Selections" day arrived, and they gathered in the big hall. The instructor stood up in the middle of the hall and said."Weakest, step up!" It was directed to Aron as he was last in ranking.
He stepped up and waited for instructions.
"Who will you challenge?" He asked with a smile on his face. The struggle of these kids was very entertaining for him.
"The second in ranking!" All of them surprised is this kid insane. He chose one of the strongest around. The second in ranking was Reis and it was most vicious of them all. His specialization was a sword, the weird curves" sword with poison on its edge. Aron wasn"t afraid of poison and his moderate sword mastery made him like a veteran on the field, that was wielding the sword for years.
"You will regret this kiddo," Reis said and stepped up. It was the first time to someone of the weakest challenge someone stronger like Reis.
[Reis]
[Age: 14]
[Race: Human]
[t.i.tle: Poison"s Edge]
[Stats: STR 2.5, AGI 2.9, END 3, INT 4, PER 5, DEX 4]
[Talent: Sword(Low-Mortal), Poisons(Low-Mortal)]
[Traits: Crazy, Mutated heart, Poison resistance...]
[Skills: Mutilation, Beginner Sword Mastery, Manipulation, Poison concocting...]
"It won"t be easy, his skills will be more useful in my hands haha!"
Aron took the training sword from the counter at the side and took a fighting stance.
"HA! You don"t have your own weapon. YOU ARE f.u.c.kIN DEAD!" Reis started laughing maniacally and did some swings with his sword.
The instructor started the battle and Reis jumped with his sword like a mad beast. Aron just reflected his sword and tried to counter yet it wasn"t easy. Attack after attack, Reis didn"t slow down and Aron was afraid that his low-quality sword will break from this mad streak.
"Time to change the roles."
He waited for a right moment, Reis attacked, and he used to leap to jump to his side and attack. The thing that happened, made him shocked.
"I knew you will do it," Reis said with an emotionless voice the course of his attack. The boy wasn"t prepared for this kind action and tried to defend with the sword. The attack was partially deflected, however, Reis made a cut on his shoulder and blood was dripping from it.
Reis was observing, his reaction and Aron didn"t collapse from poison but splashed the blood on the ground and took back stance.
"You are quite a tough one. It"s gonna be funnier! PLAY WITH ME, SNOW WHITE!" The poison was his weapon, however, he was a good fighter even without poisoned weapons.
"It"s gonna be problematic. The poison isn"t working, I need to stop the bleeding or effects will be terrible"
He could actually use the sword as a projectile with his maxed throwing, it could make more damage. His opponent wasn"t weak either, he was sure that without the weapon he would be killed in mere seconds.
"I cannot die here!"
"You forced me to do it!" Aron wasn"t sure what will happen after using this skill, yet it was his only option.
His veins started bulging and his mind became blank.
"ARGHHHH!" It wasn"t a human voice anymore, his eyes were bloodshot. There was vapor coming from his mouth. This wasn"t human anymore, it was beast in the human body.
"Interesting!" This sight was something interesting, he remembered the tribe of berserkers another kingdom, and he thought that this boy has their bloodline.
Reis had a weird expression, the berserk of this boy wasn"t something predictable, and he tried to come up with some kind of plan.
Aron had a sword in his hand and jumped at Reis.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Sword in Aron"s hand broke into two pieces. It didn"t end the battle, he took the second part of the sword into second hand and while bleeding attacked again.
Clang! Clang! Finally, Reis couldn"t defend this time and Aron pierced the stomach and shoulder. He didn"t stop. Reis tried to struggle, yet stab after stab made him motionless.
"You broke my rule, snow-white!" Aron looked at him and his consciousness started coming back to him. He felt that he will fell on the ground, his body couldn"t withstand this kind of power.
"Use 2 points on plunder and plunder the best things from him."
[Plunder level up]
[Plunder lv.6]
[Limit of plunder:16]
[Plundered 10...]
[Mutated Heart]
[Desc: Lets user have higher stamina and wounds heal easier.]
Aron collapsed on the floor, near the corpse of Reis and fell asleep. Someone stared angirily on intructor and he sighed and shouted. Reis was someone with backing and his death was lost for this person. Aron displayed great potential, yet bersekers were hard to control. None wanted to risk, having the beast as subordinate.
"Wait until he wakes up and throws him into b.l.o.o.d.y Pit"
"Are there any challenges here?" Goblin"s brother couldn"t challenge Aron anymore. Third, challenged first and lost. The selections ended and first was taken from the group. Actually, the person that got all the profits was little fatty with fourth place. Second and third were dead, first left, so he became first without effort.
Aron was unconscious inside his cell. He didn"t know, the moment he wakes up is a moment he will enter the worst h.e.l.l.
Amesha was sitting, usually concocting her poisons and didn"t see her favorite subject on the hall.
"You, where is a white-haired kid?"
"He is unconscious inside his room... I heard that he will be thrown inside the pit due to breaking the rules." Scared boy, said while trembling.
"What a regret...only he appreciated my cooking... Whatever... Let"s search for a new subject."
Her mood was bad, so all options were deadly. Aron caused the deaths of many recruits that day. The only few could survive because of getting food from the exchange center. After hearing about deadly batch they just decided to exchange their personal weapons for food. If you got out of the group you could do missions, with high luck you could get a real weapon from the exchange center.
The next days will be terrible for Aron and this won"t change in the near future.