YM778.TV Chapter 223 Sixth Trial
The splash of blood startled some of the other entrants, and they looked at the mutilated corpse in shock. The rest quickly dodged and turned their heads upward. There was no time limit or any indication of when this would end.
That meant they had to dodge, dodge, and continue dodging.
That was it.
There was no more to it. There were no tricks. No hidden intentions. No requirements. Nothing to keep track of.
Still, it was the most difficult Trial so far. It took a toll on both physical and mental strength. It was difficult to keep bending their necks to look up and try to predict where the cannonballs of water would fall.
As if that wasn\'t enough, the area they had to move around on shrank steadily.
Zach wasn\'t sure if it was because of that or if it was really happening, but it felt like the cannonballs of water increased in frequency as well.
They didn\'t have to be fast to dodge the cannonballs. They didn\'t have to be strong. All it took was looking up and taking a step.
That was why it wasn\'t an advantage to be fast or strong. The only advantage one could have was good perception.
Or a skill that provided impeccable defenses, such as Zach with his Blessed Defense.
He had dodged at first because that was what the message said and because he still had his reflexes. Then, he realized that he didn\'t have to do that. He didn\'t have to risk getting hit by a cannonball of water.
So, he threw up a barrier around him and his familiars. Yanael looked like she wanted to challenge herself by actively participating in the Trial, so Zach didn\'t stop her. Instead, he let Nessa, Violina, and their familiars take her place after they made their way over to each other.
Zach felt like it was a little unfair. He wasn\'t the only one. The other entrants were fighting for their lives, but they didn\'t miss how some of the water balls didn\'t splash against the ground or other entrants, but the air above Zach and his group instead.
Zach considered the possibility of expanding his barrier to include the others. Unfortunately for them, it was already shaking. The balls were heavy and hit hard. He was already covering all of Nessa\'s Millipede, and they were all cramped together a little too close for comfort. Experience new stories on empire
He didn\'t have the leeway to include the rest without his barrier breaking.
[Trial (5/12) complete. Twelve survivors confirmed.]
The balls reaped the lives of another six entrants.
[Determining next Trial. Trial (6/12) Set. Preparing…]
But the remaining entrants didn\'t even get a few minutes to rest before the Labyrinth moved on.
The circular stone area that had shrunk to the size of a small lawn expanded once again.
And, once again, the Labyrinth split them all into separate, cubical rooms. However, instead of a table with a puzzle, a mirror tall enough to fit an entire person\'s reflection appeared in the middle.
[Find five faults within twenty-four hours.]
A reflection of Zach appeared in the mirror.
The Trial seemed surprisingly simple. And this time, no matter how quickly he finished, he wouldn\'t have to wait more than a maximum of twenty-four hours.
Now, he just had to find five differences between the him in the mirror and the him in reality.
The first was easy. His hair wasn\'t red. It was orange. The second was a little less obvious. His left eye didn\'t have a vertical pupil. The third fault was again a little more difficult.
But he just had to look closely over his entire reflection to find an additional finger on his right hand.
The fourth fault took Zach over an hour to find. There was an additional button on the shirt on his reflection.
The fifth fault took Zach several hours to find. He scanned the reflection so closely he could even count the number of hairs on it, including the hairs of his eyebrows and inside his nose. He had a little trouble comparing that to the number of hairs on himself in reality, but he managed to confirm that wasn\'t the fault.
After all, if it had been, he would have finished the Trial. So, he continued looking.
The timer steadily ticked down. Zach did his best to ignore it and focus on the Trial, but as time passed and he had less and less of it to finish the Trial, Zach couldn\'t but feel stressed. He couldn\'t understand what the final remaining difference between him and his reflection was. He couldn\'t understand how he didn\'t know what wasn\'t the same between him and his reflection.
As the timer neared zero, Zach turned to Yanael and Alzara. He couldn\'t solve it on his own. He had gotten a little ahead of himself after the last two Trials.
But in doing so, he realized what the final fault was.
The reflection was alone. It didn\'t have Yanael and Alzara behind it.
He did.
The reflection disappeared from the mirror, and the mirror turned completely blank before sinking into the ground and disappearing, signaling his completion of the Trial. The room also unfolded and let him into the same pasture as the other entrants that had finished.
Zach saw nine other entrants and two remaining rooms.
After another hour, the timer hit zero.
The rooms collapsed. There was none of the gentle and methodical retraction the others had experienced. Anyone still inside the rooms would have been crushed to death. And then the Labyrinth message came, confirming it.
[Trial (6/12) complete. Ten entrants finished the Trial on time. Halfway point reached.]