Yggdrasil Climb

The day of the match finally arrived, and they were currently in the Thor stadium in the Norse territory, meaning Vidar's team technically had the home field advantage. Alex walked onto the field with his team, Bina, Bova, Vasco, Irina, Lint, Crom Cruach Elmenhilde, and finally the new member Roygun. As Bova took less pawn pieces than Crom, Alex switched the two so his rooks were Vasco and Crom, while his pawns were Elmenhilde, Bova, and Roygun. He had even brought Miss Sapphire along and fully intended to have her participate. They walked out onto the field to the thunderous roar of the crowds, but what they got was nothing when Vidar walked out with the Valkyries, as they were from here.

On the other team was Typhon as the king, Apollon as Queen, Vidar was their rook, Artemis was the bishop, the knight was the chief of the Valkyries Bryhindlr, and the four pawns that arrived were part of the Valkyrie squad. Alex looked at the group and focused on Typhon, the blue skinned giant had a snakelike lower body and giant wings. The pressure he was giving out was on another level, confirming his status as one of the top ten most powerful beings in the world. As they all arrived the announcer shouted out,

"WELCOME ALL TO A VERY ANTICIPATED GAME, TODAY WE HAVE THE KING OF MONSTERS VS THE RED DRAGON EMPEROR!"

The audience erupted in cheers at his words, as the screen displayed the random drawing for the game rules. As the letters flashed Alex thought about the rules in the novel, Yggdrasil climb, where they had to climb a replica of the giant tree Yggdrasil. As if it read his mind, the screen displayed the very letters for the game.

"AND ITS YGGDRASIL CLIMB LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! THE RULES ARE SIMPLE, BOTH TEAMS NEED TO CLIMB THE GIANT REPLICA OF YGGDRASIL, AND THE ONE TO HAVE A MEMBER REACH THE TOP FIRST WINS! HOWEVER IF A KING FROM EITHER TEAM RETIRES, THEN LIKE NORMAL RULES ITS A GAME OVER! ARE YOU READY?!"

As he ended the explanation of the rules the audience erupted into cheers once more. Once each team was handed a rule sheet, they were transported to the arena. As soon as they arrived, Alex looked up at the tree in front of him and marveled at it. Typhon's team was obviously on the other side of it, as he couldn't see any of them. As Alex already had an idea of this event coming up, he already formed a plan for it, and pulled his team in to discuss it.

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Vidar was running up the stairs with Artemis and Bryhindlr, while Typhon and the rest flew around them. Due to them all being such exceptional beings it was usually hard to cooperate, but it was agreed that they shouldn't separate during this match. As he ran Vidar suddenly felt a sense of danger and jumped, only to watch as the stairs he was running on blew up a second later. Artemis and Bryhindlr flew alongside him, and the whole group started looking for the source of the attack. Then they heard above them,

"Time for this twinkling magical girl to take the stage!💕" They looked up to see the second of the hooded figures floating above them, waving a decorated wand before she started glowing. Suddenly their entire team was encased in ice while the figure was revealed to be a certain twin tailed magical girl.

"I CANT BELIEVE THIS, THE MYSTERIOUS MISS SAPPHIRE IS NONE OTHER THAN THE MAOU SERAFALL LEVIATHAN!"

The announcer shouted out, as the audience was in an uproar. For Vidar, Apollon, Artemis, and Typhon it was child's play to break the ice encasing them. But before their other teammates could do so, the masked member of Alex's team, Bina, rushed in and delivered devastating magical attacks against the still frozen Valkyries.

"Typhon's four pawns, and knight retired."

The arbitrator announced, leaving just Vidar, Apollon, Artemis, and Typhon by themselves. Apollon was about to use his light attacks to retaliate against Serafall, who was still showering the entire area with large amounts of ice, when he sensed someone approaching him and had to block their attack.

"God of the sun, and current chief of Olympus Apollon, I'll be your opponent." The excited Crom Cruach said, as he used the increase in strength he received by being moved to a rook position. Apollon frowned, as he noticed they sent the only non devil opponent against him, but having the most powerful evil dragon as his opponent was quite the thrill. The two took their fight away from the rest, so as not to be disturbed.

Suddenly there was the sound of loud boom, as Typhon's giant body was suddenly sent falling to one of the floating islands around the tree. Floating there where Typhon was before was Alex with his gauntlet on one hand and a golden glow surrounding his body. As Vidar set his sights on him, he swiftly started towards him, before another figure appeared and blocked his way. It was the mask wearing woman Bina, who said,

"Our King has more important matters than you, I'll be your opponent." Vidar looked at this woman, and felt insulted, as he was considered not important enough for Alex to fight himself. He wanted to end this quickly, but he needed to save his trump card for Alex, so he activated his mystical boots, to better improve his speed and kicks. However Bina/Grayfia had already secretly promoted to the knight piece, as Alex specifically sent her to fight him. The two then engaged in a high speed battle around the arena.

That left Serafall using wide area ice magic to hinder the opposition, and Typhon who was knocked down by Alex, and was sending different types of weather attacks at her to disrupt her ice attacks. Alex then suddenly grabbed something out of the air less than an inch from his face, and snapped the arrow that was shot at him. He then turned his attention to the sniper, Artemis. She then seemed to notice something, and shot at another target, before Alex intercepted that attack as well.

The ones she tried to attack was the group being led by Roygun, that consisted of her, Vasco, Irina, Lint, Bova, and Elmenhilde. Alex's plan was that he would lead the other three to hold Typhon's team back, while their group would continue to climb up the tree. Currently they were all flying, while Bova carried Vasco and Elmenhilde, and the other three were circling him. The reason he sent so many of them together was because if any of the opposing team somehow got past them, they would need the extra power. After all, they were up against several Godly opponents.

He then turned his attention to Artemis, and decided that he needed to prioritize retiring her before Typhon, since one of her divine arrows could retire most of his team in a single hit. Winning meant reaching the top or taking out the king, he intended to have the others go for the top while he led the other three to fight Typhon and the three gods.

He sent a kick at Artemis, and sent her flying to another of the floating islands, raising a giant cloud of dust where she landed. He didn't hear the retirement announcement, and suspected that he held back a little too much. Alex was currently not only in super Saiyan mode, but he had also boosted once, meaning his attacks could be very lethal, even with the games retirement system. The only ones he felt comfortable attacking unrestrainedly was the king of monsters Typhon, and the one who had a rooks increased defense, Vidar.

Landing on the floating island, the cloud of dust dispersed to show Artemis, making Alex realize he didn't hold back as much as he thought. Her bow was destroyed, and one of her arms was hanging at her side, more than likely broken. Seeing him approach, she instantly covered herself with her divine aura to attempt to fight back. Right as Alex was about to attack her, he froze.

Thinking back he felt very stupid to make this oversight, to not see that neither Vidar or Typhon were the ones he needed to be concerned about. It was only a split second too late that he realized that it wasn't a good thing for a Saiyan to look at a moon goddess using her divine aura. His consciousness then went dark.