Rebirth: Traversing The Myriad Planes - Chapter 321

It became noon and the cute little violet dragon appeared in each of the main cities. All players looked up at her, waiting for her to deliver her speech for this event. She soon started to speak out, letting her voice reach every player, even if they weren’t in the nine main cities.

“Welcome one and all! Thank you all for gathering today. I’m sure the admins made it clear, but today is a very special day for all you players alike!”

The moment a girly voice escaped the open mouth of the cute dragon npc, cheers erupted in all nine cities. Not a single word of slander escaped from them, and a lot let out happy face emotes. Expressions couldn’t be shown in Yggdrasil and many classes couldn’t even open their mouths to converse. Players had to make use of the many emotes they had available and use the tone of their voice to express their words so they wouldn’t fall flat.

As the cheers died down the dragon npc continued to speak.

“Looks like a lot of you are excited for this upcoming event! But before I begin with explaining things, I will introduce myself to you all, as we have been having an influx of new players each time a new event has released here. Its only been a month or so since our last new year’s event, but for those new out there, you can call me Eve! I’m a messenger of the admins to deliver you players the latest events in Yggdrasil!”

That’s right, this npc was Eve, Yggdrasil’s AI and the very same AI Miya now had under her control! She would cooperate with Eve to ensure Nao’s family would appear as their current beings and translocate the White Palace into the Asgardian Palace once the transfer happens. Of course the prior wouldn’t happen to Nao, as Nao intended to do it Momonga’s way, letting his Human Soul Avatar become his Yggdrasil Avatar.

Nao was planning something for Bukubukuchagama as well, but it would be up for her to decide. It would essentially allow her body use a ‘Form Change’, letting Bukubukuchagama change between slime and human whenever she wanted to, very similar to that of a certain blue slime. Nao would offer Tabula the ability to stay as his Brain Eater Yggdrasil avatar, but he wasn’t sure if Tabula would like that, though he could offer the same ‘Form Change’ to him as well.

But with that said, more cheers erupted, especially those coming from newer players. Unfortunately for them, they wouldn’t be able to participate in this tournament, as Eve warned about that next.

“Unfortunately, for you newer players, you will not be able to participate in the event this time around. We had already set the one requirement, one needs to be Level 100! The admins are very happy you all are enjoying Yggdrasil to its full potential. It hasn’t been long since the first several players reached Level 100 in the nine realms, and that number only grew from there. Enough to where we can have 512 participants in each realm!”

Hearing Eve confirm the slots for the tournament, those who didn’t know were surprised. But players like Nao and Momonga knew this far in advance, since they kept up with the news. Eve then proceeded to announce what the event was.

“We will be holding a contest of champions! 512 random Level100 players out of you all will face each other. We will extend this player count to each of the nine realms, so a total of 4608 of you will be able to join. However, those players have already been predetermined by the admins’s system. It is completely random, so if you weren’t selected, please do not blame the admins. We have to make it fair for everyone.”

After Eve started to announce the rules of the World Champion Tournament, the players nodded in agreement. None complained. Seeing this the little dragon let out a smile emote.

“Good! Looks like no one is in complaint. As I stated, the players were determined at random. The main screen will display the tournament bracket! You all can watch players of your choice through your live feeds, similar to watching a stream through Yggdrasil. We will not open up the Arenas for viewing until the top 32 is determined, meaning you all will go through 4 preliminary matches! But do be careful, these matches are single elimination. Once you lose l, you’re out! Only one winner will come out as the World Champion! We will reveal further details once the nine World Champions gave been determined!”

After Eve announced that, more cheers erupted while many let out emotes of anticipation. Eve fully explained the process of the World Champion 512 Tournament to the players. She then wrapped her speech after mentioning one more thing.

“And with all that said, I will mention one final ruleset for this World Champion Tournament. First off, World Items are banned! If they are found on your body once your match begins, they will lose their effects. Players will not be able to use cash items to shorten spellcasting or skill usage and such either. Super Tiered spells are also banned! Since cash items are banned, their cast times cannot be shortened. Even if a player could devise a strategy, because it will be 1v1 PvP matches, the chances of losing are high by time they can cast one. As such the admins deemed them not usable.”

