Bottom of the Barrel

In the distance the sounds of swords clashing.

VICTORIOUS (yells a robotic voice)

yawn

Play me again!

Alright, alright.

You were lucky until now just wait and see.

You already lost to me twice. I don't think that's luck.

Hey! I was just warming up.

Yeah and I'm tired and it's already 8:00 p.m.

I get it loser, you're just trying to make an excuse as to why you're going to lose but just wait, for you I'll win quickly so that you can go home.

Whatever you say, just pick your champ, I'm still gonna play Lukar.

Lukar is a puppeteer with a human sized puppet named Crux, Crux moves through floating as he has neither legs nor feet and is connected through a string that Lukar controls. Crux is Luckar's main weapon and although Crux is durable having 2,000 health, Lukar himself is very fragile and only has half his puppet's total health.

Again? He's such a boring champ, bruisers are way more fun. They better keep adding more to the game. I'm gonna keep learning how to play Kohatu.

With the way you played these last games I think you should learn another champion.

Shut it!

Okay, okay just accept the challenge.

Kohatu is a bruiser champion that wields a broadsword with 2,500 health, bruiser champions are characters that can dish out damage as well as take it with the disadvantage of being extremely weak to ranged champions due to their slow and up close play style.

SELECT ULTIMATE ... 1 OR 2

In Soul Arena you get to choose between two ultimate moves unique to every character that can change the fate of how the game plays out.

Number one.

I'll choose two this time.

3...2...1...FIGHT!

As the game starts Lukar starts to back up while Kohatu rushes straight ahead.

Crux moves to encircle Kohatu, with the hope of entangling her in his string, but she ducks in time and tries to ram into Crux's while getting up but Crux slides backwards and grabs Kohatu by the head, smashing her into the ground which allows Lukar to follow up and make Crux ram into Kohatu pushing her away, leaving her with 2.7k health.

Kohatu, not affected for to long, closes the distance between her and Crux allowing her to smash the ground in order to stunning Crux for a moment allowing her to swing her sword twice in a X formation slicing Crux's chest while a third slice going horizontally missing as the stun had ended giving Crux to dodge the third attack and run around Kohatu which causes her redirect her swing to her left to follow him but misses by a hair's length.

In this window Crux is given time to cast his ability Harvest

HARVEST

HARVEST causes the Crux to summon a circle underneath the opponent, covering the opponent in a dark mist that deals 100 dmg over time for six seconds but can be stopped by if the opponent hits him during the cast, which lasts for two seconds.

In retaliation Kohatu swings towards Crux in order to stop his cast. But half way through her swing Kohatu gets stabbed by Lukar who was behind Kohatu while she was distracted and goes up to her with his secondary weapon, a dagger, stabbing her in the arm stopping the swing and letting Crux finish his cast.

Due to having low health Lukar runs away as to not get hit but Kohatu not wanting to let this chance go by chases after still getting hit by harvest's after effect.

After learning from her mistake last time she hears Crux moving in on her causing her to sword in a circle motion hitting Crux behind her and causing him to be pushed away from her but Kohatu chases after him, stabbing the Crux into the ground with a downward stab, then grabbing it and smashing it back into the ground.

This then causes Crux to bounce off the ground which Kohatu takes full advantage of and swings her sword like a baseball bat, launching Crux all the way to the barrier walls in front of them, leaving Crux left with 800 health.

Not waiting a moment she turns around to chase Lukar, Lukar while running to the right continues to pull his puppet towards him , Kohatu swings her sword three times consecutively hitting the final one.

BATTLE CRY

Battle Cry is Kohatu's ultimate which works as a taunt that stops the opponent from moving for two seconds

Battle Cry allows Kohatu to slice Lukar twice.

CONSTERNATION

Lukar's ultimate ability which is casted by Crux. This ability is a fear type ability that completely stops the opponent for one second, slows them, and decreases damage they can deal in half for 2 seconds.

Crux, who was still following Kohatu, was able to catch up, casting Consternation which allowed him to come from behind and grab her, letting Lukar use his second ability.

RELENTLESS ASSAULT

This ability causes a bleed effect after attacking them three times with basic attacks, dealing 10 damage over 10 seconds, slicing her three times Crux throws her towards Lukar to combo her with him kicking her back to Crux which leads to him sweeping her legs allowing the puppet to re-grab and throwing her up having Lukar follow up by jumping up.

