First Blood

A/N: A/N: When describing Klaus' character, I will use he/him since Klaus directs. I would appreciate it if you let me know if there is any mistake.

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It was clear why Klaus was puzzled. The graphics and designs were perfect!

First of all, it was most appropriate to start from the arena that the sound said. Although it was called an arena, there were three corridors and a forest between the corridors, as can be seen in a typical MOBA. But the designs were overly realistic and fascinating.

He was still at his base. But even the design of the base was impressive. First of all, it was most appropriate to start from the Nexus, which is the most important point of the game. Although the design normally used for the Nexus was crystals, the giant here was a white statue that sat on its throne. The eyes of the statue shone with a vividly yellow light. Even though it was a game, Klaus had a sense of respect when he looked at the man sitting on his throne.

In front of the throne were two armored statues holding shields in their hands. Looking at these statues, one could easily think that they were holy knights sworn to protect. Maybe it was. Klaus didn't know.

While these were fascinating enough, there was a beautiful statue of an angel with his hands open to each other at the main base, the point where he was born. It was as if he was praying for the resurrection of the players. This was the base tower.

These were the details that caught his eye when he first saw them. As if this wasn't enough when these were too realistic to be a game, the characters were also extremely well designed.

Since Moba games are played in the form of cameras from above, the effects would attract more attention no matter how good the designs were. Nevertheless, the designs here were like the image he saw directly on the selection screen, and could look at it with a direct bird's eye.

It should not be forgotten that the character design and the in-game design would not be the same in any MOBA game. But that wasn't the case in this game! It almost crushed common sense.

When he saw that such a realistic MOBA was made, Klaus couldn't help but think for himself. What madman had thought of that?

As he slowly recovered from his astonishment, he habitually picked up the mouse. In the meantime, as he saw, he was not the only one. There were four Bots with him. Klaus, of course, was not surprised. After all, the game had to be taught to someone who didn't know it in some way.

But as expected, the game did not show where it was. On the contrary, after the barrier, which had been stopped for five seconds after he was born, was removed, he was stuck at the top as the Bots went to their corridors.

Klaus was surprised but went straight to the empty hallway. The empty corridor was mid. When he looked carefully at the mini-map, he saw two Bots go to the lower corridor, one to the upper corridor, and the other was in front of the creature known as "Blue" in each game. The Bot would turn the jungle!

Klaus' tongue was held. Could they make such an advanced artificial intelligence? How much could it help even if they did it pleasantly?

Although Klaus had question marks in his mind, he shook his head and threw himself into the game. Instead of going straight away like bots, he looked at his stats and then his ability descriptions. It was important to know what his character was powered by.

The attack damage was physical damage caused by a character. As the character's attack damage increased, the damage of his straight hits would increase, and his attack damage-based abilities would naturally deal more damage.

His ability power was the magic damage he inflicted on a character. As the same physical similarly increased, the damage would increase. However, this increase would be based on the skill strength ratio supported by the character. Naturally, their ability-power-based abilities could do a lot more damage.

When he looked at their stat, he saw that his skill strength was zero, but his attack power was sixty-six. The attack range was the size of a melee fighter.

When he looked at his abilities, the explanations were very strange. The character was ranting about his own story, but the explanation for the gameplay wasn't given properly.

Still, when he took the mouse away, he realized that one of his abilities could be thrown with a short range. From his short-term inference, he thought it was powered by the power of ability. This character's third ability was [Ice Shot].

The other ability, as he understood from the description, was creating a small space around him, and those in the area were slowing down to a certain extent. Although this rate was quite low at first, it could be increased because it was powered by ability. That second skill was [Ice Prison].

The last ability he looked at was the first ability in terms of ranking. It was a skill powered by its offensive power, which was called [Glacier Bites]. Perhaps this was the most clearly explained ability. After the character made two straight hits to the same enemy, this ability would be triggered in the third. When triggered, it would deal sixty physical damages, and for 0.75 seconds the opponent would freeze. Of course, since the physical damage portion was powered by thirty percent attack power, it would increase when the attack power contracted. In the freezing part, Klaus thought it was fixation.

Fixation was the restriction of a character's ability to move.

