Celeste~

...Before I ran out of time, I grabbed the medium-sized dagger from the shelf, eyeing it and weighing it in my hand to assess it. It was relatively heavy and seemed to be made out of some sort of polished black stone, it was almost translucent and had edges as sharp as razors. I knew what I was looking for so I no doubt knew that I had chosen a good option.

I took a step back as the array began to sink back into the ground again, fitting seamlessly back into the hole it came out of.

Without a second to spare the animatronic charged from the dispenser they came from with two short daggers in either hand.

I waited for it to get closer before I charged and sliced its throat.

They didn't seem to announce the rounds as they did last time, now instead just expecting us to be ready for combat.

Two more came from behind. Stealth must have been included while making these ones because they practically made no sound while they running towards me. One held a long sword while the other had one small dagger, similar to what the last one had.

Like last time, each bot was slightly better than the last.

They lunged at me. I had to first deal with the one who had the longest sword. I was short/medium range this time and I had to find a way to work around that.

The disadvantage to having a long-range sword is the lack of movement you have. Paired with the fact that the animatronics were probably heavy enough, made its attack slow. Slow enough for me to dodge it and attack its lower stomach. I dug my knife into its parts and slid it out equally as fast as it came in. I didn't know what it took for one of these to die. They seemed to be a different type than the other ones and in the last challenge, what it took to kill they differed each round.

Not taking any risks I quickly jumped back before assuming it was dead. It thankfully stumbled before dropping straight to the ground. Nice. I was a far enough distance away from the other one to be able to have enough time to attack it first. It has a shorter weapon than mine so I gracefully sliced its neck like I did the other one.

By the time it had reached the later rounds, I was exhausted.

Now, there were multiple animatronics, some with bows and others with throwing daggers.

I was at my wit's end but was proud of where I had gotten to. I knew I had done my best and that was all that mattered.

I was slightly battered and bruised. More than last time definitely. I think they let them harm us more this time because it was the last physical test and there was the safety of there not being magic involved.

I repeatedly dodged multiple long-range attacks from the bows and daggers they were using.

They also had…Strategy this time. the ones who were long distance stayed behind and fired at me while the ones with swords and brass knuckles charged.

Having to give up one of my daggers I threw it at one of the Animatronics that had a long sword. With the amount being thrown at me right now I didn't have the time to plan a safe attack while also dodging the arrows and would definitely have gotten hurt again.

Now only having one sword I did my best to attack without getting injured, i'd been running in circles to get some distance from the things and that seemed to work as they all ran at slightly different paces. as we were approaching a peak for them, that difference increased, most of them now running at a very fast pace.

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Doing what I could, I had to focus on slicing the arm of the bot that was closest to me. When it reached out and attacked I jumped back to allow it to lunge and stretch more, extending its arm and allowing me to cut it off neatly. It didn't drop to the ground but allowed me to use my other hand to get the dagger that was about to fall out of its open hand and slice its neck before stepping back once again.

Its other hand nearly grabbed my hair before it fell but I quickly escaped, needing to focus on the animatronics that remained.

I knew I had to take a bigger step back than I did last time, remembering that I also had long-range machines to deal with. Before I could even blink shots were firing at me. Thankfully I was in a position where some of the arrows and daggers hit the animatronics before me, two of them falling to the ground.

Sadly, Two of them that had no daggers left charged, Replacing the stupid bots that fell before. They were far away though, giving me just enough time to stab the machines in front of me in the brain with my dagger.

Once they were down the two from behind were relatively close to me. Before I got the opportunity to attack I had to duck down and dodge an arrow from behind.

Now at the feet of the bots I had to instead slice and stab their legs so I didn't get hurt. I pushed them back, putting their weight to fall backwards instead of into me as I fell back as well.

I was now flat on my ass when a bow was launched in my direction, I rolled to avoid it and thankfully did. The bots that I had stabbed were still alive and now crawling towards me. I easily killed them and made my way to the last one standing. I was worn out and out of breath by now, needing to take a moment to rejoice.

I swerved to avoid arrows as I slowly approached it. When I was at a close enough distance I threw the dagger that I took from the robot and hit it successfully, it stumbled for a second and I took that opportunity to lunge. It only had a bow and arrow so I could without fear of being stabbed.

I didn't manage to get to it before it fired at me again, I dived to avoid it and tacked it like a football player before I stabbed its brains.

I thought I wouldn't be able to make it through the next round but I did, not the one after that though.

After waiting for everyone else to finish I listened to the announcement that we could leave and met up with Chloe and Rain.

This one was easily way worse than the other, and like last time no one knew how well they did.

"How did you guys find it this time, I think it was way harder personally," I said

Agreeing, Rain said "Absofuckinglutely."

Chloe nodded in agreement, visibly drained from the combat.

Markan was as well, he decided to just go straight to his room after.

The girls and I were gonna go to the dining room and get food before we went upstairs

Thankfully they allowed us to eat in our rooms today. While I, on most occasions would be more than happy to sit and socialise with my friends now, I needed rest and I needed it now.

I was tired and groggy and didn't want anyone else to deal with the wrath of my miserability.

Rain and Chloe seemed to be in total agreement as they also wanted to grab food and take their leave.

We said our goodbyes to Chloe as we made our way back to our rooms. Before we approached the corner we heard voices to our right.

"Shut the fuck up Judias, I do what the fuck I want when I want and there is nothing you or anyone else can do about it, if your not gonna give me what I want I'll simply find it elsewhere."

Me and Chloe gave each other a look as we ultimately decided that we were gonna eavesdrop.

From what I've heard of her voice, I was pretty certain it was Princess Latía that Judias was speaking to.

"I don't give a fuck about what you want Latía, you made your choice when you decided to be a fucked up attention whore, everyone already practically considers us married, you have all the attention you need so why the fuck do you have to make things difficult and flirt with him."

Well damn.

"Because you don't give a fuck about me-"

"How do I not give a fuck about you, I'm the one who has to hide the shit that you do so they press don't hear about it again-"

"See, that's your fucking issue, the only thing you care about is what everyone thinks of you and covering up your silly little dirty secret-"

And just like that, I heard a loud thump and the sound of someone dropping to the ground.

A shriek came from Latía as she fell and she began to cry. "Fuck you Judias, FUCK YOU!" she screamed as she got up and walked off

"No, Latía I'm sorry, No come back!"

What. The. Fuck.