Leveled Up

Adam took a deep breath, bends his knees, and looked forwards towards a large and long obstacle course that was in front of him while his gem slowly lights up. The obstacle course consisted of small concrete cubes that moved around above the ground at a high speed and stretched for a couple of meters.

VWOOOSH! Adam took a step forwards and ran through the entire obstacle course with ease.

Bull watched Adam running around the obstacle course while sitting down on the ground a couple of meters away from Adam's course. He was holding the purple bar of metal that was given to him from Micheal with his right hand, the bar of metal was in its thick liquid form and slowly went upwards forming a combat knife.

BOOM! A loud explosion came from the floor above the Obstacle Course which quickly shook the entire Obstacle Area. Adam quickly jumped down from his obstacle course to the ground and looked towards Bull who spilled some of his purple metal liquid to the floor.

"Was that a bomb?" Bull asked while he swipes the liquid of metal that was on the floor and turned the thick liquid of metal that was on his hand into a bar.

"I don't know, I think we should check it out, Bull." Adam looked towards Bull who quickly nodded while he slowly stands up.

"OH NO! GUYS CLOSE YOUR EYES AND RUN OUT FROM THE OBSTACLE COURSE! NOW!" BOOM! Bunny shouted from Bull's backside which was followed by a very loud explosion-like sound and the Obstacle Area instantly got engulfed by a cloud of thick white smoke.

Adam quickly ran out from the Obstacle Course with Bull right behind him. Bull suddenly tripped as he was about to go through the entrance of the Obstacle Area and quickly gets back up. Bunny went out from the Obstacle Area while holding her mouth with both of her hands.

"What was that?" Adam turned around and looked toward the Obstacle Area which was filled with thick white smoke while Bull wiped his eyes with his shirt right beside him.

"Argh, my eyes! That really stings! What was that? It hurts a lot!" Bull asked as he wiped his eyes as hard as he can while it burst with tears that flowed down his face.

"Sorry guys that were a sample of my new weapon and I didn't install the trigger properly. I was fixing it in there but the ground suddenly shakes a lot and I pulled the wrong pin so it blew up." Bunny bowed towards Adam and Bull repeatedly.

"Are you guys okay?! I'm sorry for my contestant's behavior!" A Karina ran towards Adam, Bull, and Bunny from the red staircase that was a couple of meters away from the Obstacle Course.

Adam turned around and looked towards a man that was behind the Karina who have his arms and legs made out of metal which was colored in black. The man was wearing a sleeveless orange hoodie, red boxing pants that have a picture of a kangaroo on the corner of it that was wearing a pair of red boxing gloves, white boxing shoes which were lined with gold on his legs, and a kangaroo mask.

The kangaroo masked man stopped right in front of Adam with his Karina on his right side "Hey you're that amazing kid who killed the Minotaur in the first game right?! Oh my, I'm such a big fan of you! It's a pleasure to meet you! My code is Kangaroo but you can call me Roo."

Roo quickly raised his right hand towards Adam while smiling widely. Adam quickly answered it with his right hand while looking towards Roo who quickly shook Adam's hand violently.

"Hello there nice to meet you, are you a boxer?" Adam asked as he slowly pulled his right hand while looking towards Roo's shoes.

"Oh, you noticed? Yes, I want to be a boxer and Micheal helped me to achieve that he did such a good job." Roo smiled as he quickly jumped while putting both of his hands in front of his face and instantly threw a couple of punches towards Adam blowing a loud wind towards Adam's face.

"Micheal? Does that mean you solved a secret and got those arms and legs from him?" Bunny quickly asked while looking towards Roo who stands still and nodded towards her.

"Yes, I finished the second game's secret. That crab was really hard to kill his shell was tough as hell and his punches were as fast as lightning! It was a pretty fun fight though." Roo smiled while brushing the back of his head.

"Wait a crab? Wasn't it the Monkey Emperor?" Adam asked while looking towards Roo who quickly shook his head.

"Let me explain this to you, Lion." Roo's Karina looked towards Adam who quickly nodded.

Roo quickly turned his head and looked toward his Karina "What's going on Ella? How did they get a Monkey Emperor while I got a lame giant crab? What happened?"

"The one you fought was called Crab Emperor and it's not lame, give me a minute to explain it okay?" Ella turned her head towards Roo who quickly nodded.

