The blonde hit the volleyball with the strength of a bodybuilder and the wind snapped around them in turn. Nova balled his hands into a fist as he struggled to remember how exactly to py.

  He hadn’t gone to a gym css since he was fourteen and preferred to skip it. He was regretting that decision as the ball flew over the net and the blonde spped it right back down.

  Lottie had to run and slid on the ground, wincing as she stopped it from hitting the sand. The girl groaned and the pair shared a look of utter disbelief.

  “Ha,” The blonde ughed and twirled some of her hair around her finger with a shit eating grin. “Do you want to give up now, losers?”

  Nova’s nose crinkled at the woman’s weak attempt at an insult. The guy who programmed her definitely was from the eighties.

  Nobody he knew said that anymore. What came next? She’s going to call him a square? The brunette rolled his eyes as Lottie got right back up.

  She cracked her knuckles, not even bothering to wipe the sand off of her knees. By the way she was looking, the teenager knew that she was about to rain hell onto those three girls.

  They had messed with the wrong one and the girl was ready to beat them bck and blue. It just so happened she’d have to settle for beating them at volleyball.

  The fire in her eyes still sent a chill down the man’s spine and he mentally wished the girls the best. It was a look he had seen before she jammed her battle axe into the crotch of a giant and killed him.

  “What? Scared?” The curviest of the three said in between snickers.

  Lottie stared bnkly, making the curvy girl shut up and take a step back. They could all see that the ball was in the long-haired girl’s hands and she was ready to kill. She tossed it up and down as she wore an expression that screamed she had seen everything and more.

  With a neck crack the girl threw the ball into the air and jumped as if she was gliding. You would think she had wings as her body became light and the volleyball became a silver bullet. The makeshift bullet nearly burned through the net as it nded right on the blonde’s nose.

  Two things happened right after that. The blonde face made a horrific crunching noise that reminded Nova of when he broke his leg. And blood began to drip down the woman’s face like a thick syrup. The red liquid stained her once fwless skin and she shakily touched it.

  “Christ, Lottie. You don’t have to beat the NPCs to prove a point.” Brook muttered as they all stood there, frozen as the blonde bled.

  The NPC began to shake and balled up her bloody hand into a fist. She growled and gred boldly at Lottie. “You stupid wench!”

  “That’s a new one.” The neapolitan haired woman ughed off the insult which proved to only make the atmosphere turn darker.

  What happened next was something that blew Nova’s mind into smithereens. The volleyball vanished into thin air and bsted through the guild a few feet into the air.

  Nova gasped as his body lifted up and his hair blew in the wind. His long legs kicked wildly as he struggled to regain control along with his two partners in crime.

  As this happened the trio of NPCs that they had humiliated transformed into creatures worth the broken nose. The blonde’s arms elongated and her hair withered away, turning into a nest of what appeared to snakes.

  Her friends followed with their beauty turning into a horrific image of bloodlust as they gred the humans down. The once stereotypical hot babies had become salivating demons.

  “Holy crap!” Lottie screamed with a surprisingly excited tone as they all hit the ground with a gruesome thud. “These chicks are demons!”

  Brook had already summoned his weapon which were gauntlets that covered his knuckles in deadly gems. “There goes our fun vacation.”

  The brunette stood there not knowing whether to groan or raise his fists to pummel the trio. He had really thought this beach would be easy to deal with and they’d get their prize in under fifteen minutes.

  He couldn’t believe he’d been so naive. The girls they had pyed against were drooling as they no doubt imagined him as their lunch. Thank God Lottie was already running at them prepared to duel.

  The long-haired girl was like a lightning bolt as her axe materialized and narrowly beheaded the curviest of the trio. The snake woman managed to dodge in time, hissing as she swung her tail at her legs.

  It was massive and looked awful with its slimy exterior. Her tail also smelled putrid and would make even the strongest soldier hurl. He had to give it to the developers. They made gruesome bosses to fight.

  But this was Lottie they were dealing with. A girl who lived and breathed brutal combat, fist fights that ended with her avatar half beaten dead. She lived for this and her grin made the snake sweat.

  Without dropping her big grin, Lottie spun her axe in hand and swung again. This time right at the tail that was coming to knock her right onto her ass. The thick snake woman screamed and her sisters who had watched from the sidelines hurried over.

  They had been watching with smug grins, no doubt underestimating Lottie once again. Brook was faster though and his fist turned the blonde’s mouth into bloody, swollen mush.

  The punch was so strong that its force gave the once beautiful woman a whole new face. Such a dispy made his teeth clench as he tried not to gawk at the brutality.

  This wasn’t out of the ordinary but Nova still wasn’t used to how advanced the combat system had become. In this game, you really were diving in headfirst to battle with everything on the line.

  Lottie fought like that and she told him she often got so into the game she would let her adrenaline take control. She wouldn’t care if the people she was beating down were pixels or a nameless NPC.

  All she told him was that she wanted to win and she wanted to enjoy herself as she conquered her enemy. To someone else it would be incredibly worrying to hear. Nova found it admirable and attractive.

  He didn’t feel useless as he watched the woman y on a beating while he stood and watched. He was transfixed like he always was by how intent she was on destroying her enemy. She was simply breathtaking.

  “Come on you slimy bastards!” Brook shouted, knocking the teenager out of his daydreams as the man went blow for blow with the beast.

  The animal was hitting the serpent woman into next Thursday with each punch knocking her all over the pce. The noise that echoed with them was sticky, a wet squelch that made Nova shudder.

  Those punches were met with the slick slice of Lottie’s axe into the blonde’s throat. The NPC tried to grab the bde with a scale covered hand, her cws becoming drenched in blood in the process. This was a useless fight as Lottie yanked the axe out of her with a loud grunt.

  Dark blood dripped down the blonde’s body as her head hung in an awkward way. With her skin being brought up to reveal her wound and that she had been virtually beheaded. She slowly fell with a thud.