Elysium's Multiverse Chapter 3

[Two hundred participants have reached the pyramid’s summit; 1,472 people have been disqualified and are now set to be executed if they have not died already. Part one of three in the Chalgathi’s Lineage Quest line is now over.]

Screams of agony and terror rippled across all four sides of the pyramid, and rays of white light began illuminating the corpses of the fallen. The still-living, still-climbing participants outside the gray sheen of the veil begged and pleaded, clawing at a translucent veil in front of Riven that now seed impenetrable to them. He even tried to reach through, to pull them in, but found that it was as if a force field had been erected there…

So he could only sit and watch, dumbstruck and horrified, as the n and won in front of him and down the pyramid’s face began to wither and rot. Then the rot accelerated amid more flashes of white light that burned them from the inside out.

And in only a minute more of that torturous, evil display of power, they were simply gone…evaporating into the air as wisps of blackened ash that set upon the wind to be carried away into the great expanse of the dead forest about them.

“Holy shit…” He shook his head, not sure what to make of all this. What was the purpose? Why had he been one of the people selected to undertake this “quest line”? Where was he?

His answers would have to wait for another ti, because in a great burst of green fla, the pillar exploded in all directions and enveloped everyone atop the pyramid in a searing, heat-filled rush. As his body burned away, he felt his soul twist and roil until he, too, had disappeared from the pyramid’s top as if he’d never been there to begin with.

Unholy Foundational Pillar: Extrely High

Holy Foundational Pillar: Extrely Low

Fae Foundational Pillar: Low

Archaic Foundational Pillar: Low

Harmony Foundational Pillar: Very Low

Machine Foundational Pillar: Low

Do you wish to acquire this Unholy ability permanently and bind to the Unholy Foundational Pillar? Yes? No?]

He blinked. He could assu that pillars were categories of magic? If what this notification said about affinities was true, it was a no-brainer. This wasn’t the first ti the trial had inford him of his extrely high affinity toward Unholy magics, either. Without much further ado, he selected yes.