Eris in Crisis

Shiro continued to kill people as he searched for Eris and Shin, his blade danced around in search for enemies to kill while his consciousness looked for his teammates, Shiro had turned into a menace, most of his pent up rage that he had hidden deep within came flooding out.

He killed as easily as breathing, not even batting an eye when the other participants begged for mercy. Six hours into the test, Shiro decided to take a break, both his clothes and blade was soaked in blood, his look right now could only be described as terrifying.

Shiro sat down on a protruding rock as he began to ponder his next plan of action, he had been fighting non-stop since the test began constantly being in a high state of alert now that he had the opportunity to rest, Shiro's mind almost collapsed from fatigue.

His head hurt as his vision blurred, his body became numb rendering him unable to move. Shiro's mind went adrift, he wasn't sure how long he was out but the continuous shouts and taps from someone let him regain consciousness.

Shiro turned on his martial awareness, his mind was a little foggy so he couldn't recognize anything, when his mind became clear, he immediately scanned around to see if anyone was close to him.

His martial awareness picked up a figure which was blurry and hard to see, he knew that the only person that could do that was Shin so he immediately went over to meet him.

Shin sat down behind a rock his head bent down like something bad had happened. He looked up when he saw Shiro approaching.

What Shiro saw in Shin's eyes was despair, a feeling he had grown accustomed to because of his powerlessness, Shiro suddenly got a bad feeling about everything.

He had been unconscious for half a day already and from the way Shin's face looked, it was like everything that he was supposed to protect were gone from his fingertips.

Shiro immediately asked Shin what happened during his sleep. Shin explained everything to Shiro.

"Eris and Emris should have been killed by now"

The despair and hate in his eyes had intensified as he looked at Shiro bitterly;

"If only I was as strong as you"

Shiro looked at Shin, his eyes now filled with anger, he then asked Shin for directions before heading off.

Shiro closed his eyes before focusing his martial awareness, according to Shin's words, the place were Eris and Emris were shouldn't be that far.

Shiro increased his pace without fear of being ambushed, he didn't try any stealthy tricks and just went ahead with full force.

Few seconds later, he began hearing voices, they didn't sound that far away.

"The boss said to kill her but let's have some fun first"

Hearing those words Shiro paused, he suddenly felt a thump in his heart, and he could feel and hear his own heart beat like his heart was beating right in front of him.

Shiro drew his sword before sprinting towards the voice, he busted through some bushes before coming before six people, four of them all wearing masks. He recognized two which were Eris and Emris, seeing their beat up conditions as they lay sprawled on the floor.

Shiro's mind darted around as he scanned the area before noticing one of them approaching Eris with an evil grin his intentions very clear.

Shiro felt like time was paused for a second as everything moved extremely slowly in his view. Shiro positioned himself in the position for a sword draw.

"We've already seen that one"

He heard a voice say but he did not care;

[Sword Style: First Form; Sword Draw]

Shiro blurred out from their view as he instantly appeared near the guy heading towards Eris, he drew his sword and struck in quick succession, his blade struck the guy but he felt a repulsive sword, his sword bounced back as he looked at the guy in surprise, his fastest skill had been warded off so easily leaving him unable to dodge the guy's counter attack.

Shiro felt a blow on his head as blood immediately sprayed out, he tried to steady himself before using his evasive technique to dodge the follow up.

Shiro jumped back to catch his breath, he didn't dare go back unprepared.

He looked at the four masked guys with precaution, he had a bad premonition about the guys in front of him, something about them felt unusual.

"You were the one who killed one of my comrades during the first phase right?"

A bulky man with a wolf mask asked, he walked towards Shiro with wide strides covering the distance between them in an instant. His towering body loomed over Shiro's head, his ever confident aura gave one a sense of superiority. He felt like a god.

"Aren't you a little too big to be in this exam?"

Shiro asked, he was ready to run in a moment's notice.

Shiro looked at the man but he did not answer, he kept an aloof face like everything in front of him was insignificant.

"Where is the lost seeker?"

The man asked completely shocking Shiro

"Is he not with you? And here I thought I could awaken you both together… especially that boy"

The man said sounding sad.

Shiro looked at the man in silence, awaken him? He was a fucking god for God's sake, anything to be awoken should already be awoken by now, right?

Shiro was no longer sure, he kept hesitating and keeping his guard up when he heard a roar, his drifting mind came back as he jumped away from the man.

Just as he jumped back, his figure was replaced by a blue lightning coated dragon, the dragon crashed into the masked man before pushing him back.

Shiro looked at the attacker and saw Shin standing beside him, his aura and disposition was completely different, the blue lightning that usually went round him had turned black and intensified, his body began breaking down as a massive beast emerged from him.

"See? This is what happens when you awaken without the proper technique, such a hassle"

'This is the awakening?'

Shiro thought as he looked at Shin, the black lightning had now become uncomfortable for Shiro to remain close so he kept his distance. Everything Shiro knew about the lost seeker race vanished as he stared at the monstrosity called Shin.

His body had now become something unrecognizable, his body mass kept increasing covering more than half of the arena. Every participant who saw it left the perimeters while those that were unfortunate and came in contact with the black lightning were killed off instantly.

The participants in the arena were now less than two hundred.