Chapter 1790: Genesis Trial!
Chapter 1790: Genesis Trial!
Max looked at Caroline and said, "For now, take care of yourselves."
Caroline’s eyes softened slightly.
Max continued, "The second faction will not stop after what happened. Selene, Seraphine, and Fin all lost lives because of me, and the Divine Son they mentioned will probably come sooner or later. Until then, stay in neutral cities as much as possible. Do not move alone. Do not trust anyone from the second faction. Survive until the end of the first round."
The third faction elves behind Caroline listened seriously.
Jessica clenched her fists and nodded. "We understand."
Caroline looked at Max with complicated emotions in her eyes. "You saved us, Max. If not for you, Jessica and the others would have been taken back, and I would likely have remained trapped inside Witch God Valley until they found another way to capture me. I know you do not like emotional words, so I will not say too much, but I want you to remember one thing. Your mother’s faction is not dead. As long as even a few of us survive, we will stand with you."
Max was silent for a brief moment.
Then he nodded. "Stay alive first. Everything else can wait."
Caroline gave a faint smile, though worry still remained in her eyes. "You too. Do not be careless. You have made too many enemies now."
Max looked at the cursed eye that had shifted from his shoulder to hover near his collarbone, then glanced back toward the direction of the Witch God Tree.
"I know."
Nancy stepped forward. "Do you want me to come with you?"
Max shook his head. "No. Stay with them for now. You know more about the elven factions and the neutral cities than they do, and Caroline is still recovering."
Nancy hesitated, but after a moment, she nodded. "Then be careful."
Max gave a small nod in response.
For a few seconds, no one moved.
Caroline seemed to want to say something else, perhaps about Caelira, perhaps about the Celestial Thorn Abyss, perhaps about the Divine Son Aurelian Lareth and the stolen bloodline, but in the end, she held back.
This was not the right time. Max had his own path in the Cosmic Ascension Conference, and she knew that if she tried to hold him here out of worry, she would only slow him down.
Max turned away.
Golden light gathered beneath his feet.
Then, without wasting any more time, he rose into the air and flew out of the neutral city.
Caroline, Jessica, Nancy, and the other third faction elves watched him leave until his figure became a streak of light in the sky. The little cursed eye remained attached to him, blinking faintly as it moved around his shoulder, while Dragonheart rested at his side.
The city walls passed beneath him, the streets disappeared behind him, and soon the noise of the neutral city faded into the distance.
Max flew alone.
His destination was clear.
He was heading back toward the region where he had first spawned in this world, the place where the Cosmic Ascension Conference had begun for him, and the place where a trial had been waiting since the very beginning.
Back then, because of insufficient Killing Points, Max had not been able to participate in the trial, but things were completely different now.
At that time, five hundred thousand Killing Points had seemed like a large amount, especially when he had only just entered this world and was still trying to understand the rules of the Cosmic Ascension Conference.
But after everything that had happened since then, he had more than enough now, and if this hidden trial was called the Genesis Trial, then its value was likely far above the cost required to enter.
A few hours later, Max arrived at the broken castle.
The ruins still looked the same as before. Half-collapsed walls stood beneath the dim sky, cracked stone towers leaned at strange angles, and ancient battle marks remained carved into the ground as if some forgotten war had once torn through this place.
Compared to the Witch God Tree, the neutral cities, and the battlefields filled with powerful geniuses, this broken castle looked almost quiet. Yet Max did not underestimate it.
The hidden trial inside this place had been waiting for him from the moment he entered the Eternal Hourglass, and anything labeled by the system in such a way was never ordinary.
Max entered the cave hidden inside the broken castle.
The air in the cave was cold and still, carrying the faint smell of stone dust and ancient energy. His footsteps echoed softly in the narrow passage, while the little cursed eye attached to his left shoulder blinked from time to time, its pupil turning toward the dark walls as if it could sense something hidden in the depths.
Max ignored it and continued walking deeper.
Once he reached deeper into the cave, the system prompt came again.
[Hidden Trial Detected.]
[Genesis Trial]
[Requirement To Enter: 500,000 Killing Points]
[Would You Like To Spend 500,000 Killing Points To Begin The Genesis Trial?]
This time, Max did not think much and accepted the trial.
[500,000 Killing Points Deducted...]
[Current Killing Points: 55.3 Million]
[Entering the Genesis Trial in 10, 9, 8...]
Max looked at the prompt calmly. Even after deducting five hundred thousand Killing Points, he still had fifty-five point three million left, a number that would be enough to make many participants of the Cosmic Ascension Conference lose their minds with envy.
Yet Max was not focused on the number. His attention was on the name of the trial. Genesis Trial. The word Genesis had already appeared in many powerful contexts around him, and every time it did, it seemed to involve something related to origin, creation, foundation, or the beginning of a path.
"I wonder what benefits will be in this trial," Max muttered as he waited for the countdown to reach zero.
[Entering the Genesis Trial in 3, 2, 1...]
Just when the countdown reached one, his figure disappeared from the cave.
Before he knew it, Max appeared in a cubic room.
The room was strange.
It was not large, yet it did not feel small either. The walls, floor, and ceiling were all made of smooth dark-gray cubes fitted together without any visible cracks, and the space inside seemed to shift subtly every time Max looked away.
Around the room, countless cubes of different colors floated silently in the air. Some were red, some blue, some gold, some silver, some black, some white, and some carried colors Max had never seen before, colors that seemed to change depending on the angle from which he looked at them.
Each cube released a faint aura, and although none of them appeared dangerous at first glance, Max could sense that each one contained a different kind of law, energy, or hidden rule.
The room felt less like a battlefield and more like the inside of a massive mechanism.
Max’s eyes narrowed slightly.
But he was not alone in that room.
Four other figures were already there.
And to Max’s surprise, two of them were people he knew.