16 Stealth vs Stealth Pt. 1 (1/2)

Li Ming too, was surprised. He did not know why he had chosen to stand up and reveal himself. He did not understand why he had thrown away all his effort at staying low key. In the first place, Li Ming was never the type of person to actively try to stand out.

His body had acted before he could rationalize the action.

”So you're The Dawn, huh...” Chie looked Li Ming up and down, ”Its a pleasure to meet you!”

”Well this is a surprise! I guess we have one more match to go here! Why don't you come on over and set up your equipment here, we'll just have a quick match.” Exiged said ecstatically.

”Alright.” Li Ming answered stiffly, picking up his gear.

Li Ming took the stairs to the stage, feeling the eyes of everyone on him. Everyone in the room wanted to watch a match between the man who revived the Swordmage class go toe to toe with the Gunner who won 18 matches in a row. He set up his gear and booted up his game.

***

*Whoooooooosh*

A howling gust blew past the peaks of a broken down cityscape as the two players spawned inside a desolate plaza. An owl hooted from above, peering down at the two new arrivals. The players we of course, The Dawn and MeiChie. Li Ming was using the same setup as his previous Swordmage build.

MeiChie, on the other hand, shrouded her clothes in a purple cloak; beneath it, the blocky silhouette of her techwear-like clothes was revealed as the wind fluttered through her cloak from time to time. She drew out her rifle, which she would be using in this match. The rifle looked like a metallic WA2000.

She loaded her rifle as 2 flying crystals hovered behind her shoulders, threatening to shoot at any time. Those crystals were magic trinkets. There were probably 2 more magic trinkets with a hovering ability, keeping those trinkets in the air.

This left Li Ming 6 more trinkets to worry about.

The countdown started to signal the start of the match.

”5...”

Li Ming readied his spear and his firelance and wind arrow volley trinkets.

”4...”

MeiChie aimed her rifle towards Li Ming.

”3...”

The spectating crowd tensed up in anticipation.

”2...”

Li Ming glanced at her gun barrel, trying to see exactly where she was aiming at.