Itekan stared at the tree monsters, and couldn't move a finger, the pressure these creatures released was making him shake literally. Though they were not as intense at the Chimera Ant Queen, theirs was clearly not a joke.
Itekan looked at them advancing towards him, his mind racked as he thought of ways to escape, still he couldn't move, as they bore down on him, the pressure intensified and itekan could barely breathe, but he kept looking at the squarely.
Just they were about to touch Itekan for some reason they stopped and turned away, itekan realizing they were letting him go, immediately ran away, fast.
His legs moved through the forest so far he wasn't aware when he reached a clearing.
He stopped and a down there catching his breath.
Just then the ground beneath him shook and some worms came out, these worms were all nearly a meter long and had no eyes.
Itekan shocked got up.
" Chajama!!" He said, raining them with fireballs, the worms shrieking burrowed their way back into the sand, Itekan continued to fire fireballs into the holes left, when one dug out.
It smacked Itekan, sending him backwards, Itekan feeling the ground beneath him vibrate jumped up as one of the worms dug out.
" Chajama!" He shouted as he rained it with fireballs, killing it.
As he landed the entire clearing shook and more worms burst out, they were six in number , Itekan stepped back in surprise, not because of their quantity, rather because earlier his spiritual energy had run out with just four attacks, but now he felt more spiritual energy even after all this while. It wasn't that his spiritual sea had expanded, rather it was filling up faster than he could deplated it. Whatever the reason was he hoped it continued until he finished the physical exams.
Itekan smiled, as the worms came towards him.
" Maximum Chajama!!" He roared.
***
Itoyea and kutote sat back to back, around them were the mercenaries, all scattered on the floor unconscious.
Itoyea looked at his hand.
Itoyea Crissam : 3[+8]
" Ha" he laughed, in bursts
"Why are you laughing? " Kutote asked
"I'm almost done, i just need about 4 more points" he said.
Kutote looked at his hand too.
Kutote Tuo:[+7]
" Than.." he mumbled to itoyea who was catching his breath.
" What ?" Itoyea asked
" I said thank you!! " kutote said and shot off.
Itoyea looked at kutote run off and smiled
" No problem!!!" He shouted out.
Kutote dashing out, ignored him and continued on his way.
He arrived at a lake, on the other side he saw three other candidates, in the water they had just killed a merman and were arguing about who the point should go to.
" Easy targets" he said, but before he could move a third group came in, a tall slender guy wearing glasses, and holding a file walked towards them.
" Subjects found, begin murosis" he said writing it down in their file, immediately the three fell quiet, a lump grew on their shoulders and they fell unconscious.
Two ladies then walked out, one was covered in blood, the other was wore overalls.
" That was easy!" Leopathra said squealing, she ran to the talk guy, fawning over him, the other girl walking behind went to the merman, and plunged her fingers into his ribs, bringing out the heart.
" Mheh, it was alright" she said dropping the heart on a rock, suddenly she stopped and looked towards where kutote was hiding.
" Mheh!, really Leah" Leopathra said shocked, when Leah didn't answer she looked at her surprised.
" Is there anything there?" Ajin Croft asked.
Leah catching kutote's eye, shrugged.
" We're in a forest, there's everything here" she said nonchalantly, the tense tempo broken the three continued into the forest.
Once they'd left kutote stepped out, she'd seen him, he was surprised, not many normal people could see him when he hid.
He walked to the shore of the lake and looked in, he saw a couple of merman coming to the surface, they too had perhaps been hiding from the lady.
***
Binturu watched as the seconds ran out on the large timer in the sky.
As it hit 0, he started glowing again, this time he was teleported to a different location I'm the same forest, besides him was a boy with purple hair.
" Hello Candidates, congratulations to all who got to this round, those who didn't, good luck next year!" The voice boomed.
Itekan looked up to the sky where the voice was coming from.
" No without further ado, we'll begin the nest round, those of youwho are here must have noticed that there is someone next to you, they are your teammates, you can confirm their names by looking at your arms.
" Remember the rules, yeah one person must remain in the safe zone to protect it, stepping out will lead to disqualification, this is a capture the flag test, remember you only need 5 flags to pass, well good luck and begin!!" The voice boomed before disappearing.
" Hey kid, what's your name?" Binturu asked, looking at his arm.
" Kid!, we're like the same age!" Itekan said offended.
" We're not, I'm much much much older than you, that to the way, are you Itekan Lie" Binturu asked.
"Yes, then you're Binturu Binturu " Itekan said the last part slowly looking at Binturu in amusement.
" What!?, it's a very nice name okay!"
" Sure no problem!" Itekan said smiling, " so we're team mates huh"
" Duh!, where's the flag!" Binturu asked.
Itekan turned around looking for it, picking it from behind him.
" It's here" he said.
" So what's the plan?" Itekan asked.
" We'll switch every ten minutes, I'll go get some flags first, the you can go, I'm the meanwhile you hold the fort"
" Alright" Itekan said looking at the sky, showing a timer, which real 57: 32
" We have about 58 minutes to get the flags, I'm headed out now!" Binturu said.
Itekan nodded as Binturu left.
He sat down in the green circle that was their safe zone.