[The Winners of the first six tournaments will be revealed!]
[Crazy Steve - Winner of Tournament 1-A - Kills: 7]
[Bruiser - Winner of Tournament 2-A - Kills: 11]
[Tyke - Winner of Tournament 3-A - Kills: 29]
[Archer - Winner of Tournament 4-A - Kills: 8]
[Lucky - Winner of Tournament 5-A - Kills: 10]
[Niko - Winner of Tournament 6-A - Kills: 2]
[The First Round of Tournaments has been completed. Participants are allotted a two-hour break before the start of the next round. The second round of tournaments will have three separate tournaments with 100 Participants each and will be placed within Scorched Earth. Drops will contain more loot. Dinosaurs will be more numerous and deadly. The tournament will last 30 In-game Days. Only the remaining 25 Participants of each round-two tournament will move on to the third and final round. Dispensing rewards for the winners of the first round of Tournaments]
As Fury listened to the announcement and leaned back into the chair he was seated in, he couldn't help but frown. What was the Owner's goal? To spread the word of their store to even more people? Fury would be stupid not to have noticed the store's unprecedented growth since SHIELD first discovered it. Was there a limit? Was there any way to stop it?
At least Romanov and Barton had won their respective tournament, with Coulson moving on to the next round after an unlucky mistake in 6-A.
Climbing out from his seat, Fury motioned over to his three best agents, finding Coulson to be down in the dump but the other two smiling happy, as in front of both Barton and Romanov were two simple wooden boxes with a golden etching depicting a vast golden cosmos with an ornate star at the center.
Stepping up behind them, the three tensed before relaxing upon seeing Fury.
"Open it," Fury ordered, a frown everpresent on his face.
Doing as their boss commanded, Black Widow and Hawkeye opened their...'prizes.'
When their hands touched the boxes, the cosmos and the star depicted on the boxes glowed with an overwhelmingly bright golden light, catching quite the attention of those around them as what was revealed made Fury break out into a swear.
In Romanov's box were two objects. A glass vial that glowed a powerful and colorful hue, and a silver Specimen Implant.
[Power Serum of Neon]
[Modified Specimen Implant - Natasha Romanov]
> The Game Cafe in Marvel and DC > 101 – Second Round Begins
101 – Second Round Begins
The Game Cafe in Marvel and DC by Unholy_Student
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[The Winners of the first six tournaments will be revealed!]
[Crazy Steve - Winner of Tournament 1-A - Kills: 7]
[Bruiser - Winner of Tournament 2-A - Kills: 11]
[Tyke - Winner of Tournament 3-A - Kills: 29]
[Archer - Winner of Tournament 4-A - Kills: 8]
[Lucky - Winner of Tournament 5-A - Kills: 10]
[Niko - Winner of Tournament 6-A - Kills: 2]
[The First Round of Tournaments has been completed. Participants are allotted a two-hour break before the start of the next round. The second round of tournaments will have three separate tournaments with 100 Participants each and will be placed within Scorched Earth. Drops will contain more loot. Dinosaurs will be more numerous and deadly. The tournament will last 30 In-game Days. Only the remaining 25 Participants of each round-two tournament will move on to the third and final round. Dispensing rewards for the winners of the first round of Tournaments]
As Fury listened to the announcement and leaned back into the chair he was seated in, he couldn't help but frown. What was the Owner's goal? To spread the word of their store to even more people? Fury would be stupid not to have noticed the store's unprecedented growth since SHIELD first discovered it. Was there a limit? Was there any way to stop it?
At least Romanov and Barton had won their respective tournament, with Coulson moving on to the next round after an unlucky mistake in 6-A.
Climbing out from his seat, Fury motioned over to his three best agents, finding Coulson to be down in the dump but the other two smiling happy, as in front of both Barton and Romanov were two simple wooden boxes with a golden etching depicting a vast golden cosmos with an ornate star at the center.
Stepping up behind them, the three tensed before relaxing upon seeing Fury.
"Open it," Fury ordered, a frown everpresent on his face.
