Reincarnated Avatar; I got 2 SSS-Rank Unique Skills
Chapter 79: Guild war [7]

Chapter 79: Guild war [7]

Nightingale and his cohort already sowed the seeds of chaos, creating cracks in the originally stalwart allied army led by Night Razor.

Aria and Genevieve fed on those cracks.

And now, another group was about to take it a step further.

It was time for the symphony of chaos, the entrance of the mad jester and the calculated genius.

If Aria and Genevieve’s rampage was the detonation of a war bomb, then Benjamin and Caleb’s assault was the precision-guided explosion that shattered the army from within.

The allied guild forces, still reeling from the massacre wrought by Aria, suddenly found themselves assaulted from a completely different direction.

Hit it while the iron was still hot!

That was currently the mentality employed by Noah and his cohort.

The allied army had no time to regroup, and then suddenly...

It rained fire.

Not just fire, water twisted into monstrous waves of destruction.

Gusts of wind howled like laughing demons. And with every devastating spell, a horrible pun followed.

Benjamin, the mad jester had arrived.

BOOM!

A fiery explosion engulfed an entire squad of warriors, sending them screaming and rolling across the ground, flames licking at their armor.

Benjamin grinned like a madman, twirling his staff.

"What do you call a fire that refuses to share? Hehe, a selfish blaze!"

{CRITICAL HIT=}

The allied guild chat was flooded with debuff notifications.

~----~

[WARNING! Elementalist Avatar ’Captain Batman’ has activated his SS-Ranked Unique Skill: Element of Surprise!]

[WARNING! You have taken additional psychic damage from Captain Batman’s pun!]

[WARNING! You have taken an additional additional psychic damage from just reacting to the name ’Captain Batman’]

[WARNING! You are experiencing extreme embarrassment! -5% morale = -5% spirit attribute!]

[WARNING! You have been inflicted with the status effect: Mental Collapse!]

~----~

The spectators who watched from above howled.

"WHAT?!"

"PUN DAMAGE?! What the actual HECK!!!"

"I can’t believe they’re getting killed by wordplay!"

"But come one! Pun jokes?! How do you even defend against jokes? This is just illogical and diabolical, what the f*ck!"

At the back, Night Razor was losing his mind.

"ARCHERS! FIRE AT HIM!" He bellowed.

A rain of arrows shot toward Benjamin.

But in the very moment the first arrow left its bowstring, Caleb’s Forbidden Equation activated, his eyes gleaming with cold calculation.

Just like you love reading novels, you love watching thriller movies, adventure movies, so also did people love other things.

And in Caleb’s case, so did he love mathematics.

Numbers raced through his mind.

The precise arc of every arrow, the milliseconds between cast spells from the allied mages, the delay frames in each warrior’s charge.

The equation solved itself.

And Caleb moved.

One step, and he vanished.

BZZZ!

The arrows struck only air.

The warriors swung at a ghost.

The enemy’s next spell, interrupted before it even completed.

Just like Aria, Caleb was also already in the flow state where everything he did and touched turned to gold.

It didn’t matter that his unique skill was just an A-ranked one. With his sheer mathematical ability, it was a weapon of untold possibilities.

Caleb reappeared behind the casters.

His Summoner’s grimoire flashed and a storm of summoned spirits erupted into the battlefield, tearing into the vulnerable spellcasters.

The enemy’s formation shattered.

And at the same time...

Benjamin stuck again.

The crowd was going insane.

~----~

"Can someone just tell me what is really going on? What the hell are we actually watching?!"

"This is Warstar, not Contra 4, not some old 3D game, how on earth are 2 Warstar Avatars able to cause so much destruction?!"

"This is not supposed to be funny but it is, likeeee, Captain Batman is literally killing people with jokes. Lmao! Come on, I’m a fan of this guy already!"

"Everybody keeps on focusing on Captain Batman’s jokes that we’re beginning to ignore that Enlightened Flame?! Can you guys see what’s going on at all? That guy just became untouchable!"

"HOLY SHIT! Did he just dodge an entire wave of attacks perfectly?! And here I was thinking only Lord Doom was the freak!"

"This is a coalition of freaks!"

~----~

Back in Shanghai, China...

Meng Wu Ya leaned forward, his expression utterly serious.

"...That wasn’t luck," he murmured. "That Summoner predicted every move down to the microsecond. His accuracy... is frightening".

The more he spectated, the more curious and interested he was. "There’s no way a group of experts like this is unknown in England".

"This Lord Doom..., and his teammates, who are they really?"

Back in the Canyon of Ruins...

The allied guild army, already struggling from internal problems and then Aria and Genevieve’s assault was now in absolute disarray.

Caleb broke their ranks.

Benjamin broke their will.

And then..., a chilling realization gradually spread through the battlefield.

This wasn’t even the worst part.

Where was Lord Doom?!

...

While the battlefield descended into pure madness, Noah remained unseen.

He was never idle.

He watched, calculated, orchestrated.

The allied guild army was in chaos.

Aria and Genevieve’s reckless rampage had split the enemy’s initial formation. Benjamin’s pun-fueled destruction had wrecked morale and disrupted casters, while Caleb’s absolute precision had turned every enemy movement into a predictable disaster.

But all of this... was still only the beginning.

Noah’s eyes never left the battlefield.

He was looking for something specific.

A flaw, a weakness, an opening, something that casual players have never even heard of and is only known to the oldest and most veteran of Warstar players.

And then, he found it.

His lips curled into a smirk as he privately messaged Caleb.

[Noah -> Caleb]: Have you found it?

It took three seconds before the reply came.

[Caleb -> Noah]: Almost.

Noah’s grin widened, because he knew Caleb would figure it out.

He had already seen the hints, and this was the main reason why he recruited Caleb into Cyber Squad all those years ago when all other pro clubs rejected him, citing different reasons for their rejection.

Warstar was revolutionary, not just literally but in every sense of the word.

In the game, everything was useful.

This canyon was no different.

The walls, the terrain, the way the Canyon of Ruins was structured...

It was never just a battlefield.

It was a weapon.

And once Caleb finished his calculations...

The real massacre would begin.

For now, Noah finally deemed that the time was right.

Lord Doom entered the fray.