Chapter 109
RYN
I ran like my life depended on it.
Suddenly the cheer grew louder and out of curiosity, I discovered that I had given everybody a wide berth. Astonished, I stared at my own legs moving at a super speed and intensified ny race.
A few feet ahead and I saw tiny mountains of stones stacked up in thirteen places and right beside them was something that looked like bags. When I got closer, I realized it wasn’t an ordinary kind of bag. It was something made of foreign material and instead of having leather straps, it had wooden ones.
The instruction was clear: pack all stones into the bag. The stones had been set in a way that was easy to arrange and once done, we closed the top and climbed the obstacles ahead to the finish line.
If any stone fell out, we were required to go back and pick it up and we were allowed to attack each other as long as we caused injuries that could heal.
Getting to work, I began to carefully pack the stones into my weird bag. Halfway through, I saw Konan arrive first. He glared at me before rushing to the other mountain of stones and kicking them down. I watched in disgust as he was able to destroy three people’s mounts before going to his own. By then, I was done and I closed the mental straps at the top and padlocked them with the keys given.
By the time Konan was halfway done, I was facing the sixteen feet tall obstacle made of vertical rope nets. Immediately I began to climb, and that’s when I remembered all my moutain climbing sessions and how I had gotten better over the months.
Now, this exercise felt like one.
About half way up, I began to feel tired. We were told our burdens would weigh roughly three thousand pounds and I don’t even weigh half of these boys, talk more of this burden.
Already out of breath, I decided to stop and breathe a little, just to rest my head for a bit. The tone in the crowd suddenly changed and that made me look down. To my horror, I found Konan already almost halfway up, about to reach for my left leg with his clawed hands.
Bloody Wolf!
I lifted my leg away from him, placing it higher but I wasn’t able to lift the other in time before his claws pierced my skin. I cried out, and in retaliation, I dropped my left leg on his face. He staggered, falling down some rungs and I used that as an opportunity to keep climbing.
I had no idea the arena had fallen quiet when I was attacked. Now as I continued climbing, they cheered again and that gave me the desire and determination to keep moving. I got to the top and climbed over to begin my descent down.
After that, I just needed to crawl under some barbed wire obstacle and I’d be at the finish line.
Beginning my descent, I noticed others were just getting half way up and that gave me a slight sense of relief.
Now, my back was burning but I noticed that the place where Konan had clawed me was burning as well. Speaking of the bastard, I noticed he was almost reaching me in height, so I moved to the another side of the net ladder so I wouldn’t have to clash with him when going down.
“Very well then.” I heard Konan say and just when I focused on the next step to take down, something hard hit me in the face. I closed my eyes on impact as pain exploded in my head and I heard a soft crack in my nose.
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