The castle trembled with magic and adrenaline.
Trial Day Two.
The massive hedge maze loomed like a living beast on the horizon....taller than any wall, snarling with shifting leaves, fog curling at its edges like breath from a dragon's snout. Faenet's countdown had just hit 00:00:00, and the enchanted gates slammed open with a roar that echoed across the realm.
10,000 contestants had entered.
Only 4,237 remained.
📸 FAENET LIVESTREAM THREAD:
🔴 Live Now: Trial Day Two Begins – Blood, Beasts & Bitches
👤 @MoFanCentral: LET'S GOOOOOOOOO
👤 @SashaSnapped: If that one guy from District 9 dies I riot
👤 @ReynaReigns: The outer hedge has shifted 17 degrees. That's a new pattern. Something's inside.
👤 @KazrasCorset: I'm watching just to see who the maze eats first tbh
👤 @NimraKinnie: I bet 300 gold shards on that elf with the knives. Do NOT fail me.
🎯 Twin Goblins: Damar & Thorne
They moved like one unit...flickers of flame dancing across their knuckles, eyes locked in unspoken twin code. They'd barely survived Day One. But today?
"We burn everything that breathes," Damar growled.
Thorne cracked his neck. "Unless it's sexy."
They both nodded solemnly.
Inside the maze, their section was fireproofed...because the magic knew better.
💥 Traps:
Molten vines that try to brand your skin
Fire resistant gremlins with crossbows
A riddle wall that screams insults if you get it wrong
🧨 Kazra "The Red Bitch":
The General was blood soaked, eyes alight with murder lust and joy. Day One had been warm up.
Now?
She was hunting.
And the maze hunted back.
"Come out, come out, you pretty little shits," she purred, setting the hedges ablaze around her with a snap of her fingers. "Mama needs a new corpse coat."
⚔️ The Rogue Twins: Nico & Nimra
Invisible.
Teleporting.
Whispering riddles to trick other contestants into traps just for fun.
"Oops," Nico chuckled as one poor bastard fell through a pit trap.
Nimra just hummed, flicking a bloodied dagger.
"We're not technically killing them," she said.
"We're just… facilitating."
🎥 BACK AT THE CASTLE – ROYAL BALCONY POV:
Rhiannan, her five mates, and Reyna Voss sat in stunned silence as Mo narrated the livestream with the enthusiasm of a drunk sports commentator.
"OH SHIT that guy's leg bent the WRONG way...someone call a healer...wait, never mind, he's dead."
Rhiannan took a sip of her spiced tea, eyes never leaving the magical projection of the maze.
"Too much sabotage yesterday. Today's clean. Let's see what they can do."
Reyna: "I've been analyzing their power outputs in real time. Three of them have god-tier potential if trained properly."
Kaleb: "You're terrifying and I respect it."
Sable: "Remind me to gut that big centaur thing in Sector Eight tomorrow. Looks personal."
💥 Meanwhile, in the Maze…
🔥 Enchanted Chimera Beasts stalk Sector Three
🕯️ Fog that erases memory creeps over Sector Eleven
💀 A magical mirror copies one contestant's form and tries to murder them
🌪️ Storm runes go off randomly, testing balance, speed, and sheer willpower
📸 FAENET GOES ABSOLUTELY FERAL:
👤 @BoneSeerTruthers: That was a FUCKING MINOTAUR.
👤@TrialTracker88: If Kazra kills that talking squirrel I'm rioting
👤@ZaiyaIsMyMom: I would sell my SOUL to be inside that maze with her.
👤@MoFanCentral: I think Mo just threw a drink on one of the mages??? ICON.
👤 @WitchTokProphecy: THE MAZE JUST ATE A SWORD WTF
👤 @SashaSnapped: "Eat. Drink. Fuck. Be merry." She meant that shit y'all. 😭🔥
🌪️ 1. Nyxar Veyne — The Vortex Widow
Species: Shadow-Sylph Hybrid
Age: Unknown (estimated 400+)
Powers: Wind distortion, invisibility at will, mirrorwalking
Vibe: Elegant murder. High-femme assassin.
Backstory: Rumored to be the last living child of a forbidden union between a wind elemental and a shadow fae. She speaks little, slaughters much, and once took down an entire royal outpost in 3 minutes because they insulted her shoes.
POV:
Nyxar glided through the maze like a breeze laced with knives. The air bent around her... she didn't so much walk as disappear between one heartbeat and the next. A two headed basilisk lunged from the foliage, and she simply blinked.
When her eyes opened again, its heads were on the ground.
"You should have stayed asleep," she whispered, wiping blood from her lips with a silk glove.
Faenet Comments:
🗨️ "She just killed that thing like she was checking the mail omg???"
🗨️ "Vortex Widow for sentry or we riot."
🗨️ "Shadowwalkers are the new dragons. I said what I said."
