The steps of rays shoes as he walked down the dark hall echoed, the sound bouncing off the wall made the area Erie and it felt worse once he remembered the hundreds on top of hundreds of people that took the exam with him.
"Shouldn't I have run into someone by this point, I've been walking down this hall for a good 10 minutes." he started to get deep in thought before a sound snapped him away from his thoughts. It was far away but it was very clear.
Skitter~
Skutter~
Ray stopped talking as it became apparent that whatever he was hearing was moving his way very quickly and at a steady paste. As it got closer he noticed from the sound that it clearly had some sort of body armor and had multiple legs.
'Not human. I have to think!' Ray took a step back before his foot banged on one of the boxes. He looked down at it and quickly got an idea.
'Copy ability don't fail me now' Ray was screaming within his head as he came up with an idea that could mean life or death.
A creature that resembled a spider with hands for legs scuttled to a stop next to the boxes, it had six eyes but all the eyes on the left side of its head were sliced, and had a dagger halfway lodged into its head.
The boxes next to the creature started squirming before they started melting together before the melting wood from the box reached out and reformed into a hand wrapped in bandages, it grabbed onto the dagger blade and pushed it deep into the creature's head.
Thud~
-12 points acquired - (splice)
"I guess my night vision has a limit on it but that might be because of the blindfold I'm not taking it off if I can just rely on my hearing for now. I'll be taking that" he pulled the danger out of the head of the creature,
Flick
"Nasty green blood!" Ray flicked the green blood and chunks onto the ground from the blade. He started at the blade and noticed it looked relatively clean.
"From an Akira member maybe? I'll continue down this hall there has to be an exit eventually." Ray's voice started to quiet itself unknowingly right before he sensed another sound. It was the sound of breathing and the beating of a heart.
'A human... No the breathing is different." the sound of something wet being dragged across a surface became audible. Dripping became audible right before Ray realized whatever he was hearing was coming towards him.
Chik~
CLANG!
Ray covered his vision with his arm as a metal panel fell from the ceiling, light blasted into the room completely blinding him for a bit before he looked back towards the light, there was something under it
It was skinny and it looked humanlike but its body was disproportionate. The creature's arms were long and the whites of its eyes were red while the pupils were small red dots. They spun in their heads before locking onto Ray. Its fingers led down to long sharp claws, its spindly long legs hunched back as if it was getting ready to lunge forward
"It seems you trust your body mutations more than I do!" The creature launched its body at Ray. While in the midst of the dash, it slid its fingers across the hard concrete walls. Sparks started to shoot out from the walls before it slung both its arms forward and a wave of fire flew towards Ray.
"You know if you want nail clippers I'm sure I can find you some!!" Ray put his arms up as if he was blocking and a black cloud of smoke flew forward and clashed with the fire.
During the clash, the energy from the black smoke ignited an explosion from the fire and it blasted Ray away from the light.
"Well it seems raiken has more uses than I expected." he slid back before dashing forward towards the creature. It slowly bring its claw up towards the ceiling before blaming it down right in front of Ray a blast of wind followed the walls, floor, and ceiling of the hallway.
Ray got close enough to jump above the blast and onto the creature's arm all while bearing a grim smile before jumping perfectly through the hole.
-congrats Splice has made it to the second stage-
"What I thought we where supposed to be killing monsters!" Ray landed on a tree branch perfectly perched as he yelled at the panel in front of him.
- the number of participants that have completed the catacombs/: (10)
No further information will be given-
"You can't just leave me like this! You're clearly leaving out important information!" he watched as the panel disappeared in front of his very eyes. Ray let out a sigh before looking around a bit.
He seemed to be in a place full of trees, mountains, and wildlife. Ray scratched his head as he jumped down from the tree branch before slamming the dagger he had picked up into the tree in an attempt to slow his fall.
"They're not giving me enough information. Now that I think about it they probably want to see how some of our brains work. This is confusing I'm working off of limited information." Ray put a finger towards the side of his head and scratched at it slightly as he became deep in thought for a second.
Flip~
His eyes shot open as he dived toward the ground. He crawled behind the same tree he fell down from and clinched his knife hard.
'Somes here. There was a click!' he thought as he hid behind the tree. His hearing started to tune everything out as he started to hear a distinct sound of a bullet being loaded into a gun.
POW-
Chunks of the tree were broken away as a bullet passed through the tree. A crack spread through the tree before it split in half and started floating. Ray jumped back and dove behind a rock as he watched the tree hover in the air.
"The hell? He shot at the tree once and it snapped in half! Now it's floating what the shit is that power?!" Ray clenched his knife hard as the skin under the restrainer started to move rapidly as his body started to make a rattling sound.
"What's with these complex situations!" the rattling got louder as the sound of a bullet hitting the rock he was hiding behind graced Ray's ears.
Floom~
The rock started to dislodge itself from the ground before floating. Ray latches onto the rock as it started hovering in the air. He instantly noticed a man standing on a tree branch 100 feet away from him.
"It seems your not gonna let up on me unless I do something!" Ray stood on the rock and looked at him as a smile crept over his face. The man dressed in all black with a mask on and a rifle pointed his gun at Ray.
"So I'm gonna do something. That something is me running for my life!" Ray jumped down from the rock and dashed into a bush. A rumble was heard as a tree fell down in front of him.
"Ok man, you're making this exam harder than it needs to be!"Ray turned around to find a riffle barrel aiming straight into his face at point-blank range.
"Your gonna be my next C-rank monster kill." a calm voice came from behind the mask. The rattling started to get louder as the skin could be seen visibly messing with the form of Ray's hands.
"This is gonna get brutal."