Rise Online: Return of the Legendary Player

- H?3ngh?? Group's Rise Online Operating Office, New York. -

At his desk, Charles Richards, one of RO's chief developers, watches intently as Kaizen and Taznaar duel. The glow of his computer screen reflects off the lenses of his rectangular glasses.

When the sound of the musket shot echoes throughout the Arena until it comes out of the speakers on his screen, Charles is unconsciously anxious about what is coming, as if he already knew.

Seconds after the shot, the audience is completely silent, and the camera's focus is on the musket ball. This bullet is standing still in the air, as if time itself had stopped, yet it was still spinning violently. As soon as the rotation of the bullet loses its force, the small metal object falls to the ground.

*Tiim, tiim.*

Like the drop of a coin, the metallic clink produced by the bullet as it hits the ground is like a warning to all the people that what has just happened was real.

At that moment, Charles smiled and, although he was alone in his office, said aloud:

"And the mysterious Psych Class carrier makes his first introduction to the world..."

Literally all the people who were watching this live in the Arena rose from their seats. From Queen Niah to the street food vendors. ƒ𝘳𝑒𝑒𝒘𝐞𝚋𝑛𝐨v𝘦l.𝒄o𝘮

Kaizen had already done inexplicable things during these less than two minutes of battle, but everything was happening so fast before that it was being impossible to take it all in. However, the specific moment of the second musket shot seemed to be at a speed ten times slower than normal.

This impression could be explained because people at this point in the fight were already completely involved and focused, or because their princess' life was at stake, or because the musket had been flying by itself for a few seconds, making everyone more attentive, or perhaps because Ravastine had abandoned his personal fight against Taznaar to help Kaizen. Of all the possible explanations for this situation, none mattered, since as much as everyone was watching the fight in slow motion, Kaizen seemed to be seeing seconds in the future.

Somehow, Psyker was fast enough to stop a bullet and not in a normal way, using the protection of his armor, he stopped the bullet in midair. For comparison, it was as if someone could stop the fastest arrow in the world without even touching it.

Just as the stadium was in shock, the comment tabs of the live broadcasts were filled with perplexed comments.

[K1nnoo: What just happened?

gracio__: Did the guy in the mask just stop a bullet? Is this really serious?

altcherry: MANOOO! I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS IN MY LIFE!

lau_dalosto: WTFFFFFF?!

VinnyRyaan: OMEGALUL.

ElvisFries: OMEGALUL.

eletrick_2711: How does one stop a fucking gun shot? The bullet didn't even come close to hitting. It literally stopped in midair.

letasa7777: That thing is not normal!!!

GabecoPVP: Is that some very rare ghost hand magic? An ability or something?

Memo0o: Man, this could be a psychic power like telekinesis, right? What if this guy is the Psych Class user? How come I never thought of that before?!

RekaiZZZ: Psych class?! I have no doubt it's exactly that!!!]

While all the spectators from various parts of the world were stunned at the possibility of Kaizen being the bearer of a single user class, the Psych Class, Emma M. Nielsen was shocked to see her own brother, Jayaa, facing Taznaar.

Emma was not present in the Arena to watch the battle live, because the outcome of who would win did not matter to her, but out of sheer curiosity she decided to look around a bit to see how Kaizen was doing.

Obviously, the last person she expected to see as Kaizen's ally was her brother. Despite the connection between Klaus and Jayaa, Emma thought that Klaus would be wise not to choose Jayaa to fight Taznaar, which is why she was so shocked when she saw that Klaus' wisdom was not enough for him not to make that mistake. Thanks to this, she had no choice but to sit and watch the fight, biting the nails of each of her hands with enormous nervousness.

In the Arena, Taznaar, Ricroar and Lara were also paralyzed that Kaizen had stopped a bullet.

Despite everyone's reaction, Kaizen was the one who cared least about showing his power to the world. Quietly, he released Ravastine from his embrace and whispered in her ear:

"Give Jayaa cover. They messed up our formation, so let's reorganize. They are not coordinated, they are not a team like us."

The princess nodded and ran to Jayaa, who was still in the rear of everyone.

The sounds of Ravastine's footsteps was what woke Taznaar and his allies. Immediately, the flaming-haired man tried to stop Ravastine from leaving the vanguard, using a small dagger that withdrew his boot. He held that dagger forward as he ran, prepared to stab Ravastine with it.

At that moment, Jayaa saw an opening that had not appeared until this second and remembered the lesson Kaizen had given him a few days ago.

On the occasion in question, Kaizen said:

"Pay attention, Jayaa, in a PvP battle you will not have time to sing your songs all the time, as you do in battles against monsters. You must do what you trained when we fought the Shadow Gatun.... But when the moment comes, we won't be fighting a single Boss, think as if we were fighting three Bosses. Wait until the opportunity appears and grab it with everything you have."

"How will I know when that opportunity arises?"

"Look around you. If you don't have any opponents focused on you, that is the right time. Ravastine and I will be in the lead, we will draw attention so you can do your job. Remember, a good support is not the one who puts himself in the middle of the mess to try to help his allies, but the one who knows how to position himself in the right way, keeping himself safe to maximize his helping potential and teamplay, got it?"

Returning to present times, Jayaa noticed that Taznaar was busy as he advanced against Ravastine, Ricroar had been thrown to the side and was looking at Kaizen, as well as Lara, who was reloading her musket, which only fired two rounds at a time.

This was the right moment for him to act. So he cleared his throat and, while stepping back, used <Blessing of the Ally>.

e??μ "Without your friend's help, I try to calm down.... Anger consumes him, hold this man if not hate will blind him.... The black flower in the snow contrasts with me, and if you need me, reach out your hand because I am here!" e??μ

Jayaa's song reached everyone's ear, and each of the musical notes, which flew visibly from the strings of her lute, touched her allies, causing them to feel an energy they had never felt before.

Ravastine longed to group with the bard at the rear, as Kaizen requested, but as he slid his gaze to the side, he saw Taznaar and realized he couldn't just ignore him. With her agility buffeted by the bard's song, she spun her body and blade. The moment the sun reflected off the tip of her sword, Taznaar noticed that this was no ordinary sword and the confident smile vanished from his face.

The sword looked like a simple black sword forged with an undulating blade to cause advanced bleeding, however, as soon as the rays of the sun illuminated the blade it was possible to notice that the sword was not black but purple, which meant that it was not a sword with ordinary properties.

The very second he noticed this, Taznaar turned his dagger to protect himself from the oncoming attack. As he predicted, Ravastine's attack was much faster than usual due to the agility buff and hit the middle of his dagger.

*TIMM!*

The clang of the sword blade was the warning to Taznaar that he had successfully defended himself, and he was more than ready to take advantage of Ravastine's recoil to attack him. Therefore, when Ravastine chose not to retreat and that the intermingling of the blades did not throw her backwards, he was very surprised.

Her sword and dagger were exchanging friction, and Ravastine was showing the world how much he had evolved in a few weeks, but even though the princess was buffed, Taznaar was managing to withstand it.

_{𝑓r𝘦𝘦𝘄eb𝒏𝙤vel.c𝙤𝙢}

The final result of this dispute would not be decided by strength, but by who had the better weapon, at least this is how Taznaar thought.

However, since he hadn't bothered to watch Leohorn's battle against Ravastine, nor had he asked his subordinate what the princess's abilities were, there was no way he could have predicted that she would use <Blade of Chaos>, an ability that imbued her sword with an inexplicable and oppressive energy, forcing Taznaar to his knees.

'W-when did she get so strong?' Taznaar wondered, breaking into a cold sweat with wide eyes.

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Edited by: DrHitsuji

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