"Righteous faction players, brace yourselves—here I come!" Leo declared with a cocky grin, his voice brimming with confidence, as with practiced agility, he began to leap from one narrow alley wall to the other, steadily ascending toward the rooftop.
*Thud*
Once he reached the top, he landed atop the bakery's red tiled roof surface with barely a sound, as he balanced himself gracefully on one foot.
Standing tall, Leo scanned the surroundings with a steady, calculating gaze, his expression calm yet intense as he took in the scene.
His clones had disappeared city-wide a couple minutes ago, and the majority of players were left scratching their heads as to where he was?
Everyone was asking one another if they had seen 'TheBoss', as the entire city was in a disarray.
If Leo truly wanted, he could have waited out the entire next 45 minutes hiding, and it would be impossible for the righteous faction players to locate him, as once he was in the heart of the city, there were no means for them to locate him, if he did not want to reveal his location.
As he looked around, he could see the rankers in the town square aggressively holding each other by the throat, as they seemed to be disagreeing over something major.
He could also see the mages hovering near the city walls, trying to locate Leo through their Thermal Vision, but so far that could see nothing.
Just under him, on the city street, he could see a group of adventurers bantering as they walked with hurried steps down the road, yet none of them seemed to look towards the rooftop where he stood, as Leo simply chuckled at their naivety.
With a prominent red label brightly displayed over his health bar on his head, Leo enjoyed being the target of public ire, as he spread his arms and dared the city unfolding before him to try and take him down.
It took a while, but a couple minutes later, one of the righteous faction players, stationed atop one of the apartment terraces, did manage to notice a red blip over the city skyline, as although for a few seconds he wasn't sure if his eyes were deceiving him, after a while he did confirm that it was 'TheBoss'.
"It's 'TheBoss'! It's him! He's standing on the Terrace with his arms folded. He's there! Look guys! I found him!" The player shouted, frantically pointing in Leo's direction, as his wild shouts gathered Leo's attention.
It did not take long before others noticed Leo's location as well, as the guild messages went into overdrive, with people all over the city being alerted about where he was.
Leo locked eyes with the player who found his location, and although the man was almost half a mile away, Leo appreciated his hard work by sending a single dagger in his direction, which precisely stabbed the man in his throat.
"Be honored…. You have been killed by TheBoss personally…. It's a high point of your life–" Leo said, as by that point thousands of players surrounded the rooftop where he was standing, everyone looking at him nervously.
Leo knew that this was a legend defining moment for him, and although the previous version of him would never have done something so stupid, after his conversation with the Demon King Anos about what it meant to be a true king, Leo understood what exactly he had to do.
With millions of players live streaming this moment, and hundreds of millions more watching it live, Leo knew that his words and performance next would be immortalized forever, and hence he chose it very carefully.
Spreading his arms, Leo taunted the entire righteous faction standing before him defiantly, as he said…..
"I'm just one man, and you're a whole city. Yet not one of you is man enough to take me down where I stand. Because even now, even when I'm alone, there's not a single one of you who has the balls to enter a 50 meter radius around my location.
Hence it doesn't matter how many of you try to bring me down. Because there's no way in hell, 'TheBoss' loses to ball less eunuchs" Leo said, as he began to laugh heartily.
*HAHAHAHA*
His laughter reverberated throughout StrongHaven City, making the blood of righteous faction players boil with rage, however, the damage had already been done.
Although, all of them charged towards Leo at once now, the image of them hesitating to enter a 50 meter radius of Leo had been set in history forever, as no matter what the result of this fight would be now, history would remember how a million men hesitated to go against one.
"Bastard is spouting nonsense! Get him–"
"Nobody comes in my way! I'm preparing my strongest spell"
"Fuck your spell, I'm going in—"
*ARGHHH*
The surroundings around Leo were thrown into a disarray, as hundreds of players tried to scale the walls of the bakery at once, damaging the structure immensely, while others started to launch long ranged attacks.
[Mountain Splitting Slash]
Just as a section of the players thought that they could scale the walls and reach Leo's location, Dumpy emerged from inside the bakery, launching a Mountain Splitting Slash so powerful, that he killed about a hundred fifty players with a single blow.
Not only was the entire crowd in a 150° arc completely eliminated, but the surroundings buildings were also cleaved in half, as the players atop those buildings, lost their footings and hence got disrupted in the launch of their long-ranged spells.
"Who dares attack my master? Mongrels! Know your damn place!" Dumpy said angrily, as plated in Full Body Armor and having assumed a respectable 15 feet tall body size, he looked like an absolute beast.
*Shua*
*Shua*
*Shua*
*Shua*
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*Shua*
On the other side, covering Leo's back, a black robed assassin took down another 40 players through rapid attacks from his dagger throws, as emerging out of nowhere, he cleaned house, preventing anyone from closing in on Leo, before assuming his rightful place on his back, atop the bakery.
"This should be fun…." He said, his old voice sounding mirthful, as the entire gaming world shook, when they got a good look at his face.