Chapter 2 Fall or Rise
Graden walked out of the door, followed A to the right, saw number 6678 at the door, saw another room, same number attached, when A stopped in front of the white door, opened the door and walked into a room with only one table, there was a board in front
A went to hand in front of the board, A told Graden to sit in a chair, "The first round of the exam will be a knowledge test. „A handed Gwaren five sheets of paper. Graden looked at them, they were memory questions, the first sheet was common language, the second sheet was calculation, the third sheet was solving puzzles, the fourth sheet was using magic, the fifth sheet was the next round of the competition. Gwaren started doing the questions, the first four sheets were finished in 3 hours, looked at the fifth sheet, then looked up at A. "How much time do we have for this exam?"
"The first round of the exam is 5 hours. „Graden looked at his own paper, the topic of the fifth sheet was what weapon do you want, there was only one question. Graden looked away and thought, "A weapon, huh? A sword would be the best, can turn the song in many ways. A narrow spear is useless. A short-range dagger is purely melee. A long-range bow. A damage axe. Of all the weapons I've ever used, a sword is the best. » Graden opened his eyes to look at A. "What's the next round of testing? Can I ask for something other than a weapon?"
"Question one. The next round of testing is a one-on-one duel. Question two. You can't ask for it."
Graden closed his eyes, «One-on-One Duel, I completely forgot to ask» Graden opened his eyes again, «Then what rights can I use?» «None. If you don't follow the rules, it will be considered a mistake. You will be eliminated.» Graden smiled at A, «Wow, that's a perfect rule. You are the rule. Whoever doesn't follow it will die. Well, there's nothing you can do. The weapon used for one-on-one is the sword. In short, I'll take the sword.» Graden finished writing the answer and handed it to A.
A took it and checked it. After checking it for 30 minutes, he looked at the deer. «Congratulations, you got a full score. You have to wait until tomorrow. We will prepare the next round of the exam for you. Please follow me.» A walked out to open the door and went to Graden's room. When Graden followed him, he opened the door and went to his room. He went to sleep, happy that he got a full score. «How is it? I'm the best. Even though I can't see A's shocked face.» Aden smiled happily at the full score and waited for tomorrow.
Graden woke up and looked at A who opened the door. "Follow me." Graden followed. This time, it was a yellow door. When he followed in, he saw an empty, white, rectangular room. He saw two people standing there. The first person was A. Graden was very shocked and couldn't hold back his expression because he didn't think A would have twins. "There are two people. Are they twins? No, they must be clones. That's amazing. The magicians here seem quite scary. I wonder if the boss here is A." Graden saw a child standing in the middle. He wore a black blindfold and a white shirt like Graden. There was a number on the back. The number was 6679. He had long black hair that reached his shoulders. He held a cane with a scythe at the end.
Graden analyzed the child he had met for the first time in ten years here with interest. "This child, I can't guess at all. His expression and actions told me that I didn't know if he was good or not. Plus, he covered his eyes to pretend that he was definitely blind. He couldn't fool me. He tricked me. He was making this side careless, right?" Graden thought that he saw through the plan of the blindfolded girl and thought that she was pretending to be blind to make himself careless in a one-on-one fight. Graden smiled confidently.
At the same time, A walked up to Graden. "The rules of this round of battle are: Defeat your opponent to advance to the next round. The loser will get one black star, and the winner will get one red star. The black star means that if you have eleven, it means that you have not passed the criteria required by the rules. As for one red star, you can ask for one thing if it is something that can be given, such as reducing the black star by one. The rules of this round of battle are: You can defeat your opponent or make your opponent incapable of fighting. Or you can kill them. However, you can surrender if your opponent decides to surrender. There is a time limit of one hour. If you want to surrender, you can say SOS. That is a sign that you want to surrender. However, you must fight for five minutes before you can say it. It will start now. "Graden drew his sword and prepared to prepare. "Now, the stage where I will shine will be born!! This Lord Graden's plan is clear." Graden smiled confidently and prepared to fight without being careless.
On the other hand, Mariana stood still with an attitude that she did not know where the enemy was. But because Mariana did not want to show others that she was afraid, the image that Mariana saw was pitch black, without the slightest light. There was only darkness that could be seen. A started the countdown, because it was time to start the race. 3 2 1 "Let's start."
A gave the signal to start. Graden stood and waited, expecting Mariana, who was blindfolded, to start fighting first. To see what kind of movement the blindfolded boy would make and to be ready for it. «Come in!?» The masked boy moved a little, but it wasn't in preparation for battle but rather he bowed to show respect to Graden, intending to stall for five minutes so that he could admit defeat. «We have to stall for time, or else we'll die for sure. I don't want to die when I can't see. The darkness I can see is already scary enough, to be injured so unexpectedly is even scarier...» "Nice to meet you. My name is Mariana, a blind girl, number 6679. I will admit defeat. Please have mercy on me. I don't want to die yet, so please don't hurt me. If five minutes are up, I'll disappear from you." Mariana bowed to the ground and put her face towards it to bow down and beg for her life. There were tears in Mariana's heart that she had been holding back, so that her enemy wouldn't know that she was about to cry. Fighting while blind... No matter how good you are, there's no way you can do it. Mariana begged, willing to throw her pride to the ground to beg for a chance to live. It would be better to lose some of her pride. Dying without being able to regain her pride is even more shameful.
