Chapter 89 I Challenge You, Aaron!!!
Everyone stared with widened eyes, and opened jaws, as the smoke slowly dispersed, revealing the destroyed Arena. A huge crater sat in the center with smokes still rising into the air.
"Did Ayer just...?"
They were all speechless.
"It seems so... She killed herself."
The Leader of the girls stood up from the ground. She and the criminals stared at the crater in front of her in horror.
Egon counted the number of people left, and turned to Aaron. "My king, that explosion killed 27 of the criminals, with the three already dead, that make it 30... We won't be able to carry on the contest as planned, because some of them lost their opponents in that blast."
Aaron moved his gaze on the twenty people on the Arena and stood up, then stepped forward.
"Ok, This is a kind of setback, but no worries! The trial will go on..."
Aaron snapped his fingers, and twenty light balls appeared above the Arena, with a wave, the balls started spinning; and after some seconds, they came to a stop and lowered towards the twenty. He then snapped his finger, the earth rose into the air covering the crater, and formed a fighting stage on it, which was 1-meter high.
"All of you are allowed to pick one of these light balls, Anyone who picked the word "Leader" Will be the one to get on the stage and the others will have to challenge him/her... If any of you kill the leader, all his/her kills will belong to you, and you'll become the Leader, who others will have to challenge... But if no one challenge the Leader, he/she will have the right to challenge anyone, and you can't refuse the challenge. Refuse, you die... The last one standing wins."
They all looked at one another, took a deep breath, and pointed at a Light ball.
Aaron nodded, while the Balls shattered, a piece of paper flew out from the light balls they pointed, and fell on their hands.
"...Blank." Zukor was stunned, as the former king, he took himself as the leader, but now he got a blank paper.
"Blank." Nlad said.
"Blank." Dolor crumbled the paper, and burnt it in his hands.
"Blank." The Leader of the girls sighed, she looked at the remaining surviving members of her group which were a total Ten.
"What did the ten of you get?" She asked.
"Blank." The ten answered.
"Then who got the Leader?"
They all turned to Glad who raise a blank paper into the air. "Also Blank."
"..."
"I got the Leader!!"
Everyone subconsciously turned their heads to a girl, they were all stunned seeing she looked like a 15years old child... Dressed in a black short skirt and shirt.
"Uh?"
"There might be a mistake! She's just a child!!" Zukor yelled.
"If you aren't happy with your choice, Challenge her and take over the position."
Aaron walked back to his seat and sat down, then turned to Egon:
"But wait, Commander Egon. Who is this girl? Why am I seeing her now? Where was she hiding?"
"Actually, that isn't a kid... She's an assassin class, who have mastered the ability to shape-shift; she is known as Ever-changer, and a Sky Realm... As far as I know, she can take the form of anything, including Monsters."
'Wow! That's one good skill that I wasn't able to see through it.' Aaron thought, staring at Ever-changer, as she leaped into the air, and landed on the Stage.
"I might be a child, but that didn't mean I'm weak." She said with an Innocent smile.
The group frowned and looked at one another in confusion.
"Come on, Who's challenging me?"
Dolor snorted in disdain, and walked away from the place, sitting down on a corner, and closing his eyes.
"Ok, who want to challenge me, this is the last time I'm asking." Ever-changer said.
"Ok! I challenge you!!"
The audience and those in the arena turned their heads to a muscular man, who was even bigger than Bivo.
The man cracked his knuckles, and leaped into the air, landing on the stage.
Ever-changer observed the man for some seconds, and nodded. "Come on." She provoked.
"This child is brave!"
"Yeah, That Man Is twice her size, but she isn't scared."
"Wow, this will be interesting, but what crime has she committed that placed her here?"
"I don't know."
The audience were discussing, watching the two on the stage.
"You're calm in this situation, Nice!" The man said with a grin.
Ever-changer stared at him for some seconds, and sighed. "Is this buffoon attacking or not?"
"How dare you?!!"
The man stomped his feet on the ground, and jumped into the air, arriving above her, planning on crushing the little girl beneath him.
Whzzzzh!!!
Everyone's eyes widened in shock, as the little girl before them took the form of a 3 meters tall bull, with an impressively long horns.
