The First Duel

As Nikola entered the world of Embers of Isera, she found herself standing on the plaza as more and more people appeared around her, she quickly checked her friends list and found Nathanael or as his in game name Zeus she as such send a message to him.

'Where are you Nathan?'

Zeus who was busy earning money suddenly received a prompt from in his HUD.

[1 UNREAD Message from AZI]

Zeus opened it and was he read the message.

[Where are you Nathan?]

Zeus smirked, 'It seems my cousin has entered the game, and 'AZI' where did she get the inspiration of the name for?'

He quickly sends her a reply, 'I am at the City Hall trying to earn money by filling the forms for people who wish to increase their class, wait for a few minutes I will be arriving soon.'

No sooner did he finished sending the message he received another from Azi,

[I will be there soon you wait for me]

Zeus shrugged as he began spending time trying to earn little extra money by filling the forms, half an hour later a bluish haired woman with reddish eye and snow white colored skin strolled in she waved lightly to Zeus as she spoke, "Yo, cousin seems like your business is going well", by then a long line had formed of people who were getting their forms filled by Zeus.

Zeus smirked as he spoke, "Here take this and deposit the form on that counter.", he handed a form to Azi with a smirk.

Azi took the form as she deposited it changing her class from 'Vagrant' to 'Serf'.

As Azi reached near Zeus he took out a map and handed it to her as he spoke, "Visit anyone of the places I have marked for you and start working, I will meet you at the place marked."

Azi with the map in her hand Azi left while waving back at Zeus, "See you later cousin."

The person standing in front of Zeus suddenly spoke as he winked, "Hey bro, that woman is she your cousin?"

Zeus raised one of his eyebrows as he spoke, "Yes, why are you asking?"

The person suddenly leaned forward as he spoke, "Hey how about you introduce me to her, I am a very helpful and nice person and I promise you I will help you in this game immensely, just introduce her to me."

Zeus shrugged as he spoke while filling up his form, "Well okay I have no problem with that Mr. 'Samurai God' but do want to learn a few things about her from me."

Samurai God spoke with a smile, "Yeah why not?"

Zeus nodded as he spoke, "Do you know what 'Penectomy' and 'Hysterectomy' is?"

Samurai God scratched his chin as he spoke, "No, I do not have a clue."

Zeus nodded as he spoke somberly, "Well you see my cousin is a very faithful and loving person, but unfortunately according to her, she became suspicious of her ex-boyfriend to the point she was totally convinced that he was having an affair behind her back and one day she saw him speaking with another woman she got angry and then she arranged 'Penectomy' and 'Hysterectomy' for the dup as a break up gift, you know Mr. 'Samurai God', you are decent person so I will warn you do not make her angry or suspicious or you will suffer, and if you are still wandering about those two words well they means surgical removal of your baby making tools forever.", she finished with an innocent smile.

The man paled and before long ran as far away from Zeus, who simply shrugged.

"My my what good boy protecting your sister with such lies.", a sultry voice came to Zeus's ears.

Zeus: "Miss please I did not lie, I swear it was the absolute truth"

The woman gave a coy smile as she bowed a little while pushing her big breasts using her hands trying to make her cleavage even bigger in an attempt to seduce Zeus.

"You big boy needs a reward how about this you fill my form for a 'special' rate I will let you do ANYTHING-YOU-WANT-FORM-ME.", she spoke the last 5 words in a coy and seductive manner, her clothes were so strained that here twins were about to pop out.

Zeus averted his eyes as he spoke shyly, "Well then instead of 5 copper coins,", he shakily rose his hand as if he was trying to show her a special rate, he showed 2 fingers as he spoke, "Just 2 Bronze coin will be enough."

The woman's smile froze as her entire demeanor changed from seductive to enrage as she shouted out, "What is wrong with you? Are you not straight? No hot blooded straight male is immune to my womanly charm."

Zeus deadpanned at her as he spoke, "Lady I am a businessman and the only thing I care about now is business and as far as your womanly charm, miss I grew up surrounded by women who could give even the hottest and sexiest of film actress a run for their money. Now if you have nothing else to do leave others are waiting and there is only an hour left before 9 o'clock when the counter closes so hurry up."

The woman grumbled and cursed as she forked out 5 copper coins and handed to Zeus who accepted it with a smile on his face as he spoke, "Thank you for the patronage ma'am."

An hour later Zeus closed his shop he was happy his pocket was no filled with about 1200 Copper coins if or in other words 12 Bronze Coins.

A happy Zeus left the City Hall as he left with a skip on his steps when he was greeted by people he never wanted to see ever again in his life the 'toad' and his minions, he felt a sudden need to shower with bleach as their eyes landed on him, 'Why does god hate me so much why do I have to meet they the toad and his minions.'

The toad opened his mouth as he spoke, "You over there, are you not the person who is filling all those forms, well you should be honored that I 'Supreme King' is granting you the permission to fill my form on my behalf.", he finished with a holier than thou look on his face, a face only his mother would love and that horrid voice, 'ugh even if the game allowed 100% alteration I doubt he could make himself presentable. Not only that but that nincompoop did not even bother altering his looks, how is he still alive and not killed by any NPC thinking him as some devil spawn is beyond myself'

Zeus: "Sorry the office is closed and as is my shop for today try again tomorrow."

