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It blew her mind sometimes. The tower granted humanity so much power and what did they do with it? They just found new ways to kill each other.
“We’re proposing we raid the arena in four days’ time,” said the task force commander. “More details will be issued then to avoid any leaks happening before then.”
Everyone nodded.
BANG!
A young police climber swung open the door of the task force meeting room with such force it smacked against the wall.
“What’s going on?” said the task force commander.
The young police climber was out of breath and in shock.
“We just got contact from one of the underground police climbers at the arena,” said the young woman, trying to catch her breath. “A student climber was just killed by a silver-ranked monster in the arena.”
The whole room audibly gasped.
Sakura’s heart quickened. A student climber. What if it was Max? The kid wouldn’t be so stupid to fight in an underground arena, would he?
She stood up.
“Commander,” she began. “In light of this event, I think we should expedite the raid on the underground arena.”
The commander nodded his head. “You’re right, we can’t let any more of our new recruits be killed by these criminals and con men! How soon should we begin?”
Sakura clenched her fists. “Right now.”
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Max could only think of one thing: that he was a goner.
He took a step back from the rock golem.
The crowd cheered and demanded to see Max’s corpse on the floor of the arena.
They had been on equal footing before, but the match had suddenly turned in the rock golem’s favor. It was now calling all the shots.
It raised its arms in the air and leapt towards Max.
The boy dashed away as the monster crashed down right where he had been standing moments before.
“Kill the punk! Kill the punk! Kill the punk!”
Max was in big trouble. The rock golem was a D-ranked monster with a silver core. That meant in all likelihood, all of its stats were quite a bit higher than Max’s. The only thing that had given Max confidence in these fights was having a B-rank ability which pretty much overruled any stat gains a D-ranked monster would have over him.
But now he no longer had that ability.
His whole strategy had flown out the window.
Max ran to the edge of the ring.
For the time being, he’d keep his distance as he figured out a new strategy.
The rock golem came at him and Max stayed quick on his feet.
“Stop running coward!” moaned the audience.
Max ignored them. He needed to think. What do you do when you’re weaker than your enemy?
The rock golem leapt in the air once more to crush Max with its fists made of stone.
C’mon, Max. Think!
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