The Guild War Begins

"Now...without further ado... Let the fight... BEGIN!!!"

The commentator yelled out with forced enthusiasm, matches like these don't tend to end well for the guild with the less members.

The two guilds are at a stand-off watching who will make the first move, then Loid- The Raven Sword's leader motioned for the other to go forward with his more trusty members staying behind alongside the pets. The number left behind was 3 without the pets.

"Kristina, Rocky... You've got this right?"

Simon entrusted the mob that was coming for them onto the two heavy hitters.

"Yep, we've got you covered Simon..."

"Kwee!" Rocky yelled out as he got information.

The mob stopped in suprise as to what they were seeing. Kristina lifted up Rocky who clinged onto her battle axe. Due to his smaller then avarage golem body Kristina was left with the ability to still move around pretty swiftly.

"Rocky, you holdin' on alright?" Kristina asked "Kwee!" Rocky replied in a confirmative tone. "Well then..." Kristina jumped high up above the mob and began flipping at a high speed.

"Golem Pummel!" Kristina yelled out smashing Rocky's body down on the ground hitting one of the guild members directly, immediately knocking them out and sending them back to their respective guild house (with all injuries healed). The ground under the remaining guild members were shaken up leaving them unbalanced. Continuing their special move after landing Kristina began spinning around knocking the mob around and some of them even got knocked out on an instant. The mob's number now was below 10. Kristina and Rocky swiftly finished those who were left moving. Wiping out the mob in seemingly minutes.

The crowd is speechless. The commentator helds onto his mike...

"T-This is incredible! ALMOST IMMEDIATELY THE SOARING LIONS EVEN OUT THEIR NUMBERS!"

Moved by the commentators yelling the crowd begins cheering for the show of skill The Soaring Lions showed.

"BWAHAHAHA! Take that ya stupid Raven Sword! Which name is more stupider now!" Kristina yells out tauntingly.

"Tch- so you were able to eliminate the fodder. So what?" Loid yelled back.

"Now the real fun begins...everyone, let's get to fighting." Loid said to the remaining two around him. They seperated the pets into two groups as well. Loid walked forward towards Simon alone, whilst a woman with two golems began making their way towards Kristina and Rocky. Rocky was frozen in place scared of the two golems...but whilst Kristina couldn't quite see whenever Rocky's eyes met the woman he felt relieved.

"Rocky! You've gottem beat, ya hear me?" Kristina yells to Rocky, reassuring them of their strength. The golems seemed to recognise Rocky as well, they seemed to look down on Rocky, on their weakness. Rocky shook himself off of Kristina's battleaxe.

"Alright buddy, you'll take care of the one on the right and I'll take the left. Whoever finishes with their golem before takes care of the woman." Kristina said before making a dash at her assigned golem. Rocky didn't even have the chance to say something, well atleast to hint at something. But it didn't really matter. Rocky awaited his golem rather than dashing at them.

"Kwe..." The golem sounded dissapointed in Rocky. It made Rocky want to step back but they knew they had to be strong. Rocky stood his ground and awaited the golems move. Kristina's brute strength was able to make swift work of that golem. So she could begin focusing on the woman now.

The golem smashed down on Rocky who blocked the heavy hit. But the golem didn't stop it kept barraging Rocky without letting him move, the golem knew that it'll be able to break through Rocky's block. It kept smashing at Rocky knocking dust all around. Blocking the audience's view. The dust began disspersing and they saw the golem out of breath with Rocky still blocking. Seeing the chance Rocky's arm goes in for an uppercut on the golem cracking at it's head before ultimately knocking him out.

Whilst this was happening Kristina and the woman began clashing, the woman used daggers as her manner of fighting. She was also swift to dodge Kristina's heavy attacks. She ran around her whispering in her ear.

"Why'd you take in that golem? You know you'll be dissapointed...it's weak."

"Shut up..." Kristina retailated.

"It's not good for anything. It's weak. Nothing but a piece of moving rock..."

"Shut up... Shut up..."

"What's it good for anyway? If you are stronger then it. There's no point in having it right?"

"I said, SHUT. UP." Kristina swiped her battleaxe directly at the woman knocking her down off of her feet, but not knocking her out. Rocky was just done with the golem by this time and ran over to check up on their fight.

"There it comes... It won... I knew it would" The woman blurted out, slightly bloodied. Kristina didn't quite understand... Rocky looked over to the woman lying down.

"So they named you Rocky huh?" Rocky nodded "That's great... You've found yourself great friends you know...?" Rocky nodded once again... 

"Quit acting like your dying..." Kristina added. "Oh come on just let us have this moment!" The woman said a bit angered by Kristina's interuption.

"Alright then...Rocky, I've heard the guild will dissassemble if you guys win...I'm still not sure, Loid is strong. But if The Raven Sword will dissassemble, I'll look for your guild... and then- we'll figure it all out from there. Now, knock me out... Not like I can keep going-" Kristina without hesitation grabbed her battleaxe and knocked her out with the handle.

Kristina holds her hand up for a high-five with Rocky the two do it and then they hear the crowd cheering.

"Well folks! It seems that today's crowd favourite is Rocky! Look at how much they are cheering for them!" 

Rocky looks around, they crowd is actually cheering for Rocky. It makes them happy that there are people who don't judge them based on their stats. Unfortunately due to their guard being let down both Kristina and Rocky were knocked out by two magic missiles coming from the other side of the arena.

"Well, there seems to be the crowd's least favourite- Levi from the Raven Sword's!" The commentator yelled out. The one who shot the two was a man in a mage robe surrounded by three mage skeletons. The remaining pets of the Raven Sword. 

Levi doesn't seem to care that the crowd is booing at him. He is focused on winning and nothing else. He looked at Simon aiming his staff at him. The skeleton mages seemingly giving mana to him so he could fire stronger spells... He is treating them as mere power supplies. 

**TWANK**

Levi felt a drop in his power. He looked to see that one of his skeleton mages dissappeared. Then he looked over at the other side of the arena. Owen stood there with his bow fired seemingly not too long ago. His legs were shaking.

"Such a sorry sight..." Levi aimed his staff at Owen.

"Give up, you stand no chance against me. Just let it happen."

Owen slowly let his bow down. A magic missile coming straight at him. His thoughts are all over the place but one thing in his mind is clear. 'He is right. I stand no chance against him. He's a powerful mage, whilst im just an archer who isn't even brave enough to shoot. So then why?'

"Why did I dodge?" Owen mumbled under his nose. He strengthened his grip on his bow. "No, I know why... I can't let them down..." With a renowned will to fight the clash between Levi and Owen will begin.

(To Be Continued)