Survival

The muscular man began running towards Jason like a bulldozer and held one of his arms back ready to swing and crush him as soon as he was within range. Jason didn't care in the slightest, he began walking toward the man with nothing but a single thought in his mind...

'He dies first.'

The muscular man catches up to Jason and with all the strength he has in his body, he swings his arm around with the intent to demolish this prey before him. Jason with the blankest look on his face, dodges the punch with ease. Once on the outside of his arm, Jason forms the black aura into a sharp blade and slices the mans arm clean off at his shoulder.

'This guy is moving a hell of a lot slower now than he was earlier' Jason thought while continuing to slash his opponent with the black blade.

Jason finishes his opponent with a single stroke to the neck. The muscular man falls back with not a single hint of life left in his spirit body. Jason pulls the blade out of his dead opponent and looks at the crowd of people now just standing and staring at him.

"What is that?"

"How did he get a weapon?"

"What is that black mist surrounding him?"

Questions and terrified looks were murmured out from the mass of people all confused and terrified at what they were witnessing.

"Oh ho, looks like the pile of trash was hiding a slightly less useless piece of trash" Storn said while observing the black aura around Jason's body.

Not paying attention to anyone's gazes, Jason walked forward towards the crowd of people. Holding the short blade in his right hand and materializing a second for his left, Jason began to run towards the group.

"Ahh!"

"Please!"

The screams of his victims rang through the crowd as Jason slashed his way into the center leaving a path of corses behind him.

'Show no mercy. Give them no reprieve.' The whispers continued to influence Jason, pushing him to kill more and more people.

Jason became like a whirlwind, spinning and slashing not letting a single person get away from his blades. 4 men tried to work together to take him down as he was extremely dangerous with those weapons. They came at him from all sides hoping for at least one of them to latch on and pin down his arms. Their hope was to no avail though as Jason easily evaded their capture. Jason then turned the blades around to hold them with the back of his hands and within a second all 4 of the men we cut into pieces.

After about 30 minutes had passed since the beginning of the trial a loud bell rang in the air. The black aura dispersed along with Jason's weapons at the sound of the bell.

"That's enough! You all have done well to be the final 10 standing and will be trained by the 5 elites you see beside me." Storn said while gesturing towards the demons standing on either side of him.

Four of the demons appeared almost identical, wearing a black suit and tie with sunglasses and 2 horns coming from their foreheads. The fifth was of course Gore.

Jason looked around and saw 9 others standing spread out among the corpses. Though when his eyes met each one of them, they all looked horrified and broken at what had just transpired. Some were crying while others were so mentally taxed that they had just started to laugh. Jason felt no remorse. All he could think about was the face of that 12 year old boy just laying helpless on the ground.

Everyone was split up into groups of 2, each designated to one of the 5 elite demons. Jason had been assigned to Gore as his trainer along with what looked like a 25 year old guy but he could care less about anyone else. Jason had made up his mind, that no matter what he would get stronger and find out what the hell that black aura was all about.

Each group was led to a different one of the small buildings that surround the grounds. Inside Jason saw what seemed to be just an ordinary house. It had a kitchen, 2 bedrooms and a bathroom. The only difference between that and any regular house was that there were 5 different portals floating in the middle of the second floor.

"Humph, human where did you learn to control hunter's instinct?" Gore said grunting at Jason.

"Are you talking about that black aura? I have no idea how it happened." Jason said with an honest look on his face.

"If it was not a voluntary activation then you must be particularly susceptible to negative energy. Well, moving forward you'll learn how to activate it at will as well as various other skills you'll need as a hunter." Gore said to Jason while pounding his chest with both hands and completely ignoring the other human.

"I've been wondering this...Mr.Gore, what exactly are we gonna be hunting?"

"Ha ha ha, you will join the mighty hunter core that is sent to hunt down rogue demon rebels and their human servants!"

"I'm gonna be a demon hunter?!"