Inventors system

Looking at the golden potion in his hand number 9 couldn't make up the courage to drink it. 

One could feel his nervousness when looking at his shaking hands.

"You have 10 seconds to drink it." Reminded Marvin kindly.

Seeing as he was running out of time, number 9 hastily removed the cap from the potion bottle and threw it at the side.

With his hands still shaking he started bringing it closer and closer to his mouth.

"Agh… I can't do it." He screamed and threw the bottle to the side as well, then turned around trying to escape.

Unfortunately, he had nowhere to escape and the same light descended and shuttered his mana core.

"Looks like only 5 contestants are left before the end of this round." Said Marvin playfully.

Number 10 was a young boy, about 18. He couldn't help staring at number 9's cold corpse before uncertainty choosing the truth.

"Do you enjoy killing people?" Asked Marvin.

The boy's uncertain look instantly became hideous. His innocent profile shattered as he looked at Marvin with a distorted expression wishing to strangle him right then and there.

"Yes?" Finally, he answered by starting a chain reaction of gasps around the crowd.

Just like previously, Marvin didn't even bat an eyelid as he confirmed the truthfulness of the answer and moved to his next 'victim'.

Number 11. One must admit, this was the most unexpected contestant of the bunch.

I mean, no one expects to go on a quest in some secret realm where you hope to find treasure and reach a pinnacle of life only to get trapped in some ancient super-prison and team up with a grandma.

Yeah, you heard it right.

Number 11 was a grandma.

If we judge her by the mortal human age she looked to be about 90 years old after death, but as there was an age restriction while entering the secret realm aka The Dream city, everyone knew she couldn't be as old as she seemed.

What was the most surprising fact was that grandma chose to do a dare.

"Show us what you love to do in your free time." Marvin's words brought a surprise to everyone.

After the previous cases, everyone knew this dare could not be as simple as it seemed.

Number 11 looked at Marvin for a few seconds and then with a defeated look walked to the number 2nds corpses.

At first, everyone looked at her actions with great interest but, they could no longer keep a straight face when they saw what happened next.

The harmless grandma was now crouching down near the corpse as she bit right into his raw flesh. A look of great satisfaction was visible on her face as if she was on drugs.

Some people could no longer take the cruelty they saw and vomited, while others state was also not much better.

After taking a few bites number 11 came back to reality and returned to her spot not daring to look at her teammates in the eyes.

Marvin once again didn't take everything to heart and moved on to the next contestant.

Number 12 was a middle-aged man with a beer belly, not surprisingly he also chose the truth.

"Did you kill your brother in order to get his wife?" 

Hearing the question the man couldn't help but start cursing at Marvin and denying the accusation.

He spoke all kinds of nonsense about how he loved his brother and how heartbroken he was with his death.

He also didn't forget to mention all kinds of help the widow received from him after the accident.

Just as Morana was getting impatient with his blabbering white light descended and the man died.

As if catching a Marvin syndrome, everyone's reaction to the man's death was a 'thought so' expression as they moved to the next contestant.

Number 13, in other words, Ezra also chose the truth.

"Are you in love with contestant number 6?" At this question more than a dozen pairs of eyes intensely started at Ezra as if he was a panda.

To their surprise, he didn't even hesitate before answering.

"Yes."

Not to say Zoel and Shio even Sophia herself couldn't hide the surprise when they realized what he just said.

Still hung on the fact that one of his best friends has slept with his most annoying competitor Zoel was, once again, hit by the reality.

Contrary to the three Ezra didn't show any change to his expression as if all of this had nothing to do with him.

"The answer is the truth." After confirming the truthfulness of the matter Marvin congratulated Ezra on passing the first round.

Unfortunately, number 14 was not as lucky as Ezra and died from failure to complete his dare.

After the first round, 5 people were already dead while the 6th person Ron was half dead. Honestly speaking he had already done a great job surviving so long and if he could hold for a bit longer he would receive the antidote.

The 2nd round was worse than the first one since the contestants no longer had the liberty of choosing between truth or dare.

Number 1 or otherwise known as green tea bitch, now had to do a dare, and one must say this dare really made people believe in retribution.

"You must kneel and ask forgiveness from everyone you have ever wrong before the end of this round, if you miss anyone out the dare will be counted as failed." Said Marvin as his smiling expression greatly contrasted with the girl darkening one.

Sadly she had no other choice but to comply with the task and start executing it.

This dare made the previously heavy mood much lighter as people took a posture of watching a good show. A few snickers were heard here and there from time to time.

Not being able to take it anymore, the girl stood up from her kneeling position and started shouting at people.

"Shut up, shut up, shut up… All of you better shut up for me." She screamed as she rushed to the nearest person and started beating her.

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