Trial of The Weak: Part 1

The feeling of dizziness soon stopped once she had gotten to her destination.

Roseline opened her eyes and what came into view shocked her a bit.

A large meadow of gray grass appeared with forest that surrounded it and her like a wall.

The trees had black leaves with white trunks.

In the center of the meadow, a castle just as gray with all sorts of elegant infrastructure.

It was all like an old school picture or a painting that had yet to be colored in.

Roseline turned her head around to take in the view.

One doesn't see such a scene everyday.

Putting her eyes back on the castle, she walked over to it.

There was no wind in the meadow, the grass was still.

Roseline got to the entrance of the castle and went through the gate.

The gate was aleast 10 feet tall.

**RUMBLE**

**CREAKK**

The gate opened on its own as she got near it.

A lobby room for the castle was first shown.

Roseline walked through the room while inspecting it, seeing many strange paintings.

They were quite indescribable, distorting and some covered in blood stains.

Her nose smelled the blood from afar and confirmed her suspicions about something.

'Human blood.'

Before in the cave, its was too dusty and rotten to smell the delicious blood.

Continuing on, Roseline came to a ball room.

The ball room was 'slightly' different from the rest of the castle.

'Slightly' being that a fight seemed to have happened .

Wood planks from who knows where struck through the walls and the floor had some missing pieces.

But the damage wasn't as bad as the damage left from the skeletons earlier.

She walked around and took a deeper look at the damage.

'Trial… trial my ass.'

She didn't know what to do.

Said trial was vague, not even showing what Roseline should do to pass it.

A glinting was caught by her senses and see ran over to it.

A white badge with the image of a skull and two sword crossing each other behind it.

She grabbed the badge and played with it for a while and thought about its use.

'Trial.. since this is a trial, everything should have a reason to happen, right?'

But she wasn't sure about that judgment.

It was the only thing she could go off on for now.

Seeing another door, she walked and went into another room.

This time it was something you don't usually see in a castle.

Well as far as she knew that is, she's never been in one before.

It looked like a mix of a torture room and a cathedral.

The floor was made up of dried blood, or at least that what she thought when she saw the amount of it.

'The person who lived here sure was someone.'

There was an altar at the end of the cathedral, like every cathedral had.

But it was obviously not any of the gods currently worshiped on earth.

Scythes, skulls and bones were decorated on the altar and a bowl was filled with blood, somehow still wet.

But the smell of the blood was strange.

It looked and had the undertone smell of human blood but at the same time it wasn't human.

Like the blood was transformed for human to something else.

In the center of the altar, a hooded statue was being worshipped by many undead and souls.

Rotting, sickly, and puss filled limbs that looked far to realistic poked out of hooded statue.

Clearly this altar was for the reaper that had ascended to godhood.

Roseline took a step closer to the altar and the cathedral had a red glow come down on them.

Everything was covered in the veil of red, shadows couldn't help but to move.

Shadows became darker and darker with the glow becoming stronger.

Hold the white badge, Roseline hear moans and cries of the dead.

Her pupils srank when she found out that she didn't have control over her own body anymore.

Getting closer to the altar, she heard more of those terrifying sound getting louder and soon became unbearable.

She was bearly keeping her conscious together.

Roseline wanted to move, to get away, but the fight was useless.

Her body became cold to the touch with her muscles being drained of their nutrients.

The red moon that had devoured everything in its red shine pored into her eyes, fight more intensely with her consciousness.

The shadows connected with her shadow and slowly cover her figure from the moon.

But it was to slow.

She inched closer to the altar.

**Step**

**Step**

**Step**

Roseline had noticed the shadows and was trying to will them faster.

But darkness had overtaken her vision.

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Emma and Lucas were at the front while Lelia had Aiden's arm around her shoulder.

They walked past the white line and soon saw a sign.

Just like Roseline's, it said 'Trial of The Weak'.

"A trial in this cave?"

"Did this canyon belong to an ancient civilization?"

"Hmmm, I don't get the feeling that it's dead yet.."

"The civilization isn't dead yet… I'm scared of that thought."

"Enter?"

"Sure." Lucas said to Emma who took the first step.

As the group passed the sign, all of them disappeared from the cave.

Teleported to a location.

When they got there, what came into view was something completely different from Roseline.

Green grass covered the mountains and a clear lake was beside them.

Looking at the lake, Emma responded to the surroundings.

"It too peaceful."

"Yeah far from the cave."

"This is a trial.. whatever it is, be careful."

"After the drake, you don't need to say that twice."

Lelia searched around the place, looking for the trial objective.

"What do we do now?"

Emma looked at the sky and sun, seeing it rise east.

"Looks like the day just started in this place. It closely resembles earth to much."

Every planet would have their own way of being recognized but this didn't seem any different from their home.