The dragon's words acted like a green light to the humans.
After being brought there and thrown to into the ground they got a bit confused, but it was just a matter of hearing the word "Piece of Gold" that they immediately recovered their senses and ran to the great wall behind them, crazily trying to reach the top.
The dragon stood at the top of the wall, it was there to ensure that none of the humans tried to brake it's rules, and to reward the human that made it to the top first, as to take them to the place of it's next experiment.
Since the beginning of the test, 7 hours had passed, and during that period of time 4 participants had died, 3 of them by losing their footing and grip over the rocks and falling to their deaths on the valley of debris that remained from the dragon destroying the mountain, and the remaining 1 had decided to quit the experiment, but as the Dragon had said before, it wouldn't move and inch to help anyone if they decided to quit in the middle, so they had or to finish the task, or risk goin back.
Poor man, he had wasted all his energies goin half way to the top, but the wall had became too smooth, he couldn't go any further, so he tried goin back, but his strength failed him, and he also fell to his death.
The first one to reach the top was a green haired man wearing a leather armor. The man reached the top gasping for air, and had tired all of his muscles.
The dragon looked at him in satisfaction and handed the gold piece.
"Are you goin to continue?" It asked
"Haah~ yeah! Why not? It's free money after all" Answered the man, gasping for air.
The dragon then pointed at a florest a little far in the distance and said. "That florest in the distance has some creatures in it, your only objective is to reach the other side of the florest with life, but you can't bring any weapon with you, if you have one, then leave it here and go with your bare hands" it announced
It was more than proven now that these creatures had more than skilled front legs and could complete a hard task like climbing a mountain in an surface flat within a single day. But just having good assets wasn't enough, they now had to prove their versatility, in the wild one had to be able do deal with situations where there are no weapons or easy way out of something, the Dragon wanted to see if these species of Naked Monkeys could do that, after all even though they couldn't fight itself, if they had the abilities to fight other normal creatures it would make them slightly interesting.
The green haired man heard it an got a bit worried, he wanted to get another gold piece, but was a single piece of gold worth his life? He wondered.
As he was lost in though, his eyes naturally trailed in the direction of the gold on his hand, and all his worries vanished like they never existed.
The man reached to his waist and removed his belt where he had 2 throwing daggers, and walked in the direction of the florest.
40 minutes had passed and 2 more people had reached the top, but by coincidence, 2 people also died on the climb.
The dragon told them the same things it had told the green haired man and they departed in the direction of the florest.
5 minutes later, another person came, it was a brown haired little girl that was very tired of the climb, but still seemed better than the green haired man.
It told her the same thing as before, but this time the girl decided to go down. The dragon sighed in disappointment, it had expected one of them would wish to give up at some moment, it just didn't expect that it would be this soon.
But the dragon didn't complain much, it grabbed the little girl and flew her to somewhere safe at the base of the mountain.
Another 1 minute passed, and another human had reached the top, but also, another one fell to their death.
The human that had reached the top was a blonde woman with her bodies covered in muscles, but not to the point of losing her feminine characteristcs, she had a little cute face, a a curvy body, and even though she was buff, her butt and boobs were still around a D size. She wasn't wearing much, just a simple black hag as a shirt and long pants.
Of all the humans to reach this part, this woman seemed…. Diferent.
Not only wasn't she tired, but all of the humans util now were greedy and material people, that just came here looking for the pieces of gold but this woman got there with no greed on her at all, what laid on her gaze was flaming desire. As for what kind of desire it was, the dragon didn't knew, but he was confident he could figure it out.
"you didn't get anything for being the fifth person to get here, do you wish to con-"
"Yes" The woman Cut the dragon in the middle of his sentence. If the one of the other doing that, it would have killed them on the spot, but he was too curious to see the woman's objective, then it let her live.
The dragon pointed at the florest in the distance and said. "That florest in the distance has some creatures in it, your only objective is to reach the other side of the florest with life, but you can't bring any weapon with you, if you have one, then leave it here and go with your bare hands" he announced again in the exact same was as he did with the earlier participants.
The woman nodded her head, she walked close to a rock that was close by and picked it up, she then walked to a bigger rock with a sharp edge, and hit them together util the tiny rock split, and she did that same process again and again util she got a sharp rock the size of a knife.
The dragon gave a big smile.
'This woman is pretty cleaver…' the dragon though
As it had said before, it was prohibited to BRING weapons with you, it never said tha you could make one ith your own hands. After all, crafting was also a sign of versatility
The dragon had a little smile as it saw the blonde woman enter the florest
It then looked over the edge of the mountain an and saw the body of a person that had fell from the wall, it had many dark markings on it's body, and a purple eye, some parts of the body were so dameged that the skin ripped apart
The dragon smiled. That woman… She had killed the one of the last womans of the group.
The other woman that died had black hair and seemed to have experience in climbing, so as soon as the test started and the dragon was gone, the blonde woman slowed her by pulling her hair and spanked her unilaterally util she was knocked out, the blonde woman then climbed with the body of the other woman on her back halfway to the top and dropped the body in a planned place to make the black marks and purple eye seem like a consequence of the fall.
But, too bad for her, because the dragon had a special inborn ability where it could detect almost everything that happened around it, so while the Blond woman Punched and knocked the other out, it watched like it was close by.
The blonde woman had killed the other woman, but the dragon didn't care, the rule was to not kill someone for their gold piece, but the other woman didn't had a gold piece! So the dragn couldn't give a damn about her death.
It didn't knew why she had killed the other woman, but it didn't care, because it was pretty confident to figure it out while se participated on the experiments.
After smirking a last time it spread it's wings and jumped towards the other side of the florest.