65 Shock and Awe
The spiky haired round boy immediately made a run for it when he noticed that his archer friend was no longer in this world.
He left the boy with the darkish blonde ponytail to fend for himself while he darted off into the swamp lands.
"Shit, Malachi you fucker don't leave me here!" The golden haired boy noticed immediately that he had been abandoned, and attempted to run himself.
But Alex and Mira weren't going to let that happen.
Mira sprang into action with her combat knife in her hand, making use of her superior speed to catch up with the last remaining boy.
As soon as she came within point blank range, she slashed her knife across his back with as much power as she could muster.
The boy cried out in pain, tears streaming down his face.
Mira had struck his spinal cord. He fell flat on his face, no longer able to feel his legs.
"No! Spare me please, I'm a member of the Promoti Family. They'll come for revenge if you do anything to me!"
The boy pleaded for his life when he realised that he could no longer escape.
"Ptui! Fuck your shitty family. Say hi to your friend in hell for me." Mira spat on the boy with disdain when she heard his plea.
'You clearly didn't have any intention to let us live. You should have considered this before you beg for your own.'
Mira thought to herself.
She didn't feel an ounce of guilt for this poor fellow before her.
Neither did she feel any guilt for that mysterious archer who Alex took out.
For people who clearly intended to harm her or take her life, she would feel no such emotions.
With no further thoughts on the subject, Mira stabbed her knife down, piercing the boy's heart.
It only took a few moments after that for the life to drain out of his eyes for good.
Alex approached Mira just as she did so. Upon seeing him, Mira asked, "What should we do about the fat one?"
The fat one, aka Malachi, had escaped. Neither of them knew what kind of consequences this would bring.
"Just leave it. He Ran off into the swamp lands. It would be too tedious and a waste of time for us to chase after him in there. If we're lucky and spot him at another point later on, we can deal with him then." Alex gave his opinion on what to do about Malachi, and Mira accepted it without much thought.
Their goal was to find as many beasts as they can, and kill them.
If they took a detour that could potentially last days just to kill one guy, then they would jeopardise their chances of even reaching the top 50.
"Let's carry on. My wound's nearly healed and you look like you still have the energy to continue." Alex resumed speaking.
With this the duo looted what they could from the golden haired boy's corpse.
They gathered some food, water and other useful items for survival and moved on.
They didn't even bother checking for any belongings of the archer.
It had all been incinerated with Alex's hugely powerful fireball attack.
Everything seemed normal from this point onwards, but something weighed on Mira's mind.
'How is his wound healing so quickly?'
She had noticed this right away when everything had settled down.
From what she knew, Awakened only start to develop faster regeneration from Distinguished rank onwards.
But clearly Alex possessed that ability, since the hole left behind by the arrow had already scabbed over.
'Whatever, I can bring it up when the time feels right.'
***
On the huge spaceship orbiting Planet Periculum.
Five men with imposing auras stood side by side, watching a huge screen that displayed various different ongoing scenes from the planet below.
"What do you think, Professor Will? There seem to be some decent seeds in this batch."
A burly middle aged man, with his bare chest exposed, spoke.
"There are some kids with decent potential, yes." Professor Will just replied in a stagnant tone.
He was too focused on the screens in front of him to engage in a proper conversation.
To be specific, he was focused on the screen portraying Alex and Mira.
On the screen, the duo had just exited the endless swamp and had set up camp for a short break to rejuvenate their energy.
But with his examiner privileges, he knew the location of every applicant currently taking the test on the planet.
So he knew that three other applicants were slowly approaching them from the darkness.
'What will you do, little Alex and Mira…'
Inwards, he was actually rather excited and curious to see how the two dealt with the predicament that was rapidly approaching.
He was hoping they showed as much potential as they did when the test first started.
But as the three figures got closer and closer to the duo, traces of disappointment flashed across his gaze when he realised they still hadn't noticed the approaching enemies.
'I guess I was expecting too much.'
It was only when they were within 150 metres of each other that Alex and Mira noticed the incoming foes.
'Acting ignorant ey? Let's see how this plays out.'
Soon enough, the battle ensued when the first arrow was fired and missed Mira.
Professor Will watched all the way up until the point that Alex was shot in the shoulder, to which he was so disappointed that he switched his focus to start looking at other applicants.
'Yep, I expected too much of such uneducated kids like them.'
He had lost all faith in Mira and especially Alex when he didn't even realise there was a third enemy until he had already been injured by them.
But just as he was about to discard his hope for them entirely, he noticed something peculiar.
'What is that?'
He spotted Alex grabbing the empty air and watched as a glowing white orb of light appeared in his hands.
He then watched as it disappeared as quickly as it appeared, and was shocked to see that Alex's injuries had started to recover a lot quicker.
'What kind of item is this?? This kid has more secrets than I thought.'
Professor Will was as curious now more than he ever was before.
But when he saw Alex take out even more of those orbs of light, and the huge fireball that Alex launched a few seconds later, even he, a B+ rank, couldn't help his jaw from opening wide in shock.
The burly man noticed the peculiar expression on Professor Will's face, and when he looked at the scene he was viewing, he mirrored his shock.
Soon enough, all five of the men in the room had focused entirely on the scene of Alex and Mira, all with different expressions on their faces.