Fantasy Star Online's

11. Sparring Exam

After opening the door, the first thing he saw was a room similar to the Colosseum Arena, with a floor covered with ceramics. The arena was quite large and could accommodate about two thousand spectators in its stands. In the middle of the arena, stood a dashing brown-haired man, there were some scars on his face and there might also be other scars behind his clothes that were protected by iron body armor.

That person was holding a spear whose spear eyes were pointing upwards, it was seen that he was standing as if waiting for someone to arrive. When he heard the sound of the door opening, his eyes immediately moved in that direction and found a young man carrying an iron spear on his back.

He took a sharp look at the young man, trying to intimidate him. Instantly, in Ryzen's view appeared a reddish-colored panel.

"{You get the status of Fear!}"

"{Your status decreased 22%}"

Ryzen's eyes opened wide upon seeing and hearing the notice.

"What the hell, nothing yet." Ryzen muttered as he closed the warning panel.

Ryzen looked at the person standing in the middle, looking at him sharply. Then, a few moments later, his negative status disappeared.

The man smiled a grin, then changed the direction of his establishment to face Ryzen who was standing in front of the door.

"What's wrong? are you scared? don't you want to do a test to become a Spearsman? just so you know, we don't need a coward and a loser."

Ryzen also grinned when he heard the NPC's statement, making the NPC respond with a footstroke and put up the horses.

"Not bad, at least you still have confidence. Come here, don't waste my time, I'll break your confidence."

"Okay," Ryzen replied, and he also mounted the horses.

"Wait, before that, hand me your class badge."

The NPC scrapped his horses and pointed his hand forward, asking Ryzen to give him a badge which he obtained at the time of registration. Ryzen took the badge from his inventory and threw it at the NPC. The NPC began to observe him then nodded slowly.

"Before you can meet my expectations, this badge will not be returned and you will fail, understand?" said the NPC while keeping the badge in a small bag around his waist.

Ryzen responded with a nod, then the atmosphere again tense between the two of them. They looked at each other and waited for one of them to attack, in the next three seconds, the one that started the first attack was Ryzen.

Ryzen dashed forward without any meaningful attack patterns, which made the NPC smirk in disdain for his opponent.

'People like him, who didn't even know how to fight, wanted to become Spearsman? don't dream!' the NPC's inner scream.

But unexpectedly, the opponent who initially moved like a beginner suddenly changed his movement, which was originally just ordinary running, and was very easy, it was now added with a zigzag forward jump and managed to deliver an attack to the NPC's left side. Out of negligence, the NPC's cheek was scratched by Ryzen's spearhead even though it managed to avoid it.

'He tricked me!' his inner.

Without letting him rest, Ryzen continued his attack. After successfully giving a scratch wound with a diagonal attack from the top right to the bottom left, he raised his weapon and leaped forward to deliver a semicircular incision attack just like he did when fighting a group of Wild Boars. This time, however, the NPC managed to hold him back with his spear stalk, even before the opponent's spear reached near his stomach.

The NPC then brushed off his opponent's spear and counterattacked with his limbs, which was by kicking forward that led to the opponent's stomach. Ryzen and the NPC took some distance and went back to paying attention to the opponent's movements.

Ryzen lowered his guard, saw his opponent as well, then let out a long sigh.

"For the start you've been good, but if this match continues, I'm afraid there will be casualties among us. So, how about we replace our weapon with a long stick?" The NPC pointed in the direction where there were countless wooden weapons and boxes lined up.

"Well, I think so too."

The two of them stopped the fight first, and went to choose a wooden spear that was suitable for them. Each of these spears has a different mass, so it should be for them to choose the right weapon to use, even if all the status is the same.

———

Spear Training

Damage 0 ~ 0

Durability: 300/300

———

Each of them had already chosen the right weapon for them and returned to the middle of the arena to continue his test match. On the side of the stands, it turned out that there were some people watching the two of them, and among them was Laiten, who was watching on the other side of the stands, alone.

"Eta newbie can oge kemampuanana, nepikeun ngajieun si Cagor menta make weapons training jang tajesna."

"Heeh, euy, even though tiheula never menta jang make weapons training, but kakalah forbidden me the examiner!"

"Woy Zozo, want to see the match? Rame nih, newbiena pretty good at deuih."

Behind the three of them, who were busy talking in the regional language and some were mixing it with Indonesian, were sitting one more person who, when viewed from his appearance and equipment, was, moreover, his weapon was a spear, it was certain that the person was one of the players with the Spearsman Class. The other three people who had spoken the language of the region, some carried swords and shields with armor protecting their bodies, and then someone in a blue mage robe carrying a black book, and lastly is a person who carries two dagger blades around his waist and wears a red scarf with a light skin harness that makes him to move more freely and agile.

"If you want to talk, can you not, do not mix the language? make my ears hurt" said the Spearsman.

Returning to the arena, two people were fighting and exchanging attacks, one of them seemed to be having trouble continuing the fight, and that person was Ryzen. He is successfully cornered by his attacking examiner with a regular pattern and with no gaps for the opponent to counterattack, the cornered Ryzen continuously tries to withstand all the attacks launched at him, and the rest of the attacks are, waiting for an opportunity to attack.

'How do I get out of this situation?!' inner Ryzen.

At that moment, a picture flashed through his mind. Ryzen slowly began to make small swings after successfully brushing aside his opponent's weapon, until he finally found a single crack. Not allowing the opportunity to be wasted, Ryzen lowered his head as the examiner swung his spear horizontally, and at the same time as Ryzen lowered his head, he tackled his opponent's leg.

The examiner lost his balance due to Ryzen's tackle, and eventually fell to the floor. And at that moment, Ryzen got up by jumping after him and gave a hard kick to the head of the right part of his opponent. Although in that difficult situation, it still had time to hold the kick from Ryzen with both hands, but still the kick made him throw and fall to the other side. Before his body hit the floor, he managed to avoid it by dropping his own body and then rolling twice and standing half-knee.

The moment he lifted his face, the tip of the wooden spear was already before him, and was only about a few inches away. The examiner looked at the person who was pointing at him then snorted then smiled as he raised his hand up.

"Haha, all right, you won."