🧊 2. Torvax Korr — The Cryo-Tyrant
Species: Frost Troll–Titan hybrid
Age: 289
Powers: Ice warping, terrain manipulation, cryo shields
Vibe: Tank with daddy issues.
Backstory: Exiled from his homeland after refusing an arranged marriage, he's wandered the Northern Wastes for a century, surviving on monsters and raw spite. Silent. Brooding. Dangerous.
POV:
Torvax trudged through a hellish puzzle of melting fire walls. His massive body steamed, but the heat never touched him. With one slam of his fist, the maze itself froze in a hundred yard radius. The creatures inside? Shattered.
"No need for puzzles," he growled, frost crackling off his beard. "Only power."
Faenet Comments:
🗨️ "Daddy? Sorry. Daddy? Sorry."
🗨️ "This man just one punched a fire elemental into snowflakes 😩"
🗨️ "If he doesn't win I'll freeze my own ass."
🔥 3. Veena Sahl — The Blight Ember
Species: Phoenix-Witch Hybrid
Age: 27
Powers: Deathfire, curse flames, rebirth healing
Vibe: Hot girl rage and morally gray af
Backstory: Once burned alive by the Royal Guard for "witchcraft," she rose from her own ashes during the execution and incinerated everyone. She now seeks revenge… and something to believe in.
POV:
Veena didn't walk through the maze. She danced. Her fire wasn't red.. it was black, corruptive, eating through stone and vines alike. When cursed spiders fell from above, they screamed before they touched her.
"I'm not here for fun," she told the maze's magic, "I'm here for vengeance. And a title."
Faenet Comments:
🗨️ "I would die for her."
🗨️ "SHE IS THE MOMENT."
🗨️ "No one's ever lit cursed mist on fire before...HOW?!?"
🌪️ Nyxar Veyne
Nyxar crouched beside a glowing rune stone, lips curled in amusement. The shadows around her whispered secrets. A shifting wall groaned open behind her, revealing a hydra with venom that melted bone.
She didn't flinch. She vanished.
A second later, the hydra screamed... all seven heads collapsing, throats slit clean and precise. The corpse hadn't even hit the floor before she appeared at the far end, twirling a dagger.
"Too loud," she muttered. "Your breathing gave you away."
She pressed two fingers to a rune and melted into a mirror, sliding through the maze's veins like liquid danger.
🧊 Torvax Korr
Torvax stood unmoving as a blightstorm roared toward him... a summoned elemental of cursed wind and acidic rain. The others ran. He lifted his hands.
The air dropped 50 degrees in seconds.
The storm slammed into an invisible wall of pure crystalized frost, exploding in a shriek. Torvax walked through the falling shards, cold steam curling from his skin. His eyes glowed like frozen suns.
"Send something bigger," he grunted to no one in particular.
🔥 Veena Sahl
Veena bled. Willingly. Her magic responded to pain... and she needed power.
She carved a symbol into her thigh, and the flames exploded around her in a twisting ring of black and gold fire. When a beast of bone and sinew charged her, she smiled and screamed in joy.
The monster's ribs curled inward... her curse twisting its form inside out...and then her wings erupted behind her in a blaze of deathfire.
"Next," she purred.
Mo was SCREAMING. Literally, on the table. "Oh my god, THE BITCH JUST TURNED THAT MONSTER INSIDE OUT WITH A GLANCE."
Rhiannan, lounging in Kaleb's lap with a breakfast mimosa, nodded. "That's phoenix rage if I've ever seen it. She's dangerous, but she's got heart."
Sable grunted. "She's unstable. I like it."
Arwen leaned toward the scrying orb, his brows furrowed. "That frost brute? He's got Titan blood, no doubt. Look at the stance. Classic stone temple combat."
Liam, sipping blood wine lazily, added, "And our darling little assassin? She's making me feel like I should be taking notes."
Elisha muttered, "They're all unhinged."
Mo laughed. "So are we."
Reyna Voss, seated beside them with a notebook half the size of her head, blurted, "GUYS, THE RUNE PATTERNS ON THAT WALL MEAN SHE'S NEAR THE CENTER...Nyxar is closest to the crown piece. This could be a THREE WAY SHOWDOWN!"
Rhiannan stood, eyes sharp. "Let's keep watching. If they survive this day… they're getting invites."
🧠 FAENET EXPLODES
🗨️ #TeamVeena 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 that girl just SET HERSELF ON FIRE AND WON. I'm crying.
🗨️ Torvax is the mountain daddy I didn't know I needed.
🗨️ Nyxar blinked and killed a hydra. She's not real. She's code. She's a hallucination.
🗨️ If none of these three become Sentries I'm rioting in the courtyard.
🗨️ Veena Sahl if you see this: I'll bear your cursed flame babies.
🗨️ The Six watching with mimosas is sending me 😭😭😭