Grand Lust Sovereign

"Hey! Hey! Keep moving! Keep moving!"

The Players shoved and jostled each other, gritting their teeth through the pain as they fought to reach the token deposit center as quickly as possible.

They were moving like a surging wave, with the Players in the middle and front bearing the brunt of the pressure. Several times, those at the front were nearly thrown off balance by the relentless force pushing from behind.

Heidi was one of the Players at the front. Her body was worn down by the relentless force pushing her forward and her legs felt like jelly, trembling under the strain. She couldn't fathom how she was still standing despite the overwhelming exhaustion and pain.

She moved with the flow, thinking to herself: Just a bit more. Just a bit more and I'll be out of this damned trial!

A few minutes passed. 

Ahhh… this is so bad. I swear, when I get out of here, the first thing I'm doing is taking a massage and eating cold ice cream! I'm a simple girl, maybe I'll ask the masseuse to put some ice on my body and cream me too—what the fuck am I thinking!?! Ahhh…

Heidi's thoughts were in a disarray as the pain became unbearable. However, she gritted her teeth and persisted. 

A few more minutes passed. 

For some reason, Heidi suddenly had a lot of pressure lifted off her body. 

Wow. Did I get stronger and am able to manage the pain and pressure? Did my attribute points increase due to the tremendous stress?

Heidi was dumbfounded and absorbed into her own world, thinking about her newfound strength. 

Another few minutes went by. 

A lot of pressure was gone from Heidi. This made her frown. She finally realized something was off.

She turned to the person beside her and asked, "Hey, are you feeling less pressure too?"

"Yes. For some reason, the people from the back had stopped pushing. Maybe they became more civilized and orderly? Haha!"

In such a life-threatening situation, the guy was in the mood to joke. Heidi looked at him in disdain and turned to the other person. 

"Hey, has the pressure been—"

*Slash!* *Slash!* *Slash!*

"Huh?" Heidi heard something getting sliced.

This slicing sound was quite familiar to her, who was a swordsman. 

"What is happening…" Heidi pondered out loud.

Her legs didn't stop moving and she continued to move forward, but a while later, the pressure had stopped entirely.

She stopped in her tracks and so did the people beside and behind her. 

"What is happening!?" The Players asked each other in panic-stricken voices. 

As the whole group had halted and began looking around, they immediately found the problem. 

The Players at the back had vanished!

"Oh shit! Oh shit!OhshitOhshit!" 

They exclaimed and looked around in horror as their hearts threatened to leap out of their chests. 

"Fuck! That bastard got to us! He scrapped of the end and middle layers and only the front layer, aka us, are left!"

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"

"Run everyone! Run to the token center!"

"Aaaahhhhhh—!"

Everyone screamed and ran in the east as their life depended on it, literally. 

Heidi's legs that were about to give up suddenly found strength and she ran in the middle of the crowd, as fast as she could.

She was a smart girl and knew that she would be easily targeted if she was in the extreme back or front. It was better to run in the middle and use the others as shields!

Heidi thought she had done a great job, but within a few blinks of her eyes, she heard an ear-piercing howl.

"Nooooooo—!" Someone shouted. 

Heidi's adrenaline shot up further and she ran even faster!

Please! Please! Please! Don't kill me! Don't kill me! Heidi chanted internally and prayed. 

A second later…

"It's really scary, isn't it? A calm voice rang in her ears.

"It is!" Heidi unconsciously answered, and immediately realized something was off.

"Huh? Who?" She turned to look at her left, but found nobody. 

"This side." The voice rang again.

Heidi glanced to her right, but her gaze suddenly shot further than she intended, and the world around her spun wildly, as if she were caught in a whirlwind.

Soon, Heidi heard a thud and saw a headless body running in front of her with blood spraying out of the severed neck like a fountain.

Huh? Isn't that…m..e…?

Heidi's vision darkened and she slowly stepped into the cycle of reincarnation, her last question going unanswered, forever. 

…..

Julien sprinted behind the startled Players, severing their limbs as he passed by one person after another. 

He was not killing them, but making it easier for Jackie to unalive them. 

He had the balls in him to kill even humans now, but he wasn't doing so. The reason was simple. He hadn't killed a human since the start of this tutorial or even in his past life. He wanted to continue that streak at least till the end of this tutorial.

Who knows, maybe he would get an achievement for it? Or maybe a title or a trait? 

Killing multiple ghouls resulted in him getting the achievement Ghoul Slayer, so it was not without basis that he wasn't killing anyone. 

Also, the screams of actual living humans was traumatizing. Very traumatizing and something that was bound to give Julien PTSD later on.

