Chapter 16: This Is a Trial
Ever since he was teleported, a prompt box popped up in front of Rutgers's eyes, and the numbers in the box counted down with the passage of time, silently heralding the arrival of a major event.
And now, the countdown is nearing its end.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I earnestly advise you to suppress your anger. Anger is a poisonous wine, and it can poison many things, including the future you are about to meet. ”
He spread out his hands, smiled at the boys and girls who tried to beat him in vain, and said as if proclaiming:
"The trial is about to begin."
As his words fell, the mist-shrouded gate made a loud trembling sound.
The majestic mist spread from the gate like a rolling torrent, and quickly swooped down on all the new students in front of St. Herthe's Gate.
[Inform! Adventure Mission Released! 】
[Name: Gift of the Sage]
【Publisher: St. Herthe's Gate】
[Content: Show your qualities to the Gate of St. Herthe, whether it be wisdom, courage, virtue, or any other talent, and you will be rewarded with it according to your performance.] 】
【Reward: Random】
[Punishment: None]
[Note: You have the fate of the "key" and have the qualifications to open the door of St. Herte, and showing it the wisdom of a sage may increase the possibility of opening the door.] 】
【Please select whether or not to accept it】
"What do you see again?! You definitely have something in your eyes right now that no one else can see, right? Alina slammed in front of Rogers, her eyes fixed on his pupils, trying to detect some information in Rogus's eyes through the reflection above.
Rogers silently put the box away, the tip of his nose teased by Alia's dangling hair and the girl's vague scent.
This kid is really too perceptive, and fortunately he signed a contract that could not be leaked.
He pushed Alina's face away with a complicated expression, and earnestly instructed her and Rufia, who looked confused beside her:
"This is one of the entrance exams, and it is also a test that can be fruitful.
"You're going to see all sorts of visions and all sorts of puzzles.
"In the illusion, your negative emotions will be magnified, so you must keep in mind that all this is false, and you must keep your mind and reason and make the most appropriate answer......
"Damn Alina! Where's your ladylike demeanor?! If there is no fog to cover your surroundings, your current behavior will definitely make you suffer worse criticism than I do! ”
As Rogers spoke, Alina continued to try to get close to Rogers' eyes, with a gesture of not giving up until she had achieved her goal.
Because of the disparity in strength, Rogus was quickly pushed to the soft grass, and had to use his hands to push Alina's approach away, while shouting at her for her actions.
"You won't really answer my questions, so I'll have to find the answers myself!" Alina squeezed Rogers' body in a seated position, fending off the other's wildly waving arms with both hands.
Seeing the two friends scuffling together, Rufia anxiously stepped forward and tried to separate the two.
Fortunately, this farce did not last long, the fog around the few people quickly dissipated, and Rogers felt a sense of relief on his body, and Alina, who was still riding on him as a threat, disappeared in an instant.
"When I get promoted to bronze, I'm going to kick your ass hard!" Rogers gritted his teeth with a look of resentment, he didn't expect that he would be bullied by a little girl to such an extent.
He was still standing on the grass at the moment, but the door shrouded in mist and the figures of everyone were all gone, as if they were previous illusions.
Just as Rogus pondered what illusions St. Helt's Gate would arrange for him, the sun set rapidly towards the west, followed by countless stars speeding across the sky, and in the blink of an eye, dawn quietly arrived.
The sun, moon and stars rotated in the sky at an ever-increasing speed, drawing arcs, and day and night gradually overlapped and merged on the earth.
"This is a scene from ...... trailer for the Evening Bell Quartet?"
Rogers narrowed his eyes at everything around him.
The withered earth was cracking, and a majestic fortress rose from the horizon, and countless fierce warriors in heavy armor and blades galloped towards Rogers.
As the warriors approached Rogers, the scene shifted to him once again standing on top of a towering mountain, overlooking the vast land and the vast sky.
In the distance, the mountains were rolling and the clouds were filling the valleys, and everything seemed to be transformed into a box garden of gods.
"It's kind of interesting, but it's not the same as what Alice encountered."
Rogers looked at the ever-changing spectacle with interest and enjoyed the VR-like viewing experience.
In the game, Alice doesn't encounter scenes that change as quickly as she does, and the scenes only continue to rotate after she makes a choice or solves a puzzle.
Moreover, this greatly limits the appearance of subjective initiative, and also makes Rogers a little confused about how to show the "wisdom of the sage".
He sat cross-legged on the ever-changing ground, supported his chin with one hand, frowned at the successive changes in front of him, and after a brief thought, he tentatively opened his mouth and recited a fragment of Solomon's book of Ecclesiastes:
"There is a time for everything, and there is a time for