Two Swords, One Chance.

Mammon dashed forward, aiming at Veylin's mid-section. He delivered the hit and smiled at the now falling Veylin who managed to still block the incoming short sword with his.

He collapsed on the floor, laughing like a maniac. He had done it without any causalities. All the other trainee's who had witnessed the situation stood speechless with their mouth agape.

"Nice one there kiddo." Veylin said getting up.

"Yeah thanks." Mammon said still on the floor.

Even though that might have been done without any causalities, he was drained and was feeling pain all over his body.

"Putting me off balance and using my body weight against me. Smooth thinking there."He said looking over at Mammon, stretching his hands to pull him up.

"After threatening to kill me, that was the only thing I could think of." Mammon said clapping Veylin's hands which pulled him up.

"Oh come on! That was just an empty threat, I would never do such. I only used it to motivate you." He replied.

"Well it worked, even though I didn't feel motivated in the very best way." Mammon said.

"Yeah sorry about that. Now I'm sure you're starving cause I am," Veylin said holding his flat tummy.

"Yeah you are clearly right, I am very hungry." Mammon said

They proceeded to the kitchen barracks and got their food. As they were eating, Veylin talked to him.

"I have asked the village blacksmith for some weapons, you will go there tomorrow and get them for me," he said.

"Yes sir," Mammon replied.

As they finished, mammon went back to his residence. He noticed it was too early to log out, so he decided to train his mana.

He thought of something immediately and set into action, using his mana sensing to see the surrounding mana. Then he let out some of his mana joining his with the surrounding mana, forming a ball of mana.

Then he started compressing it to the best of his abilities, hoping to discover something new from this. He felt a bit of repulsion, like the mana didn't want to be compressed anymore.

But instead of stopping, he continued compressing it has hard as he could until he began noticing some changes. The color was slowly changing from blue to white.

Mammon thinking he done something, stopped the compression. Immediately, the ball shattered releasing the containing mana around.

'Guess I can't compress mana.' He thought.

He then started messing with the basic elements, creating fireballs, miniature whirlwinds in his hands. He remembered he had already gotten attuned to a particular element even though he never asked Astranor.

Since, he didn't know which one was attuned to, he closed his eyes and thought of all the elements and energies, hoping the one he was attuned to would manifest.

As he did, he felt his mana move, like something was happening. He opened his eyes to see a small black smoke on the floor, moving erratically.

Since, he didn't what it was, he forgot about it.

Then he remembered something. He wasn't even leveling up at all. He ran out hoping to meet either Veylin or Elian at the barracks. Luckily, he still met Veylin there so he ran to meet him.

"Sir Veylin, I need your help."

"What is it rookie?"

"Is there any way I can gain fighting experience?" He asked.

"Well yeah there is. You can join the Parol in the evening."

"Yes, you can join starting today."

"Okay, thank you Sir."

Mammon ran out from the barracks happy. He stopped at his residence, logging out immediately.

Miles took his phone his phone from the gaming table to check the time. It was 9:46 p.m, he ordered some food and checked the forums.

Everything was still the same as always, until he checked ECHO's forum and saw they were going live by 10 p.m. Interested, he decided he was going to watch it.

His delivery came in few minutes and he set everywhere up. He turned the television as it tuned in automatically into a local channel that also covered Esports.

There were displaying the rankings for 'Eden's Legacy' on the side a reporter was commenting on the name of appearing on it.

To no one's surprise, most top ten and the top fifty spots were now occupied by famous and strong players from the last popular game 'AGP Online'.

Mammon furrowed his brows, this time something had changed. The number one on the leaderboards had a name of question marks.

As 10 p.m. set in, the view changed in a interview room, with the word 'ECHO' vividly written in red.

'I guess it's starting.' Mammon thought.

The host Amelia Rains, then announced an interview with the top two and three from 'New Eden', Ragnar and Aurelia. It also presented them with their real names since they were already famous Esports athletes.

"Without further ado, live and first time on set, Alexandra Rosen, better known through her character alias, Aurelia!" The host presented, lifting her arm to the side.

Cameras shifted and welcomed on set a beautiful curvy woman appearing with a kitsune mask on. Her weight did not affect her grace and elegance as she strode to sit on the couch next to the host.

The audience clapped as she walked in.

"She is currently second on rankings, combating our next guest fiercely to stay ahead. He is from the United States of America and is the ex-number one player in the famous game 'AGP online', he'll be joining us shortly."

"So tell me, Aurelia, how does it feel to be with us here in the studio for the first time?"

"Well all I say can is that, it is good to be here and you can drop the game formalities and call me Alexa." Alexandra spoke through her mask.

"Splendid reply, Alexa. Now that you are here, there have been a lot of critics lately about your mask, how do feel about that?" Amelia asked.

"That voice, I recognize it somehow, but I can't remember where." Mammon said lowly as he continued watching, eating at the same time.

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Merry Christmas to you all.