[The first trial is surviving this place for 24 hours.]
[The second trial is lasting 10 minutes in a duel with .]
Look at this insane difficulty.
It is no joke starting, even with just the first one.
Although all my senses were paralyzed, I can at least maintain perception through the mana.
From that perspective, it’s not that hard, but...
The mana is being spent too fast.
[That is also a special attribute of this s.p.a.ce.]
I wonder how long I’ll be able to hold out with my mana capacity?
After that, I will be trapped inside a world without any senses, a world where only my consciousness exists.
I’m certain even my sense of ti will be anesthetized too.
Instead of it being a trial, it is closer to an ultra-high-tech single cell with the purpose of driving a man insane.
[However, there will be sothing you will gain from going through this process.]
First, let’s try to conserve the mana as much as possible.
While I was at it, I suppressed the output of the mana so that I was using the bare minimum to just recognize a part of my body.
I have no reason to maintain detection of that monk.
Not only is it for certain that the monk won’t attack , the monk is overwhelmingly stronger than .
The second trial will be another problem.
Way too strong.
It is not right to be so discouraged and falter even before challenging the monk. However, I can already see the end result clearly.
I should just focus on surviving his onslaught for 10 minutes.
[Well then, would it be all right to start the first trial?]
About the first trial...
Can I get a reward for surviving longer than 24 hours?
[A reward? Tell what it is that you want first. I’ll think about it after hearing it.]
I’ll endure it for 48 hours. In return, teach the technique.
[What technique are you referring to?]
The technique you are using right now to talk to .
The monk pondered deeply about it for a mont and said,
[Very well. If you endure this s.p.a.ce for 48 hours, you have the qualification to learn it. You can always change the trial duration. Tell at any ti if you will be satisfied with enduring for 24 hours and giving up the reward instead. Well then, I’ll start the trial.]
No. Wait.
Will it be all right if I started the trial after eating a dicine?
[Um. First, I’ll have to ask what kind of dicine it is. You won’t be able to consu the kind of potions that will directly affect the mana’s recovery rate.]
No, this one is not like that.
It is the kind that prevents from p.o.o.ping.
[What kind of dicine did you say it was?]
It is a dicine that prevents from p.o.o.ping.
[...]
This was not so shabby dicine that induced constipation. That kind of dicine was considered as a poison, so it didn’t even have any effect because of my Great Poison Resistance Skill.
This is a fantastic dicine that destroys the things inside my intestines.
I suppose it can be seen as a form of enema, although this is different since the dicine destroys the things inside instead of getting things out of the inside.
[PR Note: An enema, for those that don’t know, is the injection of a liquid into the r.e.c.t.u.m and colon by way of the a.n.u.s. Basically shooting stuff up your b.u.t.thole.]
[This is so unexpected.]
Hey, do you have any idea how important this is?
In this place, I won’t be able to feel if I need to p.o.o.p or not for whooping 48 hours.
I swear that I am definitely not going to p.o.o.p.
[It’s all right if you eat this one. No, actually, I would like to recomnd you to eat the dicine. Please take it.]
With the Master Monk’s permission, I took out the dicine from the inventory.
These were expensive as well.
[Wait, there are two different dicines, is that all right?]
One of them was for preventing any involuntary leaking.
[... All right. Take them.]
[Now, then. Take a seat and begin.]
It was not so bad for the first few hours.
Throughout the first few hours, the one thing that I focused the most was the distribution of the mana.
To hold out as long as possible, I conserved as much mana as possible. I tried my best to use the mana efficiently.
However, soon, I ran out of mana.
To prepare myself for the duel that was to happen after the first trial, I decided not to use the little mana that was left.
From that mont, the trial really started.
With no sensory input left, only my consciousness existed in the world.
Although I actually lost my senses, it felt like I lost my body itself and was floating around in the universe alone.
The overwhelming emptiness gave the chills.
From that terror, surprisingly, I felt exhilarating pleasure.
Am I insane?
As the Master Monk said, I think this experience will be valuable.
When the sense of touch was paralyzed at the 30th Room, I compared that to being deep underwater.
It was similar this ti as well.
One thing that was a little different was that this was going beyond just feeling deeply subrged. I wondered if this was how I would have felt before I was born, when I was still a fetus.
If the state after dying is death, could I also call the state before being alive as death too?
The only thing that was proof of existence was my consciousness, which was endlessly thinking.
Around that ti, all of sudden, I felt that my consciousness was gradually slowing down.
My consciousness beca calr and heavier.
It felt soft.
It was like how it felt lying down on the bed after staying up whole night, the feeling at the mont before falling asleep.
[How is it?]
It feels like soone poured a bucket load of cold water when I was sleeping soundly.
I feel really awake.
To tell you honestly, I am displeased.
[It’s usually like that, but this is also my role. I need to prevent the challenger from sinking to the bottom and to ensure their return during the trial. My role is to talk to the challenger like this.]
Are there cases where the challengers never co back?
