BXBX NOVEL Chapter 32: PvP
Other players in the area knew that this was because of player killing protection.
A game from decades before had made this form of protection quite popular as it effectively prevented abuse towards other players who wished to escape.
In BLO if an attempt at player killing was done outside of a system recognized duel the damage would be halved until the other player responded with an attack of their own.
The issue with this came about when looking at anyone with large range strikes as they could unintentionally hit others in the area which player killer\'s exploited to abuse others.
Ezekiel was ready to respond with a strike of his own out of extreme anger but a gauntlet was placed between them.
"You know that you should not be trying to pk around dungeons you scumbag, either challenge Belial to a duel or leave!"
War God had intervened to apparently enforce some rule that Ezekiel was not aware of.
Since this was a rule he chose to let his hp recover before he would challenge the rogue to a duel.
The rogue however seemed very eager to just kill the mage who he seemed to view as an easy target.
"Mages take time to cast buddy, I know alllll the weaknesses of you little mage players."
He moved forward to strike once again and it seemed like no one was going to intervene again.
Even War God seemed to step back to watch what would happen.
Since he saw that a duel would not be happening and this battle would just be through player killing Ezekiel decided it was better to simply end it.
A rogue would not have much health at this point so he used his mana manipulation to cast shadowfire arrow and make a pair of them.
The other players seemed surprised by the silent casting but others had different questions.
"He just made two projectiles at once? Can that even be done with a spell?"
"Why does his spell look like black fire? Wait can wr customize our spells through cosmetics like that?"
The rogue intended to get in close while dodging the spell projectiles but he had not anticipated how fast they would be.
By moving his head away from the one that Ezekiel hoped would crit the rogue only sustained a body injury.
Well thats what he thought until he felt the same unimaginable pain that he felt when he was once struck by the dungeon boss.
Looking down and in so much agony he could not even scream he saw a hole going through his ribs.
The clothing quickly covered it but he collapsed as his body trembled, before his form finally shattered into digital particles.
"Damn, that mage is deadly. Wonder why the guy fell?"
"You didn\'t see the massive hole in his chest?"
"Bro who cares about the spell, the rogue just lost a bronze dagger."
With the rules of the game if a player attempted to battle another player outside of official duels then they were subject to inventory loss.
A random item in their inventory would be dropped upon death which was why so many took advantage of the weakness the game had for PK protection.
The only other significant consequence was the message board where those who were victims of PK would send their recorded experiences of the incident to others with the ID of the player killer.
Player killing was normally frowned upon since it meant a player was taking advantage to get free gear others worked hard to obtain.
"Hey you ok there Belial?"
Turning back to see what was going on Ezekiel saw the demon player War God speaking to him.
"Oh, yeah im ok... is there a way i can get that guys item back to him? I mean its kinda trash but I don\'t need it."
War God was surprised by how open and surprisingly kind this player seemed to be, it didn\'t really match what she felt like a PK victim should say.
"Just leave it there, only the killer or the original owner is allowed to pick it up."
Ezekiel was suprised by this and nodded.
"Thats a weirdly good system, i need to head back to the auction house to get rid of the junk i got so goodbye."
As he was leaving Ezekiel got a notification which he checked on the way.
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Friend Request Received:
War God
Warrior lv68.
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