The Immortal Player

Everyone from the Team ARES logged back into the game and immediately did their 'Daily Routine', while Pedro informed the NPCs about the said arrangements. Fortunately, the NPCs did not have any problem with Pedro's plan. Thus, after they did their daily routine, they immediately left for the Tarala Kingdom.

"Are you sure that you don't need my help on handling the monsters, human?" Faunia chuckled Aldo, Loren, and Roval were barely even able to catch their breath as they advance to the Tarala Kingdom. Faunia added, saying, "We're not even halfway to our destination and these three are even barely able to run anymore."

Pedro simply smirked in response and said, "Why don't you carry them instead and leave the monsters to us? Everyone else is enjoying the hunt. Wouldn't it be nice to let them loose some steam from time to time?"

At this moment, before Faunia could say another word, Roval glanced to Faunia and said, "I… am good! I… just need to slow… down a little! I… can manage!"

"So… do… I!" Aldo added before he exhaled heavily, gripped his sword tightly, and charged towards his next target.

Faunia could only glance towards Loren in response with one of her brows up as if she was asking Loren, 'What about you, human?'.

Loren simply shook her head in response, saying no, whilst panting heavily as if she was about to reach her limit. That said, seeing that Aldo and Roval were doing their best to catch up, she could only bite her lips and took a deep breath before she followed everyone—full of determination.

Fortunately, thanks to Aldo and Roval, she only encountered a handful of monsters since the start. It was just her stamina that was low compared to everyone else. So, Loren had difficulty traveling with all of her armors equipped.

Well… Pedro was leading the three of them, together with Faunia, by taking a straight path to the Tarala Kingdom but at a slower pace. Thus, most of the monsters were actually taken care of by Pedro, while Aldo and Roval simply cleaned the monsters that went past through Pedro's range.

As for Sabrina, Arvedar, Mathew, Talia, and Lony… They took their own 'longer' paths to increase the difficulty of their 'training' while being able to familiarize themselves with battles involving a huge number of enemies with a huge variation of unpredictable attacks.

Truth be told, Pedro assumed that Lony would be amongst Aldo, Roval, and Loren when he was on his human form. But for some reason, the players with the transformation forms tend to have an abnormal amount of stamina compared to those who did not have transformation forms.

Pedro did not know the exact explanation for this fact but, he knew that it was the 'factor' that was certainly at play—regarding the difference of stamina amongst the players.

Knowing that fact, Pedro was even tempted to give Aldo, Roval, and Loren their own transformation skills. However, he opted not to do so because he wanted them—specifically Loren and Aldo, to be used to mental fatigues and such negative effects due to exhaustion. After all, the war that they won in the east was proof that long-drawn battles or wars are inevitable to happen in the game.

It was best to prepare them at this moment so that they would gain a lot more experience—and, consequently, solutions to resist or ease the negative effects caused by exhaustion. Besides… If they kept getting exhausted like that, they would eventually become used to such situations to the point that their bodies even adapted on their own.

Soon, they all arrived at the ever-busy Adventurer's Guild Branch on the Tarala Kingdom. Pedro and everyone else were mostly covered with monsters' blood, thus, they naturally caught the attention of a lot of players.

Add up their eye-catching full armor set… The players could only gaze at them both in amazement and out of fear as they walked past by everyone else.

They could not help but whisper amongst each other, discussing the identity of the fully armored men. In fact, most of the other players even assumed that they were NPCs related to the Adventurer's Guild. Well... It does not matter to Pedro and everyone else, whether they would be mistaken for an NPC or not.

"Hey, Hey, Elder Bro! How many monsters did you kill along the way?" Talia asked Mathew whilst barely being able to hide the smirk on her face.

Mathew simply shook his head in response and said, "I didn't count them! I was focused on trying several attack combos, so, counting my kills did not enter my mind."

"Booo!" Talia said whilst giving her elder bro a thumbs down. "You're no fun, elder bro!"

Mathew simply sighed in response and said, "Whatever! It's not like the number of kills matter anyway."

"Hmph!" Talia simply ignored her elder brother—who spoiled her plans to brag. Then, she simply glanced towards Pedro and asked, "Expert Cap, are we really not going to use any plans or strategies during the skirmish? Won't it be cool to win in some sort of 'orchestrated' manner?"

Pedro simply smiled in response and said, "We are not going to use any strategies for now. After all, we want to test the opponent's strength first before we do so. If they would be able to defend against us on a straightforward attack, then we can try different plans afterward. Besides… Things don't usually go as planned."

"Haiz… Why do I feel like we are just going to bully around some adventurers?" Talia said to herself whilst shaking her head—slightly disappointed.

There were thousands of players that were in line to the registration area of the Adventurer's Guild Branch of the Tarala Kingdom. Fortunately, their skirmish would not be held inside the Adventurer's Guild Branch itself because of the huge number of participants in this friendly spar between the two teams.

Weyron simply waited for them to arrive before he guided them to an adjacent area to the side of the training area of the Adventurer's Guild—where hundreds of players were waiting for them to arrive.

Some of them had iron armors with them, while some only had leather ones. Unfortunately, none of the players from the Team Oran Gutan have a complete set of armor with them. They mostly have body armor, a helm, and some guards on their legs.

As for the leather armors, although they were just made of cloth, they were all thick enough to stop the slice of a dagger or a sword—preventing its user from obtaining cuts or injuries from several strikes of their opponents.

Compared to ordinary players, the members of the Team Oran Gutan could be considered as elites in terms of equipment and weapon. Although some of Weyron's players still have a newbie sword as a weapon, the rest of them already have a newly crafted sword that Weyron has prepared with the help of the Adventurer's Guild in the past few days.

Of course, be it ordinary players who were just curious about Pedro and the full armor of him and his team, or be it the players that would be against them in the skirmish, all of them could only stare at them amazed and intrigued by the source of their black armor.

That said, Pedro and everyone else from the Team ARES remained cold as they quietly followed behind Pedro and Weyron.

"Our guests were here! Is everyone ready?" Weyron asked as he surveyed along with his top 100 players as of now.

"We are ready!" The 100 players shouted confidently in unison.

Weyron simply glanced towards Pedro and smirked in response, before saying, "Cous—Ehem, Sir! My men are ready to battle. Just tell me guys when you are ready and we'll immediately start the battle."

Pedro simply smirked in response and said, "We were always ready. Start the battle if you want."

Weyron simply nodded to his players in response, giving them a sign that their battle has begun. On the other hand, Pedro nodded towards Talia, Arvee, and Lony—as if he was commanding them to attack.

In the end, it only took Team ARES ten minutes to defeat a hundred men of Weyron. In fact, Pedro did not participate that much offensively, since his attacks could easily kill the other players in one hit. So, other than observing the fight from afar, Pedro was also able to give his team improvised commands to test some of their combinations along the way.

On the other hand, Weyron could only cover his face with his hands as a lot of spectators were able to witness their team's one-sided defeat. Even Meen—Team Oran Gutan's Ace, could only stare towards Team ARES, already thinking of a solution to increase their survivability in the next scheduled skirmish.

That said, despite the players from the Team Oran Gutan were barely able to stand, no one amongst the spectators dared to try and steal any of their items. After all, Team ARES was still standing as if they were even able to stretch their legs that much.

And that is how the rumors about the 'Fully Armored NPCs' spread across Bearth Online. The Overpowered Instructors of the Team Oran Gutan.