Infinite Realm

"20% ! 20% of my full ability. That's the amount of strength I need to use and beat you guys."

"This guy…" Reeves stared wide eyed at him. Even though he didn't want to believe it, he felt that Lu Zhen was speaking the truth. But still, this "truth" was too much for him to handle. If Reeves was in a wuxia novel, he would no doubt vomit blood out of anger.

Though Reeves was angered, Lu Zhen wasn't bothered. In fact, all that stuff he said was a lie. He was just an expert player; claiming to use only 20% of his abilities to handle a veteran class player was just too absurd. However, Lu Zhen didn't lie when he said that he was holding back in his fight against Reeves. He didn't even take the fight as a fight but as entertainment. Though his statement of having used less than 20% to battle Reeves all this while was absurd, he had used less than 40%! Now Lu Zhen was planning on taking the battle a bit more seriously by using 50% of his real abilities.

"Come on. Show me what you got and don't keep me waiting." Lu Zhen taunted the two.

"You…" Blue Banana growled before taking a step forward.

"Huff." Reeves sighed heavily as he stopped Blue Banana was rushing towards Lu Zhen.

"You know, I would have really liked to play with you but sadly there's not enough time." Reeves suddenly grinned as he glanced at the System clock on his interface, visible only to himself.

"Not enough time?" Lu Zhen asked while feeling a bit anxious as if he had made a mistake.

"Brother…" Xue Yan quietly called out from the side.[1] She was quite worried as Reeves actions had been strange to her. Xue Yan wasn't a novice to gaming and so she easily realised that Reeves had been trying to hold them back and even Blue Banana did the same to her. Now with Reeves current statement, Xue Yan felt that it was better to risk it all to escape.

Seeing her face, he could already guessed what happened. In response to her call though, Lu Zhen nodded as he prepared to intercept the two adversaries. Immediately, Xue Yan broke off from the group and ran away towards another direction far from Blue Banana and Reeves. Xue Yan was an [Elementalist] and in a high intensity battle, she could hardly achieve much due to her lacking skills. As such, Lu Zhen already had the intention for her to escape, way back before they began fighting, while he handled the two opponents. Sadly, Blue Banana always kept his eyes on her and locked down her movements, preventing her from escaping far enough. Previously, Blue Banana had held her back preventing her from escaping and now that he and Reeves had kept their focus was on Lu Zhen, she finally had the time to escape. As for Lu Zhen, Xue Yan didn't worry about him. To be precise, Lu Zhen told her not to worry about him. As an [Assassin], he obviously had certain class skills that could help him escape from a perilous situation.

"It's too late." Reeves chuckled. Just as he concluded his statement, 6 different shadows leaped out from the sides immediately entering the foray.

"You're...!" Xue Yan stared at the new arrivals in shock.

"Long time no see, miss." Rolo smiled in a gentleman like manner. Even as he did so, a bit of unhidden killing intent was exposed in his eyes. Together with the gentleman-like smile it made him look a lot eerie than normal.

"Why are you here?!" Xue Ya asked him with astonishment in her eyes. She just couldn't fathom why the man who had caused her previous team so much losses was teaming up with that exact team to handle her.

"Why can't I be here huh? Is there a rule that says such?" Rolo smirked as he scanned her body while licking his lips.

In response to his actions, Xue Yan took a step back while shielding herself with her staff. It would be a lie to say that Rolo's appearance and stare didn't frighten her.

Lu Zhen glanced at the 6 new players before staring at Reeves. "Why the hell would you team up with the bunch of wolves who forced you to swallow a loss? Even more so, you teamed up with them to strike your saviours?"

Lu Zhen just couldn't figure it out. Actually, no one can. Not only did you not retaliate against the party that attacked you and slayed[2] your men, you even teamed up with them to strike your rescuers. Unless you were originally teammates with them, then you had to have had a screw lose somewhere in your brain. But Lu Zhen didn't believe that they were teammates before. It just didn't make sense to kill your own teammates to target the only outsider in your group, a girl.

"Saviours? Is that what you think you are? Hahaha. Don't make me laugh. You guys took that precious bow from me and you think you would get away? How foolish!" Reeves cursed at them.

'Something isn't right.' Lu Zhen thought. Even though he hadn't seen the rank of the bow, even if it was an Upper tier Mortal rank one, teaming up with a bunch of wolves in hopes of getting it back was more than dumb and Reeves didn't look like such a dumb person.

'But then why…'Lu Zhen wondered.

"Enough talking. Let's finish him." Rolo smiled. From the 5 that came with him, 3 were his teammates while the other 2 were Reeves' teammates. With that, the 2 parties were complete.

"Right. Remember the deal. We split everything 50-50." Reeves said seriously.

"Of course, of course." Rolo chuckled but internally he was wondering how foolish Reeves was. To have requested the help of a bunch of dark players, one that had even attacked him, Rolo couldn't help but wonder whether he had a screw loose. Rolo had previously met with him and requested his aid in fighting those 3 that had killed him. Rolo had thought that it was a trap but after proving his identity, Rolo knew that Reeves wasn't related with those 3 in any way possible; only the girl was. After Reeves had explained his plan, Rolo was interested especially since he would gain 50% of the lot. Those guys were strong so he guessed that their equipment and weapons would be impressive too. Originally he had thought that this was a trap set by Reeves and had even prepared a counter for it, but after reaching here, he realised that he might have over-thought things.

'This is just too good.' Rolo grinned internally. An opportunity to take down two groups of players was in front of him. How would he just just settle at 50%? Rolo planned on keeping his team's strength and back-stabbing Reeves at the last second thereby gaining benefits from both two parties. Dignity? Pride? Trust? He was a dark player for crying out loud. All those stuffs about moral and dignity doesn't affect him.

'Keke. I will really reap a lot today.' Rolo couldn't help smiling. However, he still didn't make the first move but waited for Reeves' team. No matter what, he still didn't get why Reeves would suddenly so he still had a bit of apprehension in his heart. But it turned out that Rolo's caution was for naught as Reeves suddenly dashed towards Lu Zhen and Xue Yan while ordering his teammates.

"Attack!"

Seeing this, Rolo didn't stay by the sidelines as that would lead to Reeves being suspicious about his motives. He too lead his teammates against Lu Zhen and Xue Yan albeit only 2 of them. He made those two surround the place in case if Reeves asked why he left them behind. He could then claim that it was to prevent Lu Zhen and Xue Yan from escaping or to intercept outsiders. In actual fact, he wanted those guys to preserve their strength and be ready to attack at the crucial moment.

"Damn it." Lu Zhen cursed but he still tightened his grasp on his dagger.

"Xue Yan. Stay behind me." Lu Zhen told Xue Yan. Though they were surrounded, right behind Lu Zhen stood one of the 2 players Rolo had left on the sidelines. Seeing that he hadn't made a move yet, Lu Zhen decided to take a bet and let Xue Yan stay there while he fended off the remaining 6 players.

"Still think you can use only 20%?" Blue Banana laughed out loud.

"No. But I think 50% is enough." Lu Zhen smirked.

"You…" Blue Banana glared at him. " You still have the energy to be joking around in this situation? Fine then. I will slaughter you and cut you into a thousand pieces."

"Ohhh, I'm so scared." Lu Zhen said in a mocking tone.

While Lu Zhen had his own encounter, Sato, Fudo, Yato, Seiichi and Katsuo were stopped by a stranger. Normally, they wouldn't just stop because of one stranger since Sato suspected that the people under attack were Lu Zhen and Xue Yan. However, this one stranger was really strange.. Why? Because of the yellow marker on his head. This character was an NPC!