Chapter 17: Trials part 5

Norn's pov

After Norn and Minerva passed the trial of wisdom conducted by the perverted old treant Betal. He and her got sucked by the spatial crack and by the time he open his eyes to find Minerva, he couldn't see her and he was alone in this dark and pitch black space.

Congratulations challengers for passing the trial of wisdom.Here lies the start trial of soul.Goodbye!!! May you passed this trial challlenger(said by the emotionless robotic voice)

Norn fainted a few minutes after the robotic voice bade farewell to him and he woke up in the deep sea water.

Gulu!!!gulu!!!

He was drowning. He was slowly submerging into the deep sea, iron chains are pulling him down and he couldn't move as his movements seems to be sealed by something.

He was holding his breath.

Norn was struggling gasping for air even though he couldn't in the deep sea.

This is only an illusion of the trial. This is fake.(Norn said to himself)

But the pain that this illusion gives is real. I was struggling for air and finally I suffocated to death in the deep sea.(Norn inner thoughts)

Norn woke up in another illusion. He found himself in a mountain top.

He could feel amazed by the majesty of the mountain lanscape the air is fresh and crisp,the sun shone brightly in the clear blue sky but sadly he was crucified and surrounded by beastmans.

A group of carnivore beastmen such as lions, tigers,wolves and hyena with a body similar to a human holding knives are standing near Norn.

Beside him a sheep headed beastman, a goat headed beastman,a girl with cat ears beastman,a boy with a dog ears beastman

and so on and so on mostly herbivore and weak beastmen with hopeless faces are also being crucified at a wooden stake beside him.

Rawr!!!Are the sacrifice ready?(Asked by the most largest and fearsome lion beastman:supposed to be their leader)

Yes,leader all of them are prepared for the sacrifice.(Said by the thin and small hyena beastman)

Get the fire!!! Burn them as a sacrifice in the ritual to our tribal War god Golurr.(Commanded by the fearsome lion beastman)

No,please no!!!!...(Said by the cat eared beastman)

Please,have mercy to us!!!(Said by the sheep headed beastman)

Leort,your so heartless,your not fit to be the

Leader of all beastman. Your petty excuse to use us as a sacrifice to your War god just to receive power to rule and conquer this world. You would only lead all beastmen against the world and into its own extinction.

(Said by the oldest beastman a goat headed beastman to Leort the fearsome beastman and the leader)

Tsk,We are beast Krut,we are the king of the jungle the humans,the elves and the dwarfs are only pitiful preys for us to hunt and play. This world is for us to rule.You all should be grateful to be a sacrifice to our Wargod Golurr.Your useless pity lives would be use for the greater good of all beastmen.(Said by Leort to the goat headed old beastman Krut)

What a pitiful poor soul you had Leort? You are blinded by greed. May our Goddess save us beastman from damnation.(Said by Krut)

Hahahaha!!! Fuck,what a load of bullcrap are you saying?

Rawrrrrrrrr!!!!!Burned him(commanded by Leort to an hyena headed beastman)

Whhhahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

Huhhhh!!hhuuuuhhh!!!!!

Cries and anguished voice of the beastman could be heard in the mountaintop.

Norn watched all of this unfold as he know that all of this is an illusion. But he was thinking if this happen in a parallel world.

He with the other beastman crucified in the wooden stake burned to their death after this.

Again Norn is in another illusion after his death in one illusion it continued in a variety of different ways. He was strucked by lightning a thousand times, walked and starved to death in a maze of no escape,he was poisoned to death, strangled to death,stabbed to death,executed to death,and he even became a bedridden victim of a dreadful slow plague to death and so on and so on.

"Fuck,What a batshit trial is this?Would this torture me to death.Isn't this trial supposed to be a mirror match against a copy of me."(Norn inner monologue)

How long would this trial illusion continue?

Was this trial meant to make me crazy with despair?

In the game the player would fight a mirror copy of themselves. It had the same skills,traits,level and ability as the player.

Is this the difference between real life and a game.Norn wasn't worried about the illusion because of his strong mental fortitude and nothing could make him lose his heart or else Sophie would have a terrible tragic end again.

Norn was relieved that Minerva take the golden fleece elixir and gain a new trait or else this trial might break her.(Norn inner monologues)