Orion simply lay bloodied in the middle of the hallway, mumbling about what he'd learned about this trial from his experiments with traps.
"First of all , unlike in the game, the traps in this trial are real, and they are capable of killing me... which hurts like hell!"
' Originally, the trial that was in the game was focused on the mentality of the characters. All the traps showed the people only the illusion of different types of death, but in reality nothing happened to them. But here are traps that are real and they killed me every time I wanted to move forward. 'tough orion as he held an arrow that had previously been in his head
Orion was confused at first why the test differed from the game. He initially believed that the illusion was so good that he couldn't tell the difference between it and reality, and it would make sense since he was weaker than the game's characters.
But he was sure that pain and death were real in this trial after another arrow pierced his brain like butter for the second time and he felt pain as if he had been hit in the head with an anti-tank rifle.
"I'm also brought back to life every time I die by an unknown magic."
Sigh
Orion sighed. He was annoyed because this was supposed to by easy as walk in the park.
He tought that he found everything about changes in trial.
But there was one thing that Orion didn't notice; it was that pain was multiplied by 10x. Every sane person would notice it as the first thing, but Orion is different since he lived in constant pain for 15 years. And it's not like he is mentally sane after all this time..
For him, feeling pain was as normal as breathing. He hadn't had much experience with pain caused by physical harm, such as being cut or punched, or other things from this life, and because he had lived so long in the abyss, he had forgotten how it felt, just like he had forgotten the taste of food or the warmth of someone dear to him. Mixing memories of Cian and Orion made him confused about things that should be normal. He didn't realize that the amount of pain he felt from having his head pierced was greater than it should be.
When he started thinking about possible solutions and began to imagine different scenarios, he noticed something.
Thump Thump
"This feeling.." Orion said as he silently rose from the floor.
He took a step forward when a sword materialized out of nowhere from the wall and flew toward Orion.
Orion didn't even try to avoid the sword, allowing it to pierce his stomach.
He looked at the sword in his stomach and heard the sound again.
Thump Thump
His heart was beating so loudly that he could hear it.
He felt an emotion that was almost foreign to him yet extremely addictive after such a long time.
He felt it the instant he realized he'd entered the dungeon, but he was so engrossed in his thoughts that he ignored it.
"Thrill from danger," said Orion in a low voice.
Orion slowly pulled out the sword from his stomach. Blood splattered on his face and the dungeon walls..He gritted his teeth and tried to endure the pain of his insides spitting out from the hole left by the sword.
"HAHAHA, was I always like this?" Orion didn't understand himself..why did he feel this excitement?Were these feelings really his?
He was inside a dungeon, and before him was a trial where you needed to die dozens and dozens of times.
Every normal person would try to run away or try to find a way to pass through this hallway while avoiding all the traps, but he had the urge to try to run right through it.
He didn't know why, but the instant he stepped into the dungeon, he felt strange. He was never a man who would rush into danger without thinking about the consequences or without any fear of death. But just now, Orion couldn't care less about how many times he had to die in order to complete this trial.
He just felt that he needed to do it.
"Holy shit, did I become a masochist while I posed Orion's body??!!" Orion had the expression of a person who had discovered the truth about the universe.
Orion didn't notice that it had happened again, the very same thing that had happened when he had decited to save Layla.
"Well whatever, there is no need to think about it anymore..." Orion smiled like a madman and started running right through the hallway and started humming Jojo opening.
He himself didn't realize it, but he had chosen the correct and only way to solve this trial.
You need to overcome your fear of death.
You need to find a way to ignore the pain.
And you need a mentality that will endure it all.
Arrows, boulders.exes,spears,attack magic everything flew right at the orion
He was spit apart, sliced, crushed, stabbed, burnt...
Orion looked like a zombie even before now. With all that blood on him and weapons sticking from different parts of his body, he looked genuinely like a monster.
Even though he felt pain way beyond anything a normal human can handle,
He didn't scream.
He didn't cry.
He only laughed...
Because he knew that even though it hurts now, it will soon stop. Because he knew, even though he had died many times, he would be able to live at the end. Because he knew what real hell looked like and he was afraid to return to that place again.
After he was at the end of the hallway that was exactly 150m long, he opened the door and collapsed on the ground. with a small smile on his face.
Snap
The sound of someone snapping echoed through the whole dungeon. The rags that Orion was wearing were replaced by black baggy pants and a clean white shirt. His dirty face and hair, which were filthy from blood dust and other things, were now clean as if he had come right from the shower.
-Why did you do that, sister? You know that we are not supposed to help with any challenge.
With a curious look in her eyes, the smallest being asked her older sister.
-Just simply because I felt he deserved at least this much. What are you going to do about it, Cerys?
said the eldest sister with a voice that clearly showed how annoyed she was with the question of her little sister.
- I did not mean it as-
Cerys noticed that her sister was mad at her and tried to apologize, but the tallest being interupted her with a laugh.
-Hahaha Cerys, it seems like you made big sis mad again.
-Shut the fuck up virgin
Cerys looked at her big brother with killing intent and verbally killed him again.
' I hope we will met soon' tought eldest sister while looking at sleeping Orion.