The church service ended around noon, as Kalen stood up, following the other members. They all orderly left the church premises. He felt happy and fulfilled as he took in the fresh air outside. “I am going to be a bonafide knight soon,” he thought with a smile. As he smiled, a memory of his parents quickly flashed into his brain. Despite the complicated relationship he had with his parents, they were still his closest companions when they were alive. He missed them a lot. He got into his car, he didn’t want to go back to the hotel just yet, so he drove to a nearby burger shop. He bought a burger and fries, with a soda, as he relaxed on the chair provided. The shop had a television set-up for customer’s entertainment, placed at the top of the shop. He looked over and was surprised by the news being displayed. “The local police force attacked a nearby Red Water Legion’s base, but it seems that the terrorists expected the assault, as they all
“How will I get the stuff once I pay?” Th man asked directly. “Oh, about that. You don’t have to worry; I could send the stuff to the black market in your area. Or you can tell a place where you want it sent too and I’ll send it through waybill.” Kalen replied, after contemplating for 10 seconds. “Ok, that’s good. I thought that you came to sell without reading the warnings and instructions. I trust you. I will pay for the items now. Send it to Richacha city.” Kalen was already ready to send the item, but the man held him back, by suddenly grabbing his arm. He narrowed his eyes, as he stared at him sternly in the eye. “If the product is delivered properly, I’’ patronize you again. But don’t test me; you don’t know who you are dealing with if you decide to run with my money.” He threatened in a sharp but deep tone. He didn’t even finish before Kalen received an alert. He noticed the man sent the money. Kalen smiled, while completely ignoring hi
Thud!! Thud!! Thud!! The sound from Kalen’s military boots echoed through the corridor has he made his way to the front desk. He met the cashier at the front desk. “Good morning, I am here to pay for the services and other expenses during my stay here. My name is Kalen Dr…” “Oh, I am sorry for the interruption. I know who you are Mr. Drake,” the female cashier smiled at him. He directly asked her for the total of his bill, after knowing that she recognized him. “Mr. Drake, the total cost for all the services is 130 Commonwealth credits.” “Very good,” he replied with a smile, as he directly transferred the money over. He already did his research, even the price for their services is good, despite the excellent service provided. After he sorted out the bills, he left, going directly for his car. He pushed the start button on the luxurious car, as he heard it roaring to life. Vroom!! He whipped the car out of the hotel compound. Once he got on th
Somewhere in a small town called Grand Falls, Aledos trained with his fellow terrorist soldiers as sweat beaded down his face. He repeatedly hit the training target carefully and cautiously, as he didn’t want to reveal his true strength. Unlike Kalen, he didn’t attack the locals to grab the organization’s attention. He disguised himself as an errand boy for a local gang in the community. The leader of the gang took him in and sent him out to do steal and do a lot of other unconventional things. After a week of doing these things, he became a member of the gang. He quickly entered a period of growth, rising through the ranks with abnormal speed. Nothing could impede his growth in the gang when he uses his full strength. It was another 2 weeks of being in the gang, when he finally attracted the terrorist organization’s attention, as they saw him as a promising soldier. He was directly kidnapped by the terrorists. The organization didn’t see him talented enough
During the cold late hours of the night, a pair of eyes blinked open, as it squinted to adapt to the dim lightning. Aledos slowly stood up; he looked outside, as the silver light from the moon illuminated the darkroom a little. Like Kalen, he also found an excuse to keep his bag. His lie was even more extreme, as he lied that the bag was a family heirloom. The terrorists didn’t fuss about it, as they’ve seen even more eccentric individuals. He stood up and silently moved to where he kept his bag, as he quickly checked his wristwatch for the time. “It’s 5:30am already,” he muttered silently to himself, as he donned his exotic armor and all his other equipment stealthily. He quickly equipped his throwing knives in their designated places in his armor. He felt nostalgic as he finally wore his military equipment again, after more than a month of wearing only his camouflaged squire uniform. He already made elaborate plans for his attack. He k
