"Hey! Big guy, here..." Skylar happily wolfing down a juicy red fruit in one hand yelled softly at the gaint white snake that is waiting at a corner with his other hand outstretched in her direction, holding another fruit. An act definitely inviting her for a share.

  Well, maybe she doesn't like fruit... Skylar in a bid to console himself found an excuse after he was ignored by the white giant snake. Then the annoying sound of him chewing and drinking with occasional gulping sound, which he choose to ignore but minimize continued to echo on loudly in the room until he emptied the content of the two large containers he was offered. And after his eventful feast, he slumped down on the large bench and rested his body for a few minutes.

  ...

  After his rest, Skylar stood up and approached the giant snake that has been staring at him diligently with a peculiar look in her eyes at the corner where she is, which she has never moved from.

  "Hey, let's go." After he reached her, he requested with his hand folded and his clear eyes locked to her pair of eyes staring meaningfully at him.

  ***

  To the trial ground.

  Along a wide corridor with ceiling supported by pillars with height in the hundred of meters; Skylar tailing behind the white gaint snake looked excitedly at the scene the corridor provided, a scene that seem to jump out of fantasy.

  Wow! What are in this large rooms and why are all the rooms here so fucking humongous? If I think about it now, that room with the altar is probably the smallest room I think I have seen so far, and yet its size was almost as big as a football pitch... Skylar thought as he looked to his right side at the corridor wall which along it holds a series of outlines of very gigantic doors which probably leads into rooms with unbelievable dimensions and of unknown purpose.

  Skylar then turned his head to his left side where this corridor that has an ancient atmosphere felt the most unreal or make people assume its a holographic projection.

  He moved closer after turning his head to have a clearer view of the very tall arched windows that features super tall embellished white columns arranged at a symbolic interval along the corridor.

  At the same time, he also saw brightly glowing vines and herbs of different size ranges which find their support on and embrace ceremoniously the divinely crafted parapet and column sitting on them—the cloister—adding to the glory and feel of the ancient mystery permeating the corridor.

  So practically, the source of light in this place are this luminescent plants, especially this one that look like a sunflower... Skylar thought as he switched his view from the clouds that is illuminated by the glows of the plants life and its trying to force its way in from the space above the the arched window of the corridor cloister, and maybe flood a gigantic brightly glowing flower like the one in the room he just left which like the others also clings firmly to the very high ceiling of the corridor.

  ...

  Moments later, they reach the end of the corridor and in front of the duo, the outline of a gigantic door on the corridor wall opened, revealing a gap its size as it magically and slowly vanish into the wall beside it.

  "Uncle, at this rate you should come in." Before they could take a step, the serpent voice echoed in Skylar's mind, urging him to act as he was about to. And Skylar with his mind still relishing the unreal beauty and feel the cloister offered him absentmindedly entered through the space the door revealed and entered into the large space behind it.

  ***

  The qualification trial ground.

  The sky of the place they entered was filled with grey gloomy clouds, hence its light from above that is illuminating the place was dull, thereby making everything in it reflect grey light which made the place seem like the land of the dead—old and decaying. And this is what Skylar who has been carefully observing the soil of the trial ground already concluded about the place.

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  Another crazy landscape...

  Skylar thought to himself as he threw to the floor the damp and decaying grey soil he held in his hand, and then he raised is head to observe carefully the layout of the trial ground.

  Looking carefully... in front of Skylar was a sea of boulders that seem like gaint pillars carved from rocks. At the base of the boulder below, the shadows they cast block off totally the illumination coming from the grey clouds above which in turn make those places dark and therefore a perfect location for an ambush.

  "Uncle listen, at this rate your task is simple, all you need to do is reach the other side where you will find the exit and leave, that's all, I wish you good luck."

  Interupting his observation, the intructional and seductive voice of the serpent echoed in Skylar's mind and it quickly vanished with its presence as it ended, probably an effort by its origin to avoid getting a reply.

  This crazy bitch. She did not even explain everything clearly and she wished me good luck, ah no, it can't be this simple, there is definitely a trick somewhere...

  "Mmmppphh..."

