363 Reward (1/2)

”The temperature's rising a lot.” Raven pointed out as he remained seated amidst the sea of fire. He placed a finger on his chin and said: ”This is the second time this happened and only twelve hours has passed. This means that the temperature rises every six hours huh.”

He then observed the appearance of the flame even closer and noticed that they appear to be regular flames created through Fire Energies. The Sun Crystals embedded on the walls of the temple was constantly releasing fire energies to keep the flame alive even though they are a closed space.

Of course, this is heat nothing to Raven. His force barrier is strong enough to endure the flames without any problems even if the flame's temperature rises once more. He consumption of Chaos Force is almost non-existent thanks to his constant state of deep meditation.

”Ellen wouldn't mind this, I'm sure. In fact, I could safely say that she could even fall asleep in here.”

As someone who gained understanding of Fire Laws, this kind of environment could be said to be made for her. Of course these flames wouldn't hurt her, in fact if she's injured before hand, she could use this flames to cure herself.

But of course, Raven is different from Ellen. Needless to say, passing the first trial is a cinch for him. All he had to do is to wait until the time limit was up and he could move on.

Raven decided to spend the remaining time in deep meditation. He didn't have any better things to do anyway so he might as well. Once the 18th hour arrived, the temperature rose by a few degrees. It happened one last time during the 20th hour.

Once the time limit was up, the sea of flames disappeared along with the heat surrounding him. He woke up from his meditation and stood up.

There's still some residual heat left by it was harmless to him. He then proceeded to walk towards the altar and see his progress. He saw a bunch of words written saying:

”First Trial Complete. Proceed with the next trial?”

Raven didn't hesitate and placed his hand on the ritual circle. That was the way to confirm his desire to continue with the trials and since he was far from reaching his goal there was no reason to stop at all.

Once his confirmation was received, the whole floor lit up once more and he was informed about his next trial:

”First Floor, Second Trial: Defeat the waves of enemies within 10 minutes.”

As soon as he was finished reading that, the words then transformed into a countdown timer. Ritual circles then appeared inside the floor, summoning waves of demonic beasts who are at least Tier 3 in strength.

Raven didn't need to think hard on this one since the trial was straight-forward enough. He allowed his fist to do the talking.

There are a total of three waves that appeared, the final wave were all Tier 4 Demonic Beasts but once again, they were no threat to him at all.

***

A couple of weeks passed and Raven continued blitzing through the trials.

As expected of Sun Temple, he basically didn't face the same enemies and the difficulty ramps up in every subsequent trials.

He had face different kinds of trials at this point. He had been doused to a sea of fire, ne faced several demonic beasts, answered questions and puzzles, made his way through a bunch of deadly traps, tasked to grow a specific plant and etc.

This might be the most random and/or excessive trial for sect admission he had probably encountered but Raven didn't mind at all. In fact he was having a good time. He found himself looking forward to the next trial and barely needing any kind of rest at all.

Due to this, he is currently on the 30th trial. Meaning that he could choose to walk out of the temple at any given moment. Of course, he's not going to without taking the ingredient that he's after. He only had to pass 20 more trials and he's good to go.

Currently, he's wrapping up the 30th trial. His task is…

*Boom!*

*Shatter*

To slay a Little Stone Titan…