Chapter 8: Aren’t it amazing?

I walked outside into the circle room. It was all normal until I noticed the small consistent force pushing against your whole body. We were turning over, but my feet were still clearly on the original floor. With a sudden compression of force inwards, walls all of a sudden almost looked like a thin wooden flack inside walls from the 2017s. The walls curved in, creating air opening to the outside sky. The wall curved more as the top and bottom still connect to the base. It wasn't only before the part attached to both the top and bottom began to slip as the walls flip and inwards towards us at different times. Our body was pulled towards the floor which is now facing up for originally people while the roof which is below our heads was ripped off the thin wooden walls and began falling into the first part of the races which was the ball and tree area. A rectangular door flew towards me and so did another person that lost their balanced to the usual sight of looking up. I grabbed the dude with my left hand and had the plum from my right hand placed on the shoulder to arm joint for support. I got the guy in the shoulders and bent my right leg and twisting my back backward towards the right side. The wall flew over, but from the sides, a person was willing to sacrifice themselves for me while holding my hand. It a sweet meeting and also a hasty departure as he disconnected. As his withered off, he spoke his last words.

"F**k you."

-Words of grace indeed.

My foot is off the floor. I looked up to see the tree grounds getting ever so closer. I turned my left; the remaining five people were falling with me. It was sudden, but I stopped. It was like my foot was stuck in mid-air. I took my look down see a blue lined maze on top of a black background. It was solid, sticking onto the base of my foot. I looked around; everyone scattered on the maze with their foot stuck. The map opened on the sides to let me see a world of black but a center of the white and red dot at the very center of the map. The limited number of people to pass this round is three again. Without time to waste, my firsts step was taken. I looked again; I was wrong to recognize the map with only blue and black, there was a red. My feet are placed between the blue lines on the black area. I tried to move out it but doesn't seem to be right. Some parts seem open but with a red base. I was about to step on it before noticing a green cataphile with light brown spick was slipping around on the maze. On the sides, it tells me that getting eaten or hit by that thing is not good. I walked on the red and a second was spawned on the center. It was heading towards me in a straight line. I saw an opening in the maze to make a turn to the right. I took it and waited few more seconds to pass. Another spawned and headed in the opposite direction. Then, I went back to my original path and connected to a left. The cataphile behind me didn't seem to be too bothered and rolled around the place like a dog.

It has been a while since the quarterfinals started, but no one has passed it yet. There are still three remaining spots for the next round, and four players is remaining including me. I am in halfway, and about eight cataphiles are going around the place. Another came from the back, but in a hurry to get a miss, I walked on a red area and another spawned. They don't seem to go into the white circle zone near the very center. Another came again as I switched over to the left side to dodge and continue on the lane and turn a right. The cataphile misses, and I was good to go. I hit a blue box on the sides which I just newly discovered. It gave me a red ball with a settable time. I set it to 10 and threw it away in the distance towards a moving sound of a pair of shoes rubbing against the floor due to no one capable of lifting their legs. The ball was off. I waited for a while until a see a shadow person picking up to only explode.

-Three people remaining

I should have saved it for later, but it doesn't mind me right now. I continued to walk and moved on which keeping an eye on the dark red spots that blend in with the flooring and the cataphiles around.

I was near to the white circle area. My body contained 3-time bombs and a whip for whatever reason. The surface of the white area was of the same high at the maze. My foot cross through it like ice. I lifted my foot; it was free. Due to the half or so hours of not moving a muscle, it was little slow. It didn't matter; I race ahead towards the red spot on the white platform. I tripped forwards, my palm as out and my head hulk. I pushed on the floor and did an air roll as my hands pushed on the ground. My head was back at the top, and I began running again. My leg was still a matter was it hoops once a while, but before long it was fine.

In front of me was someone, he was hooping and tripped.

-There are three people here and three spaces remaining, there's no need for me to do anything…

Is what a normal person thinks.

-If I take him out, then there's one less competitor in the next round!

This is how normal, normal people thinks.

I was getting close directly behind him. He doesn't seem to notice. I pushed down the bottom of the time bomb, and it started to count down from ten. I waited until 5 to get closer. I whipped him from the opposite side, by a natural instints, he would turn that way without thoughts. He did, I came and dropped the bomb on the floor between the foot and the bottom while he sat. The bomb was at 2, and there wasn't much time. I crossed his view of sight in front of him and moved right from his perspective. I was the opposite side of the silent countdown bomb and also the place where he just tuned from. The bomb hit 1, and he still had his attention towards me without knowing what could have happened before.

"Hi, there."

My smile slowly began curve into a smirk.

-Zero

"h…"

*Boom*

He was gone. By pacing myself opposite towards the bomb, he served as the damage absorber.

The count of the red beam dot in the center was still 3, meaning no one has gotten to the red dot yet. I want to ambush him or her. But due to the time they have spent inside the maze, it's likely he or she has better items than me. I think it's too reckless and the time remaining for this game is about 5 minutes.

'I should finish it with the highest chance of survival and, next round; their items get canceled anyways for usually speaking.'

I ran to the red circle inside the white circle and passed to the next round, semi-finals.