One of his minions suddenly bristled in anger as he shouted out almost foaming from his mouth, "How dare you say no to our glorious leader 'Supreme King'."

Zeus simply deadpanned at that as he replied in a nonchalant manner while shrugging as he began walking again.

This time a woman voice stopped him, "How dare you whore child, how dare you insult my handsome prince like that.", he turned causing his mood to plummet here was his ex-clinging to the person like a glue.

Zeus almost snickered as he heard a few people discussing amongst themselves, 'How did that B-rated horror movie reject get such a beautiful girl as his lover. What does he have that I don't possess', a person lamented only to spoken harshly by his friend, 'You idiot that person must be loaded with money, and that girl must be some kind of gold digging hooker, if I were him I would stay away from girls like that who knows what strange disease she might have.'

It took more strength than Atlas himself when he held the sky, for Zeus not to fall on the ground roaring with laughter.

Zeus: "Well than I think you could tell your deaf and dumb prince charming that I will NOT fill his form."

Supreme Lord had a strange purple look in his face as he shouted out, "Do you know who my father is?"

Zeus replied coolly at that, "Seeing your behavior I can hazard a guess that your father is whining an even bigger whining and whimpering mutt."

Supreme Lord smirked as he spoke, "Good good, I will make not only your life in game hell, but your real life as well my dad will find out your real life identity then I will make your dad lick my boots and I will force your mother and sister as my personal slut."

Zeus was visibly pissed by then as he growled as he spoke, "Listen you prince of toads, since you want to die so much, here is what I propose to you. Since fighting except duels are not allowed inside the city I am challenging you to a duel, terms of the duel is simple the winner takes the losers all possession."

Supreme Lord smirked as he spoke, "Hmm you whelp since you want to die I will accept but remember I am level 5, he finished with an arrogant smirk as he took out a common tier broadsword."

Zeus spoke in a false concern tone as he spoke, "Oh my you are so strong I think I should have a handicap right, how about this all of you versus me a pitiful level 3."

Zeus had already checked the level on them and he was sure on one thing this people did not grind there stats as their 'Mana Points 'and 'Health Points were much lower than even him while they were on level 5 as such he was sure to defeat them.'

Supreme Lord snorted as he spoke, "Well I agree, but I want a death match not some puny duel."

Death match a term used by gamers when a duel ends with the opponents death. The loser of the death match has to suffer the same penalty as any other person who had died in the game.

A floating scroll appeared in front of the participants as Zeus initiated the death match by challenging them, with one side being Zeus alone and the other consisting of Supreme Lord and his entire group of 6, after a going acceptance of terms and conditions the countdown for the Death Match began.

As soon as the timer hit zero, a buzzer sounded, the Supreme Lord and his lady stayed back as the other four charged forwards with daggers, sword, spear and axe.

Zeus because of his superior stats easily dodged as he send a vicious kick towards the manhood of the one with a dagger, causing him to crumple clutching his precious manhood as a huge number [Critical HIT +500 Damage] appeared, he then stabbed the brain of the one with a spear through his eye, causing another number [Critical HIT +900 Damage] appeared as the person broke like glass indicating his death, he then hit the other person with a sword, hard with the blunt end of his Sword staff, [-100] appeared on top of his with red letter on his head, before he suddenly jumped back as he picked up the downed person as a shield as he was hit with an arrow, [-10] appeared on top of that person as he died.

The sword wielder and the axe wielder double teamed on him as they were being backed up by his ex with a bow, which Zeus easily dodged before he send blows after lows on them in a blink of an eye as many number floated above them in red.

-200, -100, -150, -150 appeared on them as they shattered like a glass dispersing. Zeus turned towards the duo as he smirked while speaking, "Now what to do with you two."

Now the duo were scared at the display by Zeus, as they stepped back while the Supreme Lord shouted at him in anger, "You freak leave us or I will make your life hell."

Zeus smirked sadistically as he spoke, "Toad Lord, you dare threaten me and now you want me to leave you, you mongrel the moment you threaten my family is your life forfeit.", with that he dashed towards the duo attacking him in an incredible show of speed as he send a number of blows toward his Ex and a few hits later she died.

Supreme Lord had fallen on his back at that causing Zeus to scoff, 'If he is frightened by this he should give up, when the real monsters arrive he would simply lose his bowels.'

Supreme Lord tried to stutter out, "I I-gi-giv…"

Zeus eyes widened in alarm as he spoke, "Oh no, you don't.", as he dashed towards the fallen foe, ramming the staff end down Supreme Lord's throat as he spoke in a sadistic glee, "Reduce to ash you mongrel.", for a moment everyone who was watching their world seemed to slow down as he spoke a single word, "FIREBALL."

The throat of the toad bulged to an impossible size as a vicious fiery explosion occurred, a word with bright orange light occurred above his head, [WINNER].