Seth passed out and woke up a few hours later. His whole body was in so much pain that it hurt him to even breathe.
Slowly, he took out a bandage and medicines from his bag and treated the injuries in his left arm that the thirio had made during its first attack. Then he treated the rest of his injuries and took some painkillers.
After he finished treating his injuries he finally took out his ID card and scanned the thirio's corpse.
[Thirio class: B
Reward: 1000 points]
[Adding points…]
[Points added]
[Current points: 1650]
'Seems like class B is the absolute maximum that I can take on,' Seth thought. He had almost died against a class B thirio so he realized it would be suicidal for him to try to face a class A. However, that still meant that he would need to face at least another 8 class B thirios and some C or D to pass the test.
He tried to stay awake since he didn't know if he was safe. But no matter how hard he tried, he ended up falling asleep some minutes later.
He slept for a few hours until the sun appeared on the horizon.
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In a rather secluded room, in a building close to the center of the city, Viktor woke up startled. His heart was beating fast and he was sweating.
'Damn nightmares,' he thought as he wiped out the sweat from his face. Then he took out his ID card and opened the interaction menu to check the time.
[Time: 8:30 am]
[Participant name: Viktor Megara]
[Current points: 2300]
'*yawn*, well let's get to work,' he thought while standing up. As he walked toward the door the duffle bag that was lying next to him lifted from the ground and floated to his side. The duffle bag's zip opened on its own and a protein bar floated toward Viktor's hand. He opened it and took a bite.
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'Dude I love these things,' he thought as he chewed the bar while walking through a hallway.
As he walked, several bloody thirio corpses could be seen on each side of the hallway. One of the corpses suddenly started floating when Viktor passed beside it.
As Viktor got close to a window, the floating corpse rammed into it, breaking it and falling to the street. Then he approached the edge and jumped.
He started falling but before touching the ground he suddenly decelerated and gently touched the ground. A couple of seconds later the duffle bag also arrived beside him and he started walking down the street.
He continued walking for some time until a thirio jumped at him out of nowhere. However, a chain suddenly wrapped around it, stopping it in mid-air before being able to touch him.
Viktor turned around and looked at him.
"Oh, hey you there," Viktor said. "You know it's rude to attack someone from a blind point? It's only fair that I return the favor, right?" he said before a piece of metal cut the head off the thirio from behind. The lifeless thirio's body fell to the ground.
[Analyzing corpse…]
[Thirio identified]
[Thirio class: C
Reward: 500 points]
[Adding points…]
[Points added]
[Current points: 2800]
'Nice,' he thought as he looked at his points. 'At this pace, I should be able to collect all 10k points without having to worry about running out of time,' he thought before he continued walking down the street.
He continued walking the streets of the city for some hours. Whenever a thirio tried to attack him, it would suddenly be wrapped by a chain and then a sharp object would cut its head off.
[Adding points…]
[Adding points…]
[Adding points…]
[Adding points…]
[Points added]
[Current points: 3600]
'C'mon, I haven't found a single class B in all day,' he thought while looking at the class D thirio corpse in front of him. '*sigh* I didn't want it to come to this,' he thought as a sheet of metal came flying his way and stopped in front of him. He stepped onto the metal sheet and kneeled on top of it before the metal sheet lifted up from the ground again and flew away. 'I should be able to keep this for a couple of minutes before running low on energy. Hopefully, I'll find a thirio by then,' he thought.
Just as he hoped, it didn't take him too long before finding one. It was a wolf-looking thirio that was around 3 meters tall even though it was on all fours. The wolf thirio turned around and saw Viktor flying a couple of meters behind it.
Growl!
The thirio growled when it saw Viktor, then it took an aggressive stance as it opened its mouth, revealing its gigantic fangs.
"You're a scary one aren't you?" Viktor said mockingly before the thirio dashed at him.
The thirio arrived in front of Viktor and lifted one of its paws, ready to strike him with its claws. However, a chain wrapped around the paw and stopped it right before the claws could hit Viktor.
However, the thirio quickly lifted its other paw. The metal sheet Viktor was on top of, suddenly dashed backward.
BANG!
Viktor was able to dodge the attack, which echoed in the surroundings and left deep scratches in the street.
At that moment, around a dozen short swords came out of Viktor's duffle bag and started flying around him, following the movement of his arms.
Then, he extended his arm and the swords flew at great speed toward the thirio, which used its left paw to cover itself from the attack. The thirio's paw stopped the spikes but it was still injured. Not only that, but its paw had also blocked its sight so the thirio wasn't able to see that Viktor was already hovering above him with a big piece of debris right beside him.
BANG!
With a movement of his arm, the piece of debris fell on top of the thirio.