“WARNING!! Durability reduced by 10%. Warning!! Durability reduced by… Warning!! Durability reduced by…” “Shit,” Aledos cursed as he received multiple damage reports from his armor’s A.I. What bothered him was that he already figured out the identity of the mysterious shooter. "How the hell did the commander, discover me so quickly?” He questioned, as his brain’s thought process rapidly spiked. He reacted fast despite his thoughts, as he immediately jumped behind a car, while bringing out his dual automatic pistols. The damage he received from the commander’s few shots, made him feel uncomfortable. He didn’t know that the commander’s machine gun had this much firepower. “Fuck the database didn’t have this information. Who knew that the commander had an exotic machine gun. It’s another variable that interrupted my plans,” he thought in resignation and frustration. There is a high chance that the commander recently upgraded his gun’s capacity on the out
Somewhere else, in another corner of the Kingdom of Camelot, a squire ran as hard he can to escape from his pursuers. As he ran, he sometimes retaliated, killing the ordinary soldiers that were after him. Only 1 high-grade warrior pursued him with a bunch of ordinary soldiers, as they shot repeatedly at him. He put in maximum effort, running as fast as his legs could carry him. “I can’t die here, I must graduate. I want to be a knight of the Kingdom to make my family proud,” his focus was securing his life as he ran. His armor’s durability was finally depleted, as he started receiving direct gunshots. The bullets started impacting his relentlessly running form, as he staggered, sometimes falling. But he still got up and continued his escape. Despite being bloodied all over, he persevered as reinforcement finally arrived. His perseverance didn’t leave him disappointed, as the policemen from the nearby town arrived. They helped him fight, as he finally
The next day, Kalen woke up to meet his friend already awake. Aledos leisurely laid in the bed, while silently watching a morning show on the tv. He was completely unlike someone who just came back from a life-threatening graduation training mission. Kalen slept in his friend’s room, so after waking up, he conveniently prepared breakfast for them both. They ate, as they enjoyed the morning show with a smile. Ding!! Ding!! As they both relaxed after enjoying their food, they both suddenly received a message alert through their implant. They concentrated to immerse themselves, as they proceeded to see the message. “Good morning, squires, this is your captain speaking. The date of your graduation ceremony has been decided by your government. All squires are to prepare for the graduation ceremony, which will be held 2 weeks from today. “All squires are to get their formal military uniform from the armory before the ceremony commences. Everything you will
After a week of waiting, the award-giving day finally arrived. It was a Monday, and the whole gladiator district was riled up for this day. The spectators could finally see their best gladiators get their awards in the arena. Today, the Neo-Rome team members were going to get the award for their labor of 3 years. After years of only wearing armor and light clothing as gladiators, they were finally going to dress corporately again. Kalen froze in place with a smile on his face, as he stared at his fresh look while dressed in a suit. After so long he finally cut his beard yesterday. It felt funny to him; he already entered the vicious men’s circle of cutting your beard to avoid it looking wild. He was not even sure if Nami would recognize him again if she saw him with a beard. Despite already cutting the beards, the slight sings to indicate that he was a man with beards were still left there. He carefully admired his electric blue suit, as his smile slowly morphed into a grin. Pair
As usual, medical practitioners on white quickly rushed into the arena with a floating stretcher. They brought cleaning bots with them this time, as the blood and gore were quickly sucked and cleaned throughout the arena. Kalen’s unconscious body was carefully placed on the stretcher, as it directly floated back to the medical bay. As the medical practitioners worked, the commentator finally started his ending speech with a smile. “Ladies and gentlemen, my fellow Sea Angels, we now finally have a winner for this gladiator tournament. After these countless difficulties, we finally arrived at our destination.” “The winner of the gladiator tournament this time is the Lone Dragon, he proved his strength today in this arena.” “I won’t waste your time much, I just want to inform you that according to the organizers; if everything goes according to plan, the award-giving ceremony will be held within the week.” “Let’s all come back for this final event, to establish our winner’s status
As the atmosphere grew tenser, gulps left throats unconsciously, and speculations rose higher, the gladiators finally moved. Kalen moved first. As soon as he gathered some strength, he used his spear as a support to lift himself off his opponent’s sword. Spurt!! He closed his eyes while gritting his teeth in pain. More blood flowed out of him, as the sword was roughly yanked out of him. His opponent also flinched in pain, as the spear stirred in his abdomen. Thud!! He dropped down to the ground, as he quickly summoned more strength to roll further away from his opponent. He already grew accustomed to pain after so many years of being a knight. He could not directly say that he liked pain, but at least he could bear a lot of pain. Despite this being the case, the pain that he was currently feeling drove deeper into his inner self. He felt like his body was no longer his own, he felt like his body was just a cage where he was receiving torture. He could not help it, as tears flow
