After taking in his surroundings, Jason started looking around moving in a random direction when he got a screen in front of him in his vision explaining his current scenario:
Rules of the Divine Trial of Jason Nelford:
1.) You have to successfully complete One Billion and One tasks arranged for you to perform.
2.) During the duration of the trial, your real body will remain in real world while your soul is inside this trial.
3.) Each time you'll die, you'll get wounds on your soul that you'll have to mend yourself otherwise, your soul will be disintegrated.
4.) Trial will take less than couple of minutes in the real world even if you give up right now or after successfully completing this trial.
After Jason read the rule he saw rules disappeared & icon of golden lightning was blinking over his vision on bottom left corner when he concentrated and thought of clicking it, a screen appeared in front of his eyes detailing his first task.
Task (1/1,000,000,001) : Retrieve the Heavenly Treasure that'll help you connect with your soul.
A compass needle appeared over his vision on top right corner and he started heading in the direction, pointed by the needle. When he was about arrive at his destination, he heard terrifying screeching noises, so he hid behind a rock near him.
After a few moments when voices didn't subsided, neither did they grew louder, he started moving while laying low towards his direction, when came near an ancient ruins, he got chills down his spine.
There in front of him were xenomorph like dark grey creatures about 150 - 300 kg in weight running around playing/fighting with each other while screeching.
Thinking about going near them, he thought he should give up, dying a simple death would probably be more decent than being captured by those guys but just as he was tempted to give up, he thought why he was here and steeled his resolve and started planning how to pull of this heist.
He spent a couple of hours casing the place from all directions and found one place around the back that didn't have many xenos, so he threw out a couple of rocks to distract the ones already in that area & ran like a cat burglar to avoid making much noise towards a hole in the wall.
When he entered the place, he was nauseated by the strong putrid smell & tried to keep himself from vomiting while exiting huge hallway stealthily. He walked the path as his needle directed while tiptoeing against the xenos who were at every corner.
Now he was pretty deep in the ruin and when he got to a particular corner he stopped & got down as he heard loud screeching sounds. He heard the voice of flesh tearing apart and a very strong putrid smell attacked him and he emptied his stomach with loud voice.
There was moment of silence after it happened and Jason quickly tried to run away but 10 xenos came behind him and the largest one took hold of his neck and threw him on the ground, another one aimed at his groin area and started biting, and Jason started screaming like a mad man from excruciating pain of having his junk eaten off.
Others started eating other parts of his body & he died screaming a most horrible death.
After a few minutes Jason's new body was formed while his old one was eaten by xenos.
When his consciousness returned, he gasped for a breath and put his hand on his dick checking to see every thing but while he touched his groin area, a phantom pain lingered in his mind of what he suffered & he started crying from trauma and curled up like a ball.
He stayed out in the sun like that for hours until it was night-time & he got up and checked his task bar and nothing was changed but he there was utilities button below tasks & he clicked on it & there was only food button and he clicked on it too & hot meal appeared in front of him.
He thought about what happened and was thinking about whether living the life so full of pain is worth it or not. He wanted to go back because trauma of dying like that has left huge wound on his soul to the point that he couldn't even breath when thought about that place.
But while eating, he tried to think about happy days, anything that'll give him hope. He started recounting his life from when he was a kid playing with his father on a hot summer day, when his parents used to give him a musical performance during bed time & he slept listening to their beautiful music.
When his little sister Lily was born, how she used to run around and play with him and all those adorable nicknames she used to give him.
When his father got cancer with terminal prognosis and many good memories his family made during the last year of his father's life. And all those memories of good and hard times he made with his mother and sister and his childhood friends after his father was gone.
"Is living this painful life worth it?"
"Fuck yeah, What else is there?"
"And I'm going to enjoy the hell out this life."
"Who else can say he played Indiana Jones while fighting Xenomorphs?"
"And yeah, I'm going to fight them and beat the shit out of them."
So, he slept with such conviction & woke up with even more fierce determination. So, he found an appropriate 10 inch stone in the shape of a dagger after searching for some kind of weapon for a couple of hours. It was sturdy enough when he checked by hitting it on another stone.
So he went again to that place and lured out a relatively small xeno and when it got close he drove the sharp edge of the rock with into his back, or he tried to, the stone didn't pierce its scales & it turned around, screeched and jumped on him.
He used his left hand on his neck to keep it from biting his face off and with right hand tried to stab it any place where there weren't any scales.