After Eve announced that, the players nodded in their head. Eve no longer had anything to say about the rules anymore, she had finished relaying them. Everyone heard her speak about one more thing next.

“One final thing! You all will be randomly shuffled throughout the nine realms. That means you could face against those of the other eight realms! And remember, only one winner can come out on top. I and the admins wish you all good luck!”, Eve declared.

Everyone became stunned once more hearing that final statement from Eve. They just stared at her who did a bow, before space distorted around her. She abruptly vanished from sight, leaving behind thousands and thousands of stunned players in each city.

Turns out the tournament will cross-cross throughout the nine realms! This meant none of the three classes were safe from the others. Hetermorphs could fight against Humans while Demihumans could fight against Hetermorphs and the like.

Back in Alfheim, Nao, Tabula, Bukubukuchagama and the girls let out smile emotes seeing Eve appear out in the public once more. Except the twist at the very end, it went as Nao was expecting.

It was now past noon in the nine realms, and the tournament started. Player after player started to shine a bright blue light around their avatar. If one counted closely, these blue lights totaled up to 512! Each of the nine realms experienced this, it was the system selecting the players.at random.

As if fate allowed it, three blue glows appeared on Momonga, Touch Me and Peroroncino in Helheim City!

Moreover, back in Alfheim City, a blue light started to glow on Nao. In fact he wasn’t the only one. As if it were the advent of the Angels, blue glows appeared on Fie, Chronoa, Vados and Michael as well. Nao stared at them without moving.

Seeing this happen, Fie got excited and jumped up and down a bit. Michael had no reaction and didn’t care whether she got picked or not. But since she did, she only looked at Nao in silence. Chronoa shrugged her shoulders and let out a sighing face emote. Vados simply chuckled.

“I didn’t think some of us would also get chosen. Does this mean I have a chance to fight Papa? We’ve done practice PvPing before but having it be official is exciting!”, Fie responded happily with another jump.

“Settle down Fie. It’s already surprising enough five of us were chosen. Bet you weren’t expecting this, huh Nao?”

“Heh, can’t say that I was. I’ve no unstable time powers this time around. Unlike the last tournament I partook in where that accident happened, I plan to go all out in this one.”, Nao replied happily with a smile emote.

“Ohoho, you’re jinxing yourself by saying that, Nao. But seriously speaking the odds of choosing 5 of 512 from our group out of thousands of Lv100 players is quite low. You didn’t have Sister Miya tamper with anything, did you?”, Vados replied with a chuckle.

“Hahaha…”, Nao said, replying with a dry cough. Vados let out a grin emote. But she saw Nao shake his head no.

“Unfortunately I did not. I was prepared to have Miya do something if I wasn’t chosen by admins’s system in place. But we lucked out and we got 5 tries to get something good! So let’s try to aim for top 10, I’ll be aiming for 1st here.”

Hearing Nao said that, his Guild let out some cheers. Michael took this time to turn to Nao as the blue lights around their bodies got brighter.

“Even if you are my new Master now, Nao I won’t hesitate to cut you down if our paths cross in this tournament.”

“Good. I wouldn’t expect anything less than you, Michael.”, Nao replied with a smile emote. Michael also let out a smile emote.

And before they realized it, five figures vanished before the rest of the Guild. Caulifla ended up clicking her tongue seeing as she couldn’t join, and Kale consoled her. Towa also let out a sigh seeing a Demon wasn’t picked, just their five Angels. Bukubukuchagama and Tabula were also a bit sad the system didn’t choose the two but like with the rest of his guild, they will cheer the five on as family.

As for Nao, he soon found himself far away from any notion of civilization, within a grandeur coliseum style building. It seemed elegant yet simple at same time, with rows and rows of seats circling each other up top that would allow one to look into the fighting ring below. One could see the sky as well, and it appeared there were no obstructions if a match was to do an aerial battle here.

