A 9-10 year boy was practicing his martial arts on training ground , his movements looked very fast and refined his height was around 4 foot, with a handsome face, sharp eyes ,sharp jawline his face was covered in sweets but he was becoming faster, there was no hesitation in his movements.
After combat training his master came, he also called other children and now they were gathered in front of him with straight face ,straight backs they looked like well trained commandos , their master gave them a satisfactory nod and then spoke, "from tomorrow on your real training will begin till now you have gone through is just what is above normal people but the real thing that differentiate an assassin from a normal people is their determination to kill without any hesitation , to endure any kind of torture ,some of you may not be able to survive through this but those who will come to top will have a bright future ahead , be mentally and physically prepared that is all i have to say from my side".
"here comes the real deal , Ye Feng thought ".
These children who had gone through their training for 3 years were now more mature but they had not killed anyone till now , the idea of killing someone and to be tortured sent a new wave of fear inside their heart ,but after some time they were made determination to face what was about to come.
Next day in evening the children were taken to a warehouse there were caged chickens waiting for slaughter.
"you will kill these chickens from today with one clean strike on their neck, line up and wait for your turn " their master spoke.
Everyone followed the command the first one to do the job was Ye Feng , he went ahead grabbed the chicken and with one swift strike severed its head from neck ,blood flowed but it did not affected him slightly. But everyone was not the same specially 6 girls from their group who were repulsed by the flowing blood but no one moved from their place , their master nodded at him and soon everyone did the same , after this they went back to their rooms.
This same process lasted for 3 months , till then they were all adapted of seeing blood and this became just like a routine exercise for them.
Next 1 month they were told to slaughter goats and after that dogs ,just like this 6 months passed.
This was the beginning of their true nightmare as they were separated and sent for increasing their torture tolerance.
Ye Feng was standing in dark room with only a red bulb which only added small light in the room his hands were chained and he did not sleep for 3 days , there was fatigue all over his face whenever he tried to close his eyes a men with a mask on came and poured water on him.
After 3 days he was given rest for a day , then he was again brought back to same room this time he was only in his underwear and the man was carrying a lash in his hands. Ye feng was ready for what was about to come, then came the first hit, it gave a long red mark on his white back he clenched his teeth and did not make any noise, then it continued for next 30 minutes bu he did not made any noise other than muffled groans.
This same treatment with sleepless days and nights and with beating lasted for 2 months then it changed again , now he was held tight on a chair and was given electric shocks , next came knife cutting after 3 more months there were knife marks all over his back stomach and thighs if anyone counted it would be close to 100 of these marks ,when they cut him they put salt and chilly powder to make it more painful but he endured everything.
Then he was made to stand in open ground tied with a pole ,hungry under the sun for three days his throat was parched but he did not plead for food nor water . After 1 year of this hellish torture they were sent back for training again. But this time they were not same when they were sent ,now everyone looked more ferocious ,icy and there was not a hint of child like expression on their faces ,now every movement they made was more refined and solid.
Ye Feng was now 11 years old this was time of 2016, he had well defined muscles and cut marks all over his body except his hands, lower legs and face ,the sharpness on his face increased even more ,if he was in outside world everyone would think he was someone from a very rich family which was true to some extent but he was never able to enjoy the luxury in his life even a single day .
Till now only 15 children remained in their group 12 boys and 3 girls , 3 boys and 2 girls lost their lives in this torture, the situation was almost same for other groups from initial 250 only 180 survived.
Their master who was absent for a year now again met them and after seeing only 15 returning he did not said anything about this , he knew that this was going to happen he also knew that from these 15 only about 10 will be able to survive till last.
"Congratulation on completing your training" he said.
No one showed any expression on his statement , they were changed too much to feel any loss on the deaths of their fellows.
"From now complete your training for next 3 months improve yourself as much possible because after that you will be dueling life and death battles " he again said.
"You can go to your rooms we will start tomorrow ". with that everyone left.
Next 3 months were spent in the training.
Today around 800 children were gathered in the training area looking towards the platform on which few people were gathered . On the center there was a chair which looked like a throne a men with a mask , with white skin a good build was sitting he surveyed the surrounding and stood up, there was a mark with a red circle and blue thunder inside it , he was the leader of zero.
"You all have grown well , all the people gathered here are from age 10 to 14 so me of you trained for more time than others while some less but overall you are almost on the same level , this will be your final trial to become an assassin so do well , you will be sent into a forest with trackers planted on you , you can only move in a limited area , digital maps will be provided to you that will warn you to not move outside of the required area ,if anyone tries something funny only death awaits". He spoke and then gave them 30 seconds to digest all the information.
He was speaking in English but everyone here understood it they were taught many languages so no one was in the dark.
"After sending you to random location we will green light and then the battle will start , survive till only 200 remain of you ,but don't try to hide people with less than 2 kills will be eliminated by us after ending of match , so try to kill as much possible because as early more people die your survival chances will increase".
"Top 30 performers will be given awards after the completion which will be announced later , when only 200 remain a message will be sent to your device and the competition will be over in 3 minutes after this if anyone kills after this he will pay with his life, so don't try to be smart there are no rules how you kill your opponent whether they are sleeping ,eating, taking a piss anything is allowed but you can't form teams".
"Remember most of the times an assassin kills alone so teams are not to be formed while killing but you can communicate with others while taking rest but beware of their betrayal, as betrayal can come from anyone ,your survival depends only on you".
"You can kill and eat animals and fruits on forest ,so find your own food again less people more food"
"That is all i have to say so Best Of Luck"
With that he sat down on his chair and after few more speeches it was time to provide them with their tools after that they were escorted inside forest at random locations.
It was time for the main battle , it was evening already after few more hours nigh will begin and many will die everyone was waiting for their opportunity and making their hearts ready to kill. They had killed people earlier but it was their first time they were going to kill people, it was different but also the same , killing was killing people or animals there was only a line to cross.