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Chapter 107: An encounter with Lord Doom [2]

Chapter 107: An encounter with Lord Doom [2]

Caster attacked with blinding speed, chaining elemental magic into relentless, high-speed bursts.

Fire and lightning raged, warping the arena into a chaotic storm.

His combination of skills and timing was just perfect.

Noah was impressed but fluid as ever, he maneuvered through the onslaught. Aetherforge hummed as he redirected Caster’s energy strikes, dismantling spell patterns mid-air with precise slashes.

"Fast," he muttered, genuinely impressed.

To Caster though, those words felt like mockery.

The praise from the very legend whose shadow crushed him was salt on an open wound, and his hurt ego could not take it.

Caster gritted his teeth and launched into a complex sequence of teleportation and elemental fusion, weaving through fire and ice to trap Lord Doom in a multi-layered spell formation.

"You’re not unbeatable!" He roared as the arena erupts with magic.

But as the flames and frost close in, Lord Doom vanishes.

{Blink Step=}

The simple but practical Combat Mage skill that enables its user to teleport a short distance, dodging attacks and repositioning on the battlefield.

Bzzz!

Lord Doom faded as the frames and frost came in, phasing through space with Blink Step, appearing directly behind Caster.

Before Caster could react, Aetherforge already pierced through the ground, unleashing a shockwave that disrupted the flow of mana around him.

Caster’s control over his magic crumbled.

’What?!’

The sudden loss of magic ability stunned Caster, but he refused to yield.

’Never!’

’I won’t lose!’

’I’m the best!’ He roared with defiance in his mind.

Refusing to yield, he activated Arcane Overdrive, a high-level Combat Mage skill that can boost magic output by sacrificing mana.

Like an Obel Scale, Caster’s magic output rose with tyrannical momentum, forcefully overcharging and shattering the effects of Lord Doom’s skill that managed to lock Caster’s Avatar’s magic ability.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

"DIE!"

Caster erupted, flooding the arena with relentless energy strikes, warping the battlefield into a storm of destruction.

Yet, Lord Doom moved through it all effortlessly, predicting each attack, countering with brutal precision.

With each clash, Caster felt his control slipping further away, as if Lord Doom wasn’t just fighting him, but also dismantling him, piece by piece.

Caster’s ego could not take it.

’NO...!!!’ He screamed in his mind.

’Impossible!’

’This can’t be happening!’

’I can’t be losing!’

’How on earth can he still be this good?!’

In one final desperate attempt, Caster channeled all his mana into a final high-level Combat Mage Skill, Thunder Retribution, summoning a massive lightning spear to strike down his opponent.

As the spear descended, still in its Battle Lance form, Lord Doom lifted Aetherforge up, pointing at the raining thunder, then...

"Collapse".

With a mere whisper, activating a Warlock skill at almost the same moment, Aetherforge absorbed the lightning spear’s power, redirecting it back at Caster with amplified force.

BOOM!

It hit Caster’s alternate Avatar with the force of an avalanche.

The energy shattered Caster’s defenses, sending him crashing to the ground; his health bar reduced to zero.

---<VICTORY>---

Silence.

As Caster’s avatar disintegrated, while Noah stared at his own ’Victory’ screen, Caster stared in disbelief at the ’Defeat’ screen.

Lord Doom stepped forward, towering over him.

Caster looked up at the infamous Avatar and instinctively, watching Lord Doom look down on him with the same casual and slightly nonchalant look, an illusion played in Caster’s mind, an illusion of Lord Doom talking.

An illusion birth from his own insecurities.

"You think wielding Stinger of War makes you worthy?" Noah’s voice was cold, cutting through Caster’s pride.

"Warstar doesn’t bow to those who chase validation. It follows those who dominate it".

Crack!

Caster felt his ego cracking even more.

In reality, Noah never said anything.

As Lord Doom turned and vanished into the shadows of the arena, about to leave, Caster’s mind spiraled into chaos.

The reality crashed down on him; he wasn’t fighting just another player.

He challenged the true God of Warstar.

But..., so what?

"Wait!" Caster growled.

Despite the barrier of game and reality blocking them, at this moment, Noah could feel the palpable hate from shit guy.

’Damn, who the hell is this guy?’ He thought.

Caster’s face twisted in rage. "You think you’re it because you led Cyber Squad to 5 straight championships in the past, right?"

"..."

Noah was confused.

"Well, I’ll show you that someone is better now!"

"..."

Noah was genuinely speechless. ’What the hell is wrong with this guy?’

But having set the system to a new challenge, Caster was already moving again at blinding speed with the alternate account.

"DIE!" He growled like a mad man.

Bam! Bam! Bam!

Caster went all out, truly pushing Lord Doom to the brink before in another moment of genius, he was defeated again.

Caster felt like coughing blood. ’Again?!!!’

Now, Noah was impressed. ’This guy..., who is he really?’

’He’s too good to be a normal player’.

"Your speed is remarkable". He complemented again, at the same time checking out Sting of Valor’s account out.

This was when he realized that it was an alternate account, this account literally had no history of interreacting in the 11th server.

Noah complimented Caster again, but to him, it felt like ridicule.

"Again!" Caster growled, challenging Noah again.

And again, he was defeated.

"Again!"

Again, he was defeated.

"Again!"

Again, he was defeated.

"Again!"

Again, he was defeated.

"Again!"

"Again!"

"Again!"

"Again!"

Each time, he fought with growing desperation and each time, Noah dismantled him with the same calm efficiency.

But by the 10th defeat, Noah began noticing familiar patterns; the subtle micro-movements, the reaction speed, the way Caster handled his cooldowns. And his grasp of the basics of the Combat Mage main class.

’This...’

It finally clicked in Noah’s head.

Noah hesitated for a moment, lots of thoughts flowing through his head but then he asked, breaking the silence.

"Caster..., is that you?"

Caster snapped.

"What does it matter?!"

"You abandoned us!"

"You retired and left me to bear the weight of Cyber Squad’s legacy! Now, I’m a joke! A disgrace! And its all because they keep comparing me to you!"

Silence.

Noah was stunned, but then his expression softened.

He finally understood.

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