The battle didn’t start off with a bang or a shout, but a sneer. Micky could tell a privileged little snot when he saw one. This was a kid from noble birth (Ok, so he didn’t know Jimmy was noble born, so maybe not...). Of course, he wasn’t noble noble birth. The kid was someone from some relatively important family. Maybe a guard captain, or even the guard captain. Maybe a scroll pusher from on high. Not a high noble though.

This did not stop him from thinking himself the privileged class, above all others. Or maybe it was because he was from such lowly birth, since all the high nobles Micky had seen carried much more gravitas and elegance. Even Jimmy was much more calm and collected. This kid was privileged and got everything his way. If they didn’t they were pissed.

Which is why the greatsword wielding kid seemed to hate his fellow teammate and team leader so much. This was the little boy that held a single bladed shortsword in one hand. The other was held behind his back. It was clear he was a dualist of some kind. He was far more calm and calculating than his teammate. In fact, he was downright cold. Micky had seen that in soldiers, granted far more intense. It was the look the calm ones had before they murdered somebody. It basically meant he saw them all as dead, or at least crippled, probably [Dead] or [Crippled].

Micky of course, didn’t think this kid was blooded. But he knew his type, and they wouldn’t mind getting their first taste in an exhibition match. Which led to the final one. She was a caster type. Micky couldn’t tell which kind, but she was clearly being protected by the two boys. Perhaps a bit of rivalry there as well? It didn’t matter.

What mattered was that they were out for the kill from the get go. Everything else had been friendly. Now it was the big kid games.... Well, small kid games with big stakes. They were out for blood.

So with a sneer the boy with the sword to big launched himself at his opponents. They were quickly buffed up, their stats skyrocketing with his [Multi-Buff] which was a combination of all of his buffs so far.

Jezebel blocked the incoming sword with her [Shielding Tome] only for the papers to rip on contact with the blade. It held but it could not deal with that kind of damage for long. Jezebel replied with her own weapon, her spear like [Battle Pen] slashing out like Prin had taught her.

But it was no use, big sword slashed down continually. His gear was clearly on a higher level. Probably even from several [System Quest]s that gave much better gear, or purchased with large sums of money. He even purposely hacked at her equipment destroying it piece by piece, fully knowing that she was too poor to replace it easily.

Micky twitched. But he kept up simply buffing the girls. Marry too launched her own spells [Curse]s into the frey. Many of which were similar to black bolts that hit and damaged on contact. Must be nice to be a dedicated magic DPS. Placing curses both hidden and thrown she launched them at the enemy, while also dodging around the dueling field. But Yolanda’s team was far better trained. They constantly positioned away from her LOS (Line Of Sight) so that she couldn’t fire, least not without Harming Jezebel.

The dualist guy joined in the fight as well. It seemed that Marry launching attacks at them was some kind of signal. Until then, he was perfectly willing to allow big sword to beat on Jezebel.

Brightfur roared and joined the skirmish then. She launched herself at dualist claws going wild. Dualist backed away haphazardly. He was on the backfoot, not expecting such a quick vicious assault. But he quickly figured out the girl’s pace and then he held the advantage. Granted he was only blocking her assault, but that was literally all he was doing. Even when he held the advantage he didn’t press and continued to simply parry and block each attack. He wasn’t simply here to beat Micky’s team, he also wanted to humiliate them. Micky’s fist clenched tighter.

Squishy joined in. The Queen Tentacle Slime took up center stage and stayed there. She launched pieces of herself off that turned into independant tentacle slimes and attacked. But even then the pink haired girl in the back seemed uninterested. Nor did the two other kids seemed challenged. No, instead they became more vicious. Big sword ramped up his attacks. Now he was also smashing the slime cores. Dualist continued to blatantly ignore Brightfur as well while similarly destroying the cores. Both were aware that the slime could use the cores and smashing them would cost the slime time and resources. Maybe months or years. Well, if it was a normal queen slime anyway. A few months and Squishy would be back in business, but it was still costly and harmful to the slime.

