"What is the emergency?" The person in charge of the monitoring section came rushing in.
"Sir, a group have managed to escape the trap room in 6 minutes, 40 seconds. They hve successfully broken the previous record held by the group of awakened." The man incharge of monitoring Jake's group answered.
"What? How many awakened are present in that group?" The man asked as he rushed towards the monitor to see the situation.
"One of them is confirmed to be an awakened while the other three haven't shown any activities of awakened, except for Jake Grant who achieved the highest score in reaction time test." The man said.
"That guy again. play the video front the interior halls. I need to make sure that he didn't cheat." The man said.
The video was soon being played on a large screen.
Everyone within the halls was looking at the video with surprise.
"How is that possible? How could he know about the traps we set up in the vicinity? They were created by Helmond and sons. They are the best trap makers in the country."
"Is there any relation between this boy and the company? Can they have conspired with him and released the information?" One of the people said.
"They are the national regulators of these competitions. They would never do that. This boy is also from a rather common background and there isn't any background he comes from. I think he is an awakened."
"I am pretty sure he isn't. There are energy detectors all over the place that would detect the usage of energy within the room. There is no way he could have cheated against that."
"That is true. Are you saying that he has like some super human sensory powers. How could a human move like that , much less detected and calculate the movement and pattern of every single trap." The people in the room were going insane.
They seem to have ignored that the leader had left the room already to report back to the army man.
...
"He managed to escape and predict the movement of every single trap." The man said.
"How can this be possible? He is way above any superhuman we have seen until now. His strength and Endurance are yet to be tested, but his agility, reaction time and sensing ability is way above any stats we have recorded so far. He might be the strongest awakened." The man continued.
"We need to recruit him fast. The information would be leaked to every major organization within moments. I say we approach him right after this round." Rogers said.
"Fine then. Go ahead. You have my permission to invite him and arrange a meeting between us. I need you to push as hard as you can to recruit this guy." The man said.
Rogers nodded and left the room with a smile over his face.
...
Jake and the group soon came to the main testing area.
"Congratulations on crossing the trap hall. We will now proceed to the next round that is the fight. You 5 minutes to choose a weapon and another 5 minutes to devise a plan."
"The monsters will be attacking you in group and youe aim to kill them all. The sooner you do it, higher is your chance to pass the round and proceed to the last one." The judge announced the details.
Soon enough weapon boxes began to open up and almsot all kind of weapons were present in there.
Jake chose a pair of knuckles along with a dagger and a thin longsword.
The othe three decided to go with a weapon of their choice. The team was prepared and the judge soon announced the beginning of the round.
Just when the announcement was done, the system showed a message.
"Emergency Combat Mission: Goblin Extermination
The host has come across a group of goblin. Eliminate them. The more you kill, higher will the reward.
Objective: Exterminate the monsters
Reward: Based on the kill count."
Jake waited for the goblins to enter. As soon as the door opened up, the goblins screamed in agitation and rushed out, while waving their tiny weapons.
They rushed towards the group with the interior to appease their hunger. The reason behind this being that the committee knowingly decided to starve them.
Jake was excited as the goblins were way smaller.in comparision to human, but they were uglier and much more violent, along with a better physique.
Jake counted them and found that a total of ten entered the battle-field. When he looked at his team, he found them nervous. Mona's legs were shaking when facing the goblins. This was a bad situation when facing an enemy.
"This is bad" Jake spoke to himself. He then looked towards his team mates and said.
"How about I lead the charge and you people would be responsible for support. We will arrange it in 1-3 manner. Whatever gets past me is on you to kill."
Interestingly the expression of all these seemed to have relaxed a bit but they were still on guard.
Jake charged out, and attacked the first goblin he came.acorss with his sword. The goblin managed to dodge the strike, but Jake was prepared as he punched it in the face and then thrust his sword into its body.
At first the sword simply couldn't penetrate it's skin. Only when Jake pushed even harder , finally the sword entered the goblin's body.
"So it requires this much power. I guess this isn't going to be an easy fight." Jake said to himself before pushing the sword in with all his strength and killed it.
9 more to go.
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Jake's group members were struggling to hold back the other goblins. Mona was the one who was being pushed back the most due to her small physical stature.
After she couldn't find a way around, Mona's eyes suddenly shone and a wave of powerful air burst appeared out of his hands and blasted the goblins.
Jake was surprised. He knew that some of his group members were awakened, but seeing Mona's power was a surprise to him.
He proceeded to the second goblin, attacking him with all his might.