When the first bullet finally landed on the Slingshot mech, it rocked it backward, draining a huge chunk of its health bar and making both mechs stop arguing and tried turning.They knew what weapon that gunshot sound belonged too, and they also knew the person who loved attacking like that from a very long distance.Jake Fernandez.Yes, they now knew his name because of the leaderboard. All this while, they had been thinking he was the epic ranked guy from Region D, but he wasn’t.However, before they could complete their turn, the second bullet announced itself as the sound rang out, immediately after hearing the second shot, what followed was the sound of a mech being lifted off the ground and flung through the air until its body slammed against a pillar.The Juggernaut pilot didn’t need to turn back to know that his teammate had been killed, while he was still going through a storm of emotions, Jake had already moved his aim onto him and fired again.Bang! Bang! Bang!Three shots,

So he had been looking for the one called Jake just to satisfy his thirst for battle, and just like Jake, he too had gotten kills without losing any health points at all.However, he had been finding it hard to locate the one leading the leaderboard, and just when he was about to lose interest, he started hearing gunshots coming from a specific side of the battlefield, all the way toward the edge.While the others were trying their best not to go there because they felt that area was too hot, as the battle happening there had been ongoing since the start of the match, and since they didn’t want to lose their lives just because they went there hoping to get an easy kill, they all stayed away in their own regions.However, Magna wasn’t that kind of person, he was full of confidence, he arrived just a few seconds after Jake had finished his last kill, with a little distance between them and without even closing the fifty-meter distance that still remained between them, he controlled his

In a split second, Jake was already inside, the settings and controls were different from the lancer mech, but not by much, since they still followed the same general concept.He simply thought of the two weapons he wanted to carry with him—the Longarm 10 (sniper-type weapon) and the Auto-Cannon 4 (assault-type weapon). After choosing both, the next second, it was almost as if a hatch beneath him had opened and thrown him out, because he suddenly found himself free-falling again.As he was falling, he saw the new leaderboard.However, contrary to what anyone might have expected, Jake wasn’t pissed at all that he had been pushed into the second position, on the contrary, he was pleased that he was no longer in first place.Even though he was tied with Magna in number of kills, he no longer had that skull-shaped golden crown floating above his mech’s head.To him, that thing had been nothing but a target marker.Now that the kill target was off his head, he believed hunting the others

Magna sighed as he realized for the first time that maybe he was going to die, and there was nothing he could do about it.Then the image of how Jake acted in his final moments when he was piloting the Lancer mech replayed in his mind, and he too decided that he would do his best to drain the Ares mech so that when he came back into the game, he would hunt it down.Just thinking about that idea, one inspired by Jake, made him smile and let go of his rage.“You know, I like you, Jake… so let’s go,” Magna said as he finally stepped out from the opening. However, to his surprise, there wasn’t any mech standing before him.Then something cold and metallic pressed against his back, right at the spine region of his mech.“Next time, use your map. It helps you navigate how close your enemies are when the indicators can’t pick up the signals of mechs that are hiding,” Jake advised before pulling the trigger.The loud tinging sound of the Auto-Cannon was the last thing Magna heard before he fe

Even Magna, who was watching Jake on the stage, was having a hard time believing that the one who had given him such a hard time was the Common-rank talent guy. However, he quickly shook off the thought.Meanwhile, among the awakened students standing below, there was someone who had become completely starstruck.Gideon had frozen in place as he watched Jake walk onto the stage.He had almost forgotten about Jake, he had been too busy brooding over the fact that he hadn’t been able to kill anyone before being booted out of the match, only now did he finally realize that the name he had refused to believe belonged to Jake was indeed his.He had been terribly wrong, the one person he had looked down on so much had outperformed him by such a wide margin that it left him lost for words.“The first position will be rewarded with thirty thousand Alliance Coins, three hundred B-Coins, and one weapon and mech from the Tier IV category.”At that moment, everyone was beyond shocked.Though they