We're reunited with Red, Blue and Piggy to celebrate silently this bitter victory. We don't have to talk to understand what we all felt in this dark event. Piggy as I know him tries to cheer the mood up with his sympathetic smile of his. Even smiling hurts him so he can't hold it but the intention was there.
This gave us a feeling of lightness for a moment. The gray beans on the contrary are going out by where we entered. One of them turn around, look at me, we stare at each other before he gets called by one of his friend. I look at Red who shake his head, just like saying we don't need to look further into it.
Now that the mood got better Blue start to roll for an item. Everyone looks at him with anticipation, what will he gets? I decipher a smile through his eyes, he gets his item out and it's a sort of a longbow but the scriptures on it are magnificent. Does goblins know how to craft this well? In the next moment there is another thing popping on the screen of Blue, like a notification.
He tries to turn his screen around to show us but it is written in his own language so none of us understand it. He wants us to understand so he persist, we finally understood because he showed the line corresponding of what he wants to makes us understand.
Blue just got a sponsor! I don't know if it's good or not but it happened just after he received his bow. He looks happy so I'm happy for him too.
Next is Piggy that wants his item. He pushes on the notification and with anticipation he finally gets something. He scratches the back of his head, I don't think he got something good out of it. He takes out a pair of shoes from his inventory. This could be awesome but the shoes are at the size of a goblin feet. Since they are little, their feet too correspond to their height. To make it simple it's like kid's shoes size.
Piggy wants to give them to me but I makes him understand they are too small for me either. Red explains to him he can sell them later on at the market place.
I also want to try my luck!
[You now have the right to roll for a random item in the pool of items in the trial of the green brigade. Would you like to roll?]
I tap on the notification with determination. Blue got a high rank item and even got a sponsor right after. Piggy got shoes that can't be worn by one of us but at least he can sell them, I hope I get something useful too.
[You receive a pack of phials of green goblins blood.]
What do I have with bottles containing a hazardous liquid... I don't complain about the previous one, we got the victory because of it. I'm just frustrated I didn't get an awesome Item like Blue. I'll look what the description say, it might be useful.]
[Name: Phials of green goblins blood x5 Rank: Common
Description: Green goblins are one of the lowest in the food chain, being prey to many. Unlucky for them, their blood is considered a delicacy for a lot of species in multiple universes. So much that some creatures could kill for it, literally.]
From what the description tell it can be very useful in some kind of occasions. But how do I know if a certain creature crave the blood of green goblins? I don't want to waste one, even more if the creature don't like it. I really need a library or some documentation about the arena to take as much information to maximize my chances to survive in the arena.
I take the pack of phials in my hand to show them to my friends. They are interrogating themselves if it's a good thing or not to pull this. I know they try to hide their pity for me but I'm not displeased of it actually. At the very least I could sell them since some creatures love it, some may very know how and when to use them.
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Red is the last one to pull an item for himself, we all look at him with anticipation. This gacha system is addictive, too bad we can only pull one item per trial. Finally the waiting is finished, he pulls out a necklace with some teeth on it. He looks at it in his hand, thinking of something with hesitation. After he finished he push his hand toward me and open it, gifting me the necklace.
I'm surprised since I don't know him that much. His wild temper hide a very kind heart, Piggy and him makes a really great duo, I kind of envy them. I'm not sure if I should take it, Piggy give me a tap on the back pushing me closer to the open hand. I finally take it, glancing again at Red to know if he is sure. With a confident smile and a cool poses he turns around with Piggy to go back the tunnel leading to the outside of the den.
I inspect it immediately while walking, this is the first gift I received so I will cherish it even if the description is not this good. Me who though everyone would be like the shark-dog and the old man, I can now have hope I can befriend some other species like Red, Piggy and Blue.
[Name: Teeth necklace Rank: Uncommon
Description: Green goblins have various ways to show their kind how well of a hunter they are. Collecting the teeth of their prey is one of them. The more teeth on the necklace, the better the hunter.
Bonus statistics: +2 STR
Skill: For 60 seconds you double your strength and you dexterity but at the end of the 60 seconds you will enter a state of vulnerability and both stats will be halved for 600 seconds.]
Holy, this must be very good in some situation like getting close to finishing a boss because the downside is so big it is dangerous, even more, deadly. I kind of understand why Red didn't want it that much, the counterpart is the real bad apple on this necklace.
I place the necklace in the neck slot, the necklace is now under my grey uniform.
If I equip all the items I now own all my statistics are very different from where I started.
[Name: Jean Reslit#2987 Age: 26 years old Race: Human
Class: None Sponsor: None Level: 1 Exp: 35 [READY TO LEVEL UP]
Health: 100%
Strength: 2(+3) Dexterity: 3(+5) Intelligence: 4(+1) Chance: 1
Redirium: 45
Skills: - [Lateral cut] ; [Berserk]
Talents: [Bloody Aura] ; [Shadow]]
This now really looks like a character page from a RPG. I'm ready to level up but I'll wait to be back in my room to do it. I'm so exhausted I feel like I could tumble at any moment.
Blue was waiting for me this whole time, looking at the stuff he gained too from this trial. He must've gained more things than me since he killed both the second in command and the chief of the green brigade.
I hope one day I can be as cool as him, but for now let's get back. Enough fighting for today. When we are out of the den the screen above us displays the survivors. of the round with the participation rank of each one of us.
Without surprises the portrait of Blue is first, then come Piggy and Red, the 3 beans at the same rank, finally my portrait comes up behind them. After me are some unknown portraits that must've stay hidden the whole round. Actually I don't blame them, if I had the opportunity that's what I would've done too.
We walk back the path we took to come reunite with the group before entering the den. All the corpses are still laying around where they were left. We arrive at the point where we met Blue and me, while he was fighting the second in command. I wonder what would've happened if I didn't interrupted their fight.
From now on we go separate ways with Blue, he salute me with his hand to say goodbye, I hope we can all meet again on the next trial. I take the exact same path I took, without all the hiding stuff to go back to my designated elevator. I look above to see the rows, there is no spectators, just some robots cleaning the dirty row just after a football match.
While I'm now in the elevator I know the ascension will be long so i hold myself against the wall and I fall asleep from exhaustion.
--- You can't forget...
Who's talking?
--- You must lead everyone out of here!
Who's talking??? It's the voice of a woman. Why is she telling me this?
--- Remember, all you have to do, is to not forget when you wake up Jean.
This warm feeling, it is a hand caressing my face. If this is a dream I want to stay in it forever. But I just know it won't last.
The dream was pitch black but now I have visions of a battlefield in raging flames. There is a group of person, I don't know any members of it. One of them is a little grey beans, one is a huge blue alien just like Blue but seems much more experienced, one of them is a shadow and lastly a human-like girl who have the exact same voice in the previous part of the dream.
It advance to a much more sinister ending while facing giant beings, the girl hold me, we are both crying in the arm of each others. One of them stab us together, the feeling is so real it wakes me up the moment the doors of the elevator open.
I walk past the long corridor leading to my room thinking of this weird dream. What I did not expect was what will happen next and how decisive it will be in the future.