Crux, after throwing her up, starts casting harvest as soon as possible while Lukar stabs her downward and leaps away from Kohatu to not get hit.

Kohatu is left with 400 HEALTH.

Getting up she tries to decrease the distance between them but instead moving in swerved motions and dodging the Crux's basic attacks in order to get close enough to use her ability on Lukar, STONE EDGE.

STONE EDGE

An ability that when used covers Kohatu's sword with rocks from the ground to cover her sword causing her next two attacks to embed rocks into the opponent doing damage over time for her next two attacks.

Kohatu's first attack was a direct hit on Lukar but the second only grazed his side. With only 150 health left Lukar is still able to run further away but Kohatu is relentless in following him but Lukar stops his movement giving Kohatu a chance for the final blow.

Crux then uses a grab which was short lived as Kohatu could easily get out of it but, it gave enough time for Lukar to slice Kohtau's legs which was a WEAK POINT.

WEAK POINT

Weak Point, Lukar's passive after the enemy has less than 25% of their total health weak points start to appear on their body allowing for critical hits.

280 HEALTH

This attack allows for Kohatu's passive to activate, HEART OF STEEL.

HEART OF STEEL

This passive allows for Kohatu to gain a shield that amounts to 300 health once Kohatu reaches underneath 300 health, this shield lasts 5 seconds.

270 HEALTH

Kohatu uses this shield to take on the damage from Weak Point leaving her with 100 shields and 260 health. She runs head on and uses Stone Edge again but this time on Crux to deal the final blow but using up all of her mana.

MANA

Mana is a mechanic that all champions have that is used upon using an ability or ultimate. Unlike most games in Soul Arena, mana does not regenerate throughout the game leaving characters to be able to use around 3-4 abilities and one ultimate or 7 abilities without your ultimate.

250 HEALTH

Kohatu, thinking that Crux is dead, runs towards Lukar to kill him but Crux lives on 100 health. Crux grabs Kohatu allowing Lukar to use the last of his mana to use a final ability Relentless Assault. This combines with the last Relentless Assault that had ticked down 50 of Kohatu's health and Kohatu is left with 50 health.

Kohatu slices off Crux's head leaving Lukar to defend for himself and puts Crux on a 120 second cooldown. Lukar then runs away letting the bleeding do its damage.

30 HEALTH

Kohatu manages to get into attack range with her sword. She starts her swing.

10 HEALTH

Lukar is unable to run away to dodge and can't take the damage with only 150 health left. Lukar then decides to move the same direction of the blade.

0 HEALTH

GAME OVER. Lukar WINS.

Since Lukar moved the same direction of the blade it did not reach Lukar within that second as he kept the distance with the blade but it would've eventually hit him if not for the time limit Kohatu had before she would get the last tick of damage.

You're so lucky if only I had used Resolve. Why did I forget about it!?

RESOLVE

Kohatu's last ability that stops incoming damage by 25%.

One more game!

No and be quiet people are looking at you.

That doesn't matter.

I'll play you tomorrow anyways.

I get it, you're scared to lose so let's go home.

Shut up.

Alright later loser!

Yeah, see ya.

NEXT DAY

Hey! Hey!

This loud mouth girl is Ember and the only person that I play games with. I started talking to her as I thought she was a quiet person who played Soul Arena, little did I know.

Look at this!

What is it?

They're starting an esports team, let's join!

We're only silver, we wouldn't even be on the main or secondary team.

So? Let's start grinding to platinum.

And what do we do once there, how will we win against the freshmen of other teams that have already been playing for this moment since elementary school let alone the seniors?

Don't be such a downer join me in this.

No.

Why?

I need to study to get to college.

C'mon I know you are better than me and if we do good then we could get a scholarship and you wouldn't need to study.

How about this? You play ranked for a month and if you can get gold then I will join you.

Fine! You better watch out. I won't talk to you until I get gold.

Sure, that'll do good for my mental health.

See ya!

I guess she'll come back whining about her teammates.

Unlike 1v1's that we do against ourselves this esport team will be in teams of 3 against another team of 3 so she will have to get into gold with 2 randoms. With her personality I feel bad for them. I wouldn't want to climb to platinum to join a club, that'll take too much work.

TWO WEEKS LATER...

Hey! Noah guess what.

Stop looking at me with that grin and tell me what happened already, you even called me by my name. Also, didn't you say that you wouldn't take to me until you hit gold?

I got gold!

Ah shit.