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Holding her sword parallel to the ground, Pyranna slowly swung it in an arc toward the forest where Cave went back and hid.

"Damn!" Cave, who was slightly bent over, was able to quickly push himself up and jump up to 2 meters above the ground, and thus, he was able to reach his location and ensure that the invisible attack, which managed to split 3 of the trees around him in half like a razor, passed under his feet without harming him.

"NOW, SOUL!"

Realizing his mistake with Pyranna's exclamation, he looked at his other enemy while still in the air.

Unluckily, his other enemy had simultaneously run up to about 4 meters from the passage wall, pushed herself back, and dived hard towards him. Of course, by keeping the sharpest point of her sword aimed at his forehead.

"" Cave's silhouette in the air became translucent and remained in place, his actual body moving a few meters forward. 

At the moment, Cave's mirage image was on the tip of Soul's sword. which was slightly angled and parallel to the ground with her full body in the air, and his real body was just behind the soles of her feet.

"NOT THAT EASY!" But Soul, like Cave, showed a split-second reaction and managed to turn her entire body 180 degrees in the air and reach Cave's neck with her sword, which suddenly changed direction.

"DIEEE!!!! And Pyranna had thrown her sword towards Cave's new position and somehow managed to stick the tip of the sword into Cave's throat.

" "

No… Although only a few seconds had passed since the start of the battle, Cave was amazed by the fact that one of his enemies' swords could reach the back of his neck and the other one to his throat. Still, he continued to use his skill one after another with the instinct of survival, changing three or four different positions and reaching the beginning of the forest again. "Wow, you too are really too agile, ladies. I am amazed!"

"As if we would give a f.ck! Drop your sh.tty skill and let us butcher you into the pieces, traitor!"

Almost all of the players living in this world had such light skills. Although these standard player skills are very useful in one-on-one PvP battles, most of the players involved in the events last weeks did not even think of using their unique skills, since the chances of them being useful were close to zero. During the BRe raid, Cave was faced with his current leader, Vato Luca, and he preferred to use R4 skills instead of his personal skill, and yet he was not successful. And also Vato Luca was not targeting him then, just made his way to lure in the GBR Hive. But since there were two opponents of the caliber that he could really fight against right now, this skill was perfect for him. "And why would I do that, Soul?"

"You were a GBR leader for the ages! And yet, you betrayed your own friends when they needed you most. How many GBR members you should protect died as a result of your actions, Cave?"

"I am not here to discuss my behaviors now. Open the path, ladies…" But before he finished his sentence, he noticed Soul running parallel to the ground on the Gate wall, again in a non-humanoid form, and reaching him. 

"" And again, like a software bot, he reacted involuntarily and ran away a few meters away, thanks to his skill.

"LET ME GIVE YOU A HUGE HUG, RASCAL!" However, Pyranna, who was without a sword, somehow guessed where he would send himself and reached that location at the same time, hugging Cave hard from behind.

"YOUUU!!!" Cave tried to turn his head to the right and look angrily at his enemy who suddenly caught him from behind, but he felt his other enemy's breath on his left cheek.

"DIE, B.TCH!"

Pyranna and Soul's agility was indeed far above normal players. Of course, they were not at the level of Vato Luca, but West had subjected herself, them, and all the alliance members to continuous training since the day they were trapped in this World. Not for killing, but to survive…

Even though they were not very active in Murder Events and Server Wars, they constantly improved themselves by traveling around the World with all alliance members, doing mass hunts, and fighting against the weakest monsters, from level 1 to level 3, especially in Ymir events. 

Despite his extensive leadership experience, both girls proved to be truly formidable opponents for Cave.

But neither of them noticed that Cave had silently summoned his skill this time, and he managed to escape a few meters away from them, leaving a translucent mirage again.

"You both really are something, girls!" He admired them again, but this time there was exasperation in his tone because his last escape move wasn't entirely successful. "As you have witnessed, I just wanted to continue my way by defending, but you did not allow me to do so." He tore off a large piece of fabric from the hand part of his black outfit. "Ok, let's do it your way!" He was trying to slow down the blood flowing from the gash, which started from the left side of his chin, divided his left cheek, and reached to the left of his forehead, by buffering it.

Although this battle had begun to get harsher, it had not yet reached the fierceness of the battle in the East Gate…

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*** East Gate ***

"You are on an extreme level, Aseer… I really did not hope this much. Why did not you show your existence before? Especially in the terrible events we have experienced in the last few weeks?"

"Terrible…?" Aseer, who was surrounded by the rubble of the recently collapsed wall, picked up his other sword, which was stuck on the ground, took an attack position again, and looked at Claw uncomfortably. "I don't feel any signs of life in your aura, Claw, even as you say a word so heavy on the human soul. I really started to doubt your existence… Are you really human?" It was obvious that the reason he said this was not only related to their speeches but also to being able to shatter the meter-high Gate wall with just a few sword slashes.

"Huh?, they were just stones, Aseer. You shouldn't think of me as highly because of that… You are also so strong…" Claw, whose background was filled with countless trees just a few minutes before, pointed to the huge empty land that was now completely barren, where not a single branch was standing upright. "I counted especially… You did this with only 2 slashes! It seems your skill is much stronger than mine!"

"Do not try to perform mind play with me, Claw! Many people in this World are able to cut wood with skills but each of these Wall stones weighed more than hundreds of kilos! This is out of human limits! In fact, unlike my friends, I had at least partial sympathy for the coup carried out by the rebels. But now I'm starting to think they're just a bunch of idiots who have been fooled by the system like me and all the other players…"

"..." Claw, who was disturbed by the course of the conversation, tried not to reveal anything by remaining silent. Because he had already started to wage the war he had been fighting in the dark against God Hackathon in plain sight, in a way that could now be deciphered. If his identity was revealed here like this, he would now have to fight against humans as well. And that was the last thing he wanted because he would need the power of the humans for his one wish: to free Harlow Bless aka HB.

"Well… Ok, never mind… As I said at the beginning, political issues always seem more tiring to me. Let's finish this…"

Claw looked at Aseer as if completely shocked. Because it was really not something that could be hoped for a human would still maintain calm and continue this battle against someone he suspected of being a member of the System of this World, which was built solely on torturing humans… "You've changed my perspective on everything as of now… Aseer… Hah ha!... Ok… We will finish this quickly… And you have my promise… Not only you… Everything you cared for will be under my protection from now on…"