[There were many. In proportion to the number of challengers who got this far, there are a lot of them. Those that got through the past rooms using cheats, seven tis out of ten, are unable to co back.]
Can’t you just drag the challenger out to the s.p.a.ce outside of this room?
[That is not as easy as you think. It is hard for the consciousness to rise back up from being sunk. Also, if the challenger cannot rise back up without help, then soone else needs to drag the challenger up. However, usually, soone who is capable of such is...]
Usually?
[A G.o.d.]
Um...
So, do you need to talk to for 48 hours?
[That’s right. It won’t be for exactly 48 more hours so ti has pa.s.sed since you have started. Ah, I cannot tell you about the pa.s.sage of ti.]
More importantly, do you have enough stuff to talk about for 48 hours?
[Of course. Do you have any idea how long I have done this for? If you want, I can tell you all sorts of stories for a whole week.]
So you were a chatterbox.
[Uuhurhurhur.]
I am sorry, but let’s stop the conversation here.
I feel like I can sense sothing, so I want to focus on ditation.
[Oh. Interesting. It’s all right. Continue focusing on ditation. You can just treat my voice as the sound of a distant wind.]
[What should I talk about first... Right, I’ll tell you about the true nature of fighting art. I see that you have a very different opinion about this from us. Listen. I think that fighting art is...]
[You obtained ditation.]
I am absolutely certain.
I will have to think hard about it if soone dared to bet the things between my legs though.
Anyway, I am certain that 48 hours have pa.s.sed by already!
[It has not been 48 hours.]
d.a.m.n it.
However, I did not think it would be to this degree.
How fast could a human consciousness be?
Also, what kind of change could that undergo in a special environnt like this?
Actually, this place might have a special attribute that directly affects the speed of consciousness.
[Oh, you are very sharp. Ah, right. In our temple, do you know who has the sharpest deductive ability? It is ...]
In this place, there are two clues for to gauge the pa.s.sage of ti.
There is my consciousness and the Master Monk’s voice.
The problem was that his voice was not coming through his mouth.
It is hard to determine the pa.s.sage of ti using the speed of his conversation.
Or if it can do that even faster...
Uuuuuaaaaaa. This is the worst.
How long has it been since the trial started?
It might only have been 47 hours and 59 minutes.
However, it is also possible that only about six hours pa.s.sed.
[That’s right. Of many answers, you are heading toward one. Think about that topic so more.]
This trial, which paralyzed all senses, also blinded from my sense of ti. Perhaps, for the 48 hours, I might get to indirectly experience an endless pa.s.sage of ti.
It was not surprising that I thought about this.
That was the principle of the G.o.d of Slowness.
The traveler and leader who follows the infinite pa.s.sage of ti.
As I thought about the G.o.d of Slowness, I also thought about the G.o.d of Adventure.
At a glance, they appeared to be similar.
The two G.o.ds were contradicting in two characteristics.
The process and the result.
The G.o.d of Slowness wanted the process of soone who does not falter or run into walls.
In contrast, the G.o.d of Adventure wanted the process of soone who overcos things while agonizing and failing and marching forward.
As for the result, the G.o.d of Slowness wants a process that repeats endlessly.
The G.o.d of Adventure wants a definite triumph through the process.
Now that I organized my thoughts, the G.o.d of Slowness’ philosophy is...
In many ways, it is similar to the values that these monks who warship G.o.d of Duel.
To point out one thing that’s different, the opponent must exist due to the arrangent of a duel, and the monks have huge respect toward opponent.
However, the monks focus more on performing their arts to perfection rather than interacting with the opponent through the art. Considering this, as I thought, these monks have principles similar to the G.o.d of Slowness.
[Hur. That’s surprising. The G.o.d of Duel said you have found the right answer. This is sothing I didn’t know about. G.o.d of Slowness... Actually, I’ve never heard of that G.o.d.]
Unfortunately, my thoughts about the G.o.d of Adventure and G.o.d of Slowness ended there.
I didn’t have any more clues to sustain my train of thought.
I stopped the deduction and started examining myself.
From the oldest mories I had from childhood and the recent mories...
I thought about them, and thought about them so more.
Funny thing was, that I was able to recall mories that I didn’t reflect about about on the past tries.
By the ti I ran through my mories several dozens of tis, and by the ti I have done it over a hundred tis, I could watch my mories, even my happiness and sadness, from a third person perspective in addition to my own.
[You obtained ditation]
[You obtained Mana Circuit]
[TL: I know the MC already has these skills. I don’t know why the author wrote those.]
I completely depleted all of my mana.
It was totally exhausted.
I even spent the extrely small about that I had been saving like pocket change.
He won’t even let drink a mana potion.
With the final line of defense gone now, the terror and anxiety sipped into my mind again.
Am I still sitting well?
Am I lying down?
Where is the Master Monk?
Maybe he is right in front of my nose and looking into ...
As I felt the terror, I realized sothing that had slipped my mind.
I could no longer hear the Master Monk’s voice.
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