Chapter 31 - selection I.
Before Mathis was nobody other than Arthur himself, although he looked much more different--he looked much stronger than before.
The man throws Mathis aside and immediately tries to impale his hand through Arthur, only for Arthur to catch his wrist and rip his arm off like it was nothing.
Before the man could even scream, his head flew off--the once dark aura of Arthur had turned into a dark purple one, it reminded Mathis of a galaxy.
"Just.. how did you come back?" Mathis asked, his tone filled with awe.
Arthur stayed silent and walked towards Mathis.
[Skill: inhumane regeneration has been activated.]
Within the blink of an eye, Mathis's wounds had already closed up.
"To answer you're question, I made it out of hell." Arthur said, his voice as cold as the ice in a Russian winter.
"What..?" Mathis said, he seemed almost impressed yet sad.
"To make it simple, I had to fight 100 million people in some sort of twisted survival of the fittest without abilities. Over and over again i had to fight them, for atleast 78396 years for me." Arthur said as if it was just a small feat.
To everyone's surprise, the woman tried to stab a knife into Arthur--but Arthur caught her wrist with ease, before breaking her wrist.
"Why would you attack me, right after I saved all of you?" Arthur asked, while still crushing her wrist--his tone being a very cold one.
"You're not him! You're not the same man who used to accompany Mathis! You're going to kill him!-" The woman yelled at him, her voice filled with concern and worry for Mathis.
"Silence."
As Arthur said that word, the woman fell to her knees and started coughing blood up.
"Stop it Arthur! I don't want to lose anymore friends!" Mathis yelled out in desperation--he tried to pull Arthur away, to no avail.
"And tell me, why should I spare the Gem of ----? That thing is a monster, a monster with no feelings!" Arthur said to Mathis before kicking the woman flying.
Mathis looks up at Arthur, Arthur's face was one of anger and indifference at his own actions.
"And eitherway.. you're just a kid, what would you know about anything." Arthur said, his tone having a growing disdain and anger.
"If I don't know about anything.. how about you teach me then, huh?!" Mathis yelled out in anger.
"Oh, teach you i will." Arthur said, his tone darkening.
[Skill: timeless dimension has been used on Mathis.]
The second Mathis blinks, he cant see anything around him, he cant feel anything, he cant move--but could only think.
The woman watched as Mathis's lifeless body fell to the ground, her eyes flashing with anger.
As the two started to clash, Mathis was floating through the endless abyss--that was nothing but his own mind.
[Would you like to attempt the selection at gaining the true powers of the 'system'.]
[Accept or Decline.]
"Accept." Mathis thought to himself.
There he was, he had a physical body again--Mathis manages to walk over to a dark floating gate, and opens it.
Before him stood a darkness that was even darker than dark itself.
[Trial 1: remembrance.]
A sudden flash of light blinds Mathis for 2 seconds, when he opens his eyes--he finds none else but Selvyn.
[Explanation: for she is the one you miss the most, you shall be the one to make her eternally gone.]
Mathis looks before him at Selvyn who was will wearing matching clothes with him, looking down at his hands--he finds a long sword.
"I.. i don't want to kill Selvyn.." Mathis muttered, his voice shaking.
[Do you want to cancel the trial? The penalty for cancelling is death.]
[Cancel?]
Mathis shakes his head before taking afew steps towards Selvyn, Selvyn just stands there--she held those same daggers Mathis had given her, the daggers were clearly still well taken care of.
Mathis just walks up to Selvyn and hugs her tightly for a good 5 minutes, before finally pulling away and raising his sword--tears filling his eyes as he looked at Selvyn.
As for Selvyn, her own eyes teared up--showing that it was truly her, as she dropped her daggers and let Mathis go through with what the trial demanded of him.
Seeing as Mathis could not bring his sword down on her, Selvyn reached out and grabbed his sword before making him run it through her chest.
[Skill: Sacrifice of oneself for another has been used.]
[Selvyn's regenerative abilities have been cancelled out.]
[Selvyn has died.]
Mathis starts crying, as he blinks--he finds himself in a completely white void before them body of Selvyn, cherry blossom petals delicately landing on them.
[Trial 1 has been completed, the participant has now been granted a 1 hour break.]
"Break? What a joke, they simply want the guilt to set in so that I am already broken before the next stage." Mathis scoffed to himself, tears running down his face.
"Am sorry.. i couldn't keep my promise." Mathis thought to himself.
Everything before him twisted and distorted, turning into a dark red void--before him stood another man who looked just like him.
Without even giving a second for Mathis to speak, the man attacked Mathis--Mathis managed to block, but both their blades got pushed back as if two magnets that pushed eachother away.
[Trial 2: understanding, Has been forcefully started.]
The other Mathis snaps his finger, the next second they were both wearing a matching black suit--as Mathis looked down at his blade, he noticed the long sword was replaced with a black short sword.