[SP-F5] Blood marked graves <<Blood in the Sand>>

[Mars 0]

After returning to the main settlement of the fifth floor at slaying the beast of the arena her turns back out towards the direction of where the next opponent should possibly be located at as he nods his head figuring he will head towards the next location. Mars begins walking back out into the desert at a relaxed pace alongside his familiar as the duo begin their journey to take on the local field mob that is just out and about on the floor. He just sighs softly knowing that it will be an easy mission if the Byakko on floor six couldn't provide him a challenge then it is highly improbable that a field mob that is just out in the wild wold be capable of any serious damage against him. his Amber gaze looking over the vast dunes of the sixth floor as he prepares himself mentally for the vastly underwhelming scenery that he will be greeted with. Endless sand and a few jutted rocks as if they were trying to be from the lion king on pride rock. He chuckles softly at the small comparison as he is reminded of the real world. A sad smile appearing on his face as he thinks on what he has awaiting him once he returns to the real world. A rather normal but boring lifestyle of going to school or doing some kind of job. He pauses mentally in his tracks at that small revelation as he looks towards the ground and the outfit he is wearing, and what he finds himself capable of in this world. 'Is it really so bad being stuck in here?' he thinks to himself.

[Mars 0]

He moves forward with a small smirk at the thought of being able to stay within the game that has granted him a lot of strength and power for him to do with as he pleases. There is only the matter of trying to figure out how he could even prevent such a thing from occurring since most assuredly everyone would wish to leave this game at some point or another. For him to be able to leave this game would be him to declare himself as a player killer and face off against everyone and anyone that would decide to get in his way in a fight for independence in this game. To become like that of laughing coffin and create his very own guild that would be used to find like-minded individuals who would be fun with a bit of murder here and there, but the chances of that are rather slim and would require allies who wouldn't snitch on him or his plans. He looks down towards the ground as he thinks upon this as he watches the sand move pass him as he wonders what his plan would be to find such people since just going up to people wouldn't make sense with such a bold claim.

[Mars 0]

He continues to make his way through the desert with his hands within his pockets as he gazes from one barren sense of desert to the next with a small sigh escaping his lips as he glances towards his familiar that turns the sand to glass with its concentrated flames. He just shrugs his shoulders and focuses back forward as he thinks back to what the man he met had said about his time within this game. 'If Spencer had gotten into many adventures maybe it is possible to search out some traps for my own amusement to try and face against the opponents.' He thinks to himself as he continues forward through the vast desert just taking his time as he glances from one side to the next as he spots something moving towards him as he shrugs and decides to humor what is going on as he stops in his tracks and waits to see what happens from this point forward.

[Mars 0]

Mars continues his way forward into the desert with a steady focus on where he is going to go and how he is going to kill his target that he had set for himself within this quest. Already having in mind something that could work for himself to try and spring forward in progress of where he will want to go. A small smirk on his face as he hears a ping go off in his messages as he checks it and hears news of some kind of crime guild popping up as he nods his head and closes the tab. 'Seems like the underbelly of Aincrad is going to surface and when it does next i am going to make sure to join them. Afterall as long as i can create a chain of people willing to side alongside myself in this endeavor i can rip out the carpet from underneath Aincrad's toes and have us expose us at the right time unlike those new children that wanted to make a name for themselves.' he thinks to himself with a grin on his face as he looks towards the moving object seeing it circle around him slowly.*

[Mars 0]

The black haired man watches as a shark like being lunges towards him as he just narrows his eyes while bending his legs close to the ground activating his strongest sword art wanting to finish this fight within a instance. His hand pressed against the ground as he shoots forward his legs charged with the power of his attack as he spins his body around aiming to strike the beast in the head. A uncaring cold glare towards the creature in front of him seeing it as only a very minor nuisance in his plan to get towards the top and make a name for himself. His foot slams against the creatures head dispersing it into pixels billowing his clothing as he lands upon the ground with grace as he gazes forward with a small smirk at the thought of being able to use a spear in conjunction with his current fighting method. He gazes towards the main settlement for a brief moment before going further into the desert the biting sand hitting against his full body armor that disguises his features as he makes his way forward.

