Black Online-Chapter 199: Bunny vs. Raon

With the sun shining down on the land below, it was getting warm, and nobody was wearing anything warmer than just short-sleeved shirts.

"...Scorching hot."

Fang Raon let out a deep sigh.

At times like this, he actually missed the 15th floor and its constant cold weather, despite how much he complained about it.

Rock took off his shirt, slung it over his shoulder, and kept walking—he was actually really ripped for someone of his age.

"...How do I get a body like yours?"

Fang Raon asked curiously.

"Training. When we are at the training camp, I’ll also give some real-life training tips and food advice. It is important to also have a strong real body, as the strength transfers here.

"I can’t keep an eye on whether you are actually following my instructions, so I only have to trust you that you are doing what is necessary to succeed in your training."

Rock said.

"...I’ll do it."

Fang Raon said with a serious look on his face.

He wasn’t planning to half-ass his training, as he was burning with rage towards his family and wanted to crush them.

To do that, he needed to get strong.

Stronger than anybody. Strong like a monster.

In that moment.

Fang Raon and Rock arrived over at the tournament hall and saw that it was already quite packed despite it being early in the morning.

"You fucking cheater!" 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

At that moment, they heard an uncharacteristic scream, and they looked over to see two players arguing heatedly behind a corner.

They recognized one of them.

"How am I a cheater?"

Bunny asked with a chilling smile on her face.

She was looking straight in the angry eyes of a young man—who was her yesterday’s opponent—who also didn’t take his loss with dignity and respect.

"...It’s Bunny."

Fang Raon said.

"It sounds like she pissed someone off."

Rock said.

If the situation grew dangerous, he didn’t mind stepping forward to help Bunny, but he doubted that she needed his help.

She was cold-blooded.

"You have zero competitive integrity. You are a disgrace. There is a code of honor that you need to follow, but you spat all over it!"

The young man shouted.

"Hahahaha!"

Bunny covered her mouth and laughed loudly as if she had heard a good joke just now, and she was almost in tears.

"Competitive integrity? Code of honor? You must be joking. In General’s Game, you deceive and lie to your opponent all the time.

"It is a game of who the best mind reader and liar is.

"Where is honor in that, dumbass?

"I did what I needed to win, and since you lost, you are here bitching and crying to me. You are pathetic. Get out of my face, loser."

Bunny spat out the cold voice.

"Y-Y-Y-You..."

The young man trembled in anger, and he really wanted to punch her in the face, but his mother had taught him that using violence was wrong.

Instead, he just stomped his feet angrily and walked away.

"Hahaha~"

Bunny giggled, and then she headed straight back to the tournament hall with a smile on her face, as if that interaction didn’t faze her at all.

"...She handled that better than I thought she would."

Fang Raon said.

"Like I said, don’t underestimate those twin sisters."

Rock said.

...

"...The matches are ready to start. Head over to your tables!"

A voice rang across the tournament hall.

Tap~ tap~ tap~

Fang Raon was already sitting at his designated table, and he was nervously tapping his foot against the floor.

"Are you ready to lose?"

In that moment, Bunny walked over and sat across from him on the table, and she smiled confidently.

She was confident in her victory. It wasn’t an act.

’...The bigger their egos are, the harder they fall~’

Fang Raon thought to himself.

He didn’t bother to entertain Bunny and enter an argument with her. He wanted to keep his calm for the match.

At that moment.

The referee walked over, pressed a couple buttons on the game board, and the holographic interface appeared for the two of them.

"I will choose one Helper and two Warriors, just so you know."

Bunny said with a giggle, and she started pressing something on her interface window.

’Huh? She told me which soldiers she was going to choose. Is that a trick, or is she really that confident in herself?’

Fang Raon wondered.

His mind kept running, but then he thought about something, and his back ran with cold sweat if it really was true.

’I think she is playing mind games with me. Her previous arrogance could be an act and just a well-planned scheme.

’She might want me to believe that she is confident enough to reveal her soldiers and still win, but in actuality, she will just choose completely different soldiers.

’Even if I don’t buy into the trick, she might just want me to waste my time thinking about it, so I’ll have less time deciding on my own strategy.’

