Chapter 2:
After recalling some memories that Zephyr have his mind didn't stop working on how he can survive.
He was still tired but staying at one place is not a wise thing to do. Ambush might occur that's why moving is just the best way to survive.
Zephyr was looking left and right but can only see a raging hailstorm and mountainous surroundings in a freezing world.
Enormous trees with a height of 100 meters with a deep bark that can absorbed light, massive leaves with a deep blue hue and dark braches that entends everywhere.
Weeds that defied the logic in a freezing world, for unknown reason they strived and held in this depreving world.
Massive lakes that one might think that it's an ocean, no one knows what's hidden within the depth but one thing is for sure, any living who is near within those lake will die, either with those unknown fog, gargantuan tentacles,or the water itself.
Some massive spires that reaches as far as the eye can see.
Raging mountains with those unexplainable mysteries.
A place where hope is nailed to death, only death awaits for those accursed and unlucky ones, just like him.
With a bloodied and weak body, zephyr walks slowly to avoid being killed outright.
Finding place to rest and hide, even though he knows that theres no such thing as safe in this place.
Zephyr got some idea that this trial is just the turning point for him, either he die or live to tell the tale
He knows that dozens of trials happened everyday and the trial he is in just one of those, from a miscreant like him to scions of the great clans, they can't avoid the inevitable.
Yet scions have greater chance on surviving the trials,.because at the very young age they are polished and trained to the limit.
They have access to information and have the mental capabilities to withstand trials.
While someone like Zephyr are greatly doomed. Luck is just a silver lining for his survival.
Zephyr just need to grit and face the reality
Zephyr walks slowly when he sees someone dragging a mutilated body.
A being like just like him that was teleported to take trial.
Earth is not only the place that is facing trials. Every beings known are facing trials. That's why facing another races are normal occurrence.
The success rate of human surviving is slim to none, that's why champions who survived the trial are greatly respected.
This also showed how the situation the Earth is now facing. Isolating and forcing to survive on the onslaught of beings that are threatening the survival of humans.
'What should I do?' he said internally, he knows that he can't defeat anyone because humans are categorized as a lower race while the one dragging a mutilated body is...
Standing 8 feet with a hulking body, with a massive axe in it's back. A minotaur are known for being brutal and savage, they kill anyone who stands in their way.
Zephyr don't know what he's supposed to do, a powerless human with no background is bound to die in this accursed land.
The minotaur turn his head when he saw Zephyr who is heavily wounded, an easy opponent that can be killed with just a single slash.
"Growwllll!!!" " The minotaur growled like a mindless beast, He knows that humans are powerless and easy prey to be dealt that's why it didn't regard his fatal wounds from the last fight. He started running wildly
Zephyr was forcing his body to run. His scrambling pathetic bloodied body is screaming, he know how bad the condition he is in.
" I can't die here. " With a bloodshot eyes Zephyr analyzed the surroundings what can he possibly do, he already knows that the minotaur is already fatally wounded from the last battle, he can see a massive and because Zephyr is human, he knows that the minotaur is underestimating him.
The plan is already laid out and it's ready to be executed.
He may be weak but he's no fool, from the start he already come of with many scenarios inside his head.
Zephyr don't know but when he was still a child, he already knows that he's mind is one of the anomalies a human mind can have.
He can think faster, further and come up with devious strategy even though the situation is unfavorable to him.
Thats why he survived living alone at a young age.
Together with his anomaly thinking capabilities and adrenaline of dying he begun to weave a plausible plan to overcome the first challenged he stumbled on.
' I don't have any chance to win these confrontation' zephyr mumbled
He ran pathetically, stumbling as he ran, he started running near to the trees because it's only possible to execute his plan within those accursed trees.
Zephyr did he's best to run but the minotaur is just too fast.
"Stop your useless struggle human!! Now die!!" The minotaur swung the massive axe to Lucas to kill him instantly.
'Shitt, I can't fully avoid this impact' cursed internally.
He barely evaded the whole massive axe on splitting him into two but the impact causes him to stumble.
'Arghhh, I might really die today....' the the fatigue, severe injuries and the environment are of the limiting him.
The massive missing chunk within the abdomen of the minotaur and those small gushes within his thick skin made the minotaur move sluggish and that's one of the opportunity that he can get to survive.
Zephyr slowly move closer to the accursed massive trees while getting chased but God only knows how long it will last for he don't don't when he's luck will run out.
'I don't have any chance to win through brute strength'
Zephyr grab some chunk of withered tree, the accursed trees but he regretted it as fast as he could think.
The trees made his hand turn black and ice as it refused to be touched upon. Zephyr didn't have any choice because it's the only plausible weapon he can use to lodge it to the abdomen of the minotaur.
He dove right in front of the minotaur to lodge the chuck of the tree, but it failed miserably. Zephyr got thrown, while coughing blood.
This is not some fantasy game where the MC will win just because he's smart. No!! Absolute power rule within the unfathomable vast world.
Zephyr still coughing while holding the chunk of the tree pointing towards the minotaur whose slowly walking towards him.
"Useless effort." minotaur hissed and swung it's massive axe easily cutting the arm of Zephyr.
"Argghhhhh!!" With bloodshot eyes, Zephyr was thinking why he's life turn into hell. He begun recalling the most memorable memories he got.