Attack: All Might Charge rank 2  MD:5+3=8 MD:6-3=3

16x15= 240

Mars: HP: 540/540     ENG: 37/54    DMG: 14 DMG   ACC: 3  EVA: 3    Savvy: 1(ACC when dodge)   Regen: 10 HP 3 rounds

Sand Shark: 0/125 DMG:50

Edited August 21, 2018 by Mars

[Mars 0]

The martial artists continue to make there way deeper into the sandy desert with hands within his pocket gazing from one location the next keeping his senses aware since any type of fight could occur at a moments notice one that he would happily welcome if it could mean putting down some players. 'I will take over this world and i can already see that being good hasn't gotten me anywhere with people. If that is the case i will get in touch with all the darkest places in Aincrad to gather up my own little crew if it is possible. Besides if i need to give Pin motivation may as well do it by making sure he goes out in style by making us perfect rivals in every aspect.' He thinks to himself with a small chuckle and a shake of his head in amusement setting a new goal for the moment to see where that will take him in this world. That if the goody frontliners will fight forward and ignore those lagging behind he will pick up the slack and form his own little group of dedicated people to work with him to counter the frontlines. Not caring if it traps the players within the castle for as long as it will allow them if it just means taking out a few dedicated players they have since this world is a godsend for most that has allowed people to escape from the harsh reality of outside where it is a lot more advanced and dangerous. That the danger that people see here is only a fraction of the real world. It is just that in the real world the dangers are a lot more well hidden.

[Mars 0]

His gaze settles towards the direction of the main settlement once more and sighs softly knowing he will have to go back since the desert would have nothing new for him to explore most likely. Pyramids, monsters, and other beasts having been found already which would leave him without much direction of where to go from there. He continues on his path towards away from the main desert to humor himself for a little while since he could easily teleport crystal towards some location anywhere within Aincrad once he wishes to head back towards someplace that isn't monster infested. He gazes forward as he checks his handwraps tightening then extra hard for a moment before nodding his head rather satisfied with the result as he focuses once more. He feels his foot slip out underneath him as it falls into the ground rather then push as he quickly covers his mouth out of instinct while closing his eyes tight as all he hears for a good few minutes is the equivalent of rushing water past him but if it was all physical matter.

[Mars 0]

He wakes up a bit after groaning to himself at the rather rough fall as he slowly pushes the sand off of him by pushing on the sand under him to get himself up onto his feet. Taking a few staggered steps back he looks around the area that he now finds himself in as the sand on his outfit gets shifted off of him from the movements of his body as he tries to figure out what to from here. 'This seems like a location unexplored, no signs of previous sand but that might just be Cardinal fixing the world, no signs of light at the very least. Might be a interesting time down here.' he thinks to himself out of boredom as he makes his way through the dark tunnels that he now finds himself in. Heading in the direction that he believes would lead him towards the deeper part of the deserts if he landed directly forward instead of a weird angle like it is entirely possible is the case if the luck of the gods aren't on his side this very day. he looks down towards his hands before clenching them for a brief moment before continuing to move forward determined to get a story out of this.

[Mars 0]

He walks through the darkened cave with his hand against the wall to make sure that he doesn't get too far of the path that he is wishing to travel along as he looks forward trying to see through the dark that has basically robbed him of his vision as he continues moving forward. The hand to hand fighter slowly doing his best to make his way through the dark until he manages to spot the location of something rather interesting a area of this cavern that looks like it was actually lit up as he can see the flames up ahead. Seeing the flames he crouches low towards the ground while keeping towards the dark to blend in as his amber like eyes keeps a vigilant look ahead scouting the perimeter of the various flames that are found further ahead which arise doubt of how safe this place actually is since it could only mean a opposition to face. When there is opposition it would mean he will have to deal with multiple opponents or just a singular strong opponent if what his experience has given him has taught him. With a small sigh he makes his way closer starting to see dancing shadows along the wall signaling at least some type of life is in that room.

