To Walk The Mist Chapter 39

Ed felt his head spin for a second . The next moment, he was standing before a large gate . Looking beside him, he saw the others who had entered before him . More were still arriving . In front of the gate were two giant men . They looked completely hairless and their skin looked like strong refined leather .

"Wait until all of you have arrived . " one of them said . This caused the rest to look behind them . They noticed that many were still arriving . After a while, the last person appeared, and the dark hole closed up .

"You are now in the great spill . You may have been young lords were you came from, but here, you are the bottom of the food chain . " one of the giants said .

"We are gate keepers . Our job is to tell you the rules of the great spill . As long as you obey them, you will be fine . " the second giant said . His voice was much softer, throwing people off for a second .

"Rule one . All must register their token under a power or under their name . You can choose any of the factions on the list before you, or you can form your own . " this caused the young elites to frown . They looked up to find ten factions and ten lone names on the large slate .

"What is the purpose of the factions?" one of the elites asked .

"Rule two . Every one on the list must fight every month . " confusion was even greater now than ever .

"What is the stakes of the fight?" someone asked .

"Rule three . Every one one the list will be given a cultivation cave . The winner of the battles every month will take the cave of the looser . "

"Rule four . The first five names on the slate will receive a high grade cultivation cave . "

"Rule five . No fighting allowed unless during monthly battles . Rule six . The number one name can choose when to fight . The top five to top two must accept challenges every four months . Please come forward and place your name . " the giant said and many paused . After a while some young masters of special clans stepped forward . One would have thought that they would choose to put down their name, but they wrote their name on top the letters of different factions . When they were done, their names vanished and the faction name remained .

Many saw their actions and were confused .

"It must be dangerous to be alone . " a person said .

"Of course it is . They said that the names on the list will battle it out every month . Doesn't that mean that mean that if you are alone, there is a chance you will have to fight a faction? A faction has many members . You are bound to loose . " another said .

"But, those that stay alone are given one cultivation cave to them selves . In a faction, wouldn't there be lack of resources?" another asked .

"As if that matters! Will you be able to keep the resources at the end of the monthly battles?" many were confused .

"Who is willing to join me? Let us form our own faction!" a person said . "If we stand together, we will be able to fight together during the monthly battles . We will be better off than those large factions, who have thousands of followers!" as he spoke, some joined him and stepped towards the standing slate .

Ed felt that was a stupid move . A bunch of newcomers fighting against opponents that have been here for years, they were bound to loose . Those that chose to stand alone would suffer the same fate . He looked up at the stand alone names on the slate . They were the first ten names, making them top ten . After them came the factions . The top ten must be really strong .

This only meant that the factions were second rate powers . They looked to be a group of weaklings trying to survive against the top ten . Think about this, there were also only ten factions . He heard that many people spent more than one year in the great spill . If so, there must be a lot of people in the great spill at the moment . How could only ten factions be there? That meant that these factions were also considerably strong .

He saw as few had placed their names without joining a faction, others joined, and many created their own . He suspected that by the end of the month, the number of factions will return to ten . As for the number of lone names, he could only turn solemn . After all, he had no intention of joining any faction .

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