Unknown to Arthur and Novis, they had currently caused a stir in the online community. People were constantly making guesses at who the ID Pendragon belonged to. Many thought it was an already exiting pro while others thought it might be someone up-and-coming from a University team.
Many of these theories were shut down because of one reason. The Warrior Pendragon had used was Dragonslayer. Until this point, no one had considered Dragonslayer as a top tier pick. None of the pros wasted there time trying to play the character.
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Meanwhile, in Novis's room, both of them were unaware of the stir they had caused.
"I still have a lot to learn," Arthur said.
Arthur was disappointed for two reasons. One was the fact that he had to sacrifice one of his men in order to beat his enemy. The second reason was that he had lost the battle. He was too focused on the one on one duel that he forgot about everything else.
"You can't win them all," Novis said.
After that Arthur decided to play two more games finishing his placement matches. At the end of everything, Arthur achieved the rank of Gold 5. Gold 1 was the highest someone could obtain if they had never played the game before. If Arthur hadn't lost that one game then he too would have been gold 1.
The next day was a weekend day. The sun was bright outside and it was time for him to go to his weekly VSW classes at the training centre. Novis was currently standing outside his house waiting for Scarlett.
Today was the day that they had both agreed to go to the centre together.
Scarlett suddenly appeared wearing a beautiful red summer dress. Novis couldn't help but blush at the sight of her.
"Are you ready?" She said.
The two of them then set off towards the training centre. The lesson paul was giving today was a bit past the complete beginner's phase, this was fine for Scarlett because Alex had taught her the basics. Scarlett and Novis were pretty much on the same level when it came to rules of the game. In fact, Scarlett probably knew a bit more since she was a fast learner.
Paul was currently talking about different positions and roles in the game.
"There are a few different roles for characters in the game, you have your high damage dealers, an example of this is your assassin type characters. Then you have your Tanks, these fellows have high defence and a lot of HP, a must on all teams. Your long-range members such as archers and finally roamers, these fellows are balanced and go around helping teammates."
As soon as the lesson was over Scarlett came up to Novis and asked, "So what role do you play in the game Novis?"
Novis thought about it for a while, he hadn't played much so he was more imagining what role Arthur played but he didn't really fit any of the roles either. Arthur played more like a solo warrior, he could finish some characters in one move, but wouldn't say his attacks were powerful. Arthur was well balanced but hardly ever went around helping people.
"I guess you could say a Romer but I don't usually get the chance to go around and help people," Novis replied.
"What about you?" Novis asked.
"When Alex showed me the game there was the coolest character ever, she looked like an elf who was dressed fully in green and had beautiful silver hair."
"So what does she do again?"
"Oh yeah, I was meant to say she was an archer."
Paul then came over the two of us and asked, "Hey I know, why don't you two team up and play a game."
Novis looked towards Arthur who just shook his head.
"I'm sorry, my coach has told me not to play any games until I get better physically."
"What an old way of teaching." Paul said, "Oh well there's no harm in watching others play."
While Novis and Scarlett were walking around Noivs began to notice something on their screens. There were currently a lot more people playing the warrior Dragonslayer all of a sudden. He only noticed it because before he hardly saw anyone playing with him. Many people chose popular characters like Mu Samu.
As a man walked past the two of them Novis couldn't help but ask.
"Hey, what's with everyone playing Dragonslayer at the moment?"
"You mean you haven't heard, there's currently a new pro who uses him in ways nobody thought was possible before, he's the new craze at the moment." The old man said then carried on walking off.
"Perhaps this person's better than you Arthur," Novis said.
"I would also like to meet this person one day."
Unknown to both of them, the person they were talking about was Arthur.
Novis stayed with Scarlett for a while and watched her play a few games. She was surprisingly good at using the archer character. Novis had only seen her play team games but she great at supporting characters from the back when in the lane. Novis was actually slightly jealous at how well she had done.
After the training session was over the two of them said their goodbyes and split ways. It was now time for Novis to head to the dojo to further complete his training.
In the next few weeks, Novis trained like a madman he couldn't believe all these people around him who were the same age or younger were so good at the game.
Novis trained During the day and In his dream at night. Arthur had now changed the focus of his training to attacks. The aim was for Novis to do his best to leave a scratch on Arthur. And after a month Novis finally managed to cause a small Scratch.
Novis was currently panting heavily and out of breath. he was in the dream world and had just succeeded in scratching Arthur on the arm.
"Can I finally play the game now?" Novis asked.
"Not just yet, we need to find you some real opponents first."
Novis was confused by what Arthur meant by real.