All of this was a Trial?

[Congratulations! You have successfully survived the Trial…]

Arvian's mind was too overwhelmed to process the words, even though they shone in front of him.

Then—everything shattered.

The battlefield, the warriors, the sky—all got destroyed.

And then—time began to flow in reverse.

The sun, which had set in the west, rose again—only to set in the east.

Day and night flickered back and forth like a broken sequence, blurring together.

It seemed as though the world itself was wiping the battle from memory as the conflict, the cries, and the devastation all came back around.

And then—stillness.

The world had returned to the time before everything had begun.

Arvian gasped, finding himself in the same dark cave where he had first arrived in this world.

He was alone.

But his body was still hideous. His form continued to pulse with Zaryx's overwhelming power, and his six wings continued to stretch behind him.