He pulled up Billy’s status first.
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[ Billy - New Talents ]
> Void Fracture - Creates localized fractures in space or matter, letting him cut through or pass straight through solid objects at will.
> Weightless Stride - Moves freely across any surface, including open space, without needing gravity or solid footing.
> Gravity Rim - His wheel generates localized gravity wells along its rim, pulling enemies in toward him.
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"That explains the ship-splitting comment." Logan grinned. "And the running on air."
Billy grinned right back, clearly pleased with himself. "Wait till you see what the last one does. I could’ve pulled RohaoKing’s whole ship off course from here if we were close enough."
Solveig’s panel came up next.
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[ Solveig - New Talents ]
> Astralwind Manipulation - Generates Astralwind, a hybrid element born from his own Mana, and channels it into his skills, strikes, or movements, lending them the combined properties of both light and wind at once.
> Dawnfire Wings - His wings can weaponize into cutting beams of solid light.
> Sovereign’s Command - Temporarily boosts the stats of all allied units within his radiant presence by 40%. Radiance range: 100 meters.
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Solveig’s eyes lit up reading through them himself. "A proper commander’s kit. I’m satisfied, my lord."
"Astralwind’s the one I’m curious about." Logan tapped the panel. "What’s it actually do once you put it into a strike?"
"Speed and edge, my lord. Whatever I channel it into cuts faster and lands harder, light and wind both riding the same swing. I suppose it could be used in plenty of other ways too."
"Yep, you can. Experiment with it."
Synthia’s came last.
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[ Synthia - New Talents ]
> Runic Duplication - Can create a temporary duplicate of any crafted item. Lasts 4 hours.
> Runic Grafting - Can graft a crafted item’s properties directly onto a living being. Lasts 2 hours.
> Anvil’s Awakening - Can imbue any inanimate object or crafted item with sentience and autonomous ability for 24 hours. In combat, the awakened objects fight as independent constructs. Outside of it, the same constructs can work alongside her as helpers, speeding up her own crafting and production.
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Synthia’s runes pulsed a little brighter across her skin. "This changes everything about what I can build."
"Anvil’s Awakening especially." Logan whistled low. "You could have half a dozen little helpers running your workshop while you sleep."
"And twice that many fighting if it comes to it." She smiled, something sharp underneath the usual quiet. "I don’t intend to stay useless once we land."
Logan closed the panels and looked back at the display, RohaoKing’s marker still blinking, the distance between them shrinking steadily.
’Good. Now let’s go put all of this to use.’
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"No way. Come on, man! I just saw you on TV." RohaoKing pulled a long face as he watched Leon Flanke’s Ship show up on his own radar, closing straight in on him.
He looked like a man in his mid-twenties, brown hair, a thin beard, slim build, average height. Four years of careful, deliberately safe play had gotten him this far, all the way to Tier-4.
"Should I use FTL Drive?"
He looked over his own three summons. Legendary-rank, Level 40, the best his Tier Points had been able to buy.
This was his second time in Star Hunters. He’d paid a real chunk of what he’d earned over three straight weeks in his last match just to be standing here again.
’Fuck.’
He stared at the radar, curiosity fighting hard against the part of him that wanted to just run.
’I want to see his load-out. Does he actually have Mythic units? What’s he wearing? First place on the leaderboard with a score like that has to mean a stupid amount of Tier Points behind it.’
’How strong is he, really? He’s only Level 10, though. And the Swarm’s not due for another half hour.’
’But Mythic-rank class and Mythic-rank Talent both. I want to see it.’
His face fell. ’I shouldn’t risk it. Last time I got curious about Supreme Bloodsword, and I had to surrender on the spot before I even saw the guy move.’
’This Leon Flanke’s the same breed of monster. A dual Mythic lucker. Damn it.’
’But I’m getting stronger too.’ Resolve crept back into his eyes. ’I’ll face him. This time, I’m running away successfully after the encounter!’
He didn’t get the chance to decide much else.
Billy arrived first, faster than anything RohaoKing’s own sensors had flagged as possible, already cutting through open space toward the ship’s hull.
