Supremacy Games

art was playing with us. ’

Irked, Abraham stood up with black lines on his forehead and trod towards the podium to cover for Robert.

’Reining the drawing straw agreement is really a classic move from Brother Robert.
I expected nothing less from such a business genius. ’ Albert mused at Robert who was being served coffee with a polite smile.

”You have successfully passed the first fitness training task.
But this was just the easiest one of all the upcoming tasks, so don ’t get too full of yourself, and keep working diligently. ”

He coughed and said at a faster pace.
”Now that ’s out of the way.
It ’s time to start the next task, which is the awakening mock practice, or in other words, the pain tolerance training. ”

”To not waste time we will start right away. ” He nodded his head at the elders to make a move first.
The elders tapped on their bracelet, showing that sentence Felix showed to his cousins before, and stood in front of the four lines that were made by the juniors.

”This task will be carried out inside the UVR, and before you get excited, you should know that you are merely entering the white personal room of the user, not the UVR world itself.
So don ’t get your hopes up. ”

The light that shone in the eyes of the juniors was extinguished as fast as it appeared.
Uncaring about their disappointment, Abraham began explaining how the party feature of the AP bracelet worked.
His explanation was almost exactly as Felix ’s, quick and straight to the point.
The juniors began doing exactly as he said, by memorizing the sentence and lying on the ground after.

”Begin the process. ”

As soon as they heard Abraham ’s thunderous declaration, the elders started touching the juniors ’ foreheads.

A couple of minutes later, the last junior closed his eyes and stopped moving just like the rest.

….

Inside the white room of Elder Charlotte, Felix leaned on the wall and yawned in utter boredom at Charlotte ’s detailed illustration of how the awakening mock practice was going to be.
It turned out, that Abraham didn ’t explain the process, as he planned for the elders to do so inside their rooms.

”Alright, I think everyone has some idea of how the integration process is going to be now. ” She clapped her hands to wake up Felix who was dozing off and asked, ”Who wants to go first for a quick demonstration? ”

However, the juniors acted deaf at her question, as each of them avoided eye contact with her.
Felix chuckled softly at this sight, as it reminded him of the time he was acting in the classroom after the teacher asked a question.

Meanwhile, Charlotte didn ’t find this sight funny at all, since the last thing she wanted was cowards on the group she was responsible over for the next month.

”Kids, the pain is going to be set at 5% of the real thing.
So if you don ’t have the guts to practice the awakening.
Do us all a favor and just back off from now to save us resources and time, okay? ”

Her taunt bore fruits, as the juniors who were all hesitant to be the first to go, all started raising their hands and voices to be picked after being looked down upon like this.

Pleased, Charlotte pointed at one randomly and informed him, ”Prepare your mentality and relax your body.
The moment I push the injection needle that is filled with 1% beast ’s bloodline in your heart, the process will begin. ”

The junior couldn ’t help but sweat buckets from his body pores, as his eyes landed on that long needle that was about to penetrate his heart.
He wiped his sweaty palms with his sleeves and calmed his heartbeats a bit.

Regardless of his fear, he understood clearly that he couldn ’t back down from this demonstration.
After all, if he was terrified of even a needle, there was no need to bother continuing treading on this path, since those needles were going to be needed in each integration! So, he could only gulp a mouthful and nod at Charlotte to begin the process.

Without further ado, Charlotte pushed the long needle deep in his heart and injected all of its content directly inside.

The junior felt a momentary pain from the penetration, almost causing him to yelp out loud.
But that was it.
The bloodline that was injected in his heart did nothing but spread apart and travel through his bloodstream, reaching every nook and cranny of the body without harming him at all.

Just like a peaceful guest coming to visit.

Minutes slowly passed, and still, nothing happened.
The juniors watched in bewilderment at their cousin, who had his eyebrows frowned in worry and confusion.

Just as he wanted to open his mouth to ask the elder what was going on.

”AAAAAAAAAAGH!!!! ”

An ear-piercing shriek escaped from his mouth, scaring the shit out of everyone near him.
No one expected such a high pitched scream to come out of a rough-looking young man like him.

Speechless, Felix glanced at his cousin who was wailing with tears and snort in his face, while flaying his limbs around, like a fish captured in a net.

’If this is how you act when dealing with only 5%.
Are you going to levitate in the air when you take 100%? ’ He covered his eyes at this embarrassing sight, not wanting to see anymore.

’If everyone is like him.
Then we will lose at least 80% of our juniors in the process. ’

Meanwhile, Charlotte ’s eyes were emitting waves of despair at this sight.
She was truly about to lose faith in those juniors if everyone ’s pain tolerance was the same as him.

’I hope others perform better.
Otherwise, by the time they try to awaken for real.
only dead bodies will welcome us. ’

Hopeful, she switched her sight from the junior who passed out due to pain, marking the failure of the process, to the rest, who had horror clouding their faces.

They knew that fainting meant instant death! So for their cousin to actually fail awakening from just 5% of the pain, they couldn ’t help but feel a sudden chill at the thought of awakening for real with 100%.

It was only now, that the true face of awakening was shown to them in all of its glory and obscurity that the world council was hiding from them.