First phase (2):

Inside the massive crowd in front of me, I see a complete slaughter happening. The fourth school only have twenty students left yet the other schools are still hunting them.

I watch as Jerio slams his fist into a fragile looking student sending him hurling through the air before he slams into a pillar behind him. A dust cloud forms from the student's body impacting the pillar.

That punch surely killed him. I doubt even I could survive a punch like that without major injuries. I don't know what Jerio's ability is exactly. But from fighting him earlier and feeling the power of his punches.

I'm leaning towards him having some type of super strength. I'm sure there's a condition he has to fulfill to achieve it. But I have no clue what that condition is. With every ability there is a weakness to it.

Jerio's weakness isn't his agility. He could keep up with me even when I had Rebecca's boost. He doesn't seem to be tiring so it isn't his stamina so what could it be?

I think to myself biting my fingernails anxiously. I watch as Jerio punches students out of the crowd sending them sliding across the floor with blood pouring out of their mouths.

I can't figure out his condition or weakness right now. I need to focus on the other students. I watch as the woman holding the bow from earlier appears behind Jerio and dashes to the right firing an arrow at a young ginger woman.

The ginger woman stares at the incoming arrow, before pointing her palms towards it, conjuring a yellowish orange barrier of energy. The arrow creeps closer to the barrier until it splits into five arrows.

The arrows hit the barrier, before bouncing off, spinning in the air above the crowd. The woman with the bow smacks her lips before dashing back and standing behind Jerio again.

I stare at the ginger woman with a grin on my face. I watch as Jerio looks over towards her and throws a punch. The woman's eyes widen as she crosses her arms. The barrier she forms doesn't affect Jerio's punch as it passes straight through and slams into her guard sending her flying out of the crowd bouncing on the floor repeatedly.

Her ability only stops long range attacks but doesn't affect physical attacks such as a punch or a kick. That's quite a weakness. I stare at her as she slowly pushes up off the ground with bruised arms.

Blood leaks out of her mouth as I see the number three on her blazer. I stare at her until suddenly twos figure clashing weapon appears behind her catching my attention.

The crazy man holding the katana is engaged in close combat with a tan blonde man with tattoo on the right side of his face holding onto a spear.

The tan man has three written on his chest. He keeps dashing keeping out the range of the man holding onto the Katana as he thrusts his spear.

The tan man almost hit the crazy man's neck with the tip of his spear before he dashed back, coming to a sliding stop on the floor. He was about to thrust his spear again until his eyes widened when he realized the katana was approaching his abdomen. But before he could react, the katana sliced him in half, killing him instantly.

His body dropped to the floor lifeless as blood gushed out of his body. The man wielding the katana looked down at the corpse with a grin on his face until someone shouted out to him.

" Aerio, You die today! "

Screamed out a woman in tears, She must have been teammates with the person Aerio killed. I watch closely at the two as they're about to engage until I shake my head watching the woman's emotional movements.

" This won't last long "

I murmur to myself as I watch Aerio swiftly lunge forward blitzing past the woman's body. He appears behind her before her head soars up into the air, cut off.

Her body flopped on the ground right next to the man. Aerio's deranged face grows as he starts looking through the crowd before he locks eyes on three students standing together and lunges towards them.

He's dangerous. His movements are unorthodox because of his overwhelming bloodlust. He fights like he isn't scared of losing a limb. If Rebecca and Sally engage with him they'll surely be killed.

Neither him nor Jerio is checking the killed or unconscious bodies of students. Why aren't they looking for pages? Do they plan on defeating all the students and then collecting the pages? 

I guess it doesn't matter we need to get a move on.

I glance back at Rebecca. She stopped sweating and her breathing slowed. She looked at me before talking.

" I'm fine. Go hurry up and collect pages from the students."

She says to me in a serious tone. Rebecca is serious about this exam. She's clearly trying to impress someone. I look at her before I stand up and grin.

" It's about time. I was growing bored waiting for your energy to return. "

I say to her. She scoffs at me as she touches my back and my body becomes lighter before I start walking towards the crowd of people.

Rebecca's maximum before she loses control is 60 feet. The crowd of people is 30 feet away from us. I need to remember to stay in her range. I slowly walk towards the crowd juggling the knife in my hand.

The sound of my footsteps catches the attention of Jerio who looks at me with a serious look on his face before he reaches to his left and taps the shoulder of the woman behind him and points at me.

The woman looks at me before firing an arrow at me. The arrow slips through the crowd of people before splitting into ten. She can split arrows. If I fight her at a distance she'll be annoying. I can't close the distance because she'll switch out with Jerio.

