4 Duel Start (2)

"Don't you think I should be the one who said that?" Auron refuted. "Are you still dreaming? Well, it is time for a baby to go to sleep. Unfortunately, we still have a bet to conclude. Guys, can you help me look for her mom and wake him up, he has a bet to conclude?" Auron said to his guildmate, followed by huge laughter.

Raging Bull started to get angry. He raised his tone, "Auron, do you think you can beat me by making me angry?"

Cold Candle, who stand beside Auron, whispered to him, "Guild leader, look at his equipment, looks like the rumor is true. His equipment has changed and slightly better than yours. You need to be careful. We still don't know whether he has a buff potion or not."

Auron observed Raging Bull in front of him. From top to bottom, Raging Bull equipment changed, and he looked more mighty and muscular than before. "Darius, do you think I am afraid of your new equipment? It looks dazzling, but that's it, nothing special with it? Don't you forget your skill level are lower than mine? I think it still hard for you to raise your skill level with all of the money you sponsored." Auron smiled.

Darius didn't surprise to hear him know about the sponsored money. He maintained his posture, "We all know how hard to raise our skill level. Even you the ranked no. 1 still can't surpass level 50, although my skill level is lower than yours, but the difference is not that far."

In Two Worlds, there is no restriction on how many skills a player can learn, as long as the requirements were fulfilled. There are only two requirements for a player. He could only learn skills based on his class. Also, to learn a skill or raised it, the player needed a skill book, and the amount is varied depending on the skill level. To increase an ability, a player required to use a skill book of corresponding skill double amount of the next skill level. Every 10 levels, the player needed to use a higher grade skill book. For instance, to raise from level 0 to level 1, the player required 2 common skill books. And, from level 1 to level 2, they needed 4 common skill books. Then, from level 2 to level 3, they required 6 common skill books, and so on.

When the player's skill level got to level 10, the skill book needed raise by one grade. From level 10 to level 11, they required 22 uncommon skill books. From level 11 to level 12, they needed 24 uncommon skill books, and so on. This went on until the player's skill reach level 30. When a player wanted to raise his ability to level 31, he only needed 1 epic skill book. From 31 to 32, he needed 2 epic skill books, and so on. Although the amount seems reduced, the truth was the difficulty in raising it still high, even higher than before. Skill books from rare and below can be traded between players. However, starting from epic grade, the skill book couldn't be purchased because it was bound to the player who took it.

Moreover, the skill book drop rate meager. The drop rate for common grade skill books almost the same as the drop rate of rare grade equipment or item. That's why, in Two World, even after ran for 10 years, common grade skill book still pretty expensive.

Fortunately, for epic grade skill books and higher, Two Worlds gave a chance to exchange bounded skill books they had. Player could exchange 10 epic grade skill books regardless of the class to 1 epic grade skill book of their choice. When players learned about this news, they started to do a service, which was a skill book's hunting service. The one who wanted to use this service will pay some amount of money to a group of players and made a party. They went to hunt whether it was on an expedition or grinding monster or even invading other worlds. When an epic skill book dropped, it will go to the one who used this service. Of course, it was costly to use this service, but still, many wealthy people used this service.

Also, in Two Worlds, although one has the same class, one could be stronger than others. This can be looked at from their skill level, their equipment, and their character's attribute.

Raging Bull and God Of Sword, both of them have the same class, which was a swordsman. So, this bet can be called the duel of the two top swordsman. Although their class was the same, however, they built their character differently. Auron gave his attribute equally between strength and agility. On the other hand, Darius gave almost all of his attributes to strength.

Auron looked calm and smiled, "Enough of the talk, let us start our duel now."

Raging Bull and God Of Sword, both stepped on the arena stage at the same time. Darius then handed over the signed contract to an NPC officer. "Both of you have signed this contract and agreed to this. After this battle over, the loser will have 3 days to execute the penalty. During this time, they could not sell, remove, trade, or drop their items, money, and equipment. If he doesn't execute it in time, he will receive a severe penalty".

The one who neglected to execute the penalty from the contract will get his attribute permanently reduced by 99%. Also, all of his skill level will be gone, and all of his equipment, money, and item will be gone. The penalty received almost the same as deleting a character. But, because the stake of the bet right now was very high, there was no difference between the stake of bet and penalty.

"Let the battle begin in 10, 9, 8, 7,.. 3, 2, 1, begin" NPC officer started the duel.

When the battle started, Auron directly use his movement skills. With his high agility attribute, his speed rose. He swung his sword instantly to Darius' head.

"Bang," Darius parried Auron sword with his ax. Darius was strength very high because of the collision, Auron flew back. He spun once and landed smoothly on his first spot.

Darius laughed, "Why are you so impatient?".

"I am just testing the water." Auron also laughed. "Let's get serious."