Fang Raon thought.

He didn’t know whether that was actually what was going on, but he had a hunch, and thus, he wasn’t going to buy into Bunny’s schemes.

’I’ll play my own game.’

With that, he started selecting his own soldiers, and soon, he had chosen them and also a skill for each one of them.

***

[Fang Raon’s Team]

[Mage - Skill: Fireball]

[Assassin - Skill: Faceless]

[Warrior - Skill: Super Jump]

***

’In General’s Game, all the skills that can be chosen are very basic ones. All the complex, high-tier skills are not in the game.

’However.

’There are a couple skills that are higher-tiered than others... Such as Assassin’s Faceless skill, which, even though it is only level 1, is quite amazing.’

Fang Raon thought.

When he was training with Rock, he got used to the Assassin’s Faceless skill, and he had to admit that it was great.

He then pressed the [Ready] button, and across from him, Bunny was humming some nursery rhyme, and she then also pressed the same button.

[00:59...]

[00:58...]

"I will attack you straight away and crush you. Do not try to run away. If you do, I’ll just go for your tower and destroy it."

Bunny said with a smile.

’She is just revealing her whole plan, huh. I don’t buy it. She wouldn’t have gotten this far if she were stupid.’

Fang Raon kept his arms crossed and didn’t say anything in response.

While dissatisfied with the lack of response, Bunny was still smiling, and she was feeling quite confident.

She believed that she must’ve confused Fang Raon greatly—it was what she did best—she did that against all of her opponents.

[00:00]

The countdown reached zero.

The holographic battlefield appeared on the table, and their soldiers were finally revealed to both players.

’Faceless... Mage!’

Fang Raon thought inside his mind.

In that moment, his Assassin changed "faces" and turned into Mage with the long hair, robe, and everything.

Even the grimoire was dangling from his belt.

’With Faceless skill, I can make my Assassin look like anyone. Since he looks like Mage now, Bunny will believe that I have two Mages and one Warrior.’

Fang Raon thought.

In that moment, his gaze landed on Bunny’s soldiers, and his lip twitched as he then looked at Bunny’s smiling face.

She had chosen two Mages and one Ranger.

Indeed, she completely lied about what soldiers she was going to choose.

"Hehe~ Did you fall for my trick?"

Bunny smirked.

She didn’t know whether Fang Raon chose his three soldiers to counter her fake soldiers.

"I didn’t. It was far too obvious."

Fang Raon said.

"Oh~ Hehe~"

Bunny just smiled.

She didn’t care if that failed since she never cared whether it would actually work, as she just wanted Fang Raon to keep his mind busy.

’If I make Fang Raon’s mind busy, he’ll be overthinking things, and his mental energy will dwindle.’

Bunny thought to herself.

So, she had actually started the fight way before the match officially even started.

’Start marching.’

Fang Raon ordered his soldiers, and they started walking down the streets of the village.

In that moment, Bunny did the same, but her soldiers were running instead, as if she were in a hurry to do something.

’I’ll take this slow. It doesn’t look like she is heading for my tower, so she’ll attempt something in the streets.

’She has two Mages... Her Ranger must be her offensive power, so she must do something to trap me so she can use her Ranger to its fullest power.

’Thus, I believe that her Mages have some skills that can trap me in a way, so maybe Earth Wall and something else.’

Fang Raon thought.

"I noticed that you happened to see that little argument I had with that loser outside. Did you enjoy the show, huh? I hope you don’t take the loss as poorly as he did.

"I hate sore losers...

"I am sure since you are Rock’s student, he must’ve taught you to take your loss with grace and humility, right?"

Bunny yapped.

’She talks a lot... Why...?’

Fang Raon frowned.

In that moment, since he was listening to Bunny, he noticed that his soldiers stopped moving as he stopped concentrating on them.

’Because I concentrated on what Bunny had to say, I couldn’t concentrate on controlling my soldiers... Is that what she is doing?

’She is trying to talk loudly and a lot so that she can distract me and so that I don’t concentrate enough on my soldiers to keep controlling them well.

’No one has used that kind of strategy against me yet...

’How devious!’