Slowly but surely, the participants were disappearing because of traps and low blows.

The beasts had taken refuge in gorges inaccessible only by these mountain paths.

We had to go down and the cars were useless. The only access was along the waterfall, a 200-metre-high waterfall. There were no paths, just peaks and rings, and you had to buy the rope ladders.

CLING CASH again for Artemis. Of course sold at full price.

All delivered by drone.

So I fixed my own ladder and when I felt that everything was safe, I put my feet (legs) in the stirrups and went down.

Trevis was below me and the others already down.

Halfway down, a holo message appeared on my level with Kim speaking:

"Dear Eva, don't take this personally, but it's a game where it's one catches the other. I paid for you to fall. I don't want to give credit to World. Goodbye!"

And the ring snapped and clacked and that was the beginning of my fall but I pulled out my claws and stuck them into the stone wall to slow my fall.

KRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, 75 meters from the ground, I caught up with one of the rings and instantly put a crank pin in it. The fall was stopped.

I retracted my claws and grabbed my ice axe and went down the rest of the wall.

Trevis: - "Are you all right? Show me your hand! Ah, but you almost did!"

"Yes, it's that scumbag Kim. He loses nothing by waiting for this one."

Donovan and his right stocking looked at each other and said, "She's got more enemies than I thought. "

It was after a long walk of endurance. But endurance is not the dragons' strong point, on the contrary, it's their weakness. Fortunately, my human body compensated and despite the lactic acid spikes that punctured my belly with muscle cramps, I applied from time to time a strength spell combined with a minor healing spell.

This was how I managed to hold it together. But sooner or later I would have to recover in the shape of a dragon somewhere.

The lions were about 5 km away in the valley, on rocks. But the only access is by the river and they would see us coming from far away and run away. So we devised a strategy for all 14 of us to get to the next level. Kim's team was about to arrive, delayed by a landslide, and they had to pay for another trail that runs further under the waterfall.

The strategy was to throw bait from the top of a rocky overhang 50 meters above the lions, and while they were eating, we would snipe at them.

I approached the edge with my goggles to shoot the lions with my bow when Donovan pressed a button on his terminal and the overhang where I had been collapsed. Trevis threw himself on the ground on his stomach and reached out his hand for me to catch him and I grabbed it, but a kick in the butt sent him walking with me towards the lions. The bait, in fact, was me!

"No hard feelings EVA longhorn! Donovan shouts! You should have worked for Artemis, not World! And I know it was you who murdered Princess Artemis! From Curtis! Go to hell, demon."

we were sliding down a slope at over 70 degrees and rolling and I got a lot of blows but my scaly skin resisted the abrasion. I was still strong as a tank!

"Ahhh," I said as I got up, "Trevis, are you okay? Are you all right? Nothing broken?"

"I think I've got a dislocated shoulder! And I've got a sprain and some bruised ribs."

Wait, come on,

CRAAAK, I put his shoulder back in place and right away it was better but we were not out of our troubles

"Do you have a gun?" I asked.

"No, he stayed up there!"

Gore-strapped spectators pushed the Gore option and smoke made the beasts rabid. I don't know by what miracle, but it looks like their numbers have doubled! There must be a lion dispenser somewhere, it's not possible!

I still had my fighting knife and some throwing knives left over.

A Ligon appeared. It was a cross between a Lion and a Tiger. A monstrosity. Three times the size of a normal tiger and its teeth were like a saber-toothed tiger.

He was going to tear us to pieces.

I threw a shield at the two of us and no one saw anything.

Spell: Charming monsters.

I crouched down and took a submissive posture. The Ligon approached and licked my belly and then made a few growls. I brought my head close to his and started licking him and he started purring.

"Unbelievable," said Trevis! "Unbelievable!"

"Ligon, my beautiful Ligon, you see those bad men out there, they wanna kill your girl, go and bring me their heads and guns!"

Grooa!

I cast a shield spell on the Ligon and forcibly exited, his strength was increased tenfold!

He accelerated lightning fast and in no time, he was on the rocky headland.

Screams and people fell down the wall and pieces of humais also fell down. After a few gunshots, it was silence and then the Ligon, visibly without a scratch, came back with arms still holding the guns. Donovan's men had all been massacred. But Donovan and his right-hand man had disappeared.

Go finish off those lions, they want your female.

Then the slaughter continued and I cut off the ears of the dead lions and sent the Ligon on a quest to protect Darkia.

Donovan and his right-hand man must have bought an escape door or a voting booth to get out. I could smell him, but I couldn't locate him. He must have been in a secret corridor or something but I couldn't locate him exactly.

"What are you doing, Trevis, you asked me?"

I can smell it, can't you tell?

"What's that for?"

"Well I can smell Donovan around here but I think he's hiding behind these rocks."

"But what are you??? Nobody can sniff..."

"Just live in the country air instead of air conditioning," I said.

A fireworks display exploded and I was the winner of the wild animal hunt with Trevis.

Donovan and his right arm, along with Kim and 8 of his men were still in the race. All the other teams were disqualified.

A shuttle came to pick us up and other shuttles came to pick up Donovan to avoid the fights.

The shuttles flew in parallel and we could see each other through the portholes. And Donovan was staring right at me.

I returned his courtesy by showing him the line of my neck and I ran the tip of my thumb to make the slit throat sign.

And at that moment, one of the engines of his shuttle exploded and they spat against a rock. The last image he saw was my smile and my inflamed eyes with slit pupils. He understood, but too late!

A ceremony for the dead was held and experts postponed the games for 3 days to allow for an investigation and to see or find traces of sabotage on the shuttle.

Of course, all the shuttles had their explosive glyphs marked on them. HEHE!