I'm pretty confident. That Jerio and her are the only ones in their group. They haven't worked with anyone else so far. I dash to my left running away from the arrows they pierce into the floor behind me.

She strings back her bow again firing another barrage of arrows at me. I run past an unconscious man's body I reach down and grab onto his shirt before picking him up. I raise him up in front of me catching the woman off guard. She suddenly jerks her hand back as the arrows stop moving and fall down to the ground.

I reach into the unconscious man's shirt pocket before a grin appears on my face and I pull out a page and slip it into my shirt. I drop his body onto the ground and stare at the woman scanning the ground before shouting out.

" What are you thinking? You could have killed him. Do you not have any honor? "

She says to me in a shaky voice.

She revealed one of her tricks. If I didn't know she could stop her arrows she could set a trap and beat me. I grin as I shuffle the page deeper into my pocket before I start walking around counting the number of unconscious bodies on the floor.

She was observing the ground earlier to see how many bodies were on the floor. Luckily for me there are plenty. There are around 50 people knocked out on the ground.

There are still around 120 people fighting in this crowd. The rest of the students have gone to fight the instructors on this floor or gone to the lower floors.

" Don't try to act all high and mighty. It's clear to both of us, you only stopped your arrows because if you killed that man you would have lost a point on your precious exam grade. "

I say to her walking around the crowd of people fighting. I stare into the woman's eyes as she looks at me with an angry glare until a massive bang is heard shocking everyone.

I look over to a man with long dark green hair covering his eyes with earrings in his ear kneeling touching the ground. Hundreds of cracks appear under me and the crowd of students before the ground underneath us shatters.

I feel slowly start to fall through the floor. I look over to the right and see Rebecca and Sally both staring at me with shocked faces. They were outside the range of that man's attack. I can't dash away out of the hole we're going to separate.

I think to myself as I fall down to the second floor. I watch as Jerio looks over and stares at the man before shouting out.

" Liam, what do you think you're doing? "

Jerio and hundreds of students fall through the hole in the floor with me, I look around as my hair blows wildly in the wind, I glance behind me and see a massive pillar, I grip my knife tightly in my hand before I slam it into the pillar, my blade cuts through the pillars stone, but the sharpness of my blade keeps cutting the stone as I keep descending through the air,

I smack my lips and press my shoes onto the floor as they make a squeaking sound. The rubber on the soles of my shoes burns off from the friction on the pillar. Eventually I twist my knife catching it in the pillar stopping myself from falling.

I take a deep breath and start looking around. The second floor of the tomb has a massive ceiling, the floor is hundreds of feet below. The pillars on this floor are far larger than the first floor being hundreds of feet tall.

Around the pillars are wooden platforms each sticking out for around 40 feet. Massive wooden rope bridges connect the pillars making a platform. Hundreds of students are currently battling on the bridges and platforms.

The second floor has very little lighting, except for the light coming through the big hole in the ceiling where I fell through. The only other source of light are the flame lanterns on the platforms on top of some crates.

Jerio and the other students are on a bridge under me. There still dazed and confused either standing wobbly or lying on their back unconscious. I yank my knife out of the pillar as my shoes start sliding down the pillar.

I look left of the bridge and see a platform without a soul on it, I start running on the pillar heading towards the empty platform, I take a few steps until I hear a voice behind me, 

 " You had the same idea as me! "

Yelled out Aerio holding onto his katana and running across the pillar with a grin on his face. He must have stabbed his katana into the pillar just like me. I raise my knife and block a slash from his katana as my body is propelled towards the wooden platform.

I flip in the air and land on the platform dragging my left hand across the wooden planks stopping my momentum. I look at Aerio falling out of the air with his Katana above his head.

He wildly swings his blade towards me, but I side step the slash as he goes hurling past me and rolls onto the ground before standing up and facing me with an insane look in his eyes.

" When you fought Jerio, I saw how fluent your blade moved. And you were totally gonna slaughter Jerio, no doubt about it! But then, out of freaking nowhere, that dumbass bitch just had to stick her nose in the middle of it all and ruin everything! Ugh, so infuriating! "

He yells at me while scratching his neck, staring at me with sunken in his eyes. He keeps on scratching his neck until it starts bleeding.

" I'm right there with you. We definitely have the same opinion about her. "

I say to him jokingly. We walk towards each other with grins on our faces. Both holding onto our weapons tightly, our battle is about to begin...