Temporal Pearls

"Oh, perhaps he is controlling it now. If he saw a loophole, he acted!" Sue said as she looked at the player known as Seth. The player shook his head, "It's mechanical, I don't control or influence it!" Seth said.

Sapna recovered after some time, but she felt strong and something was changing in her by just attempting the trial.

"Those are the tiles we deemed safe for now, follow them!" Lady Rain said. Sapna landed on the first, then the second. There were twenty tiles and she needed to just land 7 or 10 to be able to jump to the land where the strings were.

But the moment she landed on the third, the sand shifted from button-up and changed the formation of the tiles.

"We need to take note that the nods below have changed too!" Ash said and Zero nodded. Now Sapna stood waiting for instructions.

"Take the left one!" Captain Brown said. She did and it was safe but then the rest of the tiles flipped and now were coated with red.

"I can't see them now. I mean my intuition was blocked!" Captain Brown frowned.

"Take the left again!" Fist said, he was using his beast instincts and it was safe. The eyes went to Zero, he too was a beast.

"Because I'm a dragon, there were a lot of blocks against me!" He said.

"Take left again!" Ash said and she did, that was the sixth tile. She bent and jumped over, landing on the ground where the string was attached to a dried tree. She checked it and turned to them and shouted what she read. But, they can't hear her.

It's like that place was completely isolated. They can see her talking but not hear her.

"Read her lips!" Lady Rain said.

"One looked like a horse!" Zero said. They immediately checked and they found it. "Snake!" They checked but she was trying to examine something that doesn't have a name. She made gestures and they understood some but were confused by some.

"Use the paper I gave you!" Rena shouted as she picked a paper and waved at her. Sapna recognised that and then picked and drew things. Most of them can't be described in words.

They nodded and they went to work. "This is too easy!" Zambia frowned and then they heard Seth say, "Save her!" While nothing was happening to her.

When Lady Rain moves ... Boooooom.

The holes that the string went through exploded with great firepower. A red whip quickly wrapped around Sapna's leg and that stopped her from blasting out below the cliff.

However, the sound fire destroyed her armour, and her condition became unknown due to fire and smoke. The dragon that was in the far distance roared agitated.

"Zero!" Zambia shouted and the half-breed vanished and tackled Lady Rain from going for Sapna.

"What are you doing!?" She bellowed in anger, a sword made of water flashed to cleave the boy when time stopped and then things began to reverse. Lady Rain can resist it but she understood and allowed it to happen.

Two seconds were reversed, "Sapna ran back!" Lady Rain shouted. She didn't ask why as she followed the sand back with no difficulty.

"Why do you need me back!" She asked, confused. The three members of her team hugged her crying asking her to stop the trial.

Zero closed his eyes and took a deep breath and then looked at Seth who had a gloomy face.

"Give me the map!" He asked and they obediently did, he then scraped some confusing things and three things became clear.

One, Everything has an assigned duration. That means she can't stand more than 10 minutes in an area but on the sand, she only has seconds.

Two, excessive movement will trigger some effects that aren't pleasant.

Three, an explosion can lead to a chain reaction of more explosions and also a release of other dangerous effects that will affect everyone.

"Damn it, Seth!" Zambia said, "This is too much!"

"Sorry, I shouldn't have made it more complicated !" Seth admitted and he began to wonder why the hell was it like this. It shouldn't, right?

He has no idea why his obsession with art made him outdo himself. If he was in his right mind like now he wouldn't have made it so difficult.

"Please, we don't need to continue!" Sue said.

"I'm in!" Captain Brown said, "If you back away one of my boys will challenge the trial and the price is mine. Even though I didn't know what it was!" He added.

"No, I will continue!" Sapna disagreed.

"Thanks for letting them have their memory!" Lady Rain bowed to Zambia. She was a very humble woman.

"Haha, we are together. It's a group trial anyway and we need all the heads we can get!" Zambia blushed.

The trial continued and it toppled their understanding. The map was still a guide but if read wrong it was misguided also.

Sapna drowned in the sand.

She also faced an explosion from the nod in the sand.

She used water to wet the sand but an abhorrent monster popped out and attacked her which triggered more explosions.

At one point the quicksand flowed toward the cliff. It also triggered dragon roars that affected everyone.

Three times Zambia had to intervene to rewind time and his power was exhausted.

With no temporal intervention, the trial was forced to stop.

"I can continue, we are so close!" Sapna said in tears. She was bruised all over but Lady Rain herself disagreed.

"We are sorry for wasting your time. But I guess we can't get the price!" Lady Rain said to seth.

"It's alright. Perhaps, it was too much!" He too agreed.

"Well, Diamond is hard to get!" She said, "Let go, Sapna!"

Sapna grumbled but she followed her leader almost in tears but then her eyes widened. She turned around, and the sand and the strings all burst into flames, fiery things shot up the sky and blasted toward Sapna.

