Where am I if not in hell? [C32]

*KIAAA*

With the last scream from the rank 5 Banalis that signaled its death, now all the Banalis were killed.

"How noisy, that scream is painful to the ears..." A scream that could potentially kill a mortal got deemed as 'noisy' by Shu Himo, everyone was speechless.

The hall gradually started to modify, showing how it was supposed to look: a great hall with, in the depth of it a pillar high barely a meter, with on top of it a Violin completely chained.

Isn't this the same as the pillars from the Sky Weapon Shop? Shu Himo was puzzled.

The violin was completely black, seemingly able to absorb anything within, while the wood is an indestructible type of wood, most likely resistant to both fire and impact, to the point, it could be used as a shield.

"A violin? This is surprising." Feeling the aura of fear from the violin warning them to not get closer, they were all startled.

'System, can I have the description of the violin?'

[Negative. Required touching the violin first.]

"Then, I shall proceed to take it." As he had no choice but to touch it due to the stingy system not giving any information, Shu Himo started walking toward the violin.

"Shu Himo! Beware, ok?" Lu Shela is the one that worriedly said it, which made Shu Himo remember how this world is weird, not only you are taking their objective, they even say to beware, what is wrong with this world?

Having these questions running through his mind, Shu Himo ignored the fear effect from the violin and just took it.

A moment later, he found himself to be in a completely different dimension, seemingly on top of the ocean, but he could walk on top of it like if it was a floor instead.

"So this is where the test will be?" Mumbling to himself, Shu Himo readied himself to not show his surprise for whatever he would find waiting for him.

"Kekekeke, now a young child is coming here to take the test?" 'How creepy is that laugh' is the first thought of Shu Himo but, as he readied himself to not show it the one who just talked did not notice it.

"I am the person who was secluded in the violin, nice to meet you, what is your name, child?"

"My name is Shu Himo, nice to meet you too." Now Shu Himo finally saw the person who he was talking to: another old man. How is that every cursed weapon have an old man in it? Isn't this way too scary? Respect or death, respect or death. Chanting that phrase in his mind, Shu Himo then said, "Sir, may I know what is the test to control the violin?"

"Oh, kekeke, nothing special, it's just a small mental attack, all you have to do is survive so if you die it's a loss for you, also, if you managed to resist I will teach you how to use the violin, take it as an extra, I can't let someone inexperienced use the violin, after all, it would be a bad image. Especially seeing how you were using that scythe."

Shu Himo was startled and embarrassed, this old man could see what was happening outside from the violin? Does that mean that the Dark King Dragon can see when I use the scythe?

Will he kill me seeing how bad I'm using it?

With all these thoughts in his mind, Shu Himo then noticed that the old man in front of him took the violin and then said, "Anything you will experience is something I will then teach you later if you survive... so do your best and don't die! Kekekeke!" The old man then started using the violin, and once the music started to enter Shu Himo's ears he slowly vanished, while the place around Shu Himo started immediately to morph into something else.

The area was now a desert, an extremely flat desert, with red sand, black sky and a myriad of ghosts floating in the air. All the Ghosts seemed to slowly morph into the Rank 5 Banalis he just fought and then charge toward Shu Himo. Shu Himo as an answer draw out his scythe... or better said, he wanted to draw it out but could not do so, as the storage is not accessible from here.

Startled for a moment, Shu Himo started running from the Banalis using [Hopper], and by watching all the Banalis, he found out finally that they were all stupid, and abusing this flaw, he dodged the combined attacks from all the Banalis and charged through them, dodging effectively all their attacks.

A moment later, while hearing a melody that seemed to call him to his death, Shu Himo saw the world change again, this time in a world of flames, but not normal flames, each flame was living and chasing Shu Himo!

Running everywhere, using multiple stacked [Hopper] to escape from the flames almost every time, getting sometimes slightly burned by them, Shu Himo resisted for a couple minutes.

Getting finally used to the speed and the pattern of the flames, Shu Himo stopped getting burned and managed to dodge the flames every time only to suddenly notice that the place started morphing again, only to be under the sea this time, so he could not breathe anymore, and all his movements got restricted.

Surely not expecting such a scenario Shu Himo was not ready to hold his breath and immediately drank a mouthful of water from his nose, needless to say, the water was really salty and started to annoy Shu Himo, who then noticed that some points of the water were starting to morph again, becoming living flames underwater and Banalis, both ready to attack him.

Startled by this situation, Shu Himo then said:

"Where am I if not in hell?"