[Mars 0]

The black haired warrior looks towards the opposition of what lies in front of him as he rushes forward into the room and spots a sight he would have not expected in quite a long while. Humanoidish like beings that could only be called such because of there human like form of two legs, two arms, and a chest. However, the greyish like skin the anubian dog like literal body there face and fingers and toes are being rather strange. The fingers being like that of claws similar to the toes with there head looking like that of a dog. He quickly activates his strongest aoe as he spins within place for only a moment before shooting himself towards his enemy and slamming his foot against its chest sending it towards the wall and shattering upon impact. Quickly pivoting he moves towards the next who raises a staff to block his kick creating a metalic like clang echoing through the room. Thinking quickly he backflips away then spins into the air and slams the head of a second Anubian into the ground bursting them into pixels. With the attack ended he looks towards the two guards in front of him both definitely Anubians with one wiedling a Ankh like staff clearing meant for bludgeoning and the other looking like a finely tipped spear.

[Mars 0]

He looks towards the two Anubian guards and smirks to himself as he gets into a beginning of a rather rough fighting stance that he has developed since his time within this game as he rushes towards the two beasts of egyptian culture. Quickly kicking off the ground he jumps over a low sweep at his feet from the ankh staff user as he sees a spear heading right towards his gut as he uses the back of hand wrapped hands to knock it away along its metalic pole part. Landing on the other side of the two creature he lets out a hard punch to the back of the Anubian dog with the ankh staff. Seeing another attack heading towards him he sidesteps the spear heading to hit him again as he frowns realizing the issue that is going to take place. 'Two enemies at once could be a challenge if i don't take care of this carefully.' He thinks to himself before quickly basically throwing his body against the ground to avoid a attack aimed at his head.

[Mars 0]

quickly improvising the black haired fighter rushes forward towards the two enemies that take there turns attacking him as he gets between the two of them with a look of confidnece on his face as he quickly gets into the rhythm of what he plans to do. Dodging to the side of another spear attack Mars quickly punches the creature in the chest as he once more gets low to the ground avoiding a horizontal push against his back by the spear user to knock him off his balance. The martial artists follows with his legs glowing with the power of a sword art as he slams his foot against the staff user sending him a short distance away from himself and the other enemy. Moving to his feet he grits his teeth as he watches a golden spear fly towards his shoulder and pierce through it from one side to the other. Gritting his teeth he quickly throws a punch against the creature knocking it away from him for only a moment which is long enough to pull the spear out of him and throw it across the room like a javelin to increase the distance it travels. There got my-. With another small grunt of pain he rubs the back of his head as it had gotten smashed from behind by the ankh staff the other Anubian having gotten back up and quickly enter battle once more.

[Mars 0]

He pushes himself off of the ground as he lands with relative ease back onto his feet as he jumps back to avoid the same enemy's staff weapon with a look of slight annoyance at this intrusion stopping his progress from continuing. He rushes towards the spear user as he punches the enemy down towards the ground once more and activates his sword art once more and slams his foots against the creature's head shattering it once it gets slammed into the ground. He turns his gaze towards the other enemy and sprints towards the beast in question as he watches it arms move into motion to go for a sweep at his legs that he jumps over once more with a cocky smirk. 'Dumb beast doesn't learn.' He thinks to himself only to be proven wrong as the weapon starts coming up towards him as a small smirk appears on his face rather glad to be wrong as he grips the weapon in question and uses it to swing towards the lower end of it and kick the Anubian away and into the wall. With a small grunt out of reflex when he hits the ground he once more gets back up onto his feet throwing the staff away as he slowly walks over towards the Anubian without a weapon. He watches as the beast lunges towards him as he kicks it once more in the stomach causing it to shatter away. Stay down mutt. He says with a a confident smirk on his face.

[Mars 0]

With the two enemies dealt with he nods his head and starts to investigate the room to figure out what is going on within these ruins ass he glances at everything scrutinizing every brick and bit of sandy ground underneath him to figure out what is happening with such a weird trap like dungeon. He checks the area and finds some weirdly inscribed ruins along the ground in some language he has never seen before looking like a bunch of hieroglyphics but none that would be common for at least egyptian. He frowns ever so slightly at the anomaly of this place as he sighs softly and raises from the ground and makes his way through the doorway that has a symbol of some kind of reptilian like creature ready for whatever would be waiting for him on the other side of such a place. He makes his way through the dimly lit hallway that has few torches to light up the way and each one being rather far away from the next just being on the edge of its light.

