"Notice: You have passed all normal trials within this realm. A new trial developed specifically for you has been created. Please step through the portal. Please note, all the forces, zones, and other objects you have obtained in this trial are counted as your rewards for completing all objectives and unlocking the bonus trial."
Okay, so I get to take everyone and everything with me? That's a nice reward. I will worry about them later. Now it's time to see what this specialized trial holds for me.
Without delay, I entered the portal. After crossing the portal, I was only met by endless silence, darkness, and a void lacking life. On guard for what came next, I reached for my weapons, only to find out I have no equipment, not even clothes. Completely naked in this darkness, I began to wonder what the trial was. My answer came to me as an announcement as usual.
"You have entered the Realm of the void. Your final trial is to survive your greatest fears, doubts, jealousies, wrath, lusts, pride, greed, and apathetic laziness. Here you will be assaulted by many thing which are assigned to the aforementioned carnalities, and many other things you have ignored in your life."
"After reviewing your soul, it has been determined you are over 900 million sols old and will undergo the harshest level of this trial. There is no prep time. The trial will commence directly after this announcement. Failure to complete this trial will result in the total destruction of your soul."
I didn't have time to react as wave after wave of cursed energy crashed against my naked flesh. These waves infiltrating my mind, and created a sea of never-ending visions. Some of the visions involved my Earth family dying in the most gruesome ways. Death very much similar to my wife.
Or worse, raped to death, bludgeoned with an inch of their lives. Their limbs were removed slowly with rusty and somewhat dull blades to maximize the torturous experience. Eventually until a rail spike was stabbed into their heads.
Watching all this play-out would have broken me if I had not already known they were dead. I already witnessed Solar wind or Solar Storms rained down on the Earth. The solar wind caused physical harm to the Earth as the sun rapidly expanded well before the hypothesized time. (The Earth was literally split in half for god's sake!)
After those images, came images from my past 48 lives, to which I held no attachments towards. Nonetheless I was slightly disturbed by images. Once the illusions began to play scenes of gruesome death and dismemberment using my current life, I began to feel the effects of my curse run ramped. As the waves of cursed energy caused my left hand's accursed mana palace to awaken and rapidly devour the energy. At first, I thought something bad was about to happen, but then I noticed a boon slowly in the making.
While the accursed mana palace was absorbing this endless energy which best suited it, purified lifeforce was exiting the palace and headed to my Divine Kingdom mana palace, which in turn slowly condensed this lifeforce into what I think was an egg of sorts, throbbing like a newborn's heartbeat.
"It would seem, my cursed mana palace is providing me with a blessing instead of trying to end my life. Very well, eat up until your about to burst!"
I thought out loud, poring magoi into the accursed mana palace until it fully opened and the suction force created made a very audible sound within this void. Instead of waves of cursed energy hitting my body, they were instead immediately sucked into a black hole of sorts. Surprisingly, it caused me to find myself floating comfortably in the void.
According to the voice, My soul is over 900 million sols old (to be exact 950,520,833 sols-old) which matches the systems conjecture of me being more than 1 billion Earth years old. Does that mean my trial will take that long to come to an end, or will it simply intensify as time passes? I didn't know, and probably won't find out anything until something different from now happens.
With that thought in mind, I stopped concerning myself with duration or difficulty of the trial and began focusing on my training. As I've previously hypothesized, in order for me to enter the next level of my path to power, I will need to develop a trihectohedron made of magoi, but somehow get aura involved. Wait!, what if I infuse my aura into the cursed mana palace? Will that affect the lifeforce it expels?
Trying out that theory, I infused aura into the mana palace, but nothing noticeable happened. Determined to not give up, I continued experimenting as I might be in this void space for hundreds of millions of sols. I experimented with many different ways on attempting to create the 3-dimensional incubator.
The same magoi incubator for the object or being or whatever it will be needed for me to breakthrough to the next stage. Eventually, my trials no longer remained my chief focus as the cursed energy wave began to grow in intensity and energy density. Now the waver were more like tsunami waves hammering down on my physical body.
I was completely surprised to have survived the first wave, when the second, third, fourth and fifth waves came at me simultaneously. Tired of being a punching bag, I fought back against the waves. In response, the wave became like ferocious demonic serpentine dragons the size of Midgardsormr and attacked with extreme prejudice. It was a war between the speck that I am verse an army of billions of Midgardsormr sized waves of cursed energy.
This would appear to be the best time to train my combat abilities. When I first broke through to the MagiKnight stage, I never attempted to use both aura and magoi together given how tired I felt afterwards. Now, I have no choice but to do so if I want to survive this ordeal. Gritting my teeth, I evoked Atomicsaber while condensing my aura into a sword of sorts I could hold. From here, I began to shoot sword waves at the cursed energy tsunamis in hopes of breaking them up and absorbing the smaller bits.
What happened instead, the tsunamis only absorbed my energy and grew bigger. Well fuck me sideways! These energy waves were as gluttonous as this accursed mana palace.
The tsunami waves then proceeded to hammer into me like nothing happened. Still, I didn't give up and kept attacking, if only to slow down the waves' movement and provide me enough time to catch my breath in between getting hammered by the waves. In this manner, I fought for my life and tempered my body and mind while being assaulted endlessly by wave after wave of energy.
-End of Chapter