The huge energy that was covering the arena slowly opened, as the 2 strongest gladiators entered without hesitation. World Destroyer slowly took off his helmet, as he faced his opponent with a curious smile on his face. Unlike his opponent’s solemn expression, his was complete opposite, he had a calm look on his face. “Magician, you surprised me yet again. I didn’t think you would have the guts to fight me again. Last time we fought, you did put up with great fight, but you know I am going to kill you. I promise you will regret your decision of walking into this arena.” He slowly said with a smile. Kalen didn’t reply, as his blood was already feeling hot for this fight. He had no time nor luxury to reply to foolish questions. He didn’t come here to discuss, at least he didn’t have that luxury like his opponent. He had an uphill and almost impossible target to overcome, he was ready to put his all. “Enough bullshit! You will know soon enough which one of us is the best. Now, let’s
Today was the day, that will determine who the strongest gladiator from this tournament. Today was the day that justify all the bloodshed and deaths throughout the past year, in the gladiator arena. Kalen entered the gladiator armory in a solemn mood, as he went forward to where the weapons were kept. On seeing the empty, grey-colored cold chamber, he could not help but feel a sense of emptiness. For weeks now, he had been training to get the required level to win this fight. He did not know why he was anticipating it, but he felt that he would benefit a lot if he emerged as the winner of this fight. Though his thoughts were numerous, they quickly cleared up as he advanced to the spear section of the armory. He stood before the large row of spears, before falling into a daze. Spears spread for as far as his eyes could see. From short spears to long spears, to broad, to thin spears, every type of spear was available. His hands extended forward, as he firmly grabbed the long spea
The days moved forward just like chess pieces that were being randomly shifted by a chess player. After months of preparations fights, the date for the individual tournament finals has been finally scheduled. After the end of the team tournament, the gladiators on the teams who won were already eligible to take their awards. Despite this, they don’t get them immediately, as the Sea Angels Alliance extended the award ceremony to the week after the end of the individual fight fights. ********************************************************** Bam!! Kalen’s spear stabbed forward in quick succession, as his opponent hastily raised his spear to parry the strike. His hand blurred, as the stab was quickly converted into a sideways slash. Kane narrowly blocked the strike again, but the force exerted by his vice-captain still pushed him back. As Kalen rushed forward to finish him off, Kane’s teammates finally recovered as he quickly slashed his sword forward in retaliation. Whoosh!! Dere
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The large fleet of vehicles slowly coming into the compound surprised the now freed gladiators, but they suppressed their curiosity and went forward to meet the General. “Good evening, General.” They all greeted respectfully. “Haha, that’s my soldiers.” The General responded with a loud laugh that was unusual for someone of his status, as he went forward to pat them on the shoulders. “Congrats, y’all didn’t disappoint my expectations. Though it is shame we couldn’t get the 1st place position but taking the 3rd place position is already commendable. “My Captain already told you, sometimes ago that we would not shy in terms of rewards if you won the tournament of you ranks, we intend to keep our word.” “Now, taking 3rd place can be seen as you winning to us, so today, I’ll present the awards that we prepared for everyone.” The Neo-Rome Captain finally came forward and placed an exotic metal box before his General. He opened the box quick
Nami dd not have much to arrange, she just came back to get some of the essential things that she could not leave behind. As she arranged, her mind could not help but drift again to a frail-looking imagination of her mom. At this age where medical technology already advanced so enormously, her being called for indicated how serious her mom’s situation was. There was no way it was a normal illness, which only made her more anxious. “What is so serious that I had to be called for?” She questioned herself again doubtfully. It didn’t take too long before she was finally ready, as she turned around to go. She changed from her old suit into a new suit that she got recently, to present herself in a fresh outlook. Not long after, she finally arrived back at the parade grounds. She was not surprised to still see the summoned horde of knights all standing at their positions in attention. There was no way these guys would leave their positions until orde