MMORPG: Rise of the Primordial Godsmith

With him unable to flee from his current position due to Valyr\'s obstruction, the man gritted his teeth as he hastily conjured a shield above his head, completing it just before the phoenixes could strike him.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Feeling his arms quake whenever the phoenixes struck his shield, the man paled even further, briefly glancing at the young man beside him with fear as he infused more of his energy into the shield.

With how consistent the phoenixes struck the shield he made, it went without saying that most, if not all of the man\'s focus was on defending himself from the onslaught of attacks.

Because of that, the man did not notice that at some point in his defense, the vines constricting him in place disappeared without a trace, giving him the option to escape Valyr\'s attack if he wanted.

However, as the man\'s focus was mostly on the phoenixes raining down above him, the realization of his regained freedom came quite late to him, only realizing that he could move once more after the phoenixes cracked his shield.

With the newfound realization, it went without saying that the man escaped as fast as he could from the range of Valyr\'s attack, even going so far as to activate another stat-boosting skill in order to do so.

Unfortunately for him, it wasn\'t as if Valyr didn\'t have an idea of what was going on in the man\'s mind.

Whoosh!

Continuing to infuse Prime Azure Energy to continue raining down more phoenixes on his opponent, Valyr conjured yet another strand of blue-white energy in a bid to bind his opponent in place once more.

After all, just like his purpose in binding the man in place the first time, he planned to bind the man in place once more in order to control the tempo of the entire fight.

Though, with how the man now seemed to act like a slippery snake, the chances of Valyr successfully landing the combination of mana and Mystic Energy on the man was considerably lower than before.

Then again, it wasn\'t as if he didn\'t have any ways to solve that.

"[Four Paths Azure Magic Arts]."

"[Azure Dragon\'s Fang]."

Imbued with the element of Wind, Valyr hastily conjured a large fang out of Prime Azure Energy in front of the man, causing the latter to immediately take a few steps back to avoid the attack.

Though, in exchange, he\'d opened himself to yet another attack from the young man, ultimately leading him to be bound in place once more.

Realizing that he\'d been led around by the young man he was fighting all this time, it did not take another barrage of phoenixes raining down the sky for the man to come to the conclusion that his chances of winning were abysmally low.

Thus, while glancing at Valyr with slight fear in his eyes, the man eventually voiced out his surrender, prompting the young man to swiftly dispel all of his ongoing attacks in response.

Witnessing how all of the attacks that tormented him earlier simply disappeared without a trace in response to his surrender, the man slightly shuddered in terror as he gained a renewed impression of the young man in his mind.

\'I don\'t know if he\'s revealed everything he\'s got in this fight…\'

\'But he is definitely not someone I nor anyone at my level could mess with.\'

With Valyr\'s opponent voicing out his surrender, it did not take long for Scho\'doxa to make his move, swiftly transporting the winner of the Early Rank 5 tournament out of the arena with a snap of his fingers.

After that, he moved to where Valyr was, briefly watching the young man take out a mana potion out of his spatial bracelet.

"Here you go." Slightly shrugging at Valyr\'s actions, the man then proceeded to toss a bottle towards Valyr that contained a leaf similar to what the latter had gotten before.

However, unlike the leaf the young man got from Scho\'doxa before the challenge, the leaf the man gave radiated more color than before, giving off the illusion that it was showing one colors that went beyond what was capable with the naked eye.

Receiving the upgraded version of the fifth round item from Scho\'doxa, Valyr went ahead and tossed back his original reward to the man after being told that the same rewards of differing tiers wouldn\'t stack in effect.

Hearing those words, the young man brought out the shards he\'d gotten from the man\'s challenge and the fourth round in response, asking the man after that if their effects would stack.

Though slightly surprised to see the young man carry two of the same items, Scho\'doxa soon had a bitter smile on his face as he realized what he\'d done, overlooking the fact that he\'d already given Valyr the shards before the fourth round began.

In the end, the man made no move to confiscate the extra copy, instead telling Valyr that duplicate items of the same tier would stack in effect. However, the difference in its stacking effect was that the items would stack additively, rather than multiplicatively.

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In the end, the man made no move to confiscate the extra copy, instead telling Valyr that duplicate items of the same tier would stack in effect. However, the difference in its stacking effect was that the items would stack additively, rather than multiplicatively.

