Alle Kapitel von Alpha of the Deadly Arena: Kapitel 1 – Kapitel 10

From afar, I saw tiny black dots in the sky—growing larger as they came closer. Their arrival brought a constant roar, the sound of the rotors making my heartbeat pound even harder. Our district was rarely visited by the government—once every three years, to be exact. And when those helicopters came, it was always a warning.I immediately pulled my gaze away from the gap and slid down the slanted metal support. It took me so much effort to climb up there, but getting down took only a second.Heat spread across my backside, but I had to warn the others.“The government is here!” I shouted the moment I ran into the people who spent all day working and rarely saw the sun.Everyone wore the same panicked expression. Because the government’s arrival meant only one thing: trouble. Our lives weren’t good here to begin with, but being visited by the highest authority only meant things were about to get worse.Why? Because of The Legendary Trinity.“Quick! Hurry! Get back home!”Shouts bounced

I stepped into the booth after the first post and was ordered to sit down. Of course, I didn’t resist—there were soldiers with rifles standing at every booth, watching closely.“Hands,” a staff member said, grabbing my wrists and pulling them onto the chair’s armrests.In one swift, rough motion, he locked my hands in place. I froze. He picked up a square device about the size of a palm. In his other hand was a small stick.“Open your mouth!”I jerked back. “For what? What are you going to do to me?”He shoved the stick into my mouth, making me cough hard. So rough!“Bite down. Hard,” he ordered.The moment the little box touched the skin on my wrist, a sharp wave of pain shot through me. Such a tiny device, but the damage was brutal—my skin felt like it was being torn apart by thousands of needles.A growl slipped out of me as tears streamed down my cheeks. The stick scraped against my teeth, which were chattering from the pain. Hearing the screams coming from the other booths only m

Too much information was making my head dizzy. Turns out these Strains weren’t as simple as I thought. To put it bluntly, they were anomalies among humans. And their numbers kept decreasing, because ever since the Legendary Trinity was held, almost 80 percent of the participants were Strains.Even though Ash explained everything in detail, I still didn’t understand. If I were part of the Strains, I should have at least one ability. But there had been absolutely no changes in my body.“Look here.” Ash pointed at the chart explaining the Strains.They were divided into three subs: Shifter. Channeler. Psyon.“In short, shifters turn into animals. Channelers draw their powers from nature. And psyon, they work with the mind,” Ash explained. Her eyes were fixed on the hologram screen in the corner of the training room. “Which one do you fall under?”My data didn’t show any sub; it just showed a negative mark.I shook my head. “I don’t know.”“Maybe you’re a shifter, Maddie. But you just hav

Sweat dripped from my forehead onto the floor as I knelt there, completely drained. I’d been training nonstop since yesterday—from the crack of dawn until midnight—until my palms were raw and my whole body felt crushed.Along with that, my spirit and energy started to crumble. No matter how hard I pushed myself, it was never enough.Tomorrow, the games will start. And I still had zero skills. Even my courage was slowly slipping away, urging me to run.I’m useless.How was I supposed to survive a survival game when I didn’t even know how to survive?I threw my baton aside, letting it roll somewhere I didn’t care to look. Despair wrapped around me so tightly my chest ached. Tomorrow I’d die—that’s for sure.“Pushing yourself like that isn’t good.”The voice came at the same time as the baton being held out beside me. That familiar voice sent a chill down my spine. Cold, flat—yet somehow… calming.Strange, huh?I looked up and saw Kael, bent slightly toward me. His fingers nudged the bat

My hands started to tingle. My thighs ached and felt numb. Clinging to the tree trunk like this was far from comfortable. The only good thing was the view from up here. From the tropical forest below, I saw tall bushes rustling. Something was moving toward me, fast and agile. I blinked. Was that Kael? The scent grew stronger. Yes, it was definitely him. I watched Kael leap from one cedar tree to another before landing smoothly on the branch where I was perched. “You’ve been stuck like that this whole time?” Confusion flickered across his face. “I was afraid of falling.” I did not know what my expression looked like to him, but I was genuinely terrified. I had held on as hard as I could until Kael came back. And that was all he said. Completely insensitive. “Come on. Get down. It’s safe enough below.” Why did he not say that before going scouting? Kael tapped his shoulder, signaling for me to hold on behind his back. Awkwardly, I followed his i