My heart skipped a beat at the sudden robotic voice sounding more agitated than robotic. I guess I scared it by almost dying.

My eyes wandered to the golden, glowing, spherical button at the start of one of the horizontal golden tree's branches. If I pressed this, I would be safe…?

[Primordial Trials let you face the deepest regrets of the echoes with the quest of preventing them by any means; a kingdom they couldn't save, a foe they couldn't defeat, saving a person they regretted killing, possibilities are endless.]

My pupils dilated as I read the font again and again.

[You will naturally be transferred to that time, with the same body you have right now, can even take people with you. Death isn't possible for players so they will just resurrect from the closest checkpoint.]

[Each Trial rewards with a part of the echo's powers recovering, percentage depending on the difficulty of the trial. The host will get 5x of that. Very modified versions of weapons or skills or stats they will get back.]

After realising the system's words, I felt more relief than happiness or excitement.

As if thousands of kilograms were suddenly lifted from my back. I had to enter them asap and become truly strong, so strong. That was the only way to protect our freedom, and the only way to kill cowardly, powerless Mark and bring that new Lucien back.

Resurrect from the checkpoint? So, I can leave it at any moment and continue from the checkpoint? That's how games worked, right? If that was the case, this was the best ability in the world.

[Getting out is only possible at passing the trial. There's even a chance of being stuck at a single checkpoint for millions or even trillions of years, losing yourself, and still failing. But, on the good side, there's no room for failure.]

What the fuckk?! Why'd you say it like that? Are you trying to scare me? The System DID not have to say trillions of years like it's nothing. Now, it sounded incredibly dangerous.

But it hardly changed my mind, just that I needed to prepare more.

[Would you like to enter now?]

[Yes or No]

NO! This doesn't matter right now. I can't lose here! I replied with clenched fists. I will enter with preparation and to get stronger, not to abandon everybody and run away.

[Just a suggestion, if you do lose. From all the weeping and crying you have been doing for a while, I thought you'd just accept it.]

The robotic voice was now casual and cocky, definitely very annoying.

If your purpose was to make me hate you, you did a damn good job. I cursed the system's ancestors under my breath before slapping my face twice.

[You're welcome :D]

I have to prove this fucker wrong. I won't lose! My steps, still stumbling here and there, now recovered their footing faster as I closed in on Kael.

"W—Why are you like this?" Kael's one remaining eye, still burning bright, flinched as he asked Alyndra with a weak voice, barely grappling Alyndra.

His voice had no signs of uncertainty, just tiredness, confusion and rage.

"Don't you feel any remorse about the people you hurt? You massacred hundreds of thousands of vampires, innocents completely unaware of all conflicts. Committed atrocities a common crook would tremble at the thought of, and then still preached kindness at the holy church every Sunday…How?"

"Still trying your hardest to stall, I see," Alyndra shook his head disdainfully before striking Kael's stomach with a precise knee strike. Kael coughed absurd amounts of blood almost instantly, but still didn't let go.

Alyndra looked very tired of Kael's persistence.

"No… I want to understand this, I have to. Even with the Oni I fought, creatures of pure desires who treated humans akin to ants… None was as cruel and evil as you." Kael's eyes flashed with hatred.

Alyndra groaned, "This hurts my feelings, you know, comparing me with monsters. Some hero you are, playing with my heart like this." He said, covering his face, as if hiding tears like a schoolgirl. For a genocidal maniac, he sure acted like a twink.

"Quit fooling around! Answer me!" Kael demanded, grabbing Alyndra's collar, a look of surprise filling his eyes as he realised he actually could touch the soft fabric beneath the golden armour, not blocked by the gravity.

"Fine, fine, you're dying today anyway," Alyndra sighed, then added in a low whisper afterwards, "And maybe, you have experienced things that may have made you wise enough to understand more than the surface level good or bad."

I looked at Subaru, he was cutting open the hand artifact surgically with the white blade of his katana, a deep frown covering his entire face. The two minutes he had asked for had passed…

My heart thumped rapidly as I noticed that, besides the three titans at the front, still struggling to raise themselves, all the other titans had gotten up.

One look at their towering bodies, my body instinctively began shivering as I suppressed the urge to run.

At this moment, I had finally made up my mind. I am going to eat Alyndra's heart. No matter what others here think of me, or how disgusting it would feel. I will eat it. Since the system wants me to live, it should just warn me if I were to explode.

Alyndra, afaik, has three unique skills: control gravity, the ability to summon monsters somehow, and peek in the future. And, he should provide a ton of XP. I am too weak to ignore such a buff, and I need all the power if I want to enter the primordial trials.

Alyndra's face grew bitter as he closed his eyes, finally answering Kael after prolonged silence.

"Humans are all selfish. Selfish not for food or money, but for their emotions. I am tired of pretending they have good when they do good just out of desperation to fit in and feel something. Those emotions are their greatest weakness."

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