Of course, what they read here was information at its current level. As the level of the character increased and the abilities increased, naturally, the statistics of the abilities would also strengthen.

After thoroughly studying the abilities, he decided that it would be most appropriate to turn on [Ice Shot] for the beginning. If someone with a range came out, he could buy a petite from a distance. If he came closer, he would stand back and poke from afar.

After he got this done, he opened the market. When he accidentally clicked on the angel, he found that the market had opened.

When he clicked on the grocery store, two suggestions appeared in front of him. The first was a starting item that gave off attack damage, called [Shiny Sword]. The second was an ability power starting item called [Shiny Hat]. Of course, there were also two health potions given along with the two starting items.

Klaus put his hand on his chin and thought about the statistics for a brief moment. The AD item could be purchased. But the AP could also be purchased. Slowing it down in the field could have been very effective. After thinking for a moment, he made up his mind for [Shiny Hat].

After taking the hat and the two potions, he began to walk his character straight down the hallway. Although what was described here seemed quite long, it happened in just thirty seconds.

As he made his way down the hallway, the pure white background at the top was replaced by a surface that slowly began to be infected by the dark.

The character took turns passing in front of two towers. The design of the towers was the same as the design of the towers in front of the Nexus. So he hadn't paid much attention. But when he crossed the third tower and reached the middle of the corridor, Klaus was filled with uneasiness.

Although it was an ordinary game, he felt that there was a threat ahead, as if he were alive. So he walked his character back to the friendly tower at the front. Then he waited.

He glanced at the timer in the upper corner and saw that there were seconds left before the minions arrived.

He tried to relax, as it was a normal mode of training. But he couldn't relax when he saw the thick smoke screen ahead. On the contrary, he adopted a serious expression.

Meanwhile, the minions finally began to appear. Although they were called Minion, they were small soldiers.

The Minions, which could be called Warrior Minions, looked like an infantryman armed with a spear and shields. The feel of his designs was really like a warrior going to war.

The Wizard Minions, on the other hand, looked like mini-wizards holding small wands in their hands. Their small white beard attracted attention, and their presence exuded a mystical air.

As the Minions moved rapidly, their advance illuminated the eerie darkness of the road. As darkness grew brighter, the minions came across, and in the end, they collided. The minions coming from the opposite side were the exact opposite color to Klaus' minions.

Seeing this, Klaus smiled. At least it wasn't a surprising group of monsters like before. He breathed a sigh of relief and gave the order to cut his character off rival minions.

Meanwhile, his rival appeared. That was Ayano, whom he didn't prefer. Just like his own character, he was instantly able to understand it as it was projected there.

Ayano seemed to be doing it back and forth, waiting for the minions to die. Klaus was surprised. She was playing as if she were a player in front of him.

Although he was surprised, he took a serious attitude. Klaus ordered the character to wait for the same way.

But by the time he said that he had already missed a minion.

While the white warrior minions went further, the sorcerer minions were throwing spell attacks from behind. The black sorcerer and warrior minions also fought back, but Klaus' failed action overwhelmed the white minion group.

When their lives fell to the point where they could be pointed to with the tip of the finger, both the Ayano and the character of Klaus slaughtered the minions. But Klaus was in a bit of a hurry, so his minions began to move towards Ayano's tower.

Fortunately, Ayano was not a player, but a bot. It would have been better if he had allowed it to come normally. But he stood in front of the minions, blocking the movement at the cost of damage.

Klaus took advantage of the opportunity [Ice Shot]. The ability proceeded like a kind of ice thorn and hit Ayano. Combined with the repeated damage of the Minions, she had lost a fifth of his life.

On top of that, Ayano used an unexpected ability and restored half of the life she lost!

"Hah... A healer huh? How troublesome..."

Klaus sighed. Sorcerers with the ability to heal power could be very frustrating.

So he decided to do damage all the time until she exhausted the Mana. In some characters, it would take a certain Mana as a usage fee. He understood that Ayano was a character who needed Mana from the blue line she saw under the life bar.

Luckily, his character didn't need Mana. The shortage of his character was the ability time.

By this time, time passed. They cleared the three waves. Klaus was much more careful than the first time. Therefore, due to the uncertainty about the character's damage, each wave lost two or three minions but closed the gap with Ayano.

