Chapter 131: Badges
Like the boy with the green snake around his neck who smiled with all innocence that can ever exist. "Ah, I really don't want to fight but I guess I have no choice here."
His opponent is a small dwarf with crafty eyes. "Well, you don't have to fight. Not really, you can just give up."
"You know that's going to make things difficult right?" The boy with the snake looks as if he'd rather be sleeping than fighting and the dwarf wanted to take advantage of that.
The snake hissed and the boy rubbed his cheek against it. "I know, I know. Let's get this over with. Hey, don't blink okay?"
Of course that just made the dwarf blink immensely. "What?"
In that split seconds something that, the dwarf found himself over the edge and the boy was still standing where he was but he's now holding the snake. "What?!"
He smiled. "I told you not to blink or you might miss it."
And then there's a demon looking at her opponent in disbelief. "Is this some Kind of joke by the Owner?"
Her opponent is part of the Church and he's an holy magic user. His eyes widen immediately. "Demon."
She rolled her eyes and wings lifted from her back, solidifying from darkness. Her red eyes glinted. "I'm going to have so much fun here."
"Wait! Great lord of light please protect....!!"
The Demon with the wings of crow loomed above him and the smile that twisted her face made him shuddered. "Oh fuck."
At the end the Demon beat him so hard his holy magic can't keep up with the healing and he was taking away.
She sighed, thinking maybe she should fly and see if she cannot pick a fight with others.
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Litha stood in front her opponent and was frowning at the person because they look familiar but she must be mistaken because she's never seen her before.
Her opponent, a short girl with pink hair who smiled immediately she saw her. "Litha! Aren't you the girl that was rescued by Temur?"
Litha frowned then her face cleared when she recognized her. "You are Lola. I see, you are also taking the test." After the rescue, Lola was handed over to Thayer and he decided if she'll join his Guild or not. But since then this was the time she'll be hearing anything about her.
"So do you join his Guild?" Litha asked curiously.
"Yes! I'm one of the fighting force for the Gold Guild, I will be in charge of protecting and hunting!" Then she raised her hand and her Codex came to her, a giant black hammer.
She smiled at Litha. "You are Temur's teammate, are you also as strong as him? I doubt it because you don't have the smell of a warrior."
Litha sighed. "Just let us get this out of the way, we don't have the whole...!!"
Lola was in front her her, grinning like a mad person, with her hammer already coming down on her. But all Litha did was smiled gently because just above her head a small blue umbrella shield and blocked the hit.
"Ugh!" Lola grunted, surprised because most shield can't stand on the way of her hammer. But before her surprise fully registered something hit her in the stomach with such force she was blasted several feet beyond the cliff.
Litha sighed again and muttered. "The best skill any Awakener can get is the one that'll let them calculate the strength of their opponents."
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Jael was getting bored where he sat on the ground. "Won't this test end? I've already done my part."
But unlike the strong among them, those weaker have to fight with their life on the line, torn and bloody, their victory isn't something easily received.
At the end the first stage came to an end and they heard the voice of the original owner 101. "Congratulations to those still standing. You are welcomed to the next stage and to the fight for the Title."
Even though the candidates are far from each other, they all can feel the tension and the excitement the rose up. It seems the main event have finally comes up.
"The way to show your strength is to overpower everyone else. To do this everyone will be issued a badge and a special spatial ring."
Jael looked at his hand and saw the right siting there and a black metal badge on his chest.
"The spatial ring isn't keyed to any individual and you can only store badges inside. Meaning anyone can operate your spatial ring...if you let them.
"So the competition goes like this. You can hunt monsters and when you kill them then they'll change to badges, the level of the monster will determine how many badges you get out of the. Another way to get badges is to take from other Awakeners, either their personal ones or the one stored inside their ring.
"There is nothing Illegal. If you wish to forfeit you can just shout surrender now and you'll be taken away. Note that once you start the second stage you cannot surrender."
The voice was silent and then. "Of course there's a twist, if there's no single badge on you for one hour then that's automatic surrender. You must have even a single badge with you to continue."
"To pass the stage two and successfully complete the floor 101 test then you must have a total of three hundred badges before the next five days. To join the rising star then you must have the ten highest badges among them all. What if there's more than one person with the same number of badges?
I say put then in the same room and the one who remains standing at the end keep their badges." He laughed.
Jeal couldn't say if that last part was a joke or he really meant it. But that's not really his problem right now, his main issue is how to get two hundred and ninety nine badges.
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