Official NPC's

Hearing Tenkin's remark Sedrick didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Oh-ho, I see punk, but you might be mistaken" Sedrick laughed.

A great aura bursted out from his body making him look like a bulb, his body tensed and veins surfaced. Now he looked even more dangerous.

"So this is your real ability, you can take the form of any beast you've killed... " Tenkin examined. The showcase of strength earlier was probably from one of the beast he killed.

"You're a very smart one, but brains can't help only brawl can...now let's get this over with" Sedrick commented with a smile.

"Just what I had in mind..."

Meanwhile, Allison on the other hand wasn't really having a tough time with her opponent who called herself Melina, the only reason why she hadn't won the fight yet was due to Melina's ability, she could just teleport out of danger and with the gun she had at hand Allison knew she had to be careful.

"By now your stamina should have reduced drastically" Allison taunted with a grin as she deflected the few bullets that were shot towards her.

"You wish ...." Melina replied "in due time now, Sedrick will be back victorious"

Fear latched onto Allison's heart, she felt Sedrick's power first hand, he was a level 6 player for crying out loud but nevertheless she still believed that Tenkin would be able to cook up something.

On he other side, Due to Tenkin's upgrade, he was far stronger than an average level 6 player, they were not evenly matched for sure and Tenkin knew this, that was why he wasn't planning on exchanging close ranged blows with Sedrick.

A ball of flames charged towards Sedrick, with his even more strengthened body, he barged through it as if it was nothing.

Tenkin placed his hands on the floor holding his staff up in quick succession, he blasted three flame scythes from his flaming staff once again, Sedrick destroyed them.

"Those stupid attacks will never work on me" Sedrick screamed sounding infuriated.

'i guess I really have to go into close range fight, so far I have avoided those punches of his, my nano points are almost depleted so I have to be extremely fast.' Tenkin analysed.

In a second, with a little jump, Tenkin was up in the air flying towards him. As they were about to clash, Tenkin dodged allowing Sedrick to miss.

The punch that Tenkin dodged made a slight crack on the floor making Tenkin thank his little stars.

Tenkin swung his staff aiming for Sedrick's face but Sedrick's animal instincts allowed him to dodge easily. Tenkin retracted and shot a flame scythes towards Sedrick who once again came out unharmed.

[Power Slam] ×4

*BOOM**BOOM*

The earth shook and broke apart knocking Tenkin off balance, seizing his opportunity, Sedrick jumped ready to deliver the end blow.

*BANG*

A loud sound was heard as his hands collided with Tenkin's metallic staff.

[Nano points: 670] his nano points had reduced almost drastically. While he was still staring blankly at the notification, Sedrick grabbed him by the neck and slammed him to the. ground continuously.

[-5 HP]

[-7 HP]

[-9 HP]

His health points were dwindling down with each successive hit, his face was already bloodied, his hair charred and bones broken.

[character has entered critical condition]

The system announced, "You fought well friend...." Sedrick smiled "Apart from Codex, you're the strongest player I know." Tenkin heard him quite alright but now wasn't the time to care, he didn't like the way his nano points had reduced but it didn't matter much because he made sure to make good use of them.

*Crack* *Beep*

The ground beneath them exploded and both of them were blasted backwards. When Sedrick's body made contact with the floor successively another bomb detonated and he was pushed further back.

"What's this..." Sedrick seethed in pain as he was being blown away in all directions.

"I can answer that question, BOMB, nano bombs, I planted them while we were fighting I planted them while we were fighting I knew I was...." he coughed unable to continue.

"You..." Sedrick pointed still flying round like a thrown rag, his HP reducing with each explosion.

"I will kill you, I will detach that head of yours from your body.. you hear me" Sedrick screamed in fury his eyes almost popping out.

"Com'on buddy.... I thought we were friends" Tenkin taunted with a smirk plastered on his face.

Sedrick saw that Tenkin couldn't move due to the injuries he had, it seemed as though he was reluctant to purchase a healing pill considering the high amount of nano points that was required.

