"fuck!!, why are there so many of them, and why don't they go and help their king," Rohan muttered in annoyance as he was surrounded by the ghouls who were attacking from everywhere.
He was stronger than the ghouls individually, but due to the large number of ghouls. Injuries were piling up on him.
And he knew that if things continued like this. He will surely die a dog's death. So, he did what could save him, that is to ask for help.
"Arya! Aetherius! please help me; I will die at this rate, please help me. I know what I did was wrong, please forgive me and help me, please!" He begged Arya and Aetherius to save him while they were fighting the boss monster.
The scream of Rohan caught the attention of both Arya and Aetherius and when they saw his condition, they realized that he would die at this rate.
"Should we help him?!" Aetherius asked Arya while continuing to fight the boss monster.
"You can, if you want to though I will not help." Arya straight up replied to Aetherius, who thought for a few seconds while Arya fought the ghoul king, and in a few minutes, he made his decision.
Aetherius got fully focused on the Ghoul King and didn't even look towards Rohan and didn't register his pleas; Arya, seeing this, nodded to himself.
From his previous life experiences, Arya knew that if a body part starts to hurt or degrade other body part. It's good to remove that body part. And Rohan was similar to these body parts.
One of the main reasons why Earth was destroyed in his previous life was these types of elements.
So, both Arya and Aetherius ignored the pleas of Rohan. Rohan, noticing their indifference towards him, caused him to get afraid. And he started crying and begging them to save him.
"Ahhhhhh!!!! Save me, please! Arya, Aetherius pleaseeeeee!!!!!"
"I am sorry, I don't know why I tried to backstab you, please!!!!!"
"I will be your servant for the lifetime, no!! I will be your pet. Please save me! Ahhhhhh!!"
As more time passed, he got tired, and more wounds started appearing on him. He started losing a lot of blood as ghouls used their sharp claws to cut him, and soon, the dagger he was holding also fell.
He stammered and fell back, but the ghoul didn't stop attacking him.
"Ahhhhhh!!!! You bastards, you selfish shits! Save me!!. I will die you fucking bitches!!"
"Save me!!! Ahhhhhhh"
As begging didn't help, Rohan started cursing Arya and Aetherius, but even that didn't help, as they treated him like air. The ghoul used their claw and tore him alive
He was in so much pain, he saw how the ghouls tore his hands and legs and ate them and soon he lost his life like that.
Arya and Aetherius who were fighting the boss, didn't face much difficulty even after it entered its berserk state.
Arya, using his sword, was focusing on chirping away the health, while Aetherius focused on stopping the boss from counterattack.
Just when the boss monsters try to counterattack them, he attacks and makes it lose its balance, causing its attack to either deflect or get canceled instead, though they still received attacks but nothing that puts them in danger.
This continued for the next ten more minutes, and like that, the ghoul king lost all his Health Points, and like that, the boss monster lost its life.
Arya and Aetherius received half of the total XP each from all the ghouls and the boss monster, and Aetherius even leveled up. Both of them also received 5 free stat points.
They killed the boss monster; the remaining ghouls also disintegrated into light particles like how every dead body in a tutorial trial does.
[The Forth Tutorial stage is over.]
[No of survivors: 2]
[Initiating teleportation to the safe zone.]
And with the announcement both Arya and Aetherius got teleported to the safe zone, where every player gets transported after completing their trials.
...
Arya and Aetherius were transported to the safe zone.
They found themselves standing on a circular platform inside a dome, with many people of their age wandering around going to four ways leading in four cardinal directions, while many people were on the same platform as them.
"Is this the safe zone, the message was talking about? Brother Arya?!" Aetherius asked Arya who was standing beside him.
"Yep, let's go! We don't want to stay on this platform forever, right?!" Arya said jokingly and started walking towards the place that was looking like a reception, while Aetherius followed behind.
At that reception there was a beautiful woman with quite an interesting feature as she was not a human, she was very beautiful with long blonde hair and her ears were long and very sharp.
"Ohh! An elf! I heard many different races exist inside the tower! But this is the first time I am seeing one in person." Aetherius exclaimed as he noticed that she was an elf.
"Hello! Young adventurers, I am the manager assigned to the Safe zone.
You may call me Elanor. So, how may I help you?!" The elf, Elanor spoke to Arya and Aetherius as they reached her.
"Hello! Miss Elanor, we just arrived after completing our fourth tutorial trial. Can you tell us what's up with this place or when is the last trial going to be held?!" Arya though, he knew what was up with this place, but he still asked as Aetherius was with him.
"Of course! So, as you may know, this is the safe zone, and here, all the survivors from all the sectors will be arriving and will be given five days of rest before the last trial starts.
You all will be provided with the facilities like a resting room, food, training area, etc. But based on your ranking. For the next five days.
If you have any questions, please ask me; if not, please tell me your full name. So that I can provide you with the appropriate facilities."
Elanor spoke all this in just a single breath, and both Arya and Aetherius realized that she must have spoken it so many times that from the way she spoke.
"My name is Arya, Arya Dev, while my friend here is Aetherius," Arya told his name to Elanor while nudged at Aetherius.
"Ohh! Yeah My name is Aetherius Rex," Aetherius told his full name.
"Ohk!, Arya Dev and Aetherius rex--eeehhhhh!!" As Elanor searched both of the names on the holographic screen similar to the system panel, she was shocked as she saw the rank of both of them.
"R-Rank 1 and Ran-Rank-2 in all of the sectors combined!!" Elanor muttered to herself.
"Miss?! Miss?! Hello!! Anyone home?!" Aetherius said as he tried to bring out Elanor from her stupor.