Rather than being shocked about nearly being hit by a flying metal object. Sam was far more concerned about the skill he had just witnessed in front of him. The move that he and Nate referred to as the flash step. This was because whenever they saw the move being used, it really did seem like the user would suddenly flash into a different spot.
More importantly, it was a move that Sam had only seen one person ever perform, the person known as Bloodevolver from the game. However, just because they had only seen one person perform it., didn’t mean only one person knew how to.
A teacher most likely needed to teach the person the move, and they most likely taught others. It was possible for one to come up with a skill themselves, but knowing the information about the Bloodevolver they did know, that seemed unlikely.
They knew two things about the Bloodevolver. One was that he was from a military school since they had met on the military gaming servers. The second was that the person was a first-year student.
Even if Nate was convinced that this, Larry Steel person was the Bloodevolver, the only evidence he was going on, was the fact that he had met these conditions as well as used gauntlets as weapons. Still, Sam didn’t have much more evidence himself that the person in front of him was the real Bloodevolver, the only way to find that out was to see the person using their ability.
The strange red aura, a powerful unique ability that had been used to defeat many opponents in the game, including himself. That’s why Sam wasn’t adamant that Quinn was the Bloodevolver. On his wristwatch, it clearly displayed that he was a level 1 user. There was no way such an ability would be deemed so weak.
Then, another thought had come to him; the red aura ability was something that shouldn’t have been in the game. It was an ability that was unable to be selected in the servers. Yet, it could still be used for some reason, and the game devs even confirmed it wasn’t a hack. Although many didn’t believe this, thinking the game devs were just trying to save face.
But what if it was true?
Maybe, this ability was slightly different from how people knew and measured current abilities. If that was the case, then the watches the military used wouldn’t be able to register anything.
Sam looked at Quinn once more, he wished he could confirm it right now but he couldn’t.
Inside the VR game, players created avatars to be used. So from looks alone, there was no way for Sam to tell that this was the same person, and the same could be said for Quinn. So the two were unable to recognize each other.
Sam stood there dazed, thinking about these thoughts.
"Hey, are you alright, man?" Fex asked. "I know that thing nearly hit you, but you didn’t get hurt, right?"
Snapping out of his thoughts, Sam replied.
"Yeah I’m fine, I was just shocked as you said, that’s all."
A little bit before the incident had occurred, one of Zac’s team members had gone to the Admin room to have a look at Quinn’s last match. To see if there was an error in the game. When he had arrived, he asked the Admin to check, they pulled up the previous match on video, and both the Admin and the student observed the whole one-minute video.
"So, the game was broken right; it didn’t count any of the strikes made to the machine?" The student asked.
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