  As a sudden action, Skylar halt his thought and suddenly pinched his nose to block of the flow of air through it.

  "Shit, what's this crazy smell...? Wait, its like the smell of sewer, how?" He muttered as he tried to stop the intense smell from dominating his senses by holding his breath, and in addition, he also blocks his mouth.

  Now this is good, then...

  Pleased with himself after dealing with the smell, he honed his senses, scanning as far as his reach.

  I can sense you m-fuckers. I know you are hiding in the dark waiting for me to walk in foolishly into your traps, but wait, how can I overcome this? There a lot of this guys, probably millions and I can barely match their average level strength-wise, is their a trick to getting to the other side, ah yes, I get it...

  Coming to a decision in response to the obstacle laid in wait for him, Skylar proceed to scan the boulder closest to him with his sixth sense. Then after an enlightenment, he suddenly start sprinting fast towards the boulder at great speed, running like he doesn't care if he collide with it.

  However, as his sprinting figure neared the faint boulder, suddenly, he disengaged from the ground, meaning he leaped with the help of his careless speed very high into the air aiming for the top of the boulder. However, in midair, he narrowly dodged a wooden spear from the dark aimed at him and because this made him not to reach his destination which is the boulder, he fell from above to the dark shadow of the boulders below and amidst his ferocious adversaries hungry for his flesh and thirsting for his blood.

  ***

  "They have too much energy." Someone in a dark room watching the scene of Skylar that is projected on a wall commented with a sweet and typically feminine voice.

  "Yes, they are very hyperactive and at this rate they've found themselve in the worst possible situation ever." Another person added, probably the green serpent as her voice was exceptionally seductive.

  "Mistress will he be alright?" The sweet young voice followed up, asking with great concern in her unique feminine voice.

  ***

  Fuck! Giant rats standing on two legs, so they are the source of that smell. Just look at their ugly dirty grey fur, why are this m-fuckers using weapons, this is definitely the first I have seen...

  Skylar having managed to survive the fall, carefully analyzed as he stood to his feet, his back to the boulder while he his surrounded mostly in front by growling ferocious rats with eyes glowing red from bloodlust.

  "Don't stare at me like that, idiots." Skylar rudely addressed his enemies approaching him slowly while he also in response moved backwards a bit towards the boulder behind him; he looked absolutely cornered.

  If there are about 60 rats per pillar, how many will I have to face till I reach the other side? Impossible! There is no way. More than a million pillars, I will be dead in no time, so...

  "Act two." Immediately Skylar vocalised, his figure suddenly appeared launched into the air, this time aiming for a cliff edge on the gigantic boulder behind him. However, a pebble lunched from one of the rats he failed to spot—one hiding behind the group of rats— hit his forehead squarely which then made his figure plummet rapidly to the ground with a thud yet again. And the group of rats as a response suddenly took few steps to the back just as he landed face down on the ground, his life and death unknown.

  After the rats waited for a short period of time for reason known only to them; a very skinny rat among them, a bold one went on all his four and stealthily approached the figure motionless on the ground in front of them.

  Soon, the bold rat got very close to the tiny figure while its whiskers look out for unusual changes in the creatures presence. And then the others also confirming the absence of abnormality after seeing how he is excitedly going for the tiny creature on the ground all quickly with unreal speed made their dash for a share of the creature's meat before its too late.

  However, just a moment after, what the hungry rats far behind witneesed as they near the creature was the head of the bold rat in front detached from his body, flying very high into the air with a jet of fresh blood chasing after it in haste.

  ***

  "Mistress, combat realm of instinct?" The earlier sweet and typically feminine voice that belong to a younger person echoed in the dark room where the scene of unconscious Skylar decimating a group of rat is projected on its wall she and one other person is watching.

  "I always know he was a beast in disguise and at this rate he may just annihilate all those hungry guys I prepared for him." The mistress, probably the green serpent passed her comment with her seductive voice that also expressed her excitement.

  "Mistress look..." Spoken quickly, the excited feminine voice echoed as the figure of Skylar in the projection eliminated a group of giant rats in no time with just a rapid throw of pebbles.

  "I wish big sis can see this." The feminine voice added with a wistful tone.