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Chapter 27 - Shibura

The blue sky reflects on the water, as Katara and Desmond continue to paddle to reach the Shibura island. The island is located in the middle of a sea, and only five boat was being provided. It's was obvious, because the one who created this game knows.

She wonders what is the next level? And what is with this shibura island? They continue to paddle until they reach the island, Desmond first who went out from the boat and then offered his hand to help her. She accepted his assistance and then set her foot to the ground of Shibura. The island was covered in violet mist, she can't help but to feel something strange. Is this supposed to scare them?

The sun was setting, it was getting dark. They can't really see what's more inside of the island because of the fogs, she heard the crows chirping.

"I have bad feelings of this." She heard Desmond said, she agreed. This is worse than the forest where she met the wolverians, a second later suddenly a blue portal appeared. All of them look at each other, are they supposed to enter?

"Greeting to our students, welcome to Shibura Island. I am glad to see you here, now please take a step to the portal. Using your card as your key, please split it into haft so that your partner could enter too." They heard Prof. Alan voices again, Katara looks at Desmond and he nodded. She split the card into two and then gave the other one to Desmond, it seems like they are going to enter one by one.

A woman who has fishtail braid, and wearing red fighter clothes first entered the portal. In the middle of the portal, there is a small square where she put the card and her name, house, who's her partner, age, sex, and etc appear in the portal together with her image as it was scan careful checking if she's really the person who's holding the card.

Next who entered was her partner in the previous round, Katara was the second to the last person who stepped in. Desmond is the last, she smiled at him.

"Good luck!" She said, and he smiled.

"You too." He replied.

She entered the portal, and she appears in such a room. The ceiling, the wall, and the floor is white. Everything is white inclusive the girl who's standing in front. She's floating in the air, and it seems like she's a receptionist in a hotel.

"Welcome to Shibura Island, can I see your card?" The woman said she gave her card.

"Congratulation for passing the first round, now you may proceed to the next one. I'll explain the rules here..." She nodded.

"This is a strategic round, where you need to survive based on your own strategy and knowledge. Students who have elemental powers are forbidden to use their powers on the battle, they are only allowed to use their raw strengths. All you need is to reach the part of the island, which is here." And a map was handed to her, it was like a map of a dungeon. She pointed out that the space was in the middle of the map. She saw nine red dots everywhere on the map. As she can see, it seems like this island is much wider than she expected.

"All of the red dots are where your enemy is, you just need to pass each of them. Of course either you fight them or not, it's up to you as long as you win. Here, your number " The woman hander her something, she accepted the fabric that has a number 9 on it, she immediately had an idea what this woman would say next.

"You need to protect that number of yours, if you get two of them or above from your enemy you already pass this round. You don't need to be on the last place on this island. All of you are given exactly 72 hours to finish the task, don't worry the time here is different. Now can you stand on that circle? I'll send you to the dungeon now." She moves herself to the circle, and the woman smiles at her.

"Oh, by the way. Be careful with the monster." It was her last before she was sent to the outside of the room, she vanished like a bubble and appeared inside of Shibura's dungeon. She doesn't know who or what she's referring to but it means that it's very dangerous.

She immediately looks at the map, where the hell is she?

Red dots are everywhere, as she continues to watch them move some of them vanish to the map. So it means, they can hide themselves on the map. She put her number handkerchief on the arm, she tied it so tightly. Wait, it's up to you if you fight them right? Then that means, she can team up with someone? No, that's not a good idea.

She takes a deep breath, and signs. She needs to move now, how could she survive in this place?! She look around, she didn't expect that they'll be sent inside of a dungeon.

She wonders if her food supplies are enough.

She checked her pouch, it was small but she could put anything on it. It was given by Evans, the crown prince's right hand. He never approaches her even once but she can say he's loyal to his lord, he says he can put anything on this. At first she didn't believe it, but when she put something on it was proven.

After checking her pouch she realized she needed more food to consume, the question is where she will get some? No one knows how many days they'll stay here, just like what a woman said earlier the time here is different, that's why she wasn't sure how much she needs to put in. The pouch has a limit, it's not like the pocket of pokemon that could put the whole academy into it. She can put anything, but not everything.

Her surroundings were silent, it was suspicious. Because this is a dungeon after all, she wonders if there's a trap inside? She picked the torch that was hanging on the wall, and continued to walk.

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