Brilliant people underestimate themselves. Ignorant people act like they know everything.
---Anonymous
The Red Bell rang, notifying all players who entered the tournament to immediately gather at SEO TORNO.
"It's almost eight, we need to hurry." Fawn said. They went to their usual route towards the coliseum, the roofs of the houses. There, they started running and jumping without making such noise.
SEO TORNO is lighted by a thousand lanterns that is hung at every pillar surrounding it. Each lantern gave off a warm orange light. Other tiny fairies are using their magic to light the whole building up in the skies.
The group started flying, and they beautifully leave off glittering tracks in the air. Upon reaching, they noticed a huge face just above the gates of SEO TORNO, it is already gazing at the players that is landing on the floating ground.
"I know that face. It's Odelius." Nex mumbled.
"Did you say something?" Fawn asked.
"Uhh, no."
"Woaaah! That's a massive face up there! Where is its body?" Jake shouted when he noticed the giant 'thing' above them. "Hey, it's looking at me, that's soo creepy!" He immediately hid behind Myckael who just landed beside them.
When the crowd got thicker. The massive face smiled and shouted a deafening "WELCOME!" to the players. Some were thrown off balanced because of the strong wind that met them. Odelius shrank into a humanoid stone like what he used on the first day.
"SORRY FOR THAT, I DID NOT EXPECT MYSELF TO BE SO POWERFUL, HAHAHAHA! ANYWAY ME AND THE DEVELOPERS DECIDED TO EXTEND THE ELIMINATION ROUND BECAUSE IT IS TOO DIFFICULT FOR US TO PICK TWO RANDOM PLAYERS. DON'T BLAME ME OKAY?"
There were protests, whispers, and comments coming from the crowd.
"FROM 500 PLAYERS, 5 GROUPS EACH, THAT WILL BE 100 GROUPS RIGHT? AND THE GAME WILL BE DRAGGED SO LONG. SO I DECIDED YOU WILL BE REDUCED TO ONLY 25 GROUPS." He paused to let the information sink on the players. Nobody said anything after that. They are eagerly listening to the Creator of the game.
"CONSIDER THIS THE SECOND LEVEL OF ELIMINATION ROUND. THE GAME WILL BE CALLED, FIND ME. YOU WILL HAVE TO FIND GLOWING FLAGS THAT IS SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE EASTERN, WESTERN, AND SOUTHERN PARTS OF DEIA, I DID NOT INCLUDE THE NORTHERN PARTS TO REDUCE YOUR STRESS SINCE DEIA IS EVEN LARGER THAN A CERTAIN CONTINENT BACK ON EARTH. THERE ARE A TOTAL OF 25 GLOWING FLAGS THAT NEEDS TO BE FOUND. THERE ARE NO RULES. AS LONG AS YOU COME BACK HERE BEFORE THE SUN CREEPS OUT, YOU ARE IN. UNDERSTOOD?!"
"Yeah!" The whole crowd shouted. They raised their weapons and yelled continuously.
"START!" That's when all players hurriedly went off of the floating coliseum. Some headed east, some headed west and more people headed south. Deia is an incredibly large continent and finding a glowing flag is like finding a needle in a stack of hay. The group of Nex decided to travel the route towards their hideout.
"Guess we better look." Nex said. "We need to split up into different directions."
"But how can we know if one of us got a glowing flag. FIND ME is really find me." Fawn replied.
Annie showed them her wand, she waved it in different circles and a tiny magic circle glowed a good few inches away from their eyes.
"Oh, I didn't think of Ethereal Eyes. This will really help us. Thanks." Fawn said.
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Chronicles: Second Earth Online
FantasyWhat would you do if the world you know is not the world it should be? Would you escape to another world? Or would you face the challenge that lies ahead? What if the person you hold dear to you became one of the persons causing your pain? What woul...