Graden looked at Mariana, wondering what kind of trick he would use. He was shaken from kneeling down to beg for Mariana's life. He immediately felt pity for her. «What should we do, Lord Graden? This child is actually kneeling down. This is called bullying the weak. What should Lord Graden do? .... Are you crazy, making me fight a blind child? .... Are these guys crazy? What are they thinking? It's like they're giving me a win. Whatever, maybe they're tricking me into letting my guard down. Even though she's blind, she's trying to live. If I were in the same situation, I would have chosen to do the same. Using only the surrounding magic touch to fight, that's a bit too much. I think I saw it in a book. I think it says, "Those who are born lacking something?" Graden lowered his sword, feeling sorry for Mariana who was kneeling down to beg for her life. Graden shouted. Mariana: "You owe me a favor. Don't forget to use it. Remember, the person you owe is this Lord Garden. I surrender," Garden said, surrendering. Amen. Garden didn't say anything. Garden smiled shyly. "Oh, I forgot we have to wait five minutes. Otherwise, this kid wouldn't be bowing like this. As soon as the fight started, I would have surrendered immediately. But because I couldn't do it, I did this," Garden looked at Mariana with pity. "This time, I, Garden, will give you the victory, so that is the Red Star's request. Choose it wisely. What do you want to do?" Garden stood with her arms crossed, looking at Mariana who was still bowing her head, begging for her life, without showing any signs of looking up. Garden noticed Mariana's trembling secretly. "Sigh, if I say anything, this kid will definitely cry. Shaking like this, but it's good. My dignity will be gone because I defeated the blind child.»
After five minutes, Graden announced his surrender with a firm voice. "Graden surrender." A began to announce. "The winner number 6679, Mariana, will receive one red star. The loser, Graden will receive one black star. " Mariana, who was four, started to breathe heavily with great joy. Tears started to flow from the blindfold, and now she couldn't hold them in. They were mixed with tears of fear and tears of relief. She started to cry out loudly, "Waaaahhhhhhhhhhh, Waaaahhhhhh." "Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I will never forget this favor. " Mariana was very touched by Graden's kindness because she was truly blind and had no way of fighting an enemy she couldn't see. Mariana said with tears in her eyes, Waaaahhhhhhhhhhh.
Graden smiled proudly. "No need to repay me. If you really want to repay me, stand up and fight. It will be my repayment. Since we met here anyway, even though this place is a little cruel, at least we must try for tomorrow…" "These words hurt my heart. Heh heh. Even though I don't know how to become stronger, when I meet you, I'll definitely close my eyes in sadness. But at least I'll be able to extend my life by one point…" Graden turned away, thinking that he was acting cool even though Mariana didn't see it. "In this world, I am the best. I will create my own history and it will be recorded that Graden is the strongest. Even though you can only extend your life by a little bit, remember that you are your own refuge. Get up by yourself. Don't think or expect to ask for help from others. When you can get up by yourself, you will be able to fall down by yourself without needing help from others." Graden followed after A, who started to walk out of the door. Graden followed. With a black star on his chest, he walked back to his room. Graden threw himself on the bed, screaming loudly, "Aaaaah! What's the point? That's a ticket to ask for anything. What's the use of giving that child away? The words are so cool. If you use that character, you have to use it all the time. You can't change it. That child can't see... No, that child doesn't know it's us. Let's go to sleep first. The wound will heal with time. When you say something embarrassing, you feel embarrassed immediately. You keep bragging, Graden, you crazy!!..." Graden cursed himself while leaving beautiful words for Mariana. But in his heart, Graden wanted Mariana to get up and fight again. Even though Mariana's path was pitch black, being unable to see would definitely not do anything. After Graden walked out with confidence that what he had shown was so cool that people had to scream. Mariana, who had fallen down with the strength she could barely stand up, was standing in front of the pitch-black cloth with tears streaming down her face nonstop. Each drop showed her true crying. The tears that poured down, she couldn't hold them back. Excited that Graden had given her the chance, Mariana tried to stand up with all her strength, because Ae was waiting for Mariana to stand up so that she could take Mariana to the white room, while waiting for Mariana to stand up by herself, without showing any sign of going to help support Mariana. Mariana stood up with the help of a cane to support herself, her body that was relieved from surviving made it seem like she had survived what she had encountered for the first time.