Running the maths he knew he could still take some bomb hits before his Health points completely ran out.

Normally he'd be thinking a way out of the maze of nano bombs, but he wanted to make sure he punched the smug off Tenkin's face.

*ZOOM*

Sedrick kicked off running towards Tenkin like a bull, bombs were going off disorientating his moves a bit but he pulled forward relentlessly.

"This monster still wants my head" Tenkin panicked a bit, but he smiled it off, he pulled himself up with his staff.

He pushed a button on the staff, a pulse of energy going off it and it transformed into a glaive with blade made out of pure energy.

"You're too full of yourself" Tenkin said in disappointment as he plunged the glaive into Sedrick's incoming figure.

Sedrick felt a sudden pain wash over him, he looked down to find a blade of pure energy embedded in his chest.

[HP: 1] he looked at Tenkin with a smile on his face. "Don't think it's over yet" he said with a smile as his body frame shattered into shards of glass.

Tenkin was panting heavily, he didn't know how or when his legs gave in and he fell on his butt.

He expected that Sedrick would reappear back at the scene, this was because they were currently in a. check point city.

"Well let's wait till his back" Tenkin said to himself. He had just enough nano bombs to keep the latter busy if he. reappeared.

Looking over to the side he could see Allison still locked in a fierce battle.

"I don't think that one should be much problem for her ". Tenkin said to himself as he checked Melina's level with the game system, thankfully it. was nothing compared to Sedrick. Seeing as things were going well Tenkin heaved a sigh of relief.

"Hey you four over there!" A loud voice rang out. Tenkin turned over to see the newcomers, coming from the side were three guards each cladded in light arms.

With just one look anyone could tell that they were NPC's (Non-player characters) but something seemed to be off with the way they acted especially the one leading the little squad.

There was a large difference between the NPC'S here and the one they'd encountered during the test program , which left Tenkin pondering.

'Did they make improvements on the NPC's too?'

In his thoughts he suddenly heard another nano bomb go off and he chuckled slightly turning his back to see the angry faced Sedrick .

"You have caused a scene in this place and, by the order of the queen you'll all be taken into the dungeon until we've clarified your identity and till you pay for the damages caused" The guard taking the lead declared, his bright blue eyes sternly fixed on them.

Now Tenkin was sure something was really off about this NPC and he had to be certain.

[Player has encountered Official NPC]

[Lv: 10]

It was a level 10 NPC which was 5 level above Tenkin, fighting someone just one level above him, he could still win with a few tricks but 5 levels! Especially when he had no idea what an 'official' NPC could do.

"Yeah, I'm giving up on this one" He said tiredly.

***********

The others were still gathered round the podium. Murmurs and chatters could be heard as they pondered on what Codex had said.

"What do you say, you wanna join my team" The player asked Nolan.

It was strange having someone you didn't know asking you to join a team. Surely Nolan knew he could just easily ignore her but seeing the sort of charisma she had, he felt it would be harsh of him to do so.

"Hmm, well I don't think there's a problem" Nolan replied nonchalantly

"Sure, follow me" she said leading Nolan to the rest of her group. As they neared the other team members Codex continued.

"Well I have said all I have to say, I have no bad intentions but I will not tell a lie I do have my own selfish reasons for administering this faction.

I can go on to explain the benefits of staying together as a faction, however that won't benefit either of us so I'll just go on and ask outrightly.

Will you join my faction, or leave?" he said loud enough for them all to hear, and immediately a notification popped up in front of them all.

[You have been invited to join the 'Red skull faction]

ACCEPT INVITATION

[YES]. [NO]

The crowd bursted out once again contemplating over the offer that the player codex had proposed.

"This guy sounds quite convincing" Emmy said as she approached her team mates. With one glance Nolan could see that she already had quite the group. Individually they all seemed to be strong players for starters. This was probably because they participated in the test program he could

tell as he could recognize some of their names appearing in the leader board.