He finally arrived in the city, the Blood city was surrounded by colossal walls. There were guards on the walls and the only way in was city gate. He approached the city gates and one of the guards shouted to him."Stop, state your intentions and ident.i.ty!" It was standard procedure to filter out the criminals and people with bad intentions. There were other ways to enter the city, yet Aron didn"t know them yet.
"I am Aron, I came from Amber village. I am searching for work!" The man scanned him from right to left and said.
"You look a little suspicious but you can enter. If someone catches you on anything that breaks the law, I will throw you out." He said with resolution and pointed him the way to the city.
The first impression of the city was quite bad. The odor of feces and other wastes flowing on streets was unbearable for the first time.
"Hahaha, kid! You will get used to it. Welcome to the Blood city!" He laughed and came back to his post.
He spotted some beggars and decided to get some information before going further. One of the beggars was sitting and asking for money. He decided to approach him and ask for directions. Beggars were the best source of information if you had anything to exchange. As they were ears and eyes of the city.
"h.e.l.lo. Can you tell me when can I find a marketplace and some inn?" He took out some bread from his bag and showed it to the man.
"Interesting. I can actually lead you there if you want." Aron didn"t see anything suspicious, the man stats and traits didn"t reveal anything.
He leads him into a dead end and shouted.
"Boy, we have fat lamb here!" The few men appeared and attacked Aron.
"Regretfully. People are the same everywhere." The group of thugs didn"t understand the meaning of his words, yet he started to beat them one after another without any problems.
"Guys, this boy is weird. Let"s go!" They left as they couldn"t do anything to Aron.
"Whatever, I still don"t know where is a market." At this moment he felt chills running on his spine.
Swis.h.!.+ Arrow was flying in his direction and he dodged instinctively. He took out his bow and spotted his a.s.sailant and shot at him. The man was surprised and excited at the same time.
Aron saw him, making a signal with his hand and then someone just knocked him out.
A few hours later. Inside of cell, Aron was lying on the floor with hands tied.
"Sleeping Princess finally woke up!" Someone said to him and kicked him.
"Where am I? Who are you?"
Kick! Kick!
"I didn"t order you talk. SHUT UP!" The man shouted at him, after 2 kicks.
"Listen well, because I won"t f.u.c.king repeat! From today onward you are a recruit in our organization. You will be trained and tested. If you are lucky, you will survive. If you fail, just be ready to face a fate worse than death."
"f.u.c.k! I got dragged into some kind organization!"
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[Stats:???]
[Faction: ???]
"Why I cannot appraise him? It"s weird."
"Ok, little brat. Get your s.h.i.+t together and wait for next instructions." The weird person left and closed the door while making the room completely dark again.
"I do anything right now. I am sure someone is observing me and entering s.p.a.ce won"t do anything well."
A few hours later.
BOOM! His doors were slammed with big force.
"Move!" They left the room, and he was dragged to a bigger hall.
"Recruits, meet snow-white! He will join you from today." Said person that dragged him into the bigger hall with many people wearing the same clothes.
"You know the rules. The WEAKEST RECRUIT WILL FIGHT THE SNOW WHITE!" The recruits pushed kid with mace forward.
"Ohh, so in this month. Goblin is the weakest."
"FIGHT!"
Aron"s hands were still tied and the person called Goblin didn"t care about this fact and attacked him. He dodged but something wasn"t right. Goblin"s speed was actually close to his own.
"How is it possible?" He couldn"t actually think any longer because he felt a sharp pain at his back. He was. .h.i.t by mace at back. This wasn"t game, these people wanted to kill him, and he couldn"t lose focus even for the second.
"Let"s play then little "Goblin". " Aron mocked him, this was intentional.
He attacked him with mace again. Aron didn"t dodge this time, he kicked the man into the arm to change the course of the mace. Goblin reacted fast but it wasn"t ending of Aron"s attack. Another kick followed and it was unfortunate kick into Goblin"s leg. Immiadetely, Goblin lost balance and fell on the ground. Aron couldn"t let him stand up, so he attacked again and again.
"STOP!" The man from before shouted.
"You won, snow-white. Remember for the future! I am the one that controls life and death here! IF YOU WANT TO KILL THE FLY! YOU NEED TO f.u.c.kIN ASK ME BEFORE YOU DO IT! DO YOU FREAKING UNDERSTAND IT?" Aron looked at barely breathing Goblin.
"Ok, finish him off." He said and threw the dagger freeing Aron"s hand.
Aron couldn"t resist the orders of this man. He was beyond his strength, the only way was to kill Goblin. This kid wanted to kill him too, so it was killed or be killed. One move took a breath of this boy. The reality was cruel and strong fed on the weak.
[Lingo]
[t.i.tle: Goblin]
[Talent: Mace(Low-mortal)]
[Traits: Ugly, Pain Resistance, Poison resistance]
[Skills: Beginner Mace Mastery, Beginner...]
He plundered talent and skill related to mace, pain and poison resistance. These things won"t be useful for the dead kid anyway.
"Good job. There is a possibility that you will become a good killer in the future. AS FAR AS YOU SURVIVE THE TRAINING! HAHAHA. Join the recruits, you are the weakest now. "
"Rest of recruits will show you around. Good luck, snow-white!" The person disappeared in a moment.
One of the recruits approached him and punched him into the stomach.
"You killed my brother. I will kill you at selections, trash white." He said and left, someone showed him where they sleep and gave him new clothes. They explained to him, the rules of this place and his fate really bad at this moment.
This organization had a system of training recruits. The weakest one had to challenge someone stronger, or he would be killed. The strongest of the group will be taken somewhere and it was cycled. Sometimes they brought the new recruits and most of them died in the trial. Goblin personally killed 9 recruits and none thought that barrier would be broken and Aron killed Goblin and took his place. Another problem was Goblin"s brother, he swore that he will kill him during selections. Selections were two weeks later and anyone could challenge anyone. However, most times weakest challenged second weakest and from time to time. Strongest was challenged, there were unwritten rules.
These kids weren"t competing, they were trying to survive in this cruel world.