Realizing the trajectory of these arrows was set in a way to cut off his escapes, Kai decided to opt for the most basic technique that could either save his life or end it all right away.
Using his left leg as his balance, Kai kicked the ground with his right and spun quickly towards his left side—creating a rather dangerous but effective shield.
The arrow heads grazed his body—giving in so light cuts along the sides—before deflecting towards the ground and snapping into pieces.
Realizing that he had finally saved himself from a potentially dangerous shot, he let out a long, deep breath.
At the sa ti, he raised both of his hands and led them to his face. With a loud, raspy sound echoing through the realm, he slapped himself as if trying to wake himself up.
’Wake up! Can’t afford to die in re Trials!!!’
Kai then began walking in a straight direction while mumbling words under his breath.
"If I sit down again, sa shit is bound to happen again, no way in hell I’m letting that happen."
For several monts, he kept walking in the sa direction while his eyes scanned through the entire area.
Suddenly, his steps ca to a halt as a system window materialized righthad in front of his eyes.
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[Next, The Sense of Sll is being sealed away...]
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Kai stared at the window with firm eyes, patiently waiting for his body to react abnormally just like it did before; however, nothing such as happened.
Ti passed just like sand from soone’s grasp and just like that, several minutes went by.
’It’s almost the ti for the third one to appear, but still, there are no signs of any trial here. What a let down...’ Kai thought as he sighed in disappointnt.
For several minutes, he had been doing nothing but walking in all sorts of directions, waiting for sothing to happen.
Although, luck didn’t seem to be on his side.
All of a sudden, Kai felt as if his fingers and toes were slowly growing numb.
For a second, he thought that maybe it was because he was exhausted and had stopped.
He tried shaking his arms and legs to relieve so blood pressure however nothing seed to be working.
That was until, he saw a small, dust like particle floating in the air.
His eyes instantly widened as he understood what had happened.
It wasn’t sothing as trivial as exhaustion. But sothing that could without a doubt, kill him like a ticking ti bomb.
’I didn’t expect poison..’
He quickly dropped to the ground and sit with his legs crossed and put his hands on his knees, slowly taking in a deep breath and letting it out at an equal speed.
’The fact that I got infected ans that the entire air has been polluted, so there is no point in running to a completely different side. Additionally, neither do I have any idea if the air will improve after this nor about the potency or kind of the poison.’
His heartbeat dropped, slowing down to the point that it felt barely alive.
’It sounds stupid but I guess I have no choice but to try not doing anything.’
Just like he said, it was a stupid move—but the only one that made sense.
The numbness grew with passing ti, slowly devouring his body’s senses bit by bit, while all he could do was to pray.
Pressured by the poison, his chest began to grow heavier with each second, almost as if soone was pressing against him.
*Ding!*
With the sudden sound of a ring-like alert echoing through Kai’s head, the system window materialized once again.
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[Next, the Sense of Touch is being sealed...]
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Kai hadn’t opened his eyes yet, but he could already guess the contents of the system notification.
On the contrary, his breathing beca normal as he noticed as if the dust in the air had finally begun to filter out.
And just like that, Kai overca his second sense while the third sense—Touch was sealed away.
At first, it was hard for him to even stand up, since he couldn’t feel anything in his body, but soon, he got the hang of it.
This ti as well, he was t with arrows, however, more in quantity and in precision.
With two of his three essential senses gone, Kai was forced to depend on his eyesight.
And because his eyes could not cover the entire space, he failed to dodge all of the arrows.
Then, with 5 arrows dug deep inside his back and two piercing through his guts, Kai made it through the third sense and his fourth sense—taste was sealed away all the sa.
In a state where blood dripped down his wounds continuously, Kai awaited his next trial.
Not because he couldn’t feel any pain, but because it had beco all too common for him to react, in fact, if anything, it only excited and encouraged him more.
The Sense of Taste seed too dumb to him for so reason, as there was no way for such a sense to be trialed.
However, it was way worse than he had expected.
With most of his senses gone, his brain got confused and sent ergency signals all the way to his body, slowly shutting down his systems as it interpreted Kai’s conditions as Death.
And yet, Kai survived with little to no issues.
Why?
Because he had seen death face to face and survived. Not once, but twice. And that too, in a situation a thousand tis dire than this.
To him, this was nothing more than a big disappointnt.
In one way or another, he seed extrely disappointed in the whole Trial of Perception since he could not do the things that had recently made his heart race like never before—Fighting with his life on the line, he missed it.
And then, at last, ca the last part of the Trial of Perception, and unlike his past encounters, unknowingly, it made Kai desperately rethink his life’s decisions.
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