Rudra completely focused on his sense of hearing , it seemed as if there was movement in a neighbour house. The sound of wood creaking under someone's feet could be heard.

Rudra looked at the map to understand the location of his squad , the others were nearby , hardly 20 meters away. Hence he had cover if things went south.

Rudra said over the comms

" Enemy footsteps in the neighbouring house , going in for the kill

".

Neatwit immediately stopped looting and made way towards Rudra's location , to provide backup if needed .

Yume just replied

" Best of luck , Amitabha

". And continued looting. weapons were useless for him , hence he only looted armour and supplies.

The enemy was on the second floor of the house , when Rudra entered the first. The damn floors were soo noisy that it creaked when he stepped on it.

The enemy was instantly alerted , as Rudra could hear him saying

" Enemy on me , enemy on me

".

Rudra rushed in for the kill. He would very much like to decide this before backup arrives. He climbed up the stairs , to see that the enemy was camping just beside the stairs waiting to attack Rudra.

Rudra ducked as a axe strike , narrowly missed his hair by a breath. Before the enemy could launch a second strike , Rudra used a strike of his own to force the enemy to retreat to avoid being hit.

The enemy retreated , he then looked at Rudra and said

" Oho. Shakuni himself , DIE !

".

inspite of the bold words , the guy clearly was not a axe wielder as his technique was incredibly sloppy. He was probably a swordsman who did not find a sword for loot.

Rudra had the upper hand in every exchange , as within 5 moves Rudra killed the guy without a single of his hp deducted.

Rudra then heard the sounds of metal clashing somewhere , when he looked outside the window , Neatwit was fighting 3 other guild mates of the dead guy.

Rudra jumped from the first floor window , and joined the fight. Together the two , made short work of the enemy squad. It was a wipe!

Rudra and Neatwit then looted the corpses , but were shocked to see that undead were roaming the streets of settlement P.

Apparently Nero had started his magic , and while Rudra and Neatwit were wiping their squad , he was single handedly wiping two in the safety of his house.

Undeads scoured house after house , and upon finding a target swarmed in masses to kill it. Within the second zone shrink , the squad had managed to kill 16 opponents soo far , and completely wiped settlement P.

They were still inside the safezone , and relatively in the centre , hence they took time to leisurely loot the area and arm themselves to the teeth.

Rudra got two gold grade swords and full body armour , Neatwit got one dark gold grade sword and full body armour , while Nero got a staff and full body armour.

Yume was the medic carrying all the supplies for the team , weaponless , he was looking funny with his bald head and wierd orange sprayed armour.

Nero had noticed that Yume , was a special case , his ability was unheard of , even though he did not have any combat skills , his presence was enough to turn any tide of any battle.

The more he thought about it , the more he beleived that yume was a better fit for 10 man team in capture the flag than here. That the AI had made a mistake . However he did not voice these thoughts.

Rudra would have a different opinion , as he knew the true potential behind Yume , although Yume ' s passive was amazing , and it would indeed help a 10 man team more with the buffs and enemy debuffs , however if one considered him to be a weak fighter , they would be in for a big surprise when fighting the peacefull monk.

The generals watching the event were very pleased with the top teams performance , although it could not be considered to be a cohesive unit , it was a devastatingly strong unit.

In the team Neatwit was the assaulter , and Nero was the crowd control and scout , While Yume was the medic and support.

Rudra was the IGL and the chief damage dealer , together the team was a strong unit . They needed to work on teamwork , but the generals beleived that with the practice time between the selections and the event the team could be molded into a cohesive unit. What mattered right now was the potential and even a blind man could see the potential in the squad.

While the analysis of the generals was along this line , Rudra's analysis of himself was a lot different.

Rudra felt as a swordsman he truly lacked true sword skills. His sword skills generated from his sword , and not himself , without the elven sword , and Excalibur , he was atleast 30% nerfed as a player.

Darkness blast , thunder blast , earthquake , blink , were all good skills , undoubtedly , but they were not what a world-class player should have in his arsenal.

He needed more attack based sword skills compatible with any sword , he would improve miles that way.

A similar realization dawned on Neatwit as well , he had became too reliant on his sword , it was like driving a Ferrari all his life , then suddenly being forced to drive a Honda civic. Although Honda civic was not bad , but it dipped his overall performance by a lot.

He realized his short coming there , and decided to work on it before the world games. He also felt that he needed more movement techniques , when he was facing the enemy one on three , he needed to retreat , facing too much heat , however he had no skills to do so.

Thankfully Rudra arrived and things went smooth then on , however at the world stage all players would be incredibly more skilled than the nationals , and Rudra would not always be there to save the day. He needed to become more self sufficient.

Both Rudra and Neatwit matured a lot through these events , and saw evolution as players.