The monster lizard that stood on the left side of our group of baby lizards began to speak. The moment he started talking to us, I was a little taken aback by how I understood everything he was saying. But during the time I was learning to move this new body, I subconsciously suspected that I would be able to communicate with them in some way when I found out that I was born in this big nest as their cub.
His voice was full of dominance and at the same time brought fear into my little body that as soon as I heard it, my head automatically bowed to the ground without my knowledge and my body stiffened as if it were made of stone. But I wasn't the only one who did this. All my new siblings also bowed at exactly the same time as I did that we could resemble soldiers when they were standing at attention but in a slightly different way.
"Everyone!!!"
"Today is the most important day of your life that will definitely and determine the fate of your future. By fate, however, I do not mean that you were born today, but that most of you will die today."
(-_-) Is this a joke? Is this some kind of bad joke? I died about 10 minutes ago! I cursed my bad luck and my destiny in my mind. Then, as soon as he stopped talking, the other who stood on the right side of our group began to speak.
"This will be the fate of only those of you who will be killed or defeated in the battle. And that's why today is so important to you. This will quickly teach you your very first lesson and test you if you are the true winners who deserve to be one of us. In this world into which you were born is very cruel and has only one rule. And the rule is that only the winners get everything. And of course, you too if you survive today."
"The next thing you should know is that everyone fight for benefits. The benefits can be anything you can think of, for example: territory, water, food, shelter, female, position in the tribe and more."
"The benefits for those of you who win and survive today are..."
1) You won't die today.
2) You will get mana water.
3) Information about who we are.
4) You will get the ability to talk.
5) A chance to go hunting and thus get more benefits that will help you with your future.
"That's all from me."
Half a minute after he said it and none of them said anything else and I quickly thought about what they had just said.
Fuck you all and your stupid benefits!!! I just don't want to die and live the rest of my second life in peace! That was what I wanted to yell loudly in their faces, but from fear that they would kill me right away if I showed them some piece of my defiance against them. So I didn't do anything and waited quietly to see what would happen next. After less than two minutes, one of them spoke to us again.
"Everyone! I'm sure you already understand what you have to undergo today. Now, from all you in this group, only 25 can stay alive. As we said, today it will be decided which of you will be able to join our tribe by surviving a battle in which you will kill each other until there are only 25 left alive. Those who try to escape or avoid in any way will be killed and eaten by the two of us personally. And those of you who die will be eaten too. Hahaha!"
What a fuck! Why are you laughing? Does this make you laugh when you want your children to kill each other only to eat them like some chicken nuggets!?
"Ok now come with us to the battle arena."
What? Did he just say they have a battle arena? No, no, no. These giant lizards can't have a battle arena. If they really had it, they should also be intelligent enough not to kill their offspring right after they were born. Wait, now that I think about it. Didn't they say something about the tribe? If they have a tribe, it means that they must be to some extent as intelligent as a human. Right?
As soon as they took us away from the nest. We went more and more inside the tunnels of this cave, which later seemed to me that it was artificially dug up than naturally created.
In the walls of this cave, there were also some bright green crystals that illuminated these tunnels, and the darkness was therefore not very pronounced to slowly non-existent. Even though I didn't know what these crystals were, I tried to perceive them as normal electric lighting. Especially now that I've probably reincarned into the game world.
Along our path, which led in front of one of the two giant lizards and the other was right behind us, I saw about 40 other huge lizard. But I already expected in advance that there would be a lot more of them.
Most of them were smaller than others but they were much more colorful and their scales were decorated with beautiful patterns. The patterns started from the end of their neck and went through their spine to the end of their tail. However, from what I have seen. Most of them had patterns on the entire back Which led up to the upper sides of their bodies and upper thighs.
The larger ones were less colorful scales with patterns. The only place where their scales were stained was their head and their hands. On some of them, however, I saw that the color patterns also went through their spine to the end of their tail. But they mostly looked much older, stronger, and also had different body structure than most of those in the cave tunnels.
Another big difference was that we baby lizards had no color patterns at all, but only bare gray bodies.
From my guess, this was the main difference in determining whether they were males or female and how old they were. Thanks to this, I found out that these two lizards that lead us are both males. But I've known that for a long time since I saw them.
As I watched all the lizards, they reminded me a lot of dinosaurs. But only a minority was the same as the original dinosaur that could have been some kind of Tyrannosaurus rex or Tarbosaurus but with longer arms and more fingers on hands. And that minority were us the baby lizards and few same big lizards like those who led us. The older ones had their bodies evolved more in fantasy type. Some had spikes, rock skin, bigger muscles, iron claws, a long skinny flexible tail and other things. This made it better for me to call them lizards than dinosaurus.
Another reason to call them that was because as we went through these tunnels that split into other paths a couple of times. From this I remembered how ants build such underground tunnels as their home. And in my case, when I probably reincarned into the game world as a monster from the dungeon. So I couldn't call them anything other than lizards. And while I was thinking about ants and dungeon, another thought came to mind.
If I'm really in the game world now. It would mean that in some time a bunch of people will come here or some lucky guy with his harem dressed in heroic costumes and with magical weapons to kill all monsters in this tunnels and boss monster of this dungeon.