Nevertheless, that was more than enough for Valyr to become more driven to defeat all the other victors of the various tournaments, especially after Scho\'doxa told him that there was the possibility of him upgrading both bottles.

After getting a bit more rest, Scho\'doxa disappeared from Valyr\'s sight once after the latter told him that he was ready to continue with his challenge.

Moments later, the winner of the Mid Rank 5 tournament appeared before the young man, which was a man that looked to be in his early thirties, wearing a set of dark clothing that made him resemble a ninja.

Surprisingly, as the two gazed at each other to roughly assess what they were up against, the man\'s eyes widened in slight surprise before donning a wry smile soon after..

"To think I\'d have to fight against you," said his soon-to-be opponent to him, which made Valyr look back at him with confusion on his face.

"Have I done something wrong to you?" asked the young man back, to which the man shook his head in response.

"Not at all," his opponent replied. "It\'s just that I\'ve heard of your feats during the first round."

"Ah."

Fortunately, the conversation did not continue down the rabbit hole of the man admitting defeat outright to Valyr before the fight even began.

Instead, the man wanted to see the proof behind Valyr\'s feats for himself, prompting the two to distance themselves from one another as Scho\'doxa acted as their referee yet again.

With the arbiter signaling the start of their fight, Valyr\'s opponent went all out in charging towards the young man, employing both stat-boosting skills and movement skills in a bid to catch Valyr unaware with his first attack.

However, rather than distance himself from the man in hopes of retaking the initiative, the young man instead remained where he was, only activating his oft-used stat-boosting skill as preparation.

Noticing that, Valyr\'s opponent let out a slight scoff, wondering whether the young man had let all of the attention he got throughout the tournament get his head.

With that in mind, the man put in all of his strength in his first strike, unsheathing the sword behind his back before slashing out in Valyr\'s direction.

Bang!

With the incredible amount of strength the man put in to the attack, it went without saying that his attack kicked up a storm around the two, causing both sides to not see what the other side was doing.

"Heh." Taking a couple steps back, the dark-clothed man faintly smirked as he thought to himself that the young man had received a grievous injury from his attack.

Though, as the dust began to settle, he soon began to realize that reality took a different course from his train of thought.

Whoosh!

With a multi-layered barrier, Valyr continued to look at his opponent with a calm expression, the large slash mark on the barrier gradually repairing itself by the second.

Feeling a hint of fear creep into his body after seeing how calm his opponent was, the dark-clothed man soon shifted his attention upwards, only for his pupils to shrink as a maelstrom of azure phoenixes began to rain down where he stood.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Having fought against three victors in a row, Valyr eventually decided to stick with the approach he used against the victor of the Early Rank 5 tournament, which was to overwhelm his opponents with quantity instead of quality.

Though, with how refined his Prime Azure Energy was thanks to his efforts, it could be said that he was leveraging both quantity and quality to their extremes, which was being supported by his immensely large energy pool. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Unsurprisingly, his fight against the winner of the Mid Rank 5 tournament ended more or less the same way it did in the previous fight, with his opponent admitting defeat after realizing that anything within the young man\'s vision was considered as his domain.

After exchanging a few more words with the man before leaving, Valyr then moved onto his fight with the winner of the Peak Rank 5 tournament after Scho\'doxa upgraded his item from the second round to its Heavenly Potential version.

Whoosh!

Assessing his opponent for the next fight, the young man\'s eyes immediately narrowed after recognizing the demure-looking woman in front of her.

Recalling that she was one of the few remaining duchesses of the Meltierre Empire after the War of the Three Sovereignties was over, Valyr knew that he shouldn\'t treat the upcoming fight just like the ones that came before.

With that, he brought out the magic staff he\'d recently forged out of his spatial bracelet and began to channel his Prime Azure Energy into it.

Whoosh!

With Scho\'doxa signaling the start of the fight the moment Valyr began to prepare his attack, his opponent began preparing her own attacks, carving multiple runes every second as she created an intricate magic circle in front of her.

Though, just as she was a few runes away from unleashing her first attack…

An azure meteor began to fall from the sky.

"[Prime Azure Heavenfall]."