The Gauntlet swallowed us whole.
Fifty bodies crashed through the entrance like water through a broken dam. Chaos erupted instantly. The first obstacle rose from the ground in sections. Platforms. Gaps. Moving walls that threatened to crush anyone stupid enough to hesitate.
I wasn't stupid.
My boots hit the first platform as it tilted forty-five degrees. Momentum carried me forward. Behind me, someone screamed as they missed the jump and plummeted into the safety nets below. Elimination number one.
The System hummed in my bones. Six thousand two hundred fifty across all stats. Hidden. Waiting. Ready.
A wall slammed toward my left side. I ducked. Rolled. Came up running. The platform beneath me dropped six feet without warning. My knees absorbed the impact. Kept moving.