"...!!!!!"
The Man's eyes widened in Horror, seeing as the Bull placed its horn below him, right under his private area.
BAM!!!
Everyone closed their eyes in shock, what they heard next was a painful scream.
"AHHHHH!!!!!"
They all opened their eyes, seeing the man holding the Bull by its horns, and participating in a tug-of-war... Pushing and pulling.
"...."
"Good agility, and reflex." Aaron nodded.
"Yeah, this guy might be huge, but he's flexible." Lilly said.
"True." Protean nodded.
The man grinned, pushing the huge Bull back. "What made you think you can win me?!" He yelled.
Whzzzzh!
"Huh?"
He was stunned, seeing the Bull shaping.
He let go, and leaped backward, landing on his feet.
Everyone stared at the huge Queen cobra, measuring 70 feet long in front of them, utterly perplexed.
"You're just lucky!"
The Cobra spoke, and lunched towards the Man, who quickly dodged to the side with a roll, missing the snake's maw by a hair-length.
"You!"
BAM!!!
Before he could cuss, the tail slapped him out from the stage. He fell outside the stage, and stood up.
The next moment he vomited a mouthful of blood. 'What?! Impossible, that Attack didn't injure me so badly.'
He thought, looking around the place, then up at Aaron, who was smiling at him.
'This Bastard!!'
He hissed, and quickly ran back to the stage. Gotten on it, he sighed in relief feeling his body returning to normal.
'Stepping out, or getting thrown out from the stage will damage you internally! What an evil Bastard! And he said he's merciful!!'
He looked up at Ever-changer who shot towards him again.
He jumped over the Snake's head, and landed on its back.
"I'll kill you!!"
Before he could grab the snake, it shrunk in size, and took the form of....
"....."
He stood up in shock, staring at the "him" in front of him. They were completely identical, it was like staring at a mirror.
"You can copy Demons too?"
"I can take any form."
Ever-changer leaped into the air, and dropped on her opponent, who quickly jumped to the side. She landed on the ground, cracking it.
"You can also copy skills?!!" The man was horrified.
"Oh? I can do more than that." She moved with an incredible speed, appeared in front of him, and struck her palm out.
The man quickly raised his hands in defense.
BAM!!
Her palm collided on his arm, pushing him some meters back.
The man stabilized himself, and looked down. His eyes widened seeing a green handprint on his arm.
"Don't be so surprise, that's my venom, it's already in your blood... You either kill yourself with your own hands or I'll help you." Ever-changer took the form of the little girl, and smiled innocently at him.
"You!!"
Before he could charge towards her, he dropped on his knees, and threw up a mouthful of blood.
"You're despicable!!"
"Oh? Aren't all of us Despicable? We have all killed more than a hundred people, that's why we're here, to see who's more cruel!"
She smiled at him, and turned to the rest of the criminals. "We're all brought here to kill ourselves, some of us are here because of him."
She pointed at Zukor.
"While most of us are here because of Him." She pointed at Aaron, and sighed.
"No matter what happened, only one of us will leave here alive... So I'll save all of you the time."
Zukor, and the group frowned, While Dolor opened his eyes, staring at the little girl.
"We either fight ourselves and see who can survive ten rounds with the baby emperor." She said with sarcasm.
"My king."
"Master!"
"My Lord."
Modena, Commander Egon, and Protean were enraged. Aaron stopped them with a raise of his hand.
"Let's hear her out." He said in a calm tone.
"I say we should come together and fight him, No matter how powerful he is, he won't win all of us, or can he?!"
Zukor moved his gaze around, he and everyone in the Arena were silent... There are all thinking if they could even survive Ten rounds, and this little girl was here acting all arrogant, because of the small show she preformed.
'She is just a sky realm, any of the royal family can kill her, let alone Aaron.' Zukor thought, while Dolor closed his eyes again.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
Seeing she was getting ignored, she turned to the man who was already dead, and moved her gaze around.
"As the rule said, I can also challenge someone... So I challenge you, Aaron!!!"
"WHAT?!"
"....!!!!"
"SHE IS DEAD."
"SOOO DEAD!"