Void Fracture!
A crack tore open along the length of the engine housing, space itself splitting apart where his blade passed through, and the whole propulsion section came apart in a shower of debris before RohaoKing even registered the shape moving toward him.
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[ FTL Drive: Unavailable. Engine damage critical. ]
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Color drained out of RohaoKing’s face all at once.
Seven small asteroids were already closing on the ship from a completely different angle, each one moving with a purpose no ordinary rock should have had.
Anvil’s Awakening!
Synthia had claimed them on the way here, and all seven slammed into the hull in a staggered sequence, tearing new gashes into armor plating that had never been built to survive this many separate impact points at once.
Solveig arrived at the same time, and he didn’t arrive alone.
Eight knights split off from his own light in the same instant, each one carrying the same armor, the same greatsword, and the same full set of his own Talents besides.
Sovereign’s Command!
The buff rolled out across all eight knights at once, and they closed on RohaoKing’s three Legendary-rank summons before any of them finished raising a weapon.
Whatever attacks or defenses those three summons actually had didn’t matter. Eight Tier-4 Mythic-derived knights against three Legendary-rank Level 40 units wasn’t a fight. It was a formality that happened to take a few seconds longer than instant.
Logan watched all of it happen from the deck of his own approaching ship, and decided it was finally time to open that second banked skill choice.
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[ Select a new Class Skill ]
> Grim Lock
> Grimtide Wave
> Sovereign’s Bulwark
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He didn’t hesitate.
’Grim Lock.’
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[ Grim Lock learned ]
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[ Grim Lock ]
Captures all presence within visual range, up to a 1-kilometer radius, and target-locks onto one of them for 1 hour, granting constant location tracking of that target. While locked, Reaper’s Stride can deliver you directly to the target’s location on command.
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Logan didn’t need long to decide who.
Grim Lock!
The world around him flickered with a hundred faint outlines for half a second, every living thing within a kilometer catching briefly on his own vision, before the lock settled onto one shape in particular and everything else faded back out.
Reaper’s Stride!
The air itself cracked where Logan tore through it, a single violent displacement that left the deck ringing under his boots the instant he landed, just a meter away from RohaoKing, his eyes catching individual beads of sweat breaking out across the man’s forehead.
RohaoKing didn’t spin around so much as flinch backward bodily, one hand flying up on pure instinct, the other still frozen halfway in a motion of attacking, or more precisely, releasing a skill.
Logan let Grimlord’s Blade hang loose at his side, not raised, not even aimed. It didn’t need to be.
"Sorry, but you’re going to have to surrender, buddy." His grin came easy, the mask hiding everything except a pair of eyes RohaoKing couldn’t seem to look away from. "I’m aiming for maximum eliminations today."
Logan looked at the hand. "You wanna try that?"
His eyes flicked with curiosity.
"Will you let me?" RohaoKing blinked. Magic power churned around him as his MP reduced fast.
"Do it." Logan’s pupils shrank.
In the next instant, a blazing arrow formed out of the magic power, the size of a palm, but radiating intense power, packing a ton of MP. The legendary-rank armor set he wore fuelled its power further.
’Now.’
Logan’s arm blurred.
The speed excited him. The boost from the mythic-rank gear set elevated his perception and speed to a level he had only imagined in his dreams.
Shrraaash!
His arm blurred hundreds of times in a second, shattering the arrow into little pieces.
Axiom Severance!
It gave him Omni-Penetration, which means his attacks can essentially penetrate ANYTHING!
That meant attacks, barriers, metal, fire, water, wind, whatever!
"Thanks. That felt good." Logan grinned. "Now you can go."
"You mean you are letting me go?" RohaoKing looked at him with puppy eyes.
"..." Logan.
"Well, it was nice meeting you." RohaoKing wryly smiled. "Surrender."
[ You have eliminated Player RohaoKing. +0 Tower Points. ]
[ Match Announcement: First Blood Achieved! Leon Flanke is the first player to eliminate a player in this match. +1000 Tower Points. ]
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