Doing as their boss commanded, Black Widow and Hawkeye opened their...'prizes.'
When their hands touched the boxes, the cosmos and the star depicted on the boxes glowed with an overwhelmingly bright golden light, catching quite the attention of those around them as what was revealed made Fury break out into a swear.
In Romanov's box were two objects. A glass vial that glowed a powerful and colorful hue, and a silver Specimen Implant.
[Power Serum of Neon]
[Modified Specimen Implant - Natasha Romanov]
In Barton's box was a similar vial of a light blue and dark red mixture along with another specimen implant.
[Power Serum of Video Manipulation]
[Modified Specimen Implant - Clint Barton]
Moments later, the light faded away, leaving the two to stare at the rewards before them.
Getting a reluctant nod from Fury, the two reached out for their rewards. As their hands neared the boxes, the Specimen Implants seemed to grow tendrils of pulsing roots reaching out for them in return. As the roots of these implants connected with their hands, they slid along their fingers past their palms until they reached their wrists, burrowing painlessly and taking root within both of their wrists before pulling the diamond-shaped implants out from the box and resting them on the surface of their wrists. When the Implants were fully set in place, they thrummed with power and glowed a beautiful white.
As for the serums, they drank them without hesitation, and each reacted differently.
A bright violet and pink energy flashed over Black Widow's body, washing over it like waves as she visually pulsed with energy before calming down. On the other hand, Hawkeye's reaction was vastly different. His body seemed to glitch as if he were a video game character, with parts of it shifting out of place, becoming pixilated, invisible, or smeared before coming back together as if nothing had ever happened.
...
Meanwhile, across the Cafe, several more instances of the winners obtaining rewards occurred.
The man now known as 'Crazy Steeve' burst into electricity, arcs of lightning stretching out across his skin and hair. Funnily enough, Bruiser was covered in concrete plates with dust floating around his body defensively. Tyke burst into fire, his body writhing in flames of blistering heat, and finally, the incredibly lucky Niko, who won by sheer luck, had awoken a power of smoke, their body becoming momentarily gaseous and hot.
Of course, seeing that the winners of the first round of tournaments were not only given what appeared to be Speciman Implants but also Powers from Infamous left many wondering what the rewards would be for the next two rounds of the tournaments. Would the rewards be even better? What was even better than getting literal powers? Whatever the case may be, it left many anticipating what's to come, not to mention the change in the environment going from an island to a blistering hot desert.
Given the two-hour grace period before the next round would start, many of those who advanced to the next round flocked to Ark Survival Evolved to scout out Scorched Earth in its entirety. Figures such as Crazy Steve scouted out the terrain, looking for ideal places to set up a base and bunker down to the End-Game, while others such as Harley and Ivy went over all of the games available in the desert.
However, what many focused on were the Wyverns of Scorched Earth. These powerful creatures boasted two back legs and frontal wings, with an appearance many would consider dragon-like, and they had the ability to breathe an element of some kind ranging from fire, ice, lightning, and poison. However, Wyverns were not tamable the usual way; Wyverns could only be tamed by raising a fertile egg to maturity. Despite that, many were willing to bet that some would try and obtain an egg anyway just for the sheer power of these Apex Predators, though it would be anything but easy, as any aspiring Wyvern rider would have to get past the flocks of wyverns that guard the eggs and become hostile if an egg were to be taken.
If one were not careful, they'd quickly find a swarm of Wyverns chasing them across the map, and if some poor bastard caught the attention of the Alpha? They were destined to die.
Despite the time given, before the next round, it was not nearly enough time for any of the participants to fully explore Scorched Earth and all of the potential paths they could take to victory.
[Please return to your seats and grab some fresh food or drinks, as in five minutes, the second round of the Tournament shall begin!]
As everyone got ready for the next round, Fury approached his three agents.
"If all three of you or only two of you find yourselves in the same world, help one another, and team up against the other participants, there are no rules, so there's no reason to give the other Participants an advantage," Fury ordered, looking at all three of his agents. There was a chance that all three would end up in different worlds, but if even two of them did, then they'd have a vast advantage against the competition.