18 Brutal

I am now killing my 8th opponent, to summarize all the fights, they were brutal, and I had to put my life on the line a couple of times to win. The toughest one I fought was using a weird martial art where his whole body bulged with extra muscles. His strength obviously increased, and I struggled for a second before surprising him by poking his eyes and knocking him out.

Kanoh Agito can give knockout blows at any range, and training them on Earth was a plus for me as I was able to knock out my opponents before things get bad.

'I had my range lowered due to being shorter than what I'm used to in his template, but it will do just fine if I am careful enough. I had used more energy than what I would like to, I'm feeling a little tired and short of breath. Fighters in this world are monsters to be honest'

I encountered many opponents here, all having their different styles. Some were level-headed, some were pure beasts with instincts similar to it. A guy even tried to negotiate after I broke his leg because he was too fast for his own good.

'Haha, that one was funny, as soon as I broke his leg, he began to talk his way out of the fight'

As I was thinking about the fights I have faced, I found another fight taking place. Two were fighting one guy, and he was absolutely crushing the two of them. They were fighting not with instincts but with martial arts. The guy facing two of them was not at all overwhelmed, he had an exciting expression on his face as he continued delivering attacks.

"HAHAHA! This is exciting, hey you! Shitface, join those losers and fight me together!" he said looking at my direction, obviously excited.

I pointed my finger at me trying to confirm if he was speaking to me.

"Yes you! The guy without eyebrows! Come and fight me you shithead!"

"You are getting on my nerves.." the guy with big build who was fighting with the loudmouth said.

"He already got on mine" the second opponent said with a tick on his face.

"It would be too much for you to handle me alone, why don't you fight with your two boyfriends over there before facing me?"

'This should definitely irk him! hehehe..' thinking I laughed inside my head, and like expected, it irked him to no extent as he gave finishing blows to the two, his gaze met mine as we stared at each other. While maintaining eye contact he killed the two of them.

"Is that supposed to scare me? Too bad you won't be able to get on your threesome later with your boyfriends"

"You speak too much for your own good!"

'Look who's talking..' I rolled my eyes at his blatant double standards as I got ready for the fight.

-Swoosh-

He came at me with an angry face, ready to kill.

'This is going to be a pain, it's like dealing with an angry child'

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(Third-person POV)

The Gu Ritual was a brutal ritual where they drug and lock humans inside an enclosed space, buried underground. The only way to get out was to be dug out of there, the people participating inside the ritual would be hostile towards each other because of the drug taking effect. It was decided like that because the desired outcome was to find someone who could be the sole survivor inside this hell. It was inspired by the 'Gu Ritual' where poisonous insects would be entrapped inside a container to let them kill and eat the other poisonous insects to survive. The surviving Gu was said to be more poisonous and dangerous than anything they have ever seen.

These kinds of rituals often fail and have low success rate, obtaining the poisonous Gu/Insect whose poison was so potent that it would kill an adult elephant in seconds was not something which can be done so easily. It requires extreme patience and nurturing of the said Gu.

This year, the Gu ritual was hosted too, but not any Gu ritual, it was a human Gu ritual. Where beasts in the skin of human would be drugged and trapped underground to fight each other to death. It was very brutal and these kinds of rituals' success rates were extremely low, even compared to the original insect Gu ritual. Drugging humans to fight each other in an enclosed space would more or less take away their humanity from them, their mental faculties would be destroyed due to extreme claustrophobia, hunger and thirst. The only way to elevate their hunger was to eat other humans and drink their blood.

The total participants in this year's Gu ritual were 32, only 5 people remained alive after 3 days. That tells the brutality of this kind of ritual, the survivor would be anything but human.

In the other end of the underground space, there were three people currently fighting. They were haggard and tired, their eyes blood shot because of the lack of sleep. Even in their worst mental state, their brains were functioning at an amazing level, the survival instincts of a human could do wonders if used properly. This was what happening right now as the three of them were in a stalemate. They were using a submission move on each other as they were held in place, without moving.

The three of them were very gifted from birth, it was like their bodies were made to fight, they never knew defeat before. Until they faced each other in this cursed ritual, they fought individually at first and killed their fare share before encountering each other.

They were tired and the lack of sleep was effecting their judgement already, but facing death was not something they would like. It only brought out their hidden animal instincts while facing such situation.