Stakes rising

"New overseer…"

Hearing those words, I had to buy a bit of time to find a way to react properly to it. Connecting the dots took me just a moment, but figuring out a way to secure my backside from the fact that rather than being sent here, I forced my way into this place, 

"Fuck that! There is no time to speak formalities! There is an intruder forcing his way here, masked as the observer!"

Coming up with the simplest bullshit I could create on the spot, I prepared myself to fight at any moment. 

The responses of the ancestor that controlled the entire challenge were too human, too random to be automated by some being. And since it was sentient, there was no way it wouldn't report the situation to its higher-ups!