Chapter 69

Hellwalker.

-Before you woke, as every individual of your species, you went through a trial. You grew powerful in an endless battle in the depths of the umbral planes.

I initially thought a million years had passed from me dying and waking up as an exaggeration. Mainly because I felt I hadn't breathed in that long. Because I hadn't felt sunlight in that long. Because I hadn't been relaxed in that long. I felt my life as distant.

Why such a precise amount of time? Why not a hundred years? I didn't live that long on Earth, so why didn't I think of fifty years? That was much more than I lived, anyway. Why a million, then? Why not another equally unfathomable number, like a thousand years?

It was not a figure of speech, I just found out. But the exact amount of time.

The vow I was pushed to make by my instincts left from Hell showed me I did my task of surviving, and then some. The time spent in Hell went through my mind in a second.