Novis was currently on his way to VSW internet café. He was actually hoping that he might run into someone he was familiar with, Lucas. After hearing the from Arthur about how great Lucas was, Novis wanted to find out himself.

Now that Novis knew a bit more about fighting, he was hoping he could learn a thing or two. Perhaps even beat Lucas and prove Arthur wrong.

He entered the VSW café and saw Sophie standing at the counter. As soon as Sophie saw Novis enter, she straightened her back and her eyes lit up.

"You're here? I thought you'd never come back again. It's been so long."

"Hi there" Novis replied. "do you know if that Lucas kid is here?"

Sophie started to laugh.

"Figures, the second Lucas stops coming here to find you, you come here to try to find him."

"Lucas was trying to find me?"

Novis had no idea why Lucas was looking for him. The last time they had seen each other Arthur had beaten him pretty bad. Novis felt horrible about the whole situation. At the time he didn't know how strong Arthur or Lucas was and didn't have a clue what was going on.

Novis didn't go look for him in case Lucas wanted another rematch. Novis was afraid that if the two of them fought and Novis was, well a complete novice, then Lucas would think he wasn't trying and going easy on him.

Where as if he fought him now, he could blame it on the fact that he was trying out a new Warrior and didn't know the warrior had no skills.

"He hasn't been in here for a while now, but the last time he came here he told me that if I saw you, he wanted me to pass on a message."

"What was his message?"

"That he would be waiting for you at the local VSW school tournament."

Novis heart sank a bit. Lucas obviously saw Novis as a rival of his, but it wasn't actually Novis he wanted to fight. It was Arthur. It made Novis have complex feelings.

Novis was wondering why he felt this way. Then he realised, the attention that Lucas was giving Arthur, he wanted it. He wanted someone to one day think that he too was a person they wanted to beat.

Arthur was a great swordsman who had been long forgotten by the people. It was sad to think that someone as great as Arthur could be forgotten about. But what did this mean for everyone esle?

people were forgotten about nearly every day once they had died. After meeting Arthur, Novis thought about this a lot. During his short life span, he now wanted to do something that everyone remembered him by.

Originally, he just wanted to get stronger. Now that he was strong, just how much stronger would he have to get to achieve his goal, he thought.

As Novis started to walk back out of the shop, Sophie called out to him.

"Hey, didn't you come here to play?"

"I'm kinda not in the mood anymore."

"Come on, you came all this way, didn't you? I'll even let you play for the first hour for free."

Novis then looked at Arthur, he realised he had been so busy with himself, that Arthur hadn't played in a while."

"Do you want to play?"

Arthur enjoyed teaching Novis and watching him grow. He felt like there was no longer any need to nag Novis into playing the game. But he wouldn't let this opportunity slip, as he was always looking for an opportunity to improve his sword skills and not get rusty.

"Sure" Arthur replied.

Novis went over to a desk and started up the VR headset. Before logging into the game he changed the setting on the machine so it wouldn't display his match in public. This meant that the people in the shop weren't able to watch the matches he was in.

He chose to do this because he was currently playing with Arthur's ID and not his own. Novis thought that if people saw the difference in the two ranks, they would question him and criticize him for being a smurf.

Novis saw many people online being harassed and bullied for smurfing. They were seen as a type of bully themselves. A high-ranking player destroying the balance in a low rankings game just for fun.

Although Hastam was also a Smurf, the community seemed to never give him any trouble over it because his videos were meant for educational purposes and showing other users how to play.

With Novis now logged in as Pendragon, the two of them switched control and currently Arthur was using Novis's body.

Arthur could feel that Novis's body had improved greatly, he was a lot stronger and had more stamina than before. This was good because when playing games Arthur also used Novis's body. The stronger Novis's body got then the more Arthur could use his true strength.

As soon as Arthur entered a game, multiple notifications started to pop up on people devices from all over the globe.

Ever since the appearance of the ID Pendragon had appeared twice, Arthur now had been a cult following. Several users had set up systems to tell them when the ID pendragon would reappear. There were even video channels with videos of his matches that had thousands of views.

Although the ID pendragon wasn't known to the whole world, It was slowly growing each time Pendragon would play a game.

The next three games Arthur had dominated as usual. Arthur was keen to get the matches over and done with as he wanted to rank up to fight strong opponents. It was rare for him to run into a smurf like Hastam at gold.

After winning the three games he finally ranked up to platinum five.

There were currently hundreds of people watching Arthur play live. As he ranked up they were discussing how Arthur would do in Platinum.

"He's clearly a pro player, he will become a god-tier player in no time."

"I know but no one is admitting it to be their account. don't you think they would have done so by now?"

"I think he's just being overhyped at the moment. Hastam was just unlucky that day. I mean look at his decision making he's probably diamond at best"

Some users didn't believe Arthur could make it all the way to the top tier of God. Their reason for this was no one had ever done it before with the trash Warrior Dragonslayer.

Arthur played another three games in platinum and quickly ranked up to Platinum 4. He had won these games just as easy as he had one the last.

Novis watched Arthur play and was still amazed every time he saw him fight, he wondered how long it would take him until one day he would eventually be able to fight Arthur on even ground.