Author,-
I would like to apologise to all of you, it seems I can't post the chapters daily. I tried posting daily but it wasn't working out. I would still try posting constantly but bear with me if there is a delay.
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The ride to the 1st floor was surprisingly comfortable. I was also offered food and drinks during the journey, all for free, since Sora paid for the ticket.
It took around half a day for us to reach the first floor. I was dropped off on a place that looked like a train station with the other passengers of the bus. There were multiple buses on this station and many people were leaving them.
I looked around and found a sign that had directions of where the first floor test would be held and headed straight to there.
Almost all the people were moving in the same direction as me. it seemed that most people were on this floor for the test only.
It took a while for me but soon I reached the place where the test was going to be held. While moving there, I noticed that on this floor, I couldn't see the sky like I could see on other floors. instead there was a stone cealing here.
I didn't think much of that and waited until one of the officials handed me a note that had a number on it.
"Go to this room and your test will begin!"
He said while handing me the note and moved on to another person as he said the same thing to him that he told me.
I looked at the note-
'32 F' Was written on it.
The place I was in was a gigantic underground stadium of sorts. it was as big as a stadium or maybe even bigger and there were numerous doors at the edges of this stadium. There were quite a lot of people here that was obvious because the place was extremely crowded.
Though the problem in front of me now was that I had no idea where the door 32 F is. The guy who gave me the note was long gone and it didn't look like he would have told me where the door is even if I had asked. so my only option was to search for it myself.
I started by going to the entrance and checking the doors at either side of the entrance. at the left, the door read '17 E' and on the right, the door read '1 A'. I Directly started moving to the left as I figured out where 32 F would be.
While moving there I saw some people open their doors and enter them. I knew information is a key to everything so I peeped at what was inside but I was disappointed as inside the door, I could only see a small room and one person standing in the middle. there wasn't anything else I could find from peeping.
I moved on and found another person open the door and the same sight greeted me. there were a few more instances like this but all of them were same.
I sighed as I looked at the door that had 32 F written on it. I couldn't get too much info on the test but that shouldn't be a problem as long as I am being careful.
I prepared myself and opened the door and walked inside. In the middle of the room, just like all the others, stood a man with brown hair and black eyes. he had a scar under his eyes and had beard covering his face. also his eyes were closed when I opened the door but now he had opened them as he looked at me and then to his watch on his wrest after that he looked at me again and said-
"Congratulations! You passed the first test! go through the door behind me after you hand me the note that had the room number written on it." The man spoke without breaking eye contact.
I was silent for a second as I stared back at the man.
"What was the test?" I asked. I was okay with passing the first test without doing anything but I was still curious...and also, the way the man looked at me didn't sit right. it was as if he was trying to intimidate me...
"...The test was to find your designated room within three minutes. you opened the door at two minutes and thirty five seconds. so you pass." He said still looking at me with that gaze.
"Isn't that unfair for many others? what if someone is too far away from the room?" I asked. I didn't care about the fairness of the test but I just wanted to waste his time for looking at me like that. maybe I was being petty but I didn't care.
"If you don't move through that door right now, you would be disqualified from the 2nd test!" He said with the same look.
I looked at him for a second but then handed him the note that had the room number written on it. after which I walked passed him and went through the door behind him. he looked at me while I was walking pass and after that closed his eyes and folded his arms.
Walking into the next room, I saw spiral staircase leading downwards. there was nothing else in the room except the staircase. I walked down the stairs and found another door which I opened swiftly and found myself in an almost completely white room. only the doors were not white but everything else was.
Inside, there were already three people there. I walked up to them and a woman started speaking-
"Perfect! You are all here now! Let me introduce myself, I am Jia! the test administrator for the second test! We are a bit short on hand so I will explain the rules for the second test immediately!" The woman who spoke had red hair and brown skill and she wore a yellow dress that came down to her feet.
" The second match is going to be a deathmatch between the three of you and the goal is to either make your opponent surrender or kill your opponent. if the opponent surrenders and you still attack them then you will be disqualified so remember that!...hm...I can't think of any other rule so that's gonna be all! As soon as I say begin, you three can attack each other." She said looking at us three people who were here other then her.
"Alright then, begin!" She said as she jumped back.