Chapter 2: History

After arriving in the hall of my house, I left for the bathroom. While bathing in tub I slept, because of the comfort given by safe surroundings, I couldn't resist it. 

After I woke up, I checked the time and date, it was still my birthday time 8 AM. If my guess was correct no time taken for trial, I slept for 8 hours. 

If the screen was not in front me, I would have thought that all was dream. I can open and close the screen with my thoughts. 

Name : Bolt 

Rank : Basic 

Core :1 [0/1000] 

Trait : None

Skills : Space-Time pocket. 

The were no news about the trial on the internet or news channels. I went to work as if nothing happened. There I saw her, a mixture of many emotions emerged in me, but I controlled myself. Because that was a workplace, and we were in public. 

"Good morning, if I explain about my reasons, will you forgive me?", I nodded without replying. 

"Thank you, I will come to your house after work". She went to her desk. 

In the evening at my home, I was sitting against her on the sofa. "Care to tell me about every detail without any missing info please Ms. Amy. Oh sorry, what is your name miss? Sorry again, should I address you miss or mistress?" 

"You can call me Ms. Amy, that is my true name. I will explain what I know from beginning to end but some secrets I can't tell, if I tell you, both of us will die." Bolt's face paled instead of getting angry at her. As he didn't say anything, she continued. 

"100 years ago, 100 humans forcefully put in trial together, only 10 successfully cleared it. Everyone else was died. 

After returning one awakener killed another one, other 8 awakeners joined and killed the killer and made an agreement of non-aggression among themselves. 

For 10 years including first generation, 100 humans put in group trial once every year. I don't know who they are. After that next 15 years, 1000 people put in solo trial every year. Next 70 years 1000 humans can challenge the trial every year with the help of the first-generation awakeners. As I don't know how, don't ask me about it. 

96th to 99th years 10,000 random people put on solo trial every year. It was also the years were death rate 75%. But rewards were unimaginable considering the last 95 years. Selecting difficulty only available for solo trial. I am 96th batch. 

This is the last year. Today is the last day. Three months ago, I received an anonymous mail about selecting a candidate for last year's trial. There will be 1,00,000 candidates this year. I had to select one candidate and send that person to trial with their consent. 

There were some conditions, the person mustn't know about the trial before you disclose them, they shouldn't be closely related to awakeners, they must be between the age of 20 and 30, this info should not be shared to others except candidate chosen by you. You can share 10 candidates about these before trial. If you failed to get any one consent of the 10 in two months, their memory about you and trial will be erased and you will have to get consent without informing them about this. You can share it after the trial. 

I thought this was some spam from other awakeners. But a brand-new screen opened in front of me and made it some kind of side trial. If I failed this trial, I would be dead. I failed in selecting one in 10 candidates from telling truth. You are also one of the 10. So, there was no other way, I was desperate. 

I was short on time. Fortunately, you have the same date of birth as my trial ending date. I approached you and you know the rest. Please forgive me for this lie." She apologized again. 

"...", I starred at her silently. She once again spoke and explained much information like ranks, how to increase rank etc. 

She left after apologizing again and again. I didn't know what to do. I was silent all the time. She was my first girlfriend. She didn't tell me if she seriously loved me or not. Before I asked anything, she dumped a lot of information and apologized again and again and left.