Chapter 55 - Weaving Through Distortion (2/2)

Just as he was going to wonder why the disembodied voice was taking so long to let him enter the third world, coincidentally, the disembodied voice resounded throughout the hall all of a sudden as Aurus felt a sucking force enveloping his whole body.

”Haha! I was prepared for you, bitch!” Aurus couldn't help but laugh as the words of the disembodied voice entered his sense of hearing as he instantly disappeared from the center of the green jade hall.

”The third world, Distortion, has been casted.”

”Transporting the inheritor to the world.”

...

In another green jade hall.

Whoosh!

A branch that had cuts and scars all over its body as it was covered in some sort of viscous crimson red fluid, suddenly appeared in the center of this specific green jade hall.

Looking around its surroundings, it couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief inwardly as it knew that its second trial was over. This branch was Herellia, who was trapped inside a world filled with incessant enemies that came to attack her at any given time.

”I...I succeeded...” Herellia said to herself inwardly as she tried to recover whatever was recoverable. As she was doing this, the disembodied voice, that always came at either at a coincidental time or at a bad time, resounded throughout the hall.

”The second trial, the Endurance trial, has been completed. The inheritor has survived for 5 days within that world and killed a total of 941 enemies. Score grade: S.”

”Since the inheritor has achieved such an exemplary score, the next trial's difficulty shall be reduced. Also, the inheritor shall receive a random reward from the inheritance.”

”Reward is being randomly picked by the inheritance...”

”Reward has been picked. The active skill [Stick Regeneration] has been rewarded to the inheritor.”

Ding!

Of course, with Herellia having a system just like Aurus thanks to the blessings of the god that gave her the system, the Goddess of Kinship, Herellia was able to hear this notification sound as a screen appeared in front of her vision.

'The active skill [Stick Regeneration] has been obtained.'

Herellia read the words of the skill and felt that it was familiar to her. Closing her sense of vision and recalling the thought, a spark appeared in her mind and made her let our an extremely cheerful aura.

”This is...” Herellia couldn't believe that the inheritance would give the skill so easily.

”This is the healing skill Aurus was talking about!”

...

Whoosh!

Aurus was instantly teleported into another illusion world. This illusion world was extremely befitting of the name 'Distortion'. The sights everywhere were extremely skewed or deformed, may it be trees, plants, the sky, the sun, or even the buildings around where Aurus appeared.

That's right, just like in the 'Mirage' illusion world, Aurus was in the middle of a village once more, with huts and the basic necessities easily visible, albeit skewed and twisted in a way that you wouldn't recognize it as a village.

Aurus opened his eyes and instantly felt cool-headed and rational since he was prepared for the teleport, not needing to take time to regain his rationality and logicality.

Looking around his surroundings, Aurus couldn't help but exclaim, ”Wow. If this was some sort of interactive abstract art in an art gallery, then I'd get rich if I sold this.”

”Too bad that this is all just an illusion. Plus, it's definitely confusing,” Aurus continued before closing his sense of vision.

Since he remembered that the name of the world was 'Distortion', all of his surroundings were distorted to a great degree, even his body was not spared from this, making him extremely dizzy.

Thus, he changed his mindset to view everything in a way that didn't let light refract any of the things he saw. Indeed, just like the mirage, this distortion was not a physical distortion, but rather an optical one. Aurus passed through one of the distorted buildings as if it wasn't there, getting to this conclusion.

Whoosh!

As Aurus opened his eyes, the view around him was as if nothing unusual was happening at all. Everything seemed normal at all. But of course, Aurus knew that he had to find the cause of this distortion, just like how he had to find the origin of the mirage in the previous illusion world.

Casting [Gale Hover] on his body, he gradually hovered off the ground as he relied on his active [Soul Perception I] skill to try and find the origin of the distortion.

”I hope I find the cause for this distortion in a short amount of time.”

Ding!

”Oh hey, [Soul Perception I] leveled up! Sweet!”