Life Drain System

Yang replied kind of surprised. "I thought you would like it to be a surprise like usual, although I guess since it affects your future you are probably curious. Here is one and your final hint. Your life will be tested, to see what class best suits you."

"Well thank you for the hint. I look forward to seeing what my class is in the future then. In the mean time could you heal me? Also, one more question before then, how long will this take?"

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"Alright, 1,000 experience will be used to bring you back to your peak state. Also, to answer your last question, one hour in there is one minute in the real world. Thus even if it took 4 days, it would only be an hour and a half here. Either way, the speed at which you finish all depends on you, and your talent. Good luck." Yang replied to Yin's questions once more.

After a few more minutes waiting in silence, the timer ended and by the time Yue blinked, Yue were in a hallway dimly lit. As he looked around, it looked like that of a castle corridor, and thought to himself as he started taking his first steps forward. 'Kind of pretty and peaceful here. I wonder when the trials begin?'

And as if the trial could read his mind a notification popped up.

<Welcome to the Trial Hall>

[Your trials shall begin momentarily, in the mean time here are the basics.

1. No using outside items, only what you were born with, such as magic, and your body.

2. No using the system except to put things away, you may not take things out, purchase, heal, or anything that does not involve using your own 'personal' abilities.

3. If any rules are broken your trial will immediately end, thus failing. You will be provided rules in each part of the trial.]

[1st part of your trial. You must continue down this corridor, and survive. You may not use anything to cause damage, such as attacking anything. Also, no spells allowed in this portion of your test. There is no respawning, and if you die in the test, you might die in real life... You may now begin...]

Yue finished reading the notification, and suddenly felt a gust of wind pass his ear. Turning to see what is was while taking a step to the side, an arrow flew past his face again, nearly killing.

Shocked, Yue thought. 'I need to move, or I will fail. Wait, it said I can die in here?' He realized as he started running towards the arrows, but carefully dodging them. As he is running down the passage, he got scraped a few times just from the air pressure of the arrows. Soon he saw some sword wielding wooden people, and wondered. 'I wonder what those are doing in here, not to mention it is only 3 meters wide and 4 tall. Well, it did say to survive but yet I am not allowed to fight... What if they attack me?'

Once more as if the trial was reading his mind a notification appeared.

<You are not allowed to attack or harm anything!>

Seeing this, he thought to himself. 'I wonder if I am fast enough?'

Just as he was about to arrive before them, they turned their heads noticing him. The wooden people then charged at him. Noticing their actions Yue thought. 'It is now or never.' And he jumped onto the wall to his right while running and started running in a spiral shape along the tunnel to not only not run into the people, but also to avoid any traps such as the arrows that have not yet stopped firing off.

While dodging arrows, being constantly chased by people, and creatures he is not allowed to fight, Yue started feeling kind of exhausted. Noticing this, Yue thought to himself. 'Clearly this is both an agility and endurance test. Either way, when is the end? It really makes sense now why one had to wait until their stats and level are much higher than mine. Also, where are the arrows coming from?'

Regardless of the tiredness, Yue just kept on running, hoping that it would either end soon, or he would get his second wind.

<Congratulations, you have made it 1/4 of the way. Please continue doing your best.>

Seeing this felt like adding insult to injury to the exhausted examinee. Yue continued on and then started feeling his back warmer than before and wondered. "Are you insane?" Yue voiced out as he looked back and saw the tunnel gradually not only catch fire, but also catch up with him. Speeding up the moment he saw this, a guillotine sliced right in front of him and an arrow right where he was just a moment ago.

The trial continued to get worse and worse the farther Yue went along. Either way, it seemed as though the trial was trying to motivate him whilst also testing him, which gave him a slight feeling that he had a chance at this.

---- About A Hour Later ----

Yue was sitting down at the end of the tunnel thinking while trying to catch his breath. 'A two hour run for your life. Hmm, at least it was not longer. Well, there goes a red flag, haha.'

A few short minutes after he caught his breath a notification popped up.

<Congratulations on getting half way through. Part 1 and 1/2 of the first test will begin shortly.>

[Rules for part 1 and 1/2, and basics.

1. Yue will be required to use spells once three quarters through. You will be notified at that time. NO Running in that portion.

2. For this first portion, you may only walk through. Running results in failure.

3. This is more casual, please enjoy your walk, also no dodging.]

Reading the rules, once Yue looked up he saw grass sprouting up, as well as the sun and sky. No longer the corridor with stone on all sides, just two now. This made Yue curious where the corridor went but he just prepared himself mentally as he started walking.

<You may now begin.>

While walking down the pathway, Yue felt. "Wow, this is quite peaceful, almost makes one forget they almost died..." He said as a wooden club bashed into his stomach. Yue nearly fell to his knees, but after a second or two continued onward.

"Well, I should have known, the last one was dangerous of course this would be as well." He whispered to himself, while walking and getting beaten by clubs. A few steps later, the clubs disappeared, and he saw the place filling with water. "Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" He wondered.

<Please hold your breath, and only swim casually!>

The place filled up with salty water shortly after that, and Yue did as he was told just swimming casually doing breast stroke. Soon he saw fish start biting him, and octopi clamping onto him constricting his limbs. Next he saw a shark behind him, then just thought to himself. 'Stay calm, as long as you follow the instructions you will live.' He tried convincing himself as the shark looked extremely hungry even appearing to lick its lips.

Five minutes of terror, and some pain later.

<Good job, you have made it 3/4 of the way across, you may now use magic.>

Yue saw the water draining away, and immediately cast a few layers of Mana Shield on himself, while thinking. 'Hmm, I feel as though I am getting stronger mentally, and have become better with my stats since taking this. Well it is called a trial, of course one comes out stronger if they succeed.'

"Woah." Yue said a few steps later when he was engulfed in fire. Starting to feel more calm and easy going about these things he continued, and just kept casting mana shield, as well as body enhancement. While walking down the path, he was assailed by flying ice spikes, that nearly killed him a few times, and then a new place.

In here it was more open, however there was no new notification. Thus Yue assumes that it is part of the same trial, and continues. Yue looks up upon seeing all the clouds, and sees some pretty birds.

Boom!

Thunder comes down, and goes through multiple layers of Yue's mana shield, and he thinks. 'I guess my endurance is still being tested?' He wondered as he started replenishing his layers of man shields faster to keep up with the thunder coming every second.

---- About 20 Minutes Later ----

"Lousy lightning and thunder almost took off my arm." Yue said as he reached the end of the valley.

<Great work on passing through this area. Part 2 shall begin shortly. Please rest and relax.>

"So I get a break in between each test then?" Yue asked hoping for a response.

<You get breaks as they are given, use your time wisely.>