"There's a lot of contestants every single year and the number kept rising every single year. Putting all of them into a single stage would be very wasteful so the King has created different stages for all of the contestants. The stages will have the same theme but the layout of the stages and the secret of the games will be different for each stage. For example in the first game it was labyrinth but the form of the labyrinth differs from each stage and the secret on Lion's stage was a Minotaur but for Roo's labyrinth the secret was different." Ella explained while looking towards Adam, Bull, Bunny, and Roo.

"What was the secret of Roo's labyrinth?" Bull asked while looking towards Ella.

"We don't know what was the secret of Roo's labyrinth because no one found it in his game," Ella answered.

"Hey, Roo what was the clue that they gave you on the first game? Do you remember it?" Bunny asked while looking towards Roo who quickly shook his head.

"I don't remember, well actually I don't even know what is the secret because I didn't open the scroll that fell from the roof. I didn't bother to read it because I hate reading, I mean I really really hate reading so I just went inside the game stage and finished it." Roo explained while looking towards Bunny who has her mouth opened.

"What? You didn't read the scrolls? Then how did you managed to get the secret prize for the second game?" Bunny asked while raising one of her eyebrows.

"Well I was fighting this gorilla masked guy he was a lot of fun but then in the middle of the fight, he ran away from me. I wasn't satisfied yet so I followed him, he went inside a ruin that was submerged underwater, I swam in it, and arrived at a cave. It was wild a cave underwater then the gorilla's head rolled to my feet I quickly look for his body and the crab was eating it. So I thought to myself Oh wow that crab is really strong and then I fought the crab but, all I remember was lying in the hospital bed and I can't move my body and then Michael came and told me that I finished the secret and he asked me what I want." Roo explained.

"And then I told him I wanted to keep boxing and so he made me this arms and legs." Roo jumps around like a kangaroo while he added.

"Wow, that's a really really wild story." Bull looked towards Roo who was smiling towards him while Bull crossed his arms in front of his chest.

"How about you? How did you get those arms? Did you lose your arms in the game?" Roo asked while pointing towards Bull's crossed arms.

"The Monkey Emperor cut my left arm when we were fighting against it and a hyena masked woman cuts my right one." Bull explained while looking towards his hands.

"Wow, but those arms look amazing I love the color of it." Roo pointed towards Bull's arms.

"This is the luckiest day in my life! I'm so lucky to meet you, Lion, there one thing that I want to tell you right now." Roo took a step forwards and smiled towards Adam.

"If we're on the same stage on the third game don't die before I found you okay? I want to do a one versus one with you Lion. No restrictions fight me with all of your might do it as if you want to kill me, I want to know the full power of the man who killed the Minotaur and the Monkey Emperor." Roo extended his hand towards Adam and smiled.

"A one versus one? Okay, I will look forwards to it, I want you to go full power on me too okay? Don't disappoint me." Adam shook Roo's hand and smiled towards him.

"Oh yeah I will give you my all, you won't be disappointed. Time to go back to my training then see you later." Roo smiled as he turned around and ran towards the metal staircase that was a couple of meters away from him.

"Once again I'm sorry for what my contestant has done. I'm really sorry, goodbye." Ella bowed towards Adam, Bull, and Bunny a couple of times and quickly ran towards Roo who already gone up the staircase.

"A one versus one very interesting." Adam thought to himself as he turned around and followed Bull and Bunny who went back into the Obstacle area as the white smoke that was inside the Obstacle Area dispersed.

"Boss there's a package for you in front of your door." A man who was wearing a rat mask that has purple-colored eyes said while walking towards a man who has a rat mask that has green-colored eyes who was sitting down on a large white couch in the middle of a living room.

"Give it to me, let's see if we got another job." The green eyes rat masked man said while looking towards the purple eyes masked man who stands on the edge of the couch and gave him the box.

He puts down the black box on the table while taking out a small flip knife from his right jacket pocket. He pressed a button on the side of the knife which pulled out the knife and looked towards the box.

He ran his knife through the middle of the box and puts down the knife beside the box while opening the box. He took out a couple of pictures and a piece of paper from the box.

"Kill at least one of them and you will get twenty million crowns, kill all of them you will get seventy million crowns, get it done in the third game, and if you failed you won't get anything." The green-eyed rat masked man reads the paper out loud while a couple of rat masked men who have different eye colors emerged out from the shadow.

"We got a job start preparing for it, someone sticks this up on the board." The green eyes rat masked man raised his right hand while holding three pictures of Adam, Bull, and Bunny.