It was confirmed, Arran was officially down on his luck.
Arran's current feelings were very complicated. He felt like he had suffered a huge injustice. It was like there was someone who was very jealous of his extremely good luck and struck him with a bout of misfortune so he could go through endless suffering. If it was not like that then how would you explain how he was able to just enter into a nest of dire beasts, one that was the worst possible matchup for him.
After Arran finally came to terms with the fact that his luck was really bad this time he started to look around, trying to figure a way out of his current predicament.
As Arran looked around, he noticed that this tunnel system was really more complex than he had first thought.
When he had first entered the tunnels, the number of tunnel entrances was not as much as they were now. Even if he would occasionally come across some tunnel entrances but they were very few and sparsely distributed, bu
Arran's plan succeeded.With this single strike, he was able to paralyze the three Drill Worms making them pause right in their tracks, giving Arran just enough time to do what he wanted to do.Arran did not waste any time as he immediately got into the position for a jump by squatting down and tucking his legs against his body. Exerting strength on his legs, Arran took a mighty leap into the air and shot forward towards the smallest Drill Worm. His goal was the gap between the body of the Drill Worm and the ceiling of the tunnel.Arran wanted to take advantage of this tiny gap that was barely enough for him to fit through to escape from the encirclement of the Drill Worms.In a second Arran was already in front of the Drill Worm and he was finally able to squeeze his way through the gap. With his earlier jump, Arran had enough momentum to easily slide his way through the gap.It was a tight fit for Arran as he was pressed closely against the body
The two people who were making their way over to Terrence were trouble. That was the only word that Terrence could use to describe them. The reasons for this were mainly because of two things.One of those reasons was because of how beautiful and stunning the two of them were.Over the horizon, as the two figures got closer to Terrence, they became much clearer and it was easy to see their features very well.The two figures belonged to two very hot and bodacious girls who were moving gently on the surface of the ocean.The two girls were otherworldly beautiful with clear sparkling eyes that shone like stars and pretty and delicate faces that were as pale as milk and skin so full that it felt like water could be squeezed out of it.From their faces, it could be seen that the girls greatly resembled each other and it was easy to guess their identities as sisters. The two of them looked so alike that it was very easy to confused one for the other but
The token in Arran's hand was gotten by him while he was running all around the tunnels after being chased relentlessly by the Drill Worms in their nest.If you were to ask Arran how he had gotten himself into this kind of situation in the first place, he would not have been able to explain it to you.Heck, he couldn't even explain it to himself.In his own words, Arran would say that everything happened as if it were a dream. A dream that was extremely blurry and where he couldn't remember any details. In that dream, everything went by so fast and before he realized it he was already here and awake with not a single memory of what had happened inside his dream.That was exactly how Arran felt currently as he looked at his surroundings.All he saw as he looked around him were the fat wriggling bodies of Drill Worms of various sizes that covered his entire vision.There were small worms the size of saloon cars and big ones the size of lorries
'So that is how it is?'As it turns out all the answers are contained in this little token!Arran held the clue token in his hand and clenched his fists in excitement. After all, he had been through, it turns out that all he needed to do was to find this clue token and he would have all the answers that he needed.Sigh!After Arran calmed down from his excited state, all that was left of his feelings was a relief. At least he didn't has to go through all that for nothing and at the end of the whole thing, he was able to find the answers that he most surely needed.Arran was still flying high in the air out of reach of the drill worms and as he flew Arran looked down on them. Seeing that there was still a lot of time left in this elimination round and that he was not in any immediate danger, Arran decided to organize and go through the information that he had just received.Arran recalled what he had just learned.Just as he had first
"This is a headache!" Arran lamented when he was finished going through the information he had gotten from the token.The reason for this is that with the nature of this elimination round being exposed like this, it meant that the number of troubles he would encounter this time will be much more than the previous round especially since he would have to face off against not only the Direbeasts in this mountain but also the participants of the ceremony.Not that Arran was afraid of trouble... Arran had already accepted the fact that he would have to face the other participants in this competition sooner or later... but he would have preferred to do so at a much later time than now. Unfortunately for Arran, it seems like he would have to deal with them much sooner than he had anticipated.Sigh!"Oh well, be it now or at a much later time, it is all the same to me. I will have to deal with them either way so why not now?" Arran psyched himself up."Thi
Dum!Dum!In a tunnel.Everything was completely dark and empty.This tunnel was not too big but at the same time it was not small at all... just about big enough for a grown man to be able to stand upright and move around without any hindrance... but intense movement could not be made in this tunnel because then it would be a tight squeeze.Everywhere was quiet until suddenly low sounds could be heard echoing around the tunnel.At first, the sounds could not be heard clearly. It was almost as if there was no sound at all but as time passed the sounds became clearer.It was a low and muffled sound and it sounded as if somebody was knocking lightly on a wooden door or as if the wind was knocking pieces of stones against a window.Boom!Boom!Boom!!Gradually, the low sounds became increasingly louder and the low sound of knocking started to sound like there were small explosions going on in the tunnel. If on
Back at the platform where the beginning of the chosen ceremony was hosted.Like always this place was bustling with activity with everybody that was present moving about and mingling with each other as they watched the ceremony being displayed live for all to see as well as the progress of the participants as they tried to clear each elimination round.Currently the three-day limit of the first elimination round was about to run out and most of the participants were already reaching the finish line.Apart from Arran, Terrence and Renee, and her sister Daphne, none of the other participants had been able to clear the first round in record time and of the remaining participants left, the fastest to clear the first round had been those that were in the top twenty among the seeded participants for this ceremony. The thing was that even if they were the fastest to clear the first round apart from the first four, the time in between was not that far apart and they co
Inside the mountain where darkness was predominant, there lurked different dangers that had taken various forms. One could not know nor could they ever expect what could jump out of the dark corners of the tunnels to hunt you and sometimes before you even knew it you were already the prey of some unknown creature.But in these tunnels, the status of the hunter and the prey was not always certain. One moment you could be the hunter in the dark using your sharp teeth to sever the life of some unsuspecting prey and in the next moment, you could have fallen under the chilling blade of the one you previously considered to be prey.That was how it was for the trio... Terrence, Renee, and Daphne.As they wandered inside the tunnels trying to figure what their purpose was in here, they constantly suffered under the attacks of the indigenous occupants of the mountain.Most of these attacks they dealt with swiftly and without mercy, striking fear into the brutal mi