The only saving grace in this was that he kept thinking that if the roles were reversed, they wouldn't hesitate to kill him. So he got a justification for his endless limb cutting action and relentlessly pursued the humans.

Each person down by Julien had their heads severed off by Jackie. 

Cutting necks was easier during mass killing and Jackie also had to take care of the ones his Master had forgotten to chop down, like this one girl running in the middle of the pack to whom Jackie had asked:

"It's really scary, isn't it?"

As Julien charged forward, a river of blood was born, flowing like the melt of a glacier. 

When Jackie treaded the same path, he made it rain crimson, and each drop fed into the river's torrent, swelling its volume with every step they took. 

The forest was dyed scarlet and instead of a foliage of leaves, it was the human flesh covering the ground. 

The grotesque scene did not last for long though, as a beautiful blindfolded nun stepped onto the same path as Julien and Jackie. 

Every step she took, the flesh and blood would be replaced with a white lily flower. 

Amelia collected the individual tokens of the dead and prayed for them. She hoped that they found peace and solace in their afterlife. 

With the three's collective work, they were able to wipe out all the remaining Players in this trial. 

It was a battle royale in the truest essence.

With the collected tokens, they went to malnourished Santa's stall again and deposited it. 

The system's voice soon rang out in their ears.

[The Player…]

[The Player…]

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[All team members…]

[All team members…]

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[Pact —…]

[Pact —…]

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And finally, the three saw the thing they had been waiting for.

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[Teams left: 2]

"Hm?" Julien raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Two teams?"

"One should be us. What's the other one?" Jackie asked. 

Amelia thought about it, but then shook her head and said, "My apologies, I have no clue."

"Am I missing someone?" Julien thought hard.

Having no idea, he turned to the merchant. 

"Hey, you haven't given us the token exchange rewards yet. So, as a reward, I want information on the last team left."

"Hohoho! I'm glad you asked!" Malnourished Santa Claus was more than happy to help.

"It's a Player in…"

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"Guhhh…" 

Clinging-clanging sound of armor filled the quietness of the forest as the boy with missing legs spat a mouthful of blood and woke up.

He felt pain all over him, but thankfully had a few healing potions to ease his pain. 

Gulping down a vial of the most potent healing potion, the boy threw it and looked in the distance with a murderous intent. 

"You bloody shit… how dare you…"

"…never in my life have I suffered such humiliation…"

"Just wait and—"

"And what?" A voice rang in the boy's ears, startling him.

"Who!?" He turned to look at the person, but due to missing legs, his range of motion was limited. 

"I would've said daddy, but someone already claimed that title. Tsk. I'm really salty about that. Anyway, you talk mad shit like a third rate villain. Killing you is only going to leave a bad mark in my resume. Why don't you kill yourself instead and help the world get rid of a pest like you?"

A lot of words were said and threw the boy's thoughts in a disarray.

He couldn't process everything, and standing behind him, Julien didn't give him time to do it either. 

Julien gestured to Jackie to do the deed, and the boy nodded his head and went forward.

The first thing Jackie did was slash the boy's eyes, making him screen. 

"Ahhhhhhhhhh—!"

Next, in his screaming mouth, Jackie poured the vial of poison. It went right into his throat, then stomach, without him needing to gulp.

"Guggghh… guggghhh!" The boy felt as if he was choking and clutched his throat. 

Tremendous numbing pain shot through his eyes and from all over his body, but due to the poison liquid stuck in his windpipe, he was unable to do anything other than cough violently.

"Our job's done here. Let's get going." Julien said to Jackie.

"No, Master. Let him die first." Jackie shook his head and said.

"Are you a sadist or something?" Julien asked. 

Jackie didn't respond. He waited and watched the man die. 

"Tsk. He's not dying fast." Jackie clicked his tongue and walked towards him, stabbing his sword right into his head. 

"Ahhh! Jackie, you bastard! At least warn me beforehand!" Julien yelled and turned around, trying not to see the scene of brains splattering out of one's head. 

"My apologies, Master." Jackie took the token and apologized.

"Well, I'm glad I can't see at times like these." Amelia's soft voice resounded in the two's ears. 

"Oh wow. Even she can joke now." Julien clapped and said in amusement. 

Amelia chuckled softly while Jackie shook his head and smiled. 

Amelia walked towards the dead boy and made his body disappear, replacing it with a white lily, and prayed for him. 

The three then vanished from this place and went to deposit the token. 

They finally heard the notification they had longed to hear for so long. 

[Ding!]

[The Player Basti has been eliminated!]

[All members of the Pact of Dark Church have been eliminated!]

[Pact — Pact of Dark Church has been dissolved!]

[Teams left: 1]

[Ding!]

[Pact — God's Beloved Children is the Last Pact Standing!]