In a darkened room, three silhouettes, their features indistinguishable from one another, visible only in their different masks, a male voice could be heard in the room.
"Did you think this selection would be interesting?"
Another, more relaxed male voice replied.
"It depends on many details, but I hope it will be more interesting than the last one."
The third voice was female, but closed and authoritative.
"Maybe we'll have another monster or just talented people, either way, the ceremony has begun, let's go."
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Back in Asura's cell, the door that had been closed for 2 months finally opened to reveal a man standing in front of the room, wearing a similar outfit to Asura's but with more detail, a smooth white mask where only his eyes could be seen, staring at the young shirtless man meditating.
A pair of magnificent golden eyes opened, Asura looked at the man staring back at him, he activated the golden sight that allowed him to see the level of people according to the qi that had accumulated in their core. He had discovered this power over the past few weeks and it allowed him to see the world differently, the first time he unconsciously activated this power he got a terrible headache and he bled from his eyes, the pain was unbearable, he managed to deactivate the sight but for the next few days he always felt pain.
After a few days he managed to understand what was happening to him. He wasn't strong enough to see the different energies running through the world, so he had an idea: if he could make himself see the energy of other life forms, he would be able to see if they were stronger or weaker.
Looking at the man in front of him, Asura could guess that he was some kind of guard, but what puzzled him about what he saw was that the guard's energy was just completely different from his own, if we could give an example, the man's energy was a light yellow, but Asura's was dark with golden reflections on top of it, the guard's Qi mainly remained in his core, while Asura's was in every part of every cell of his body, he was beginning to understand something.
The presumed guard was lost, as if enchanted by the gaze of the young man in front of him, his golden snake eyes looking at him as if he were a small mouse, then suddenly the voice of the asura was heard.
"Have you nothing to say to me?"
The guard awoke from his stupor and sat up, his voice stern and serious.
"Get dressed, put on your mask, don't do anything stupid, and you'll live."
Asura started to do what the guard said in less than 2 minutes, and when he passed the door he saw a long corridor with a long line of people wearing the same clothes as him.
He looked at the people in the line, who all had different masks and numbers, activating his sight he noticed that most of them were weaker than him, but one person intrigued him. He couldn't see him in detail because of the number of people, but he could see a violet energy moving around someone, he didn't linger any longer because he noticed that he had arrived at his destination.
At the end of the corridor was a huge grotto filled with small arenas, it had stands but they were empty except for one that was different from the others, it looked more like a balcony with magnificent decorations surrounding it, in the balcony could be seen three silhouettes with masks each sitting on a throne with decorations that differentiated them.
A guard spoke: "Line up and await instructions."
As he watched the others line up, Asura looked at the number of people, which could easily have exceeded fifty, and then at the three standing on the balcony. He didn't even need to activate his golden sight to see that the three were on a different level, his instincts told him that they were extremely dangerous, but at that moment he had no fear, he was excited, he wanted to fight, but if he knew that he couldn't, Asura hadn't noticed that his personality was starting to change, he looked more and more like Someone else .
One of the three people on the balcony stood up, you could clearly see what she looked like, she had long red hair tied back in a ponytail, a red dress that matched her hair perfectly, her back was uncovered which made her charm even more powerful, her mask of fox that only covered the top of her face, her eyes that were violet in color, just by standing up she charmed all the young men in line, most of them were hypnotized, although Asura wasn't one of them, and the voice that echoed through the cave was even more enticing.
"Most of you are wondering why you are here, yes we kidnapped you and erased your memories, the reasons are simple, we are going to make you fight each other to take only the strongest and most talented, think of nothing else but to win against your opponent, because we won't stop anyone from dying, if you think you have a choice then you are wrong: The only choice you have is to fight not to die, if you try something that is not allowed you will die, if you disobey the orders you will die, only the strong have a choice, so let the selection begin! "