The call to sleep was too great for Zell to bear and he passed out inside his barrier. He had no idea how much time had passed but when he reopened his eyes, he found himself back in the courtyard of paths. The emblem of the black dragons now burning with a black flame and the sealed door beneath the seals now open.
He grabbed his head as it was throbbing as if he had spent the entire night drinking. "What the hell happened?" He asked aloud. The last thing he could remember was the trial in front of him at the volcano. He was puzzled as to how he passed since he did not do as the trial instructed him to do.
"Unless the answer was to not do anything…" He said, realizing how he was victorious. "Had I not passed out I would have guessed something and failed the test. To think they would rig the test in such a manner as to guarantee a failure."