But their aim wasn’t that either. The two slowly worked towards cornering the last member of Micky’s little party. All the while making sure to viciously attack the queen slime. Still, pink hair in the back was just a cheerleader, cheering on the clack haired and yellow haired boys.

It was looking bleak, but Squishy wasn’t a pushover either. Brightfur brought out her shaman’s pact and gained two new tentacles on her shoulders that launched at her opponent as well as a significant increase to DEX and flexibility. This didn’t quite take her opponent off guard but he was no longer able to push forward.

Meanwhile Marry and Jezebel dug deeper. With Marry flinging spells to offset big sword and bring him off balance at the right times Jezebel was able to slowly keep pace easier. Things became balanced for a moment.

Then pink hair started to cackle and launch shards of metal everywhere. Both big sword and dualist seemed to be prepared, or at least aware of the possibility and dodged. Jezebel and Marry were somewhat better off, hiding behind her worn out tome. But Brightfur and Squishy weren’t so lucky. Brightfur had it easiest, she was merely being attacked and crippled. If they killed another race here they still knew that they would be prosecuted by the guard. So she merely had to deal with shards flying at her arms, legs… and eyes and soft parts. Anything that wouldn’t be immediately lethal, but she was fine if it was life endingly crippling.

Squishy was much worse for the wear though. It was clear this was her true target and she was going for the kill. Metal shards flew through the air and smashed the cores inside. Meanwhile pink hair continued to cackle out loud.

Even the audience and Micky wasn’t spared. Micky easily dodged out of the way but the old fogies grumbled at Yolanda… in spite of their own brats doing much the same or worse in their own fights.

Finally the bombardment ended. But Big sword and Dualist knew what to do. They blocked Jezebel, Marry, and Brightfur with a sneer. Just a little bit more and Squishy would be done for. Then they could continue to toy with them however they wanted. So they blocked for pink hair.

And everything slowed down as she charged up her spell. Literally everything slowed down. Now it was Micky’s turn to sneer down at them. Yolanda groaned out. Of course, if he could buff, he could debuff. It wasn’t explicitly against the rules. She was kinda pissed though that he only used it against her kids. But then again, he never needed to. Worse still, it was clearly apparent that his metrics went up, and these kids were slowed way down. Of course, that was also because his debuff was also a combined one, combining [Weakening] [Decelerate] and a few others.

Quickly Brightfur bashed past dualist who didn’t know what to do. He could only twist and look on as she rushed past him and toward their magic DPS. Had he been prepared, he could have still blocked her, still won. But he was not. And he had been toying with her since the beginning. Now Micky was buffing her with pure [Accelerate] for speed.

Simultaneously Jezebel disregarded the M DPS and started an all out assualt on big sword. Similarly so did Marry, tired of his shit. Unable to do anything while slowed, and already slowed by his giant sword, big sword was basically hit by [Paralysis] and watched the beatdown in fast motion smash into him. He wasn’t able to get up and the judge argued that he could still, based on a technicality ‘fight’... kinda… maybe in a week after he heals from all those bruises and injuries.

Meanwhile, pink hair’s eyes widen in slow motion as she watches Brightfur charge her with reckless abandon. She is in the middle of charging her spell. Usually the spell would be over already, fairly quick even though a charged attack. But not this time, not now. She is still gathering the metal fragments back into a ball to discharge. She tries to discharge the ball, but even that is slow, and Brightfur is fast, too fast. She is just a blur now. She smashes into the woman, well girl, and sends her flying for what she did to Squishy. It was arguable which was better off, big sword or pink hair. Both were out of commission though.

Dualist sighs in slow motion. He starts to raise his hand. Then he gets a tentacle shoved into his mouth as his arms and legs are bound. Brightfur, Marry, and Jezebel stand over top of the bound figure, smashing their fists together.

Meanwhile, Yolanda just covers her eyes. This is going to be a long match. Though it is kinda deserved, even if she won’t admit it. Those kids were being little shits to their technical clan mates.