22nd November 2975

"*Heavy breathing*...THIS IS LITERALLY CRUELTY"

12 hours ago

"Well...We're ready"

Brock seemed energetic

"Great. Well, they will send you orders through that holographic mobile. Don't lose it"

"Yeah yeah. We are not kids," Ryan pulled an unamused face

"Ah, sure you aren't. Good luck."

Ayesha and Noah walked away. The holographic phone buzzed. It was more like a cylinder.

Brock and Ryan turned on the semi-cast mode. A hologram popped up. It was the President of the council.

"Well. Hello dear candidates. In a few minutes, your journey to the rocky mountain starts. the gate will be opened in 5 minutes. But aren't there too many candidates?

Well well. Let's reduce some. The first 1000 to reach the rocky mountain peak stay. OTHERS ARE OUT."

"Crap. The pressure is on. Brock get ready." Ryan mumbled

The starting siren rang. Brock and Ryan sprinted as fast as possible.

There was total 58 starting positions scattered all over the map. Thankfully Brock and Ryan had the same starting position. They started from the Council's backyard.

The map suggested it was a 10-mile distance and the altitude of the mountain was around 3 miles. In a few minutes, they reached a forest

"God Damn it. Forest? Hope there's no mutated be..."

Suddenly a large blue anaconda appeared in front of them.

They clutched a hard break. Ryan put out a piece of metal from his back pocket and suddenly extensions popped out from it and it turned into a staff.

Ryan hit the ground and roots entangled the anaconda. Brock wore black leather fingerless gloves and did a victory clasp hand sign.

A pile of sand pressurized and crushed the anaconda

"As expected. There will be obstacles. Put your guard up Ryan."

They started sprinting again. Little did they know a pair of eyes were lurking at them from the bushes.

After sprinting for a while the peak of the rocky mountain became visible.

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"That's our destination." Ryan pointed.

Suddenly they saw a girl with wings flying fast toward the mountain peak.

"Damn it. Others are using cosmium to speed up. What can we do?" Brock yelled.

Ryan thought for a while

"Can you throw things with sand, Brock?"

"Of course, I can."

"Hell yeah."

Ryan stopped and dug his staff into the ground. Tree roots took shape around them and turned into a sphere.

"Put some pressure, Brock. Uproot the roots and throw "

"So you have some brain cells, huh? Ok. Get ready for our shaky ride."

Brock put his left-hand flat on his right fist to create a hand sign.

A pile of sand pushed the root sphere. It uprooted it and threw it toward the peak.

"Thankfully no motion sickness."

Brock and Ryan clenched the roots so that they don't lose balance. The throw was a powerful one. They were flying close to the peak

But suddenly .. their sphere blasted.

Something explosive hit it. The mixed inertia threw Brock and Ryan. They collapsed on the ground from the high altitude.

But brock managed to create a hand sign of holding one hands wrist with other and collecting cosmium energy in time and pile sand slowed their velocity, minimizing the damage.

"What..on earth was that?"

Brocks's eyes were getting fuzzy. His left thumb seemed cracked.

Ryan wasn't affected much as the explosion happened on Brock's side.

"Hey, it's the..."Ryan screamed

The girl who was flying with wings a few minutes ago was lying. Her wings were torn apart. Blood was oozing down from her back . Her wings were torn so cruelly

that her backbone came out. Her flesh was scattered around. Her inner organs could be seen through her torn meat. Her lungs were still throbbing like a bird's lung after being shot in the wings. Ryan tried to pull her

"Are you alright?"

Pulling her, Ryan jumped away. The scene was like a nightmare.

One of her eyes was out of the socket and hanging on nerves. Most of the teeth were broken. froths were coming out of her mouth. One of the ears was burned to ashes.

and something pierced through her nose.

The only question aroused

"WHAT KIND OF DEVIL CAN CAUSE THIS?"

Suddenly they noticed, a guy wearing a black handkerchief as the mask was walking toward them. There was a red sign on the mask. A snake creating a star sign!

He was around 5 feet and lightly built had a bun hairstyle made of hazel colored hair.

A blue plasma sphere on his hand was illuminating and sparking.

"WHAT" S THE HURRY BOYS?"