The Rise Of Calamity

"Does he usually do that?" Laila asked, perplexed by what just happened.

"We are moving in!" Croloe shouted and launched himself towards the gates as well with eyes that seemed ready to smash my head in when he sees me.

Not wanting to stay outside alone, Laila also decided to join Croloe on the hunt for my head.

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"Did you guys get shorter?" Ronny asked with a perplexed expression as he looked down at his friends

He was now 6ft 3 with a lean physique, yet at the same time, he looked much better than his muscular friends Jacob

"Y-Y-You mean you got taller, right" Lea stuttered and had instinctually pushed back onto Jacob for a feeling of safety, something Ronny seemed to have noticed without much effort as if his skull has become a hundred times thinner than it once was to things such as these.

'Good for them.' he thought with a strange smile. It wasn't one of envy, yet at the same time, it would not tell Jacob that he was proud of him for making a girl as pretty and nice as Lea fall for him.

"Should we get going?" Ronny said while pointing towards the exit of the room with his thumb however before he could leave Jacob had stopped him with a question of his own.

"What did you see... How did it make you so strong?" Jacob asked, yet all he got for a few minutes was a side glance from Ronny where he would simply look at him without saying anything.

Even though Jacob before could easily understand and read Ronny like an open book, now he looked more like a book with no cover and a lock to make sure no one other than someone with the key can look inside.

However, even though it seemed like Ronny wasn't going to say anything, to the point Lea was going to suggest dropping the subject, Ronny smiled at them and looked away while replying-

"I saw the death of my brother"

"Your brother? You have a brother? No you don't! Wait, what the fuck?" Jacob verbally expressed his confusion while Lea looked at Ronny weirdly, waiting for him to say something else or at least expand on what he meant by brother.

"Well, apparently we all knew him once but our memories got wiped... Well, your memories got wiped while I had been suppressing the memory in my deepest consciousness this entire time." Ronny sighed and started to walk forwards, causing the other two to also begin moving.

"How does that link to your little power up? Do you think we are stupid enough to not feel how strong you have become? You were weaker than me yet, in a few minutes you were capable of becoming stronger than me." Jacob asked, this time a little agitated by the mystery behind Ronny, the one person he was always able to read no matter what.

"With my memories, they were suppressed as well, I awakened when I was 4 years old when my brother was going to get kidnapped. I remember everything I did and everything I could have done. WIth my expreince and the amount of power as well as the skills I used that day, I found that I was much stronger than I truly was." When Ronny finally finished that sentence, he had looked down at his hands and had begun to look at them as if they were someone else's hands and not his own.

[Congratulations on completing the second trial - the trial of mind]

[You may ALL choose your rewards]

Before they had known it, they had already walked into another room.

Suddenly, both Lea and Jacob felt a vacancy at their sides, causing them both to look at each other allowing them to realize that there was a gap between them that was not there before.

'Were we that close?' Jacob asked himself, almost weirded out by the vacancy to his left side before looking at Lea who was looking down with a red face.

'Did she realize it before I did?'

Yet before that question could even be asked to receive an answer, they both felt a movement from in front of them as Ronny moved forward and touched a sword made out of black material with white edges and a large white diamond implanted into the hilt of the sword.

The moment he had touched the sword, it had begun to flow with his mana as it erupted out with orange flames that almost scorched the ground he was standing on without having enough time to properly control it.

"Why would you choose the sword? Aren't you a scout and an assassin? I thought you liked thee lighter and smaller weapons that could be concealed more easily." Jacob asked, yet it was replied to with a single chuckle before being glanced at once again

For some reason, even though Ronny was his childhood friend who he had thought was slightly naive and maybe even slightly stupid, he still felt as if Ronny's single glance was more suppressive than a glance that one would feel when being looked down on by a king.

"I felt a resonation with the blade" Ronny replied, glancing away and dispersing the pressure he had unknowingly put on his dead friend.

Choosing not to think much of the thing that she had just seen, Lea had moved forward to choose her reward which were all weapons this round.

"The Phantom Phoenix..." Lea readout while looking at the sign right above a bow made out of black material, yet while it may have seemed a little similar to the material of the sword, one could tell the material was different with a single glance.

While the sword seemed to have a luster where light would shine off it like the reflection of a mirror, the Phantom Phoenix seemed to be made out of a slightly rougher material while at the same time being slightly flexible.

"It's made out of... Phoenix bones?!" Lea exclaimed, causing Jacob to look at her while the other was too busy trying out his new blade.

"That's amazing Lea!" Jacob exclaimed too before throwing a glance at Ronny and realizing that he didn't seem to care very much.

Red runes could be seen traveling all over the bow, yet the moment she had touched it she watched as the runes shifted and rewrote themselves to fit her needs and strengths.

When the runes had finally finished moving around so much, it was as if the bow had turned into an entirely different weapon.

"Oh?" She exclaimed but she quickly calmed herself down and held the bow in her hands, not daring to try it as she did not know the consequences of firing something that seemed so powerful in such an enclosed area.

Jacob on the other hand was standing in front of three different weapons, yet in the end, instead of choosing a sword like Ronny had done, he had chosen to take a staff instead.

When they had both finally left the room, Lea had looked at the two with a raised brow before asking-

"What the hell happened to you two?"

Seemingly perplexed, they looked at each other and saw the weapons they had each picked.

"You really did go for the blade huh... You didn't even hesitate when you took it." Jacob sighed.

"Neither did you when you touched the staff" Ronny replied with a wry chuckle.

"You know I had been learning how to use a staff in fighting for a long time, right? You used to spar with me back then too. I've always had a interest in the weapon, maybe if you had taken a little more interest in what we were doing you would have realised" He sneered.

"I thought it would be something like a temporary interest where you would occasionally see how it feels to use other weapons. Who would have known that you would be stupid enough to take it on?" Ronny retorted

"Hey, guys! Why are we fighting when danger might as well be looming over our necks?" Lea tapped them both on the shoulder and began to move forward while forcing them along with her.

Even though they knew they were being forced along, they did not resist, and instead, both moved along with her. When they finally entered the next room, a ring began to sound off within their minds as the same emotionless robotic voice spoke once again, this time telling them their next trial.

[The rewards have been chosen]

[Advancing to the next trial]

[Welcome to the next trial, the third trial, and the trial of strength]

[In this trial, all the contestants will be put into different rooms where they must right off waves of beasts, monsters, and even people of different races. Good luck on your trail]

When the voice stopped speaking, they all turned their head toward each other, the two boys looking at Lea while Lea looked at Jacob.

[Good luck]

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