Challenging the Remaining Challengers

Leaning against a tree, I looked at the place where six corpses of crocalists lay, these damned crocalists were bipedal brothers of crocodiles who lived in one and the same country, as I remembered from history, the crocalists were a reasonable race, but the cataclysm drove them crazy and once reasonable and strong race have become monsters.

Historians who have so far doubted the cause of the cataclysm have claimed that the Crocalists angered a chosen one of some race, or possibly the god himself, who punished the Crocalists for their arrogance. Another part believed that the race reached its stagnation after which there was a regression, but there was no evidence for any of the theories.

These six crocalists were the last I could find near the mountain, an orc standing over their corpses holding a huge sword. During the active use of these two techniques, the seven tormentors and the call of the blood, I learned how to strengthen my three tormentors, which is why I rarely had to intervene directly in the battle. Touching the emblem with my hand, I began to scroll down until I saw the list of the top five, my eyebrows unconsciously raised up.

Lei Xu First Place

Heya second place

Third place Trey

Fourth place Nreu

Fifth place Su'Niho

Putting my hand on my temples, I began to massage my temples, knowing the nature of Nreu and Heya, now they will not calm down until they overtake me. Should I accept their challenge or not?Looking around, I saw roaming golems in the distance, a couple of wolves and then crocalists. I hope they will not be too upset by the final results from my thoughts, I got a predatory grin, I foresaw their dejected faces.

Straightening up, I went towards the orc and two elves, lowering my hand, I slashed the knife on my hand without looking, clenching my hand into a fist, allowing drops of blood to fall on the other hand. An orc and two elves, sensing my blood, turned their heads towards me, at such moments I suspected that they had intelligence or perhaps the beginnings of intelligence.

Approaching me, they knelt down, waiting for me to drip my blood on them. After waiting until my palm becomes wet, and only after that I put my hand first on the forehead of the orc, then on the foreheads of the elves. After that, I felt the power emanating from them, it was stronger than usual. Smiling, it was most welcome, it was my little challenge to everyone else in the trial.

- Come on, we have a lot of things to finish before the end of the test, I hope you don't let me down. - Turning to the tormentors, I said moving away from them and heading towards which I saw in the distance, I didn't need to look back to understand that they were following me, waiting for my orders.