Supreme Archer: Taking The Game's Weakest Class To The Top

What was the most important in battle royal games?

Various people, including former pro players from other battle royal games, were asked this question prior to The First Esports Tournament.

Their answers could be summarized into two words—high ground.

Those who claimed higher environments had a much easier time against others!

This was the foundation of The Heaven Island(Battle Royal).

Therefore, this game's goal was simple—take over the top.

Each team received a small piece of land. In the middle of this land was The Territory Sphere, which others could steal.

The sphere was the key item of The Heaven Island.

It took only a single sphere to turn land into a floating island and raise it to the skies. Each other sphere would lift the island higher and higher until the finish goal.

It meant that the game could be won in two ways—kill everyone or hoard enough spheres to reach the top. Eight spheres were enough for the latter.

The second way was introduced so the teams wouldn't bide their time and wait for others to kill themselves.

Other incentives to make players more active were also spread around the lands.

The tall mountain in the middle of the game was the most attractive, as it could be turned into a team's land by planting The Territory Sphere at its spire.

It was said that the mountain was worth three spheres.

Other prospects were items and consumables.

The latter couldn't be taken into the game world and was turned into a prize to force players to move around the map. Each player could also only wear so many items, so getting hands on new ones was a pretty nice deal.

There were also other spheres to control the land and, later, the island's environment. Those were called The Environment Spheres, and their main purpose was to help players defend their island and get in and out of it.

Those were the most important mechanics of The Heaven Island.

The participants were given enough time to study them and prepare tactics!

Furthermore, The Seventh Division was the first to play it, so other esports players' eyes were on them, as it was important to study the game and learn more from others.

Finally, the players arrived in their respective lands.

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Jake and the rest of his team appeared in the forest's nest.

The woodland wasn't anything special. It was so plain that Jake's angles were only limited by the trees' tall frames, nothing more. There weren't many bushes around, and no roots peeked out from the forest's floor.

It was because the forest naturally could be upgraded or changed with The Environment Sphere. Given that this land could turn into a real mess soon enough, it wasn't surprising that it was so simple.

"Ender," Jake called his companion.

Coming out from the tattoo which could go through Jake's equipment, Ender quickly materialized into his baby form and perched on Jake's shoulder.

"Scour surroundings. You don't have to keep an eye on your mana. Find the first players and their land. Tell us about their classes and weapons—everything," Jake said.

Ender nodded before sinking into the darkness. He flew through obstacles with his unique ability to turn any shadow and darkness into his nest.

Turning around, Jake glanced at his team.

Prince held their team's Territory Sphere.

He tossed it up for fun.

Just like the name implied, it was an oval item. Their team's sphere was black-green. A little jester was within it, meaning it must have been crafted after their team name.

"This art is to my liking," Prince said.

While he was so casual, it was the best choice for the tank to hold onto the sphere. It could be stolen by anyone, and Prince's stats and undead class allowed him to keep it to himself the longest.

There was also a trick to those spheres.

If the entire team were to be eliminated, the sphere's logo would permanently change to the player's team holding the sphere at the time.

Prince stood in the middle of Casual Clown's team, keeping tabs on the sphere. Last Coin was beside him as he was the most vulnerable member of their team.

The rest of the team roosted around them, waiting for Ender's information.

Jake and El Boss Queen were close to each other.

Their perception skills were spread around.

Jake asked, "Any team you want to defeat in particular?"

"No," she replied.

"I want to defeat The Untamed. My sister is in that guild, so I want to rile her up," Jake said. His smile was so broad that El Boss Queen couldn't see any animosity in him but pure competitiveness.

It raised a few questions within her and troubled her.

A few seconds later, Ender returned to Jake's side.

Jake asked, "You found someone?"

"A girl," Ender replied. "Just one. She's alone beside The Territory Sphere. Her name is AAAAAAAA."

"She's a bait," El Boss Queen said.

The others agreed as Jake and El Boss Queen had unmuted themselves in the voice chat, their voices heard by the rest.

A single entity alone in the battle royal game with teams could only be bait.

There was no other choice.

'It's Maria… Robert told me she was skilled because she could sense me and pinpoint my direction,' Jake thought. He said aloud, "She's obviously provoking us to move first, but we must swallow the bait and fight her anyway."

"We face her with our usual formation?" SWalker asked.