And he found a place between the ribs and stabbed it and it screeched so loud Jason's ear drums were about to burst. But xeno's movement got extremely sluggish and Jason got up from under it & stabbed it in the opening on its neck and again in the opening between its ribs.
Its movements halted after a few moments later and black blood has gathered under it now.
Jason was feeling elated and was about to do a shout out to his victory when he found out he was surrounded by those xenos. Jason decided how he is going to die this time so he took the stone dagger and positioned it towards his jugular vein to give himself a quick death and told them:
"See you next time motherfuckers."
But suddenly his left leg slipped due to black blood and he fell on his ass and his dagger got knocked out away from him and said:"Shiiittttt".
And again he died like the last time except this time xenos were angry and they tried to make as painful as possible and he died cursing angrily while taking out the eyes of couple of them.
And Just like that he engaged in Guerilla warfare against those terrifying xenomorphs. At first attempts he died just after killing one of them but eventually one became two, two became three and just like that today he is standing in a crypt with wounds all over his body and he killed 21 of them without dying.
Inside the crypt, He walked forward a few meters and entered a silver barrier. And there was a platinum colored chalice floating in the middle of the barrier zone.
Jason walked towards it and found there was light blue colored translucent liquid inside the chalice and there were golden-white colored flames dancing on top of that liquid.
Jason held the chalice by its neck and suddenly Jason found himself in a breathtakingly beautiful scenery. This place felt like peace, calm and serene. He was standing near a lake with white-golden mist floating on top of it.
He checked his tab & he got a new task:
Task (2/1,000,000,001) : Drink the Heavenly Treasure and sit in the lake of divine essence and connect with your soul, meld your mind with your soul and heal you wounds.
Jason took off all his clothes and got into the lake and drank from the chalice, it burnt his throat like a thousand year old whiskey.
Burning Sensation spread everywhere in his body and he closed his eyes and concentrated on every feeling he was feeling right now, how his wounds were repairing, how his breathing brought about input-output of air and he searched for a connection that connected him to this world & to the life itself within him.
After a few hours, he found that faint connection that connected every part of his body. From his brain to his heart to his penis to his legs to his spinal chord, he followed this faint connection to every part of his body, be it bones, muscles, organs, tissues, bone marrow, eyes, testicles.
He found every part of his body through this connection & got basic knowledge of how that part is suppose to function, then he came to a part of his body that didn't make any heads or tails.
He got the idea how it's suppose to be the most important part since the connection was strongly intertwined with this part and his brain was unconsciously sending data to this body part through this connection.
Just like that everything clicked in Jason's mind. This connection he felt, he realized it was his life force and he felt that it was weak & was continuously being replenished by an external source like life supporting ventilator while this unknown body part was his soul.
He tried connecting with it for a few hours by sending various stimuli through his life force like good memories, exciting memories, erotic ones too, and terrifying & painful death ones too.
After a few days, he was successful in connecting his mind with his soul and he experienced every memory of his life with his soul again.
He kept this connection alive while trying to make it permanent.
After a few months, he couldn't think without his soul and this connection became permanent & it improved his mental strength by many times over.
Despite great mental health, he could very clearly feel pain from his wounds on his soul, and the wounds were healing at a very slow pace on their own but he tried to accelerate this process by trying to understand process of creation of soul energy which he found useful in healing those wounds.
But he found he couldn't improve soul energy creation right now, so he looked for other avenues and thought of trying divine essence on his wounds.
He took a deep breath and submerged himself in the lake of divine essence and tried to get a feel of energy around him through his soul, after two minutes he got out to take a breath and continued this process for a whole week.
By the end of the week, he found those golden tendrils of energy that were inside every part of his body due to being in lake all this time.
Then, he felt the same energy outside his body tried to take in this energy through his soul. He tried to exert his will upon this energy through his soul and after another month he found the wisps of divine essence started entering his body and moving towards his soul.
His soul took in that energy & devoured it. The wounds on his soul started getting healed & it took him a whole day to get his soul fully healed and he spent the next entire month feeding his soul this divine essence and strengthening it.
After a month, he felt his soul wasn't getting any stronger and the essence there, was too diluted for him to make any gain.
So he got up, checked his utilities & found a new option for wardrobe and got dressed.
And then he started repeating his cycle of getting killed repeatedly, learning new things, healing his soul, strengthening his soul and repeat, while finishing the tasks.