*Intelligence trial participation detected. Would you like to combine health and intelligence ?*
"I can do that as well. Hey system, are there any perks and cons for combining the trials?" Prajwal asked out within his mind. This system or what he called system had integrated into conciousness. It could read it's hosts thoughts. When Prajwal found about it, he was really scared. What level does a civilization have to reach to integrate a interface within the mind of billion people in a second? Many questions were circulating inside his head about what was the cause of energy being dormant, was enery active in the past, who was the creater of the system, what was the relation of system with the lives in the universe, was system created by someone of was it self-existence? And many more doubts were surfacing in his mind. But he only had one solution for all the questions. Become strong enough to dig every information. Everything led to strength. Nothing was possible without it, so the first priority was strength.
*Host there are no benefits or drawbacks for integrating both trial except the exposure*
"So, you are saying 'if you combine, you will get benefit of receiving free information without the increase in the difficulty of trial.' Of course, my answer is yes." Prajwal caught on the point in a second. System seemed baffled according to his imagination. After a long pause, system finally replied
*Both trials are combinig. For health, paitence is required so it is for intelligence. You have to mediate within place where space and time are wrapped and gain the enlightment, however small it may be to pass intelligence trial. As for health trial, you just have to stay in the space for half hour in real time.*
"Why does it feels that something is missing in the discription? I don't think this stingy system will give 10 points in health just for staying there for half hour. That place must be dangerous. And I have to gain enlightment there. Concept of time is wrapped there, how will I know how much time has passed outside." Prajwal was thinking about it and system answered his question
*If you can't comprehend anything in 6 hour of real time, you will be taken out and be considered failed in the intelligence trial and only pass in health trail. Both trial independent. So, one's result will not affect other*
Prajwal was fed up with just reading the discription on the panel. All the conversations he had with the system was in this format. The system couldn't talk, it only replied in written form. The only audio source of information transmission was through the announcement in the white room. "I should focus on the trial. This is one of the most important trial as it has the information which I will need to understand the current situation of the world. I should concentrate and remove all this additional thoughts from my mind. But they keep popping up. Haa....I don't even have control over my thoughts. They just wander here and there. If this goes on then I won't be able to survive. What if during my fight i get some random thoughts, that will get me killed. I should learn to control my thoughts and facial expression during this trial. I get the feeling that this trial is going to be long else time wouldn't have been mentioned in the description" Prajwal was having random thoughts and was looking into the panel where there was timer for the start of trial.
One thing to note was that, the area around Prajwal was still black. He couldn't see anything. Not only that, all his senses were blocked. He couldn't feel anything not could he smell and hear anything. As soon as the timer hit zero, he felt something that he couldn't describe. He still couldn't see anything, not could he hear or smell but he could feel something. This was new type of sensation for him. It was painful at the same time relieving. It was foggy at the same time clear. He could feel something approaching one second and very next second it was drifting away from him. He tried to feel the ground, but there was none. He was in an open space and was suspended. He just assumed sitting posture for meditating and tried to digest all the feeling he was feeling. After what felt like days, he finally digested all the feeling. The space around him was expanding and shrinking at the same time, that caused him to feel pain. As it was regular and balanced, it didn't cause much damage to him. His mind was affected as well due to the abrubt change in time flow. But he still couldn't sense the thing that was nearing him at the same time going further away from him.
Days went on and became months but still, Prajwal hadn't experienced any comprehension. The trubulence in the space and time was increasing as the time went on. He had been injured many thing. His internal organs were destroyed. He had crack all over his body. Blood was continuously flowning. His mind sometime became sharp and sometime foggy. He couldn't maintain the clearity of mind. What was interesting was that, in this trial one could quit in between. This trial was occuring in a special space, which was very dangerous for humans at their current state. The strongest could only survive for 2 hour within the space while sustaining life threatening injuries. So, as the trial was deemed impossible there was the option of quiting inbetween. You could at the very least pass health trial. System had nothing to do with the trial. As intelligence was most important trial, system had no interference in this trial. From the trial to reward for intelligence was decided by the history of the place. Even grandmaster didn't have right to observe the trial. Only the ones participating in the trial and system could observe and both would keep their mouth shut about it after the trial. So, nobody except themselves knew about the trial and reward for intelligence. All that is if you passed. If you didn't passed then well you won't be learning anything.
Prajwal felt like years had passed. It wasn't that he didn't gain any benefit within what felt like years. His recovery skill which he previously didn't know existed had increased by two major grade. It was due to this that he had survived till now. He had stayed past the human limit of 2 hours. And the next thing he benefitted was that now he could control his thougts completely. If he wanted to be blank minded, he could do so. With the total control of thoughts, he could change his expression. His last benefit was that his senses had advanced. As he couldn't smell, hear, see anything, he was developing those senses in way that he could use those senses even in the condition where he couldn't use those. This led to the creation on an skill 'zone'. Using this skill, he could observe everything within the zone with his mindeye. Every senses could be felt within the zone even with all the sense organs not working.
He was improving at a rapid pace in this environment. What was this place, that helped him this much? What was the history of the planet earth?