Jake smiled, "We can hide, you know?"

"Ah," SWalker nodded as he understood his mistake.

He smiled.

-

Maria spent nearly the same time on the tutorial island as Jake.

Her experiences over there were much different than his.

She was blind.

It was so difficult to play, let alone fight monsters that Richard passed her The Perception Skill on the first day and told her to focus on it.

Armed with that skill, Maria developed it into a higher grade and even evolved it.

In her case, it was no longer The Perception Skill but the Vision(Epic).

She could see much more than others, and her range was ten times greater. She could outline people in her perception bubble, look into them, and notice even the little details they were unaware of.

She could observe so much more that it was ironic that she was a blind woman.

Nonetheless, it was because she lacked that one sense that her other senses heightened and blended with her Vision Skill, allowing her to track others with them.

It could no longer be called Vision. That said, Maria was far from truly unlocking the power of her skill.

She was still someone to be wary of.

Maria parted her lips as she sensed people coming into her territory.

She said, "Seven entities are coming in our direction. They're covered in a magic skill. Their attire tells me they're Casual Clowns. A tank, two swordsmen, a spear user, a mage, an archer, and a woman with a high physical build. Their formation is odd, with the mage at the front."

When Last Coin appeared as the only entity out of seven, one of Maria's teammates confirmed her suspicions.

It was the swordsman from The Raven Guild, Beatrix. "They must have hidden themselves like we did."

Maria smiled.

She was the center of the invisible mantle she had produced through an item her older sister had gotten for her from the high-level dungeon.

As a mage with impeccable perception skills, she could hide everyone without too limited distance restrictions and sustain the vast area invisibility with her skills and stats alone.

The thing was that… Last Coin could do the same.

He widened his eyes, channeled his mana, and pointed his palm at Beatrix!

Lightning sparks sprouted around his dominant hand.

Maria's face paled.

She yelled, "He knows where you are! He's the same as me! Beatrix! You're the target!"

Despite the swordsman being the target, The Raven Guild's tank stepped before Maria to protect her. She was the core of their formation and team.

Her importance was high.

The tank, Iga, shouted, "Miss Maria! Please, get rid of their tank! Worry not about Beatrix!"

As the lightning bolt roared and snaked toward the swordsman, Maria quickly stirred mana within herself and used her main magic without clicking the skill icon.

Her main magic was gravity.

She lost half her mana points to use her strongest skill—Reverse Gravity Zone.

Her zone could only wrap around a single person at the low level. That, however, was more than she could have asked for.

Her skill coiled around Prince before throwing him to the skies. He flew up in a diagonal line like an invisible elevator had sheathed him in.

Once stranded high in the skies, Prince had only a few moments before the imminent fall.

A drop from such a high altitude was enough to finish off mages and even swordsmen classes! Maria used it on the tank because she was confident in her team.

Without the black knight, Casual Clowns were sitting ducks!

That was when one of the six presences on the ground suddenly disappeared.

Jake appeared on Prince's back.

'FORMLESS SOLDIER FORM!' he drew the highest anchor. 'HOWL, ODIN!'

The thunder roared.

Before anyone's battle could even begin below, Jake's arrow zoomed down from the skies like a falling star at no one other than the healer of The Raven Guild!

The second thunder boomed across the land.

Once the dirt settled down, the healer was nowhere to be seen.

[You have killed Happy Black Girl Lv. 30]

[The Raven Guild has lost one of their participants!]

Jake shouted, "Nice one, Coin! She was exactly where you told me!"

Coin smiled, "You're amazing, Jake! You can stretch your perception skill so far ahead!"

These two brightly chuckled at each other.

Still hanging in the skies, Prince sighed, "Never did I think I'd be a dark horse!"

"You can be a horse for some time," Jake said. "Anyway, I'm going down to deal with their mage. You will survive the fall damage?"

Damien harrumphed, "I'd not dare to call myself a tank if I were to die of a fall damage! I'll dance with their tank. Only a few can match my moves on the dance floor!"

"Sweet," Jake smiled. He used his movement skill to appear close to his companions. Each of them had three arrows on them, hidden beneath their equipment.

He could teleport to them so long as they were in his perception bubble!

Jake could control it so well with his skills that he wasn't worried about his limitations!

He appeared next to Sin and drew his bow at the enemy, exchanging moves with her—Beatrix.