Beatitudes

Episode 77.

  Inside a place with the semblance of a cave, within a separate space from the rest of the world, on taking the first step away from the barrier through which we entered, a screen with a bloody red color suddenly weaved into existence right in front of the three of us.

//You have been deemed a challenger-

Trial objectives:

1st Objective- Eliminate all tainted beasts(0/110)(Imperative)

2nd Objective- Clear all floors(0/5)(Imperative)

3rd Objective- Eliminate the mountain king(Imperative)

4th Objective- Destroy the mountain(Optional)

Failure to complete the objectives will result in punishments:

1st Possible punishment- Entrance into any tainted mountain will be disallowed for three months.

2nd Possible punishment- Rank progression will be delayed for three months.

Punishment will be chosen at random depending on the final outcome of the trial. Good luck! //

I stared at what popped up in my view with intrigue as I felt kind of familiar with such an occurrence, the downside was that I just couldn’t remember where or when exactly I had seen it before.

But as I continued to quickly read through what was written on the light screen, I couldn’t help but feel a little perplexed at what I was seeing. There were three things that got my attention,

The first being the number of beasts present in the mountain, since this was a trial of sorts and the lowest tier of the trials, I was surprised at the number present, I knew we would have to kill all the beasts but not this many beasts. But after realizing I wasn’t the only one around and doing a quick calculation keeping our improved battle speed in mind, I shrugged and accepted the number, it wasn’t like I could change it anyways.

I noticed it had an imperative tag of sorts attached to it, which meant that I probably had to make sure I did it along with the two other imperative objectives listed alongside it

The second thing that got my attention was the fourth objective I saw listed under the trial objectives,

‘Destroy the mountain, is the mountain personally asking us to destroy it…’, I couldn’t help but feel perplexed when I saw the objective. Unless there was someone else with us in the mountain who was secretly playing around and had the power to tweak these things to his liking, this was obviously the mountain’s objective… and since Adam had already said so previously, there was definitely no one else within this place. It was a bit confusing, and I couldn’t help but pause slightly as I considered it. In the end, since it was an optional thing and not something we could even do at this point, I decided to just forget it.

The third thing that I couldn’t help but notice was the most surprising one as I had not a single idea of it. There were punishments for failure! The trial would be deemed a failure if I failed to complete even just a single one of the imperative objectives listed.

‘Why the h*ck would there would be something like this, we get punished if we fail?!’

Even Astral  spoke up when he saw it,

Astral : The punishments are a little excessive…

And that was the most disheartening part about it, although it’s only been a while since I got my class and started getting stronger, I could clearly understand how important trial mountains and rank progression was based on the things that Adam said, the so called punishments if I failed to clear the mountain that I could see here was essentially either going to bar my entrance into any tainted mountain I come across, although I wasn’t sure how that was going to work, or would delay my rank progression which meant I wouldn’t be able to increase in tier or possibly even grow stronger… this was a whole three months and although it wasn’t going to be the two punishments at the same time and instead would be chosen randomly between the two, that still didn’t make it any more bearable as either of it would still be painful enough.

‘How is it even possible to do these things, it’s my body isn’t it….’

But despite my thoughts there wasn’t much I could do about it, and I had no time to think about it now either because although we were reading through the words on the screen at a quick pace, the snarling beasts charging at us weren’t going to slow down at any moment for us.

The screen disappeared from our sights as we stared ahead at the beasts charging at us.

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Hey guys, I hope you’re enjoying the novel as much as I am. Although I haven’t received any comments on what I’m about to address, I figured I should just say it here anyways to inform you.

It’s not actually an announcement or something, I just noticed that I published a minute number of chapters twice on the site, hence there are a few number of times where you were reading one chapter then went on to the next chapter only to find out that it was the same thing you had read before. For this issue you faced and I just noticed now, I wanted to apologize about it and promise that I’ll do something about it, hence my words here.

The thing is I’m actually usually out of sorts most times when I publish these chapters, my mind’s not thinking straight so I end up making a mistake when choosing which chapter to publish when it’s the time I choose to publish.

I don’t know how you guys feel about these chapters since I haven’t been seeing any comments on it or anything at all or whether there  has been anyone who has even noticed this yet. I can’t guarantee it won’t happen again another time, so I hope you guys could point it out when it happens. Nevertheless, I keep it at an all time low so it doesn’t affect the story or anything.

Thanks for reading my novel and stay safe guys.