In the past, whenever a candidate got to this stage of the trial, they usually went with brute force, charging in with all their soldiers.They would usually overpower the last king which usually resulted in many of the soldiers losing their lives. Another thing was, the family representatives who had witnessed a few trials before can not even tell their candidates of what to expect during trials. This was because the trials were selected at random, there are over fifty to hundred trials of which only three were randomly selected by a member of the keepers, a person like Von Peters. So none of the family representatives was sure of which trial to expect until the trial began. No one expected that the first trial would be the forest of fallen kings. And in the history of the forest of the fallen kings, no one has ever decided and proposed a duel with the last king. Proposing a duel is no different from suicide. Because there was absolutely no way a single person would be able to

Now that the last king was dead, the screen appeared in front of Logan even without him clicking the green button on the bracelet. [Congratulations. You have successfully defeated the Last King and completed the first trial.]Below it, Logan could see another line. [Proceed to the second trial.]Logan stared at it, his chest still heaving, blood drying on his face. Nicholas stood beside him, gripping his shoulder. "You did it," he said again, like he still didn't believe it. "You actually did it.""Yeah," Logan muttered. "Ask me again in an hour when I can feel my legs."“Well I think this is where we part ways” Nicholas muttered. Logan raised a brow,but he completely understood what Nicholas meant. So with that, he took a deep breath and pressed the proceed option.*** ***Outside, in the white room, Von Peters stood in front of the main console, his fingers moving over the small device strapped to his wrist like a watch.He glanced sideways once, making sure the other family re

Logan's eyes widened, trying to track whatever it was that just moved. And that was when it moved again.This time it happened so fast that Logan barely registered it before he was already scrambling backward with his knife raised and his heart slamming in his chest. Just then, a small creature, one Logan had never seen in his entire life, shot out of the hole. “Fuck!” Logan muttered as the creature which was pale,fast and barely visible shot out and vanished almost immediately into a crack in the rocks a few feet away, gone before he could even get a good look at it.Logan stayed frozen for a second, breathing hard.Then, slowly, a grin spread across his face as this only meant one thing. "There's life here," he said out loud, laughing as relief washer over him “There is really life here” Logan could tell that, If something could live underground on this planet, that meant there is water underground somewhere. Logan wasn't a bookworm but at least in school he was taught that ju

Seeing all four remaining phoenixes coming at him, Logan bolted, he ran with his sword in one hand and pistol in the other.Logan ran blind between the rocks with no real plan except staying alive for one more second, and then one more after that.‘How do I fucking get out of this mess?’Logan wondered. Suddenly, a shadow fell over him from the right side, seeing this, Logan spun around and fired without aiming. He was doing this with more of his instinct than actual skill, and as expected, the shots did nothing but buy him half a second.And right now, in a situation like this, half a second wasn't enough at all. Because the phoenix suddenly got relatively close and talons raked across Logan's back.“Arrgggg!” Logan screamed as pain shot through his back. A white-hot line ripped through him from his shoulder to his spine. Logan screamed even louder, and pitched forward as his momentum carried him into a hard fall. He hit the ground and rolled about three times before managing to

Immediately Logan heard the scraping sound, his hand went to his pistol on instinct, but when he looked over, all he saw was a small creature poking its head out from a crack between two rocks. It was maybe the size of a large cat, with thick gray hide that looked more like armor than skin, it also had small clawed feet, and a fat, round body that looked strangely swollen compared to its thin legs.It froze when it saw Logan, dark beady eyes blinking slowly."Well," Logan muttered "Hello there."Suddenly, His stomach growled loud enough that the creature's ears twitched at the sound.Logan moved slowly and carefully not to spook it, but hunger and exhaustion made his patience short. He lunged the moment it turned to flee, catching it by the back leg before it could disappear into the rocks. It thrashed and hissed, clawing at his arm, but Logan held on until it finally went still in his grip."Sorry, buddy," he muttered. "Nothing personal."He gathered dry brush and broken bits of w