“So first match is already going to start, huh?”, Nao said to himself. He did receive a simple welcome notice stating Nao’s welcome to Alfheim Arena. The match-making didn’t take long and his first opponent of the World Champion 512 arrived!

Nao soon saw a Birdman appear, a fellow Heteromorphic Player. He had four wings and was wearing golden armor around his waist, arms and legs. The rest was covered by white feathers and he hid his face behind a golden mask in the shape of a beak. Of course, this was none other than Peroroncino, one of the 41 Supreme Beings!

Nao blankly stared at Peroroncino, he could immediately recognize Peroroncino.

Meanwhile, Peroroncino couldn’t believe who his first person was. He saw Nao’s metallic silver skin with his hands and feet hidden away in black armor. He was dressed in a simple white-purple robe with golden lining around its edges, but it had intricate patterns etched into it, making it appear to be a Divine class robe. Nao was also wielding a pitch black staff with a dark yellow orb floating on its tip, he could recognize that was a Divine item too. In fact all the gear Peroroncino saw on Nao’s body was Divine tier, including the several rings on his fingers.

To top his looks off Peroroncino saw twelve fluffy white wings sprouting from his back, with six of them folding into the other six. An exquisite yellow halo stood over Nao’s head motionlessly. Peroroncino then quickly glanced over his own dark red bow hoisted over his back. This wasn’t Houyi’s Bow since World Items weren’t allowed, but another, that of a Divine tier too.

What was the nail in the coffin for Peroroncino was reading Nao’s nametag over his head. He could see his green health and blue mana bar at full too. Nao wasn’t using any items to hide his name right now, so it read Metatron.

Bukubukuchagama did describe Nao’s appearance to Peroroncino if he was to come across Nao in the future, but Peroroncino didn’t think it would be this early! Peroroncino could recognize the player in front of him as his sister’s supposed new boyfriend. He also didn’t forget that Metatron was the False Angel.

Nao too didn’t think he would stand off against Peroroncino in the first match. He inwardly curses, as did Peroroncino. A moment passed as the wind blew across the arena in silence, before both sides yelled at each other.

“‘You’re not supposed to be here this early!””, both Nao and Peroroncino yelled out, saying the same thing. Both became stunned for a moment but yelled out once more.

“”Huh!?””, both sides yelled out, once again saying the same thing.

It didn’t take long before Nao saw Peroroncino let out a curse directly at him, as well as an angry face emote.

“Shit, stop repeating what I say you shitty perverted hooligan!”

“…I’m sorry?”, Nao couldn’t help but ask, while at the same time, he was receiving a sensation of dejavu. ‘Why is this happening again…’, Nao uttered to himself.

Yet Peroroncino yelled out to him once more.

“Don’t you play dumb with me. I know you’re the False Angel. I refuse to hand over my sister to someone like you. I know we fight a lot but I hold her dear as my only family member left!”, Peroroncino yelled out in anger.

Nao let out a smile emote hearing that.

“So you do cherish your family after all. That’s good. So what if I’m dating your sister? We got to know each other through Yggdrasil during the last few years, and she developed feelings for me, and I accepted. I wasn’t planning to bring you to my home for an introduction until two or three years later, but I’ve decided. After this tournament is over I’ll bring you to my home, the same home Buku is now living in!”

“Screw your home! My opinion isn’t changing. Beat me first or else I’ll shoot my arrows into your sorry ass.”, Peroroncino responded, letting out another curse.

“You’re free to try.”, Nao simply responded.

The moment they arrived in the arena the match started, there was no countdown or anything. Peroroncino didn’t say anything more and rapidly flew backwards, and took flight. He withdrew his bow from his back, and formed an arrow, completely made of Mana, and it was dark purple. Nao also took flight and flew back, and started pressing his icons rapidly on his screen, ready to cast buff spells.

The match of Metatron vs Peroroncino had begun!

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A/N : Aht here! Here is the next chapter

The fight has begun and Peroroncino is Nao’s first opponent!

Don’t forget to keep dropping those power stones let’s aim for 300 this week again!

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