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Chapter 4 - Blurred Notifications

A screen flying in the air is seen in front of Sarthak, Kevin and his friends. New notifications come in front of them with a ding sound. Before they could understand what all this meant, the big door in front of them starts opening slowly.

With the opening of the door, all five of them feel the strong smell of blood changing into air and the increasing heat. All five of them close their noses with their hands because this smell was very strong and they were having trouble breathing.

A screen flying in the air was on in front of all five of them, showing a timer. Kevin and his friends could not understand anything, but Kevin's three friends thought this situation was normal. Kevin comes to Kevin and puts his hand on his shoulder from behind and says looking at Sarthak, "The boss of this dungeon is probably going to be very powerful so we have to finish this guy off so that we can focus on fighting the boss, if we don't do this then he can run away from our sight...!"

In response to this Kevin says moving his steps towards Sarthak, "Okay then, let's all together finish this guy off as fast as we can!" Just then the torches in the cave which had dragon's eyes and tails etched on them start moving.

The figures in the torches come out of the torches and the figures etched in the big door also start coming out. In front of the five of them now were ten lizard-like beasts which had four legs and all of their skin was made of lava-like glowing red and black scales, orange glow was coming out of their eyes.

"How are the beasts coming out of these torches?" The first tanker standing right behind Kevin asks this with widened eyes to which Kevin replies, planning to kill these beasts instead of Sarthak with his dagger, "This dungeon is more mysterious than we expected, there must be something in these torches in which the beasts were imprisoned, if we sell the torches that captured these beasts in the black market then we can earn lakhs of rupees in one go." Kevin has a devilish smile on his face, he moves forward and attacks the beast's back with both his daggers to cut its body into two parts, but sweat breaks on Kevin's forehead, he says to himself in a frustrated voice, clenching his teeth, "Shit...! ahhhhhhhh run away from here to save your life." Kevin shouted as his dagger breaks after hitting the beast's scales and there is not even a scratch on the beast's body. Both the tankers and Kevin's companion who had a sword and shield, their eyes are now filled with fear. Kevin lets go of his broken dagger and starts using his power to turn the ground into mud, seeing this the first beast rapidly moves its tail forward, Kevin could see this but the beast's attack was much faster than he expected, the beast grabs Kevin with its tail and brings him close to its face and roars. When Kevin's three companions see Kevin in the beast's clutches, they say to themselves one by one, "If Kevin is not able to fight these beasts, then we have no power to face these beasts!" "If I lose my senses in excitement, then I will also get caught in the beast's clutches like Kevin!" "These beasts are definitely of A rank, it is written that all of us will die in this dungeon, but I will not die here, I only love my life!" At that moment, the beast which was holding Kevin by its tail opens its mouth and spits fire out of its mouth which burns Kevin's body and he starts screaming in pain and burning. Seeing this, the legs of his four companions start trembling and they swallow the saliva in their throat and run away from here towards the outside of the dungeon.

Sarthak was watching all this, at that moment a beast comes running fast towards Sarthak, seeing which Sarthak's legs start trembling but he runs inside the room to save himself from it, "Time is continuously running on this strange floating screen and it was written in its notification that one of us has to stay alive for ten minutes, if I somehow keep avoiding these beasts for ten minutes then maybe I can escape from here alive, but will these beasts stop attacking after ten minutes?" Sarthak says to himself. On the other side, Kevin's friends were breathing their last. The body parts of Kevin's friends were scattered and were badly burnt. The heads of all Kevin's friends had been burnt to ashes. Now all the beasts started entering the room one by one through the door and surrounded Sarthak. [ 04 : 01 ] "These beasts have surrounded me. Even if I want to, I cannot save myself. On top of that, I have lost a lot of blood. My legs have also stopped working. I am going to die here!" Sarthak said to himself, accepting defeat. He closed his eyes and was about to accept his death when he closed his eyes and saw that many people were harassing him and many people were beating him.

His past was visible in front of his eyes where he could do nothing but fight till the end. Sarthak suddenly opens his eyes and says to himself, "ahhhhh I have always fought till the end even if I lose in everything, so I will fight even my death till the end, as long as I breathe and as long as there is a drop of blood left in my body, I will fight."

Sarthak suddenly stands up, he escapes the attack of a beast's tail but just then another beast from the other side hits Sarthak on his back with its tail due to which Sarthak hits the wall of the room and the wall breaks into pieces with a loud noise. "Aaah... Haaa... My body! I can't feel anything in my body, my hands, my legs, my back, everything is numb" he said to himself as he stood up, his body was completely broken, he was not even in a condition to walk but still he gathered his strength by putting his hands on his knees and looking at the time shown on the screen he said to himself while exhaling deeply. "Now just one more minute!" Due to his collision dust flew in the room due to which he could not see much but he could feel heavy footsteps in the room which were coming towards him. As soon as the dust cleared he saw that another tail attack of the beast came towards him due to which he collided with the wall once again and this time both his arms and both legs got fractured and broke. He groaned in pain and said, "This one minute also feels like an hour, will I not be able to stay alive for one more minute?" Sarthak was lying on his back on the ground when the beast came towards him and with its claws separated his hands and legs from his body, from his elbows and knees.

The second beast from a distance opens its big mouth and showers fire on Sarthak's body due to which his clothes burn and his body becomes red hot, blood was oozing out of his hands and legs, the third beast came near Sarthak and threw him towards the side with its claws due to which he hit the square stage made in the middle on which a big round stone was kept, the upper part and lower part of that round stone were flat and the upper flat part had long pointed thorns of the stone. Right after Sarthak's body hits the thorns, his body gets deeply penetrated and his blood starts to spill on the stage and he is counting his last breaths and says to himself, "Now even if the time runs out and I don't die at the hands of these beasts, I will surely die here due to lack of blood! There is no hope of my survival here now, I tried my last bit to stay alive and that's enough for me."

He was saying all this to himself but he had a small hope that he could survive if he was still breathing after ten minutes, at that very moment notifications start coming on his screen.

ding...

[ Congratulations, you are the last person who survived for ten minutes! ]

[ You have passed the challenge! ]

The prize is given! ]

Ding...

[ Human race is being transformed into Dragon race ]

[ Do you want to take the powers of Blood Dragon? ]

[ yes or no ]

Sarthak starts seeing all these notifications blurry but he sees the last notification a little clearly on which he says in a low voice, "Yes...!" After this his eyes close and his breathing also stops.

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