17 Do as the Romans do (Part 1)

After I signed up, a screen appeared in front of me saying I should go to the waiting room of the Colosseum. While going there Nicholas and Garen were telling me about how the system and arena work together.

"The Ranking System is simple. Once you beat an enemy you go up one rank which means giving you 100CPs" Nicholas said and Garen adds from the side.

"While a Duel is two people agreeing in a fight. Unlike Arena which you have a place to fight into your heart's content and not only you will get to experience near-death and be used to it but you won't die. For Duel, Not only you get to rank up and get CP..." Garen seems to hesitate to say it.

"You get more from that person. That's why the Duel is famously called All or Nothing" Nicholas coldly said.

"70% of the time from my charts, unknown or hidden injuries may delay a student's growth or worse...Death."

"We don't mean to scare you but I know that you are mentally stronger than kids these days so I'm telling this to you" Nicholas said with a side glance at me.

He stops and walks to a narrow staircase followed by Garen.

"Good luck"

"May Gaea give you strength!"

Nicholas left a simple encouragement while Garen said a very medieval thing again. After that, we proceed in our own ways.

Now that I'm alone. I fell on to a meditative state. I close my eyes and tried the thing Nicholas was teaching me about. I don't know why I'm doing this but surprisingly it helps me calm.

I can feel and hear the yells of joy and excitement on top of me. The ground sometimes rumbles and then turns quiet. I can hear the sound of explosion, fire and all kinds of ability of the fighters.

I can smell the blood? from here? and then like a blurred white vision I saw a sword stabbing into the chest of a man.

I frantically open my eyes from the scene I have witnessed. At the same time, Loud cheers rang the whole place. I witnessed a man got eliminated from a fight without me not looking at the Arena personally?

What did I just saw? I don't know how to react to it and I panicked resulting in me not exploring the mystery behind it. And If I ever got into that state again. Inside of me is saying.

I want to GRASP it.

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Inside the waiting room, countless people were staring daggers to each other like someone killed their family. The place was emanating full of bloodlust, the longer I stay the greater I feel the depth of this atmosphere.

'This generation is full of problematic children!'

Sigh~ so this is what Garen was talking about. In their eyes, I can see the competitiveness. I wonder if I have a superpower, will I be the same as them? Well, ability doesn't define a person, maybe it's just their environment telling them to be strong if they want a promising future.

'I admit I'm the same as them' I chuckled at the thought of my acceptance.

[Smiley vs Boran]

'Oh it's finally my turn'