Spaceships and Magic, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Chapter 12: The End of The Battle Royale

The end of the Battle Royale occurred in the opposite way to how it started. A vast rippling in the sky above the battlefield began, shimring like the surface of a lake. There was no sensation of movent, but sohow the stands were getting closer and larger, and the circumference of the battlefield was clearly shrinking. Magic was so impossibly cool.

As we got higher and higher I could hear the cheering of the crowds return, clearly they had enjoyed the show that we had all put on for them. As we rose up, portals flickered into being across the battlefield. Considering one didn't bother appearing over , I surmised that they were likely scooping up the mbers of the tournant who had been defeated or were currently incapacitated.

Before long the mountain I had stood on had flickered out of existence and the trees of the forest had lted back into the ground. We stood, once more, in front of the girl on her platform and the audience surrounding us. While 100 of us had dropped into the battlefield, it now looked like only 16 of us remained. If the requirents on joining the Guard were this strict, it was no wonder they were struggling against the supposed Null space invaders.

"Welco back Initiates!" The green-eyed girl all but shouted while a wide smile played across her face. "One hundred of you entered the Battle Royale, and now only 16 remain! Clearly, none of you were content with just taking out one opponent, because I have to be honest that is way lower than any of us were expecting."

"Either way, the Initiates we have going through to the next round are as follows:

Wolsoff, Klatissi, Xyalla, Akash, Ke'Zuc, Ustrato, Kathura, Yr'Arl, Vadton, The Urstnir of Nadpid, Trsourian, Convis, Borock, Boledo, Thiss, and finally Jacob Lyre!"

Each na had got a massive round of applause, that was until she ca to my own. When she said my na the entire coliseum fell silent, as if soone had simply turned off the audio. I was beginning to get the idea that Human's weren't just a people that had ssed with Akash's species in this universe, they seed to be universally hated across the board. I'd have to work hard to separate my reputation from that of the humans who had already served to tarnish it.