Slicing through the massive leg of a towering green monster, Alex dodged the stomping of its other foot and quickly rolled out of its field of vision. In the next second, a glowing golden figure clad in armor and wielding a massive longsword cleaved through its head, splattering the distracted beast's purple blood all around them.
This was the tenth beast they had killed today. The 47th—or maybe the 49th—in the past five days. Every morning, they were pulled up from their cage, situated right below the massive arena. Every day, they had to survive a bloody battle, and their reward? Another day of fighting in the scorching heat.
