In that alone time, he started thinking about Jim.
"Was he already out or was he feeling the same as he did right now?"
Jim was the one that saved him from starvation 2 years ago. They had a brother with brother relationship. Jim mocked him, but he also protected David. David hoped nothing more than his safety.
Then, a sort of sharp tooth appeared in David's hand.
The creature appeared once again and started talking in its loud annoucer voice.
"Wooooo! We got our first item donation in the arena Y-10. A sharp object was given to one of the players… Somone got generous! "
David didn't understand. Why him?
He thought for quite some time. But he understood after a group of people started getting closer to him.
When David put unconscious that child one of the spectators got mad and gave him an advantage because he knew he would get jumped.
"Funny stuff. Real funny stuff." David thought.
-I'm sure he is laughing watching this. I'll show him some fun.
"Hey, are you the one with the weapon?", some dumbass said.
-"No, not at all. I just pulled out a tiger's tooth from my mouth. Don't worry it regrowed.", I said.
I then opened my mouth to taunt him.
"See? You can't even notice it"
The 13 minutes were finished. So I wanted to use my double-edged sword for a bit of good.
David rushed in and tackled the guy. He then put the tiger tooth on his neck and shouted that if anyone comes near him, then he would kill the boy he was currently holding hostage.
David wasn't stupid. He knew the group didn't care about the guy, but the reason he did it was that even if you don't care about somebody it doesn't mean that you want to be the cause their death. As planned, the performance managed to make the big group that was going his way take a step backward. David also thought that the cries of the guy he was holding was also affecting their choices.
"All of you go away, at least a 100 meters. ", he said confidently.
"Please go away! I don't wanna die!", the boy screamed after a bit of convincing by David.
"Perfect revenge. It tastes sweet." David mumbled looking like a true killer in front of his hostage.
David decided to place the kid's appearance as his top two of his happiest moments of the situation.
David waited and waited in his calm corner while scaring everyone trying to get in it too. It was only him and the boy, waiting for the other one to do a move. The standoff took so much time that the big group had to attack each other to get an elimination in the 15 minutes and that was exactly what David was wishing for.
David choked the guy and got his third elimination. He got into an agreement with the hostage as dying slashed and just being put to sleep was far different.
David was sure that the tooth's donor was for sure filled with hate and it made him so happy.
A new scream was added to the losing participants area.
David got the same two notifications, but he also got one that told me that there was only one elimination left. He sat and waited until his 2 minutes of break ended. He then got up and walked to the middle area of the arena.
Honestly David felt pretty cool with no one coming at his neck because of the small weapon that was given to him with malice.
"Again thank you anonymous donor.", he thought with a chuckle.
He got to the middle and saw everybody there stopping their fights to look at him. The closest guy was seconds away from running from David.
Luckily, his opponent noticed the distracted look of his enemy and got him with a huge right handed swing. The guy landed in front of David once again.
"If only the guy was left handed." David thought with fake pity as a small smile was forming.
"It's like they never learn." he said out loud this time. He then finished the guy with a jumping WWE elbow strike to finish the job in fashion.
In fact, that got him applause from the few masked holograms that saw his maneuver.
He won.
Task for the [Practice Round]
1.Survive for an hour. (in progress)
2. Kill or put unconscious a human in 15 minutes four times. (Completed)
He did it and he now only needed to survive for ten minutes. In a turn of events, most of the people that managed to get their 4 eliminations in the big group chose to attack David as revenge from the hostage situation. David was getting chased by 6 people. He felt like they were playing tag with suffering happening in case of a loss.
They hated David.
"Wowowo! Yo, attack each other!", he said while running at his max speed.
This continued until the 7 of them were all close to fall unconscious from fatigue built up. The reason for the fact that they couldn't catch David was simple.
Most of them were injured while David had barely nothing. Even though it ended up being a close call as they almost managed to chase him into a corner.
David couldn't help himselft but feel like he was getting chased by 6 zombies running at him with a bit of limping and jaw injuries.
He was sweating and felt like trash. The fact that he was so close to winning got his will pumped up but his reserves were even worse than low.
[+0.1 in stamina for limit breaking endurance training]
David felt better. Like noticeably better. It was easier to breath and that meant more chances of him not dying. He also got an adrenaline boost because he actually thought that he had a chance. It didn't sound easy, but at least it was now possible. After a long chase the 10 minutes passed.
[ Practice Round : Cleared successfully ]
Reward: F rank Title [ Among the 250 ]
(+0.2 in every stat)
David was finally safe. He couldn't help but fall on the ground face first with only his happiness stopping him from passing out. After that, David saw the circles and stars manifest under him and got transported back on his small cardboard mat.
Jim was here too.