Seth said, "Good," but then his glass shield was raised before him as he stored the other things. It happened so fast, one of the blazing things went to him and the rest to Sapna

Boom!

A more powerful explosion blasted Seth and his shield back but Sapna had tiny red sparkling things circle her.

"Damn it." Seth cursed. Even behind the shield, the impact and shock waves find a way toward him. His ribs were broken and his nose started bleeding.

"What just happened!"

[Congratulations]

~You have attempted the Grade 1 Trial and come close to success

[Reward]

~Minor Heat resistance

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Everyone received that notification.

"Aha, finally!" Seth shouted. But he held his chest due to pain.

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[Special Quest]

[Treasures, Special Items and Objects that once belonged to certain influential individuals have their aura and remnants will. For the items to be acceptable and effectively used by others there is a need for Trial to show one's conviction to own them]

~Composed 100 Grade 1 Trials that will grant 100 different Treasures that belong to you.

[Reword]

~New Specialized Talent

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Seth received his answer through the quest.

He expected that near when the first Vial exploded, he heard and felt Roana's anger as if warning not to use his blood in vain where it would insult him. It was then he knew that he needed to make them work for it in quest or trial.

At first, he thought an automatic quest would generate but it didn't then he went with the flow and now this happened.

"What just happened!" Zambia asked confused just like everyone, "she didn't win the trial. And why were you attacked!"

Seth sat down letting his ribs heal with a rueful smile. After some time he can speak.

"It's a Grade 1 Trial. And you people couldn't read the map properly due to your lack of experience with my sketches and ability to think outside the box!" Seth explained then he rested a bit before he continued.

"Grade 1 Trial is too much for what she asked for, an attempt is more than enough to grant her the prize. I didn't even know it was Grade 1 until the system was announced. But to clear your confusion, you need to know what you guys asked for something that came from living life forms that are superior to us all.

In that case, to truly own it you need to pass some test to impress the remnant will of the owner."

They began to understand…

"The prime example is Fist. He obtained a perfect amalgamation of his two bloodlines as he fought to obtain the third one. It was a gift for his effort and also a sign the new bloodline Remnant Will accept him. The other two also have that but more concealed than Fist." Seth explained more.

"How did you know they need to get their approval? And I have bought bloodline and dragon stuff and used them with no problem. What makes your trial special!" Captain Brown asked.

"Isn't it obvious, the price flew to her, which means she will have an easier time using them than someone that buys them and uses them directly? As of now, I have not infused the new bloodline but by just holding the vial and observing it I can stimulate and use some of its powers!" Fist explained more.

"Really!" James asked surprised, he quickly tried something and he felt different, "it's true. That's amazing!"

"I understand. Mr Seth, I would like to buy a bloodline too!" Captain Brown said.

"Sorry, I can't sell anymore. You see this, the dragon Remnant Will was upset about me. It's a backlash for some reason I didn't understand."

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"When will you be available and capable?!" Captain Brown asked again, he was determine to get the bloodline.

"Am, when I have a class of my own!" Seth said with a sincere smile. He finally finished the damned class quest. He can't wait to go home.

"Let go back!" Lady Rain said before she cast a wave of mist at Seth and he healed immediately.

"What is your class? Dragon Tamer, Hunter, Painter, Traveller!" Zero came asking. The boy that used to hate Seth was now impressed by him because Seth's trials have stimulated his bloodlines many times.

"I don't know, it's Special Class: Amma!" Seth said vaguely.

"As in the world Amma!" Lady Rain asked and Seth nodded but no one inquired more. After they were back, they remembered the tension.

Inside a tent with soundproof, James brought a strange pistol, Seth sighed and brought out his metal.

"What happened?" Rena asked but Seth just smiled, "Will it work?" He asked. They tried to see, as the metal beam and pistol touched there was an automatic exchange.

[Transaction Completed]

[Your client has passed the trial imposed by you and the amount paid can be considered equivalent to the bloodline sold]

[Gawee Gold is equivalent to 1 union. Sanctuary Chief is required to convert it to real-life value]

~Gawee Gold: 10,000,000 Union

[Note: Not more than 1,000,000 unions should be converted to Gawee Gold. The rest shall remain in Gawee/Union invention]

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"It worked!" Seth said with a creepy smile but wondering if this was a dream or what.

He turned to Fist, he on the other hand sighed and brought a small tanker. "What is this?" Seth asked, surprised.

"A tanker, it's large but I have this skill that allows me to make it small like a toy!" Fist explained.

And when they touched there was a problem.

[Transaction Failed]

[Unable to receive two transactions of this value. Cool down: 24 hours]

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"Well, there is a cool down!" Seth said but he found eyes on him and when he asked what, they said it was because his account was too low that's why.

"Until recently I didn't even know a transaction was possible!" Seth defended himself.