Klaus' character continued to nudge Ayano until he was sure that his Mana was exhausted.

Of course, Ayano's artificial intelligence wasn't stupid enough to let h nudge constantly. She was able to learn from her mistakes. Once she had taken so much damage from the minions, she never made the mistake of tanking again. On the contrary, he began to act more carefully.

Klaus threw aggressively [Ice Shot], but missed all but one. He began to get slightly angry. This was supposed to be a training match against bots. Why did he have to play in a way that was careful completely?

Still, he took a deep breath and moved his character in earnest. In the process, his character and Ayano reached the fourth level.

Klaus carefully observed Ayano. He was currently waiting for her to push the minions.

For a while, he continued to take the final hit, the movement known as the corridor freeze. But eventually, he started pushing. As a result of this wait, Ayano was ahead of ten minions.

For Klaus, ten minions was a difference that could be ignored. So he directed his character to Ayano, as she pushed her towards his tower.

First, he had a straight line [Ice Shot].

Ayano quickly dodged this and threw a ball of flame toward his character, the size of his character's head when viewed from a distance.

The trajectory of the fireball was stable and identical to [Ice Shot]. But the range was longer.

He hurriedly swept the mouse to the right and clicked. The character walked over the flame to the tip. Meanwhile, Ayano was hitting straight. Little by little, Klaus' character was hitting damage.

Ayano's attacking ability was reduced to waiting time, so Klaus's character rushed directly at her. In the meantime, he immediately pressed on [Ice Prison] ability so that she could not escape.

The ability would remain on for three seconds. He should have made good use of this opportunity.

[Ice Prison] surrounded Klaus' character in a circular manner like a spider's web of ice. He moved with him on the field as he progressed, and no matter how far back he went, Ayano was caught in range.

As her movements slowed down, Ayano's surroundings glowed purple, and an additional purple bar was added to the life bar. However, it also got rid of the slowing effect. [Ice Prison] also finished working and entered the waiting period.

He began to walk towards his tower. But they had already closed the gap!

Klaus' character dealt successive blows to Ayano. First, second, and...

[Glacier Bites] triggered!

Ayano appeared to have turned into an ice sculpture. His mobility was cut off for a brief moment. Thanks to successive attacks and the [Glacier Bites] that were triggered, half of his life was gone. It was like a sacrificial sheep.

Yet the purple bar remained.

Even as the freezing effect went away, Klaus continued to shoot straight shots. Although Ayano gradually retreated, Klaus' character was stubbornly chasing him. When his life became scarce, Ayano's ability was restored.

When he renewed, part of the soul was renewed. Still, three-fifths of them were gone!

But unfortunately, Ayano had already gone under his tower. The range of the tower was visible to the naked eye since it was the training mode. So he couldn't force it.

After making sure Ayano didn't come, he turned around. The back was the feature that allowed characters to quickly return to the base. But there was a ten-second condensation time. It could have been intervened at this moment.

Klaus took care of his character as he watched his return. More than half of his life was still there. He also had a prediction that he would hit less than he was in training mode. Risks could be taken.

Five seconds before he returned, Klaus' character threw the waiting time to Ayano, whose waiting time had expired.

However, she had a fifth of his life left! Ayano didn't expect him to attack, so she ate the damage.

By this time, he had the upper hand on the minions. [Ice Prison] did minor damage. Thanks to these minor damages, Klaus' previous [Ice Prison] had supported the minions and pushed them unwittingly.

Along with the white minions, Klaus advanced his character. He then unlocked his waiting time expired [Ice Prison] ability and repeatedly struck Ayano as his movement slowed down.

With the damage done, Ayano tried to escape. But Klaus had no intention of quitting. Unfortunately, the tower had no intention of pity either. The first beam hit Klaus' character, and he took down one-fifth of his life.

Ayano, on the other hand, was again triggered by the blows [Glacier Bites] he had struck repeatedly as she was about to heal herself again!

And so a painful cry was heard in the arena. Before he had time to be surprised by the scream of pain, Klaus hurriedly withdrew his character. In the meantime, he had to eat two more hits and survived with a life bar like a lock of hair.

But ultimately.. he had killed off the Bot!