I really hope this doesn't happen to me. And if so, it won't be too soon before I'm strong enough to survive on my own without being killed. Damn! Why didn't I play more rpg games with this content instead of playing pubg and other battle royalle games. If I had played them, maybe I would have known more about how to survive in this world.
Before I knew it, we stopped in front of some tunnel entrance and waited 5 minutes in place in absolute silence. Then two other large lizards came out of the tunnel, and with them 23 baby lizards, much of which had wounds and injuries from bites on their bodies. After seeing it, I started to get very nervous.
"Okay, then. Your time has come, so I will give you one last piece of advice. The advice is to survive and win. And in order to achieve this, you need to be stronger, faster, smarter and more more murderous than the rest of your enemies and use everything you can to win the battle. Now go inside like true warriors and fight for your lives!!!"
Do I look like some kind of gladiator or fighting slave? Fuck, why did I have to be born into this Spartanian family. I have to say that I'm really unlucky. It seems that the law of the strongest here controls all beings in this world, and they then determine the fate of the weaker ones.
Baby lizards and I were sent in first and the two of them followed us inside the tunnel last. As soon as we were inside I saw the ground stained blood red and here and there body parts rolled all over the arena. The arena itself was a large huge dug pit that had no other exit than the one we came to. The exit was now blocked by the two large lizards so that no one would help to escape or somehow get out.
"Okay now I'm going to tell you the rules that are absolute. When we say the fight is over, you all stop fighting each other. Remember that this is not just an ordinary battle but a war where you all fight until we see that 25 of you are still alive. If you die after this fight is over from your wounds, it's all your fault. Now get ready from 5,4,3....."
Ahh Fuck! Here we go again with this dying moments.
"Fight!"
With a better strategic position right next to the wall than countdown ran out. I ended up having good view on most of the battlefield where everyone else was. But the best thing about this position was that I was protected and safe on one side. As a result, I just had to check the left and right sides and wait in safety for what was going to happen on the battlefield while I was safe from any attacks.
When the battle officially began almost all the baby lizards began to attack each other with all their might. From what I've seen, most of them were mainly attacking with their jaws and their bodies.
As they fought each other, I tried to find some weaknesses that could help me if I had to fight against them. Probably more than 2/3 they ran and attacked others with no visible strategy or defended themselves against other attacks by running and dashing sideways to find a good moment for a counterattack.
The rest of them seemed to be more intelligent than the others and just waited like me next to the wall or fought only with wounded lizards that were not paying attention to them. Thanks to this, most of them managed to kill some of them and did not injure themselves. But for some, it just backfired on them and they were killed Instead.
Some of them were smart enough to team up with others and thus form a team that was mostly 3 lizards each. These teams then had a great advantage in the fights, when they usually competed three against one. The winners were then almost completely clear, but even so, some of them suffered a major injury.
Less than 6 minutes after the start of the battle and in the arena with me, only about 31 of the original 62 baby lizards were left alive. Our number was decreasing by the minute, and because of that, I was more visible, and I could no longer rely on surviving this genocide somewhere in the corner.
And as more than half of the survivors began to show signs of cooperation, and baby lizards formed more teams for greater chances of survival. Once I saw about 4 different teams, I decided I couldn't wait any longer. Their teams usually always attacked a lone individual, and that included me. That's why I decided to go among them and try to reduce their numbers and hope to be one of the 25 who will stay alive.
Once I left my safe zone and looked for where there might be a lone lizard like me. But I didn't look for long. I saw one who had just survived a fight with 2 other lizards. He looked like he was very injured. There was a wound in his leg and his neck was bleeding a lot.
Thanks to my watching this whole time of battle, I found the most weak spots that have always been the best target to attack the baby lizard body. Their weaknesses were these.
1) Their eyes
2) Arms
3) Neck
4) Weak parts of their legs
That was all I needed to know to be able to fight them well. I walked towards the lizard so that he wouldn't notice me right away, but then all of a sudden he turned to me with a dangerous look in his eyes. I stopped at the sight of him and got scared of him. After all, it was my very first fight with a monstrous lizard that was as big as I was in which I had no experience. My human fear of self-preservation to not die by this monster took over my thoughts, but my body didn't listen to me at that moment, and I stiffened like a stone.
But the moment I stopped and didn't pay attention to my defense, he ran at me. Bamm! He rammed his head right into my ribs. I felt pain for the first time I got into this wierd world after the entity voice killed me. Its strong impact was very painful and my organs were like on a roller coaster from it. And my ribs weren't at their best either. They felt like they were going to break at any moment. Luckily for me, his leg was injured and so his speed was at least 30% slower and so I didn't get seriously injured more than it might seemed.
His thrust into my ribs threw me 5 feet back away from him at that moment. Even though I fell to the ground, I didn't stop looking at him, and the fear from him and death turned into rage. I was already pretty frustrated that I was killed and I couldn't do anything about it but now I had a terrible desire to kick his ass for what he had done to me.
Damnit! Ok, I don't care about it anymore. You're only a very stupid overgrown lizard chicken on steroids, after all. Next to my horrible sister on Halloween, you're no worse than our school mascot. Just come at me you little bitch! I'll show you how to fight properly so what are you waiting for just come at me!
Or is it that you are already afraid of me after you realized that you don't have on me? You fucking loser!