Conquering The Game's World

Battle Arena.

34 years ago, this facility was established for the purpose of facilitating fights and duels between students. Later, with the advancement of technology and the adoption of ranking and reward systems, it turned into a place to compete and show off one's might.

"So, can you tell me why we are here?" Alicia asked as she observed the vast building in front of her.

Luis glanced around to see several students going in and out of that building. 'My Enhanced Instinct doesn't find any threat from them. Most of them should be senior students. Hmm, I wonder what the strength of the top students of the second year is.'

As he made up his mind to investigate it. He also answered Alicia's question.

"For the next ten days, we will be doing challenges in the Battle Arena."

Alicia was taken aback for a moment. As she asked with some doubt.

"Is it to increase our combat experience?"

"You can think so, but our main purpose here is to increase our level."

"Level?"

Upon seeing her reaction, Luis understood that Alicia didn't know much about Battle Arena. So, he started giving her an explanation while they moved inside the building.

The Battle Arena has several options set up for students. They are Duels, Team Battles, Battle Royale and Custom Battles.

They can be done both in the virtual world and the real world, as per the students' choice.

Other than these options, the Battle Arena also has something called a ranking system. In which the students can challenge the ranking game and obtain numerous rewards.

A ranking game takes place in the virtual world, where the challenger fights against the avatar of other students.

-The issued challenges and duels are all random, based on the level of the challenger.

-The ranking system's level goes from 0 to 10.

-The higher the level, the more and better rewards the challenger can obtain.

-The levels can be increased by doing challenges and winning them.

"Uh huh," Alicia nodded after getting a general understanding. Then she asked. "What kind of rewards are there? What are the criteria to receive them?"

She wondered if the purpose of their visit was for the rewards.

'If it's something that attracts Luis' attention. It must be good.'

Thinking of this, Alicia became very curious.

Luis shook his head and said, "The criteria for rewards are not explained to the students. It is something that they can only explore on their own."

"I see. Then, let's get the information from the seniors."

"No need. I have already done that." Luis lied to stop Alicia from wasting her efforts. Then his expression became serious, and he spoke.

"Now listen to what I say. After we register, we are going to start doing ranking matches. What I want from you is 100 consecutive wins in the 'Insane' difficulty. That too all matches ending within a minute."

Alicia raised her brows, then lowered them again to squint her eyes. "Is this the reason you stopped me from accepting Diana's challenges in the last few days?"

"Yep, I didn't want you to waste an excellent opportunity," Luis admitted with a charming smile.

Alicia felt sweet in her heart but didn't express it on the surface. She pointed towards the reception and spoke. "Let's go register."

Luis wasn't disappointed by her lack of reaction as he walked along with her, showing a faint smile on his face.

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After getting registered. They synced their accounts with their student IDs so that they could do ranking matches even from their dorms.

"Miss, we would like to do a ranking match here in the arena." Said Luis.

The reception lady who had just registered them. Nodded with a professional smile. "I see. Follow me then. I shall take you to the room where VR Capsules are present."

She let her colleague manage on her side and led Luis and Alicia towards the capsule room.

Maybe because they were amateurs here. She was very patient and assisted them as much as she could.

She gave them all the general knowledge about the battle arena and explained several rules. Luis and Alicia listened to her with patient expressions. Not interrupting her, even if they already knew about those things.

Within a few minutes, Luis and Alicia were already sitting inside one capsule each. While the staff operated the capsules and activated them.

"You will start from level 0, as I explained before. After you log in for the first time, you will have a choice to select the difficulty level for your first match. If you win, you may continue with the same difficulty. However, if you lose, you won't be able to continue with the same difficulty and you won't have an option to select the difficulty next time."

The reception lady gave a thorough explanation while the capsule was activated.

"Good luck..."

Those were the last words they heard from her before Luis and Alicia's vision turned black and they entered the virtual world.

The next moment, Luis found himself in a black space with a blue screen asking for his avatar's name flashing in front of his eyes.

"Oh, right! I almost forgot this was an option, too."

Luis thought for a moment and decided to give himself a random name.

"Let's see..."

[The avatar name 'Handsome Guy' is already taken. Please try again.]

"..."

Though a little disappointed, he shook his head and tried again.

[The avatar names 'Handsome Guy 1' and 'Handsome Guy 2' are already taken. Please try again.]

Luis' lips twitched and he couldn't help but be speechless.

"Damn! Just how many narcissistic people are out there?!"

Somewhat frustrated, he tried out various names and, to his surprise and annoyance, all of them were already taken.

After dozens of attempts, Luis finally settled on a name that hadn't been taken by anyone yet.

[Avatar's name 'The God of Charm' has been confirmed. You may proceed to the avatar characterization.]

"Finally!" Luis cried out in joy. Not even caring about the strangeness of his avatar's name.

The next step was to select whether to hide the personal information or not.

Luis knew that once he started using his lightning element, his identity would be revealed sooner or later, so it didn't matter. However, regardless, he chose to hide his information.

'So, what if they know? Until my identity is revealed, I can still have a lot of fun.'

With a smirk on his face. Luis started characterizing his avatar.

He made it a thin guy, about 1.72 meters tall. He looked kind of gloomy. His eyes were golden, and his hair was waist-length silvery.

When it was time to dress up his avatar. Luis chose for him to wear a butler's clothing with a silver peacock mask on his face.

No weapons were selected, and in his hands, he wore black leather gloves.

"Yep, as expected of me. Even if I made my avatar with random adjustments. It still turned out quite good. Unfortunately, he's not as handsome as me, so I have to cover his face with a mask."

Luis was very proud of his creation. Then he clicked on the accept button.

The next moment, Luis found his vision blurring, and then he was standing in front of a mirror, observing himself in the body of his avatar.

"Uh, the sudden change in perspective is making me feel weird."

Luis regretted choosing to make his avatar short. He should have kept it the same as his original height.

"Guess I can only adjust myself with this height for now. If I remember right, to alter the avatar's appearance. It will cost me a lot of merit points."

After exclaiming a sigh, Luis clicked on the next step. Which was selecting the difficulty level for his first match.

There were four options on the screen to choose from. Easy, Normal, Hard, and Insane.

"Of course, it's the 'Insane' difficulty for me. Otherwise, I wouldn't have come here in the first place."

Without a second thought, Luis clicked on the Insane difficulty as the 30-second timer for the match-up started.

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Luis stood still, waiting for the countdown to end and for his first match to start.

'100 consecutive wins. Let's crush them all!' He grinned with a confident expression, as immense fighting instant emerged inside him.

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The ranking game gives a special bonus to the amateurs challenging the Insane difficulty. That is, for every win, they will get double the experience for the opponent they defeated.

It's a one-time thing. The bonus stacks up for each consecutive win until that challenger suffers his first defeat.

Then there is a special reward waiting for the challenger, who reaches 100 consecutive wins without any loss, in any difficulty.

When he played the game in his previous life, Luis got 100 consecutive wins in normal difficulty and the reward was very generous, too. Which made him want to aim for the highest difficulty this time.

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[Challenger 'The God of Charm' first match begins!]