[Mars 0]

He traverses through the underground hallways of this weird system of tunnels underneath the desert of the fifth floor with a bit of confusion on how he is meant to get out anyway without having the use of a teleport crystal on his person. With a small sigh he continues to make his way through the system of tunnels just following the ruins of whatever this is meant to lead towards as he glances forward wit ha look of just idol curiosity since he wonders if this is meant to be anything or something with a great treasure at the end for him to posses. He slowly smirks at the thought of some kind of hidden treasure awaiting players who would find this like some sort of weapon with a enhancement that is uncommon or some kind of secret skill one could posses to gain a leg up in combat. He quickly traverses in deeper speed walking down these lit up halls with carvings of various different cultures and beliefs.

[Mars 0]

The black haired warrior continues traversing down the halls as he glances towards the various symbols along the wall to pass the time since there doesn't seem to be anything of danger so far as of yet in terms of the hallway being absolutely bare with not much to go off of which for all he knows could imply this is a endless hallway to mess with the players mind and get them lost. He looks towards the hieroglyphics as he sees what looks like images that tell a story one that he fully doesn't comprehend what it is meant to be showing as he is able to pull away a few key details from it all of whatever story is being told atm. That it has something to do with this castle, some kind of creation process happening from some kind of source that he isn't able to understand at all. To top it all off that the treasures of this land have been scattered throughout the lands that were once united in a common goal.

[Mars 0]

He watches as the end of the hallway fills with light as he smirks to himself as he continues forward through the hallway until he enters the area that he finds himself in and sees something that is rather surprising a sight to find. Two anubian guards standing besides a throne of a more humanish looking one possibly as the being just feels more powerful then the rest of the enemies that he has fought in single hand to hand combat before. A grin crosses his face as he settles into a fight stance to face this enemy that he has found, but  to his surprise a guard steps forward before the god or kind of these creature and starts to speak to him."What are you doing within our land human? Begone now for we are dealing with matter that are none of your concern!" He watches the guard anubian get shushed by the king afterward with a simple raise of its hand (paw?) as it then walks over to him. "We are in need of some assistance against a rival of sorts by the name of Sobek.  I would like for you to go eliminate this threat at all costs for me and if you do so i will give you riches and power beyond anything you could have upon the surface." The beast says to him as Mars grins at what this is implying as he just nods his head and stands up straight getting out of his fighting ready condition.

[Mars 0]

Mars looks towards the beast and just nods his head since it would make for a good use of experience if he fought against a creature that is based on a egyptian god and then go back and kill this beast to gain even more experience and steal anything he desires from these chambers. A grin of confidence and arrogance crosses his face as he just nods his head in agreement to this plan of the Anubis. I am willing to fight against Sobek then all i need to do is be able to leave this underground facility. he says towards the creature who then just nods its head and just waves his hand as a blue light surrounds Mars as he is teleported right in front of the main settlement as he smiles to himself at this now having a goal in mind for this floor. Which means going out and killing out the egyptian god Sobek in some form or the other which he figures will be an easy task all things considered with the amount of damage he is able to produce.

[Mars 0]

With his task in mind he makes his way through the fifth floor's main settlement with hands within his pockets as he begins to head towards the direction of where he will be able to plan out such things effectively and be able to think of where to go next with his life. He knows where he will need to find allies that will be willing to side with him against most of the threats that could come to him when he goes to reach his goal of taking over Aincrad in at least some fashion. He would at least want to try and aim for taking over an entire floor at the minimum since it would be an accomplishment that nobody else would have done as of yet that he knows of at the very least. The only problem with that would be somehow getting other players to recognize that floor as his and his alone with nobody else interfering with his plans. With a sigh of a annoyance and a shake of his head he looks towards his familiar that is right by his side.

[Mars 0]

With a sigh of annoyance he makes his way through the main settlement at a even and steady pace alongside his familiar as he frowns to himself knowing that his rival has been gone for a weirdly long time though the same could be said for himself for the most part of his adventures had been rather lacking as of late. Hopefully Pinball stays gone for awhile longer so i can try to catch up to him to challenge him once more once we get to tier three otherwise this is going to be a disaster waiting to happen if he reaches there first and decides to fight me from having expected me to reach it at the same point. he says with a annoyed tone of voice as he continues forward through the town glancing at the various buildings and such till he reaches the teleport gate as he nods his head and steps upon it ready to end his time on this floor for the moment to figure out what to do next to pursue his plans. Teleport, Athenae.