Jin's pov
Twenty minutes later
I stood amidst the corpses of losts, their bodies slowly turning to ash.
My body was a bloody canvas of black and red, but I would say maroon or burgundy, not exactly red.
The cold black blood from the losts had covered both my hands and had even stained my chest, while my blood, coming from a few scratches here and there, including my face.
'Tsk'
'Sigh'
I cleaned my blood stained eyes and also felt the scratch just a few inches above my eyes.
'hopefully this doesn't leave a scar... '
'damn I need a gun, this would have been way easier if I had a gun'
I looked around a bit, replaying the entire incident In my head, and then something hit me.
The sentence 'first wave, fifty losts'
'Fucking hell!!!, there's more!!!'
'I barely survived the first one!!!'
'i need to find a way out of here, and quick'
The voice came again, increasing my tension.
"Welldone warriors, you have successfully cleared the first wave, let us proceed to the next, second wave, fifty losts, one abomination"
At those words, cold sweat rolled down my face.
'I really need to get out of here!'
'Think!!, think!!, think!!'
'since this is a spacial manipulation trait at work, I can't just walk out'
'and from the looks of it, this is definitely the mythical spacial isolation technique, so breaking out isn't really an option anymore'
'also from the earlier statement, 'escape is punishable by death', so what do I do now'
'Come on!!!, think!!!'
'Find a loophole!!!'
'Wait!, what about quitting?!'
'Like, I could quit!!!, afterall it didn't say anything about not being able to quit'
The voice came again, jolting me back to reality
"Begin...."
"I QUIT!!!"
I interrupted loudly, then everything fell silent.
The voice returned again, still emotionless as before, but it had a mild hint of surprise and anger in it.
"It's been ages, a warrior had quit the fight for glory, and this early at that, truly despicable, you don't deserve the title, warrior, you are a failure!, out of my arena!"
And with that i reappeared outside the colosseum
'Tsk'
'Breathe in, breathe out'
I drew in my breath and exhaled loudly
"Don't get angry, I did what I had to do to survive...'sigh'.... Even though it kinda hurt my pride... I wasn't even a warrior in the first place, so telling me I didn't deserve the title warrior, men fuck you!!!"
After taking a few minutes to calm down, I started looking for my bag, and fortunately it was brought back as well.
"Without this bag, I would be useless here, and nothing but a burden to the others, God forbid that happens!"
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A few hours had gone by, and I had taken the opportunity to clean myself up and make my tent to rest, but resting proved difficult as my mind kept playing the incident on repeat.
'i would have won if I had my guns'
'i would have won if Jin had a trait'
'Tsk'
"Since I can't rest, I should direct my energy into something useful"
I sat up in a lotus position, slowly focusing on each breath I took, and as time passed I could feel the purity of the shadow energy in each breath, now slowly I guided the energy to my shadow heart, and repeated the process over and over again, till my shadow heart felt somewhat full.
On till I advanced to the next stage, this was my peak.
One of the benefits of shadow energy absorption, is that, it heals minor injuries, meaning, most of the claw marks left on me by the lost had gone.
Finally feeling mentally exhausted, I went to take a short nap.
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After napping for a few hours I woke up, hungry. Which is to be expected, afterall I haven't really eaten anything all day.
I brought out some seasoned dry animal skin from my bag.
'This would normally be eaten with that watery soup kaldareth used to make, but I don't have that with me, so I'm just going to eat some of these like that, and it's not like, I like that shit either.'
After finishing the mehhh tasting dried animal skin, I proceeded to my training.
I stood in front of the colosseum as an idea struck me.
'i could run a lap around this colosseum.... It's looks double the width of the Roman colosseum, making it perfect for me'
And with that thought, I started running a lap around the colosseum.
I completed a lap around the colosseum In two minutes and ten seconds, and the colosseum was about 926 feet.
And so I did forty three more laps around the colosseum.
"Ahh, now that's a run"
"This time I need to increase my speed, I'm too slow, by shadow standard"
And so, I ran forty-five laps more.
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I stopped after feeling a bit tired and immediately dived into shadow energy absorption, repeating the same procedure as before.
And without noticing the day passed by.
| A/N:hey guys I just made a discord server, and as normal, it will be having informations that I can't post here, maybe not yet, like art descriptions on characters, locations and more, theories and announcements on sudden hiatus due to my messy and unpredictable schedule.
Note: I just made it, so it isn't perfect yet, but don't worry things will be added and modified to the liking, enjoyment and entertainment of my reader.