Obsidra's Pov
Eleven minutes ago
The Colosseum was unusually bigger on the inside than the outside, and gave an eerie vibe.
' I've seen something like this before.... Yes!!, indeed I have, and at the Royal Castle at that!, why and how did this place have something in common with the Royal Castle?'
'hmm maybe I could ask the scholar, he might know something, afterall he's a scholar '
I didn't realise that we were slowly drifting apart from each other, on till Shadeva called my name requesting we ladies move together since the guys were already moving towards whatever piqued their interest.
I and Nyxara weren't too far from each other, I waited for Shadeva to catch up, but Nyxara seemed to be in a bad mood, as she only glanced at Shadeva before completely ignoring her and continued walking away.
Shadeva seemed to have also noticed Nyxara's cold behaviour and seemed to have decided to let it go.
Just a few minutes later, powerful vibration shook the Colosseum.
Touches around the colosseum flickered to life, casting an eerie light around us.
A large board slowly grew brighter, displaying it's contents.
And slowly something was rising from the platform above.
My heart raced, and so did my mind, this was the first time in my four years as an explorer that I encountered the ruins of a lost civilization, I've been told countless stories when I was a youngling, of how unpredictable and dangerous the ruins are, so much that one could come to a conclusion that the ruins should be avoided, no matter what treasures they promise.
Fear and uncertainty gripped onto my mind, which was evident on my face.
"What's going on!!!?"
I asked Shadeva loudly.
"I don't know!!!"
Those words intensified my fears, if Shadeva, a more experienced Explorer, didn't know what was going on, we might as well be done for.
I quickly tried reaching for shadeva's hand but my movement seems to have been slowed.
The distance between us slowly began to stretch weirdly and soon enough.
Everywhere went dark, cold and silent.
I stood there, in the darkness trying to regain composure and a calm mind.
'A lady of the house of Onyx must never lose their composure, Never!'
My mother's teachings replayed in my head.
My attention quickly drawn to something illuminating light in this dark place, and it seemed like the large board from before.
It had names on it, some were names of famous warriors known in history, and some were unknown.
Looking at the board, with names and number of abominations slain, it seemed like a competition to me.
Then a stern voice came, breaking the silence.
"Welcome to my arena, challengers, as you already know, whoever manages to break the record, wins. Escape is futile and will be punishable by death, let us begin."
'So I was correct'
Multiple low growls soon became audible around me, i dropped my bag and bring out my sword.
Then the voice came again
"First wave, fifty losts, begin!!!"
As soon as those words ended, multiple losts sprinted at me from all sides.
And in a Swift movement, I drove my sword to the ground and activated my trait.
Karma energy flowed from my body and into my sword, as I pulled out my sword from the ground, it's blade now crystal black and it's length longer than usual swords , and before losts could pounce on me, I used my trait technique.
[Onyx crystal sword technique: crystal windstorm]
Spinning furiously like windstorm, and cutting down the losts that were close, and also releasing crystal shards from my sword, shooting down nearby surrounding losts with a speed faster than most arrows.
And by the end of my technique most of the losts had died.
"Maybe I was anxious for nothing....haha"
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Nyxara's pov
Eleven minutes ago
This has got to be the most annoying exploration journey I've been in.
And even more annoyingly everyone seems to not care much about it, how infuriating.
Shadeva apologized today, after noticing I was angry about something, and she guessed it was my interaction with the scholar a few days ago that had soured my mood, so she apologized for sending me to his tent.
I've been angry for a few days now and she's just now noticing, how infuriating.
She's been bringing in the scholar into our conversations, trying so he doesn't feel left out.
'Do we look like we care?'
Not long after his leg got healed, the scholar started a series of strange body training techniques, but that wasn't even the annoying part, what was, was that he took off his upper garment.
'like who the fuck does that!!!'
Everyone knows the abyss Zones has large amount of cold karma energy, and it's not advisable to in the abyss Zone without a garment infused with heat karma energy, more or less being here without a garment at all.
'he must've done that to show off, of how fit his body was even though he was a scholar, I bet he's feeling better than most scholars, and adding more annoyance, kaldareth complimented him, like why would you do that ,you brainless battle maniac!!!'
'he must be feeling among us now, well no!, you are not!!, you can never replace my scholar!!, Cassius.
'he was...
"Nyxara!"
Shadeva's calling interrupted my thoughts.
I payed her a small glance before continuing on my own.
'what's she calling me for, she should talk to the scholar, afterall she wants him to feel among, how infuriating.'
'i might has as well.....'
A sudden vibration shook me off balance.
Lights around the colosseum came to life, casting an unusual light around us.
A board at one side slowly grew brighter.
And something slowly rised from the platform above.
Something was about happen, and I braced myself for the worst.
Now the distance between us began to stretch weirdly, pushing us further away from each other, as suddenly everything went dark and completely lifeless.
I stood there, looking at the darkness around me.
'curses!!, we should have avoided the ruins'
Then a voice came breaking the silence.
"Welcome to my arena, challengers, as you already know, whoever manages to break the record, wins. Escape is futile and will be punishable by death, let us begin."
As those words ended, multiple growls from losts slowly filled the darkness, then it came again.
"First wave, fifty losts, begin!!!"
At those words, the losts came at me from all sides, and without thinking I initiated my trait.
At the activation of my trait, my doll tore out of It's wraps, which i had worn like a bag, and jumped into a battle ready stance.
As the losts grew closer, I activated my trait technique
[Puppet master, battle mode: fists of steel]
At the activation of my trait technique, karma energy enveloped my fist and so was that of my doll's
We quickly ran forward in opposite directions, but our movements were completely synchronized, as we dealt destructive damage to the losts cores killing them instantly.
And in a few minutes they were all dead.
"You are going to need more than fifty of you guys to be able to even touch me"
I said loud and confident as I brushed my hair to the side.