Chapter 103 - Silent but Deadly (1/2)

Major Valen casually picked up the guy that he had used as his bitc... err... training partner, and tossed him aside.

"He lost already" Major Valen said scornfully, and nobody seemed to disagree.

"Alright! The rules are simple! Last man or woman in the ring wins! No striking, only throwing, grappling, or getting someone to submit with a hold." Major Valen barked. "Oh, and I will be joining in the fun..."

Once Major Valen said this, everyone gave him a wide berth in the ring. Gray, Yurika, Geoff, Paul, Xyra, and Stacia stood together and a few other people formed teams with each other.

"You pups that form teams, I'll be coming after you first, this is a free for all."

Of the nearly 100 players, one team had 18 people in it, this was the team Major Valen was eying.

Major Valen blew his whistle and shouted "BEGIN!"

The groups of players didn't engage each other right away as they really weren't sure what to do.

On the other hand, Major Valen stormed at the group of 18 people and without hesitating, picked the closest one up by his shirt and hurled him out of the ring like a human discus. This wasn't technique, this was just raw strength.

The remaining 17 players on the team then surrounded Major Valen, but none of them were brave enough to approach him. One of the guys finally yelled out "We need to attack him toge–", but he wasn't able to complete that sentence as Major Valen targetted him and grabbed the guy by his face, and pushed him on his back.

"You better submit boy!" Major Valen knelt on the ground next to the guy and started squeezing his head.

"I submit I submit!" Major Valen released the guy and he scurried away out of the ring.

"He calls it a battle royale, but why is it starting to feel like us versus Major Valen." Geoff whispered to Gray.

"Just be lucky he isn't allowed to strike, just thinking about the amount of clipboards we'd be hit with scares me." Gray whispered back. "Hey, let's use his distraction and start clearing house."

Gray liked to consider himself honorable, but it was a lot of merits... and honor alone doesn't win battles.

Gray snuck up behind his first victim that was close to the edge of the ring, wrapped his arms around the guy's waist and threw him out of the ring with a suplex.

As Gray was on his back near the edge after throwing the guy, one of his friends charged at Gray to push him out of the ring.

"Coming through!" Geoff suddenly yelled as he ran straight into the guy that was charging at Gray, causing the guy to bounce away and stumble out of the ring.

Geoff pulled Gray up and they high-fived.

Unfortunately for Gray and Geoff, a team of 8 saw them do this and felt disgusted.

"What's the plan Gray?!?" Geoff exclaimed as the team of 8 started moving towards Gray and Geoff.

"Operation enemy of my enemy is still an enemy!" Gray grabbed Geoff and they started to run towards another team that was trying to grapple with another team.

It seems nobody took the concept of a free for all seriously, but this worked for Gray anyways. He gently bumped into someone from both of the teams to get their attention as the team of 8 was running towards him and Geoff. Gray suddenly shouted heroically "To arms brothers! The enemy approaches!"

The 2 teams that were fighting each other turned to see the team of 8 that was running towards them, believing they were the target. All 3 teams started to engage each other and it slowly devolved into a series of submissions as everyone was too far from the edge to throw each other out.

Gray and Geoff pretended to be struggling with each other and they rolled around, pretending to almost get the other one to submit before they would trade positions.

Meanwhile, Paul merely watched Gray and Geoff and thought to himself "Is our leader really this shameless?" while standing next to Stacia who was to nervous to try and attack anyone.

Yurika was a teal twin-tailed terror, she never engaged a group larger than 4, but she could easily cause two people to submit at the same time by using a combination of leg locks, arm locks, and submission holds that were obviously not taught in the class.