Wake Up And Run

The Chosen Ones Part 2

Chapter 6

The Chosen Ones Part 2

Something is really wrong here, Julian wondered. Reading the list a few times, he noticed one other thing: the time really didn't decrease as he thought the first time but increased. Although it was something he didn't notice the first time and was not sure if the last time he saw it was 23 hours or 24 hours, but it was obvious that it had increased now instead of decreasing.

Anyway, that is a different issue that he can solve at the moment; the urgent thing is to navigate the situation that he is facing now. The question is who to go straight to, wherever the destination that he supposedly reached was, and there is a fight going on in front of him, it is not like he can say, "Excuse me, can you please stop fighting until I pass?" He had no prior experience in situations like this or any other situations to being with.

Standing in his place, he first looked at the man, who was standing alone and watching the fight like him. The man noticed when he approached them but didn't even glance at him. He thought, "This is the best time to check this thing called "Detection Skill," and whispered, "Detect."

Instantly, the screen flashed in front of him with new information, but this it was not about him it was about the man standing a few meters ahead of him.

"Detect skill has been activated."

Nam: Ozak 

Age: 18

Race: Human

Rank: Rearguard

Status: healthy

Skills: Nil

Intelligence: 180

Strength: 20/100

Gifts: Nil

Grade: 1 

Phase: 1

Points: 0 

Remarks: ?????

Mission: Survive 

Duration: 24 hours

Reward: Mystery map + skill

The way the information was displayed was similar to his, but with several differences. What he noticed and found interesting to him was "Mission: Survive" near the end of the paragraph, which meant they were both on the same mission, the survival mission. Still, that doesn't mean anything to him; all that mattered was to finish these unending 24 hours. Although he was ready for anything when he participated in this experiment and was expecting a certain level of danger, but not the risk to his life, that was not part of the deal, the deal that didn't exist, actually.

So this thing called "skill" is something useful, at least he found out some interesting information. How useful it will be, he doesn't care much about how useful it will be at the moment. Now he's focused his attention on two men who were fighting. The speed at which they were exchanging hits was something beyond his understanding. First of all, he had never been in a fight in his entire life, except for some bullying that targeted him on a few different occasions, and he never witnessed a sword fight or even a regular fist fight. Not that he lived in a peaceful place, but his physical condition never allowed him to take part in any physical activity.

For the first few seconds, it was even hard for him to follow with his eyes, the fight that was going on, he was even unable to concentrate on one person to cast the skill on, none of them were standing even for a split of a second in one location, so the only option he had was to watch and see how it ends. By just watching for a few seconds, he was fascinated by the their movement, there was something appealing about it, like it was kind of art or a splendid dance, not a fight.

He thought, "The only word I could use to describe this fight is splendid." The two men who were fighting, one of whom was younger and wearing a uniform that he couldn't recognize, and the other was a middle-aged man wearing a casual dress, were still strange to him since they didn't look familiar to him. Not that he was aware of the other cultures and the clothes they wear in other continents or countries, but he had never left his birthplace until today.

At the beginning, the younger one seemed to be attacking and the older one defending, but within a second, it changed when the older one increased his speed and his attacks became hard to parry from the younger one's perspective. With a quick move, the older one switched his weapon with his other hand, took a step closer, and used his shoulder to push him. Not giving him a split second to recover, he followed up with a kick from his knee, and with his sword, he did a move that Julian couldn't really comprehend or even describe. With that last move, he disarmed the man he was fighting, and the sword was pointing at his neck.

That was the end of the fight, the younger man, being without a weapon, was only able to stand still and do nothing, Julian, as much as he was fascinated by the fight, still wanted and wished to know who they were when the skill was activated, and apparently that activated the skill without him requesting it, and the information of the young man popped up on the screen in front of him.

Name: Murad

Age: 29

Race: Human

Rank: Captain, intelligence and security officer

Status: healthy

Skills:-

1- Ranger 

2- Swordsmen 

3- I-Sight 

Intelligence: 100

Gifts: Nil

Grade: 1 

Phase: 1

Points: 0 

Remarks: Officer assigned to guard Ozak .

"That information doesn't help, on the contrary, it's confusing me more." Julian thought to himself again, "What is a pig shot like this man doing here?  Why is he fighting this middle-aged man? Who is that other man he is guarding? And finally, why is there no mission or reward for him, and it exists for the man he is supposed to guard? Too many questions were what he got instead of the answers that he was expecting to get.

He then turned his gaze to the middle-aged man and cast the skill on him, and as expected, the information changed immediately to the middle-aged man's details, but when he saw what was in front of him, he couldn't believe his eyes; it was so shocking and unbelieveable that he almost fell to his knees. And he almost shouted loudly, "What the hell is going on here? ".