Chapter 3: Push-ups??

"All right lads. I know some of you may be from different planets so you might be unfamiliar with the term push-ups.

For those not familiar with it, I'll give you instructions on how to do it.

Lie down flat on your belly.

After using your two arms to lift your upper body. As you can see your legs are still on the ground, so your pose looks more like a snake.

Now lift your body and let it be on your toes. Spread your legs further apart a bit." After his explanation, his eyes scanned the surroundings like a hawk protecting its chicks.

And his eyes met his first offender.

"Oi, Burger king I didn't say spread your legs like a prostitute. Close it. Now spread your arms.

Yes! Yes. That's better, so in this position what you do is slant your arms to make your chest touch the ground.

Hey, burger king you again. I said let your chest touch the ground. I don't remember telling you to let the belly do the touching."

"5.

6.

7.

8,"Fatty said with a face full of sweat and panting as if in labour. Not being able to handle the intensity of the exercise he lay on his belly. Planning to catch his breath and continue.

"9…."

' I can do this, I'll rest a bit after I get to ten. At that moment he could hear his arms creaking in complaint and his lungs protesting for him to stop. He gasped for breath but the fire in his eyes could not be concealed.

"1 more.

Heroes never Fallllll", Hakim screamed hysterically to motivate himself.

"10"

Like a charm, he barely finished his tenth push-up and plopped to the ground

"Tsk! Again chest on the ground."

Everyone watches the girl with short white hair as she performs her push-up with one arm. Viva was the daughter of a gym instructor in her previous life. Like her father, she was a gym rat. Inheriting her white hair and sharp eyebrows. While taking her mother's cute lips and small nose. She was a work of art. Her face was flawless. Her eyebrows slanted. She had moderate breasts and a perky butt as if God found it unfair to give her everything.

That's how you're supposed to do it.

Eyes on her posture. Don't let your eyes wander. If I see you molesting her with your eyes, you'll be eliminated.

" Hey. Mike. Yes, you with the beady eyes and stick-like arms. Why are you ogling at her ass like a pervert? Off you go you're eliminated."

"Nooo!"

His cry was cut short he was swallowed by a black creature covered in Mist.

"Bloody Mary! What the hell was that?"

As Vincent's brain was thinking about what he just saw his body was not idle and he was giving it his all.

The others who saw how Mike was eliminated paused with a chill running down their spine. They no longer bothered with watching Viva's posture and just did what they remembered.

"Hey, you! Yes, you long lady with the H-cups. Don't look behind and act oblivious if your breast touches the ground without even doing the movement so you have to do twice as much.

"But it's not my fault my chest is bigger than average and they get in the way

"Stop pretending I have eyes everywhere. Or do you want me to reduce the size of your cups?" A good-natured smile plastered on his face while asking her.

Immediately, a transformation happened that left every faint-hearted freaked out. Two eyes appeared behind his head, in addition to a mouth.

"Kyaah! What horror is this?", Queku the guy with white hair, white eyebrows and a blindfold screamed whilst convulsing.

He lost consciousness a few seconds later.

"I didn't sign up for this," Vincent said, clearly frightened by the scene. But he managed to hold. Onto his consciousness, his previous death helped strengthen his mentality.

"Oh I see, a few daring boys did not learn from their brothers' lessons.

Since you're in a hurry. The mouth behind his head talking to the offenders whilst he faced the girl who was oblivious to the transformation.

Bye byeee."

*Shua!*

"Help meeee…"

*Whoosh!*

"Mooomyy."

*Whoosh*

"Demooon"

*Whoosh*

"Blood of Jesus. Fire yoooou!"

A few brave ones openly cursed him.

The previous scene that was fading became freshly imprinted in their mind. Dark creatures with mist covering their body appeared from the shadow of the contestants and swallowed them whole.

They disappeared with their destination unknown.

"No sir. She continued with renewed vigour, clearly frightened about the thoughts of her precious melons becoming coconuts."

"Tch! It had to be the guy who died of food poisoning that had fainted. Fine, I'll transfer you to a different supervisor." Defoe said out loud trying not to conceal his voice.

'Wait, so if I faint I can get away from this demon. Hehe! See you never. As Vincent was about to bite his tongue and stimulate his brain to unconsciousness he was beaten to it by competitors who thought likewise.

But the next scene left him speechless. The unconscious candidates were swallowed by the dark mist monster.

As Vincent saw this scene all thoughts of forcefully knocking himself out were thrown out of the window. His heart was turbulent, with his mind in disarray.

He lifted his face to watch the supervisor who was spotting a playful smile on his face.

"All right, 30 participants left. I need your attention here," Defie called for their attention before continuing.

"Some of you may be frightened and want to have none of this. If you want to quit, step forward."

As time was ticking, Defoe was also ticked off and started a countdown.

"By the count of 5 if I see no one we continue with this horror... *Ahem... Reincarnation games.."

4.

3.

As it dawned on them that if they don't step forward their chance of escape might be thrown out the window.

2.

One boy took two steps forward and like pieces of Domino falling in place, many participants joined him. Not to be left behind.

The countdown reaches 0.

"Good luck."

*Shua*

*Shua*

19 contestants were transferred leaving 11.

This is not the only test for the event. Some of you should have just left. I know some of you may have regretted your decision. But most of all I know some of you may say why do push-ups for some perks? But trust me it's for your good.

'Trust a devil like you.'

"Ptuii!!" He spat out as if trying to defy him.'With Vincent having these thoughts he lifted his face and saw Defoe glaring at him. His soul trembled like a rat that met a cat, removing any previous confidence

"Oh is there a problem Vincent," Defoe said while gazing at V with interest. Seeing how he'll worm away from the mess he created.

"No sir. There were some phlegm's stuck in my throat so I spat it out", Vincent who was full of vigour became as meek as a puppy after he met Defoe's eyes.

Viva, the cause for the first elimination. She had short white hair and green gemstone-like eyes and rolled her eyes charmingly as she eyed Vincent. This gesture unseen by V but seen by the surrounding contestant left them dazed as her natural beauty without make-up was augmented by this gesture. Interest and curiosity brimmed in her eyes.

'Who would believe such a blatant lie? Let's see how sir Kanye deals with him', Viva said as she awaited Defoe's decision. It seemed Defoe was using aliases when interacting with other souls since most of the contestants referred to him by different names.

Defoe simply skipped the issue involving Vincent's antics and proceeded to educate the contestant on certain issues.

"First of all the perks acquisition is not something fun where in the books you read you experience a cool sensation spread within your body but a soul-scathing process so this event is used to filter the mentally weak people so that when you experience hell after receiving the perk you'll have a fair chance of surviving.

And those little scares were just to speed up the process.

Since that has been dealt with off we go to the next stage

You all will reincarnate into the same planet though your starting points may be different.

Your predecessors have been there too for a while.

Oops, spoiler.

You didn't hear it from me.

Though you won't remember these events since I'll be clearing loose ends",nonchalantly dropping bombs with an air of playfulness as if what he said was something trivial. Defoe said after creating a throne made of unknown material that was releasing a multitude of lights

'Truly a majestic scene.

So this is what a person of power looks like.

One day I'll repeat this scene instead of being surrounded by contestants. I'll be surrounded by loved ones,' As these thoughts passed through Vincent's mind small seeds of ambition were being planted. His eyes gleamed and were full of determination. The extent of its growth depended on how far he would go.

"So now the next stage deals with intelligence but before we get to the next stage these are the results for the first stage," Defoe said as the rankings were projected to the contestants.