The black window materialized in front of him, the words upon it, written in the mighty dragon tongue, took some time to materialize and take upon their final shape.
It read:
[Trials of Shivalkulan.]
[1: Trial of Frost.]
-Gain the approval of Lanesha (Completed).
-Gain the approval of Azmakul.
-Defeat what lies at the heart of Kizmal.
Reward: Heart of Winter.
[2: Trial of Shadows.]
-Gain the approval of Kulak.
-Gain the approval of Shilam.
-Defeat 7 Shadow Beasts.
Reward: Mantle of Shadows.
[3: Trial of Darkness.]
-Gain the approval of Valus.
-Unknown.
-Unknown.
Reward: Heart of Darkness.
[4: Trial of Death.]
-Gain the approval of [Death].
-Understand [Death.]
-Use [Death].
Reward: Panoply of Death.
“I need to do all of that?”
Alan stared at the display with wide eyes, he looked up to Lanesha for confirmation, she simply nodded her head.
“… Just a quick question, How long do you think this will take me?” freeweɓnvel.com
She refused to answer, which only gave birth to bad estimates in Alan’s mind.
‘Alright… Just try to look at it in a positive light.’
He looked at all the trials he was given once more, thankfully, each set of trials had a different reward on their own, which was a saving grace if he was being honest. Not only would they be a satisfactory reward, but they would most likely be of help in the next set of trials as well.
For the trial of frost, he had somehow already done the first one, which was to get his ‘mother’s’ approval. That was the easiest of all of them. Now, for the other parts of the trial of frost… He had no idea who Azmakul was, and neither did he know what was meant by the Heart of Kizmal, however, just even thinking about it irked him.
For the trials of shadows, the first two were the same, gaining the approval of two individuals. One being the Supreme Dragon of Shadows, Kulak, and someone called Shilam. Whilst the last one being about beating seven shadow beasts…
If it was the same as in the Tower of Trials, that should be relatively easy… Alan was quite confident he would defeat that same shadow beast much easily now.
‘Although I do have to take into account that the tower’s trials were changed just to fit my level…’
Once he thought about that, he scratched the idea of the last part of the trial of shadows being easy. The trials in the tower were rigged by the bastard that controlled it, but even then they were still made to be possible. Whatever he had faced there had been severely weakened.
The trial of Darkness however, although having the same first part as the other two, had two unknown parts.
“Does it mean that I have to get the approval of Valus first to unlock the rest of the things?” His face paled when he realized. If it truly was true, then he was in deep trouble. He was terrified of the Supreme of Darkness already…! He had hoped to do the other parts of the trial first and work his way up to that part. There was no order of things listed, so he thought that would be possible.
It was hard for Lanesha to look at the sheer variety of faces Alan could make, some managed to make her chuckle, while some made her worry.
“Don’t be discouraged, I know you can do them all easily!”
She offered her some encouragement. It surprisingly had some effect on Alan as he, as saddened as he was, to move on to the final trial, the most ambiguous of all the trials.
This one was different from the rest, it did not want any approval from any individual, but rather from [Death]. The skill he had got after he had absorbed the drop of ichor belonging to Ariel.
It wanted him to gain the approval of the skill, as weird as that was. Understand it, and use it. It may seem the most simple out of them all, but Alan knew it was probably the most difficult. He couldn’t use the [Death] skill at all. No matter how much mana he used. Though, this was one he could start working on as soon as possible, since the others were most likely situated on the planets of the respective supremes.
After thinking for a while, he reckoned he should start getting information, he didn’t want to go in blind.
“Can I know Azmakul is, and where the heart of Kizmal is, and what I have to defeat…in it?”
Lanesha smiled, and answered. Her smile was enchanting.
“Azmakul is the one who took care of me from the moment I was born, and is now the grand general of my armies. Someone you must treat with utmost respect. He will meet up with you soon when he is finished with some business. As for where the heart of Kizmal is…”
She stood up from her grand throne, and waved her hand in the air, a rift appeared, the air broken like glass. Alan was shocked, everything about his own knowledge of the spatial attribute as well as his instincts told him it was related to space, but he couldn’t understand how it worked at all.
She hadn’t simply opened a rift, she did something else that he couldn’t understand yet. “Don’t worry, this is a medium tier space magic at best, I’m sure you would be able to do it
soon.”
One crystal, as smooth as glass and as flat as a mirror the size of a palm appeared out of the rift, along with a handful of books, each having a special aura of their own.
“The crystal will lead you to where you need to go, Azmakul will probably meet you during your journey there. As for the books… remember when I said I would try my best to give you an aura technique? I did my fair bit of research on the tribe of bird men and did a few
transactions to acquire these…”
The items floated over to him.