The Arena: A LitRPG by David Lingard

Author:David Lingard [Lingard, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-06-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 40 – A Stroke of Luck

You may now select your opponent from those available within the Arena.

Recommended Level: 1

Recommended Type: Melee

Would you like to continue with these parameters? Y/N

Titus stared at the message for a moment, trying to figure out how exactly the God of Balance seemed to just know everything about him, and how best he should proceed. But there was nothing there that he didn't agree with, so he simply mentally agreed with the recommendation, focussing on the 'yes' and blinked the wall of text away.

Titus had selected a rather ordinary steel sword and a small square wooden shield from the anywhere box the arena provided. In addition to this, he was still wearing his wooden stamina ring and his new chainmail overshirt that provided an additional three points of defence. All in all, Titus was well-prepared for an easy fight against a low-level melee-based opponent.

Titus hadn't been given the opportunity to select a specific opponent, and he didn't know if it was normally this way, or if the God of Balance had selected something suitable for him. In any case, as Titus entered his own personal arena via the steps down into pit a moment later, he found himself watching the small dark ball that was the portal that would bring the enemy creature into the pit with him grow into a large flat disc.

For a moment, nothing happened, and Titus concentrated on the weight of the sword and shield in his two hands, the feel of the cold chainmail against his skin, where his undershirt didn't quite meet all of the extremities that the defensive garment reached.

Then all of a sudden, Titus saw the tiniest amount of movement as something began to crawl through the portal, and he felt his heart begin to race. He held his breath, waiting to see what he had to face.

It felt like it took a lifetime, but the creature, in reality, only took a second to enter the pit in its entirety. In that moment every negative thought Titus could think of ran through his mind. He thought about what would happen if the creature wasn't simply a level one fighter, what if it was something far more powerful than he could handle, what if the creature simply rushed out of the portal and devoured him in front of his friends and the rest of the new Blue-Rankers?

But his train of thought didn't last very long because the moment the monster had bounded through the portal, Titus could see what it was, and it relaxed him a little.

Giant Rat

Level: 1

HP: 12/12

The creature was the same one Titus had already seen fought on more than a few occasions in the pits. In fact, it was the most frequent of the monsters that had been summoned through the portals, and it made sense. If there was one thing the arena probably had an abundance of, it was low-level, almost insignificant rats.

There had been a few spiders, though nothing like the Frostbite

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