John kept his eyes closed for several seconds, expecting excruciating pain before darkness overtook him, but much to his surprise, the pain never came.
His eyes slowly opened, and he was surprised to find himself back in the Lightning Temple, exactly where he had been when he touched the egg.
"Whaa? What just happened?"
John couldn't make sense of what had happened. One second he was in that hellish world, about to die, and the next second, he was back in the Lightning Temple.
"Congratulations. You are the first and only person to have successfully passed the final trial."
The artifact spirit's voice boomed within the temple, rousing John out of his thoughts.
"Trial? What trial? Just what the hell happened? And what was that nightmarish creature?"
