolong this battle," Darius enlightened. He started to move defensively. "Whoa.. why are you so aggressive. Be calm, please. Do you need to take a pee?" Darius taunted Auron.
It had been 20 secs, Auron felt more pressured. He used his movement skills and charged recklessly toward Darius.
Darius did not stand idle; he swung his ax. Auron tried his best to dodge the attack. However, because of the cursed, even after using his movement skill, his speed significantly reduced. He couldn't avoid it in time and got hit by the ax. Auron flew back and crashed on the ground. He only had a sliver of health left.
"I lost," Auron had given up. "Where I got the curse?" Auron still didn't know where he got the curse from. "And it is even an epic curse. Wait... epic curse, I only consumed an epic buff potion. Both of them are epic items. [Joker's Trick]!!" Auron suddenly enlightened.
[Joker's Trick] was an item used to change an item's description and appearance. It could change an item's description and appearance of the same grade for 24 hours. After the item replaced, the player could not identify it unless they used an identification skill or waited for the item's duration went off. When Two Worlds began, It was a trendy item to trick another player. A player used it to change the item into something mighty and sold it with a high price to another player. Although they couldn't change the item grade, many players still got tricked. Just imagined, A common low-level equipment could be transformed into another common gear with an attack the same as uncommon equipment or even higher than that. Because of this, many people filed a complaint to Black Sheep, the company behind Two Worlds.
Finally, in the second year, the company give an updated to all player. They provide all players an identification skill as soon as they create a new character. Although it had been updated, some players still got deceived. However, slowly but surely, with the help of many newbie's guide in the forum, only a careless player got fooled by this trick. When Two Worlds entered the fifth year, almost none of the players got tricked. Because of this, the [Joker's Trick]'s popularity went down. Some people still used this trick, but on below rare grade equipment, since the one who could afford bought an epic item or higher must have played the game for a long time, which made them couldn't fall to this trick.
"Why am I so careless" Auron mocked his carelessness.
"Ha, ha, ha. Prepare to lose!" Darius charged to Auron. Auron just laid on the ground and not tried to dodge the attack.
A few seconds later, "Darius win the match. Since Auron has lost, he has 3 days to fulfill his obligation as the loser, or he will suffer a severe penalty," The NPC officer declared.
Because this was just an arena fight, after the battle, the player's health will wholly healed. However, instead of got up, Auron just laid on the ground and lost in his thought. "Who put that potion there? Is there any spy in the elite's team?"
"Wait... Cold Candle is the one who's hinting me that there is a good potion among the pile, she is also the one who brought the pile over. She also knows that with the potion, I can win against Darius easily." Auron suddenly got up, he looked back to the crowd behind him.
Auron saw a crowd of his guild member feeling dejected. They all lowered their head, even there was some member who cried. In the middle of the group, a woman with a white robe elegantly stood. She wore a calm expression as if she had known the outcome of this battle before the battle even began. Seeing Auron gazed her, she mocked him by making a shocked expression and then smiled evilly.
"Damn, that woman," Auron felt furious he wanted to charge toward her. But before he could do it, a hand grabbed his shoulder. "Ha, ha, ha. You have lost. Even after using an epic buff potion, you still lose," Darius laughed mockingly to Auron. Behind him, all of his guild members laughed out loud.
"This guy... he must have worked together with Cold Candle. If not, how can the timing so precise. F*** this guy! F*** Cold Candle!" Auron gazed furiously at Darius and gritted his teeth.
"Hey, ranked number 2 player, why don't you kneel before me the ranked no 1. Oh wait, he will not be ranked number 2 anymore since he will delete his character." Darius continuously mocked Auron. "Enjoy your 3 days, don't forget to delete your character. Actually, I don't care whether you delete your character or not since you will suffer a severe penalty if not." Darius laughed loudly and went back with his guild member out of the arena.
"Wow, this is such a breaking news."
"I can't believe God Of Sword lose"
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Many of the media broadcasting started to move back to their headquarter quickly to make headline news.
In the end, only Auron and his dejected guild member left behind in the arena.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone