Raghu wants to break the bindings and take back control of his situation but he is helpless here. He keeps climbing the stairs towards the top of the palace where there was crystal before. He also observes this palace screames of royalty as it was aesthetically designed and has stone carvings so beautiful that he wants to sit and appreciate the art work. The stone step carvings alone are so elegantly designed and the vases placed at every step are handcrafted stones with paintings of some ancient goddesses pointing towards a mountain and several more scenes pictures of various animals he believes are extinct , but they all look so real as if the painting is alive.
He arrives in what he assumes the throne room, and sees the figure seated on the throne chair which has crystal placed on top of the chair. the chairs placed on the sides have smaller crystals that reflect light from the center crystal providing a dance of light responsible for lighting up the whole palace. However, The being is a covered in darkness, even though place is having sufficient light, the beings has chosen to be in dark , Raghu cant identify who is sitting on the chair. He can only see the bright yellow eyes staring at him.
Raghu has reached near the center and he was hoping that his invisible binding would be off so that he can some movement in his body. But to his disappointment, his he still bound and is made to stand in the center of huge hall. That is when Raghu sees a the figure moving with grace and nobility towards him. From the way of the walk he can finally tell that it has to be a women, no man can and will walk like that. She comes near him, and whispering in a charming and sweet voice in his ears : let me check you thoroughly, I want to know how you ended up here of all places.he can tell she is very excited, happy and appears to be in a chatty mood so she goes on ,you know this is the third time someone has come here for trail since I was brought here by the master , as if lost in her own thoughts for few minutes she didn't say anything and then goes on tell him , Not very lucky for you, its like you have such great bad luck that you arrived here for your first trail. She has already placed her index finger on his forehead and is searching his memory to find out the truth.
Raghu can't feel anything and even if he did feel something, he can't really do anything about this anyways. So he just wondering what is going on. Why is she saying My luck is bad, well he already knows his luck is bad, Not that he disagrees with her assessment, but does she really need to mock me for it. he wants to express some disappointment over it.
She is totally unbothered by what Raghu is thinking is still searching his memories, when Raghu body suddenly emits the violet colored energy and it blocks her attempts to see any further. She cant understand what happened, One moment she was able to read his life until he came to platform but when the ritual of the altar started she was blocked. Raghu is emitting that energy and it now covering his whole body and his body is shinning in violet hue.
Even Raghu is surprised with the sudden appearance of this energy. His right hand tattoo suddenly starts to act up as it starts to heat up releasing energies and his aura becomes a mixtures of all the 3 elements he can use. The lady is surprised seeing Raghu aura acting up. As if understanding something, she speaks again, quite a soul companion you have. Well I hope you understand your situation well as she removes her fingers from the forehead.
She then walks back to the chair and sits regally crossing both her legs and looking at him intently as he feels his binding coming off. She speaks with authority this this time : Since you have come here, It my duty to asses you. You will have survive the Pit for next 3 days. If you don't die there and make it out, you will have a rank and title. Those are the two things you receive in your first trial , which may change change later as you go ahead. So try to achieve the objectives and you will have the rewards.
I truly believe you already have the means to survive, It should also benefit you immensely for your growth , but let me warn you, out of the two who came before, only 1 survived , the other one's fate is far worse than death. You wouldn't want that to happen to you , I can see great potential in you. She claps her hands together and Raghu disappears from where he was siting.
Raghu does not feel anything, one moment he was in front of that lady whose face he still couldn't see and the next moment he is in this place, that makes him wonder why she called this thing a pit. What he sees all around him are rocks,huge rocks walls in the distance that must be having a slope gradient so high that It will nearly impossible to climb up, he can see the moon in the sky lighting up night in its moonlight giving the whole setting a very dark vibe.
To him it seems like he is in a huge hole with a which is in a form of inverted trapezium. He can see the sharp edges on the rocks and they seem to be black colored in nature. He is still undecided on what to do, when he hears a chime in his mind, survive here for 3 days, kill as many as you can. Your points will decide your rank and title. He has a timer running in his watch and there is a loud bang that is heard. The rocks that he was seeing earlier had exploded into pieces,as it's fragments scattered everywhere scaring the hell out of him.
The scene which came next made him almost numb as all the huge stones that were around him have started to explode one by one, it's like a pyrocracker show its just that this one is with rocks. As they scatter everywhere .there is so much dust and rock in the air that's its difficult to breathe for some minutes.
Once the dust settles down, those rocks as if they were alive start to vibrate and gather around several individual points that are attracting rocks towards itself, creatures start to form from those rocks, assembling themselves in the all types of known animals , dogs, rat, bulls, horses, cheetah,tigers , wild boars, bears etc...he can see a even some humanoid like beings being formed as well as huge rock golems.
He can't really count the number of beings in front of him, but he sweating profoundly as well as swearing curses at the lady wondering to which hell has she sent him.
He can see a sea of creatures all around him and he is thinking it's a never ending task to kill everyone. That too he has to survive for 3 days here. As the process of beings formation finally completes, he here a chime in his head stating what he feared the most. " Survive the pit for 3 days, the kill count will be considered to provide you with doom credits. These credits have greater value than CNC credit and can be utilised by you for purchase in the CNC store."
This does give him some happiness thinking atleast his labour will be rewarded.
Calming analysing the situation in front of him, he has to keep killing them and move to the area where he can hide for a bit , as he doesn't have unlimited stamina ,he can see some rock formations on the other side which didn't explode , he wants to check that out so that he may become potential resting places as he is bound to get tired. But reaching there will be long struggle ,as the whole route is filled with these stone beings. He takes out the only knife he has from his boots and prepares for the onslaught.