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- Tower Climber
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Amazing, thought Max. Two ranks above his own meant D-rank. Monsters with silver cores.
“If you win, you get to keep the core and the money dropped from the monster,” said the man. “Sound fair?”
Max nodded his head. He got the feeling that the man didn’t expect Max to get very far; but he felt more confident than the man was giving him credit for.
“After each battle, if you win,” said the man, “you’re given a mana potion so you can keep going. We want our fighters to go as long as possible. Give the people a show is our motto!”
Max nodded his head.
“Does that all make sense?” said the man. “We can have you down there in the arena in ten minutes. How you feeling? You ready to fight?”
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Max stood in the small battle arena and faced a floor-2 forest boar.
The crowd around him cheered.
“Fifty coppers says the boar kills the boy in under three minutes!”
“Aye! I’ll take that bet!”
Max smirked. These guys really didn’t think much of him, did they?
That was why the manager referred to him as chattel. This arena at the back was for people betting on the fighters to lose, for people who enjoyed seeing monsters kill weak climbers.
Well, Max thought, I’m about to show them.
In fact, he was more disappointed than anyone else to see a forest boar as his first monster opponent. He came here to fight more powerful monsters than this, but he guessed he had to start somewhere.
The forest boar rushed him and Max triggered the slice ability.
The energy blade shot forward and sliced the boar completely in half.
Seconds later all that remained on the ring was Max and a copper monster core and a few coins.
The crowd was silent and dumbfounded, then they started cheering and heckling with excited fervor.
“Bring out another monster!” they yelled.
“The kid is hustling us! Give the little prick a bigger challenge!”
Max scooped up the monster cores and then leaned against the ropes of the fighting ring to rest and wait for the next monster he was going to fight.
One of the arena workers came up to him and handed him a small blue vial.
“You’re allowed one mana potion after each fight,” said the staff member. “You can use your traits as much as you’re normally able to.”
Max took the vial and thanked the man and took a sip.
Max couldn’t help but make a face when he swallowed the drink down.
It tasted like very powerful cough syrup.
He felt a new urgency and vivacity to the mana running through his body after finishing the potion.