Swiping away the notifications, Aldrin immediately chose to not continue the trial for the Intermediate Stage.
Even if there was an additional reward to it, he doubts he could survive an amplified stage where he would have no idea what was exactly happening other than focusing on one thought. To move forward.
When he looked at the time he spent inside that Basic Stage, he already knew that it would be too late to return if he tried the Intermediate Stage. And that's the case if he succeeded. What if he did not? Time would pass without him knowing.
That's a terrifying thing to happen.
That's why as soon as the prompt on whether to continue or not appeared before him, he immediately chose 'No'.
"Wise choice." That's the Chrono Chaos's last words before its platform floated up again, returning to the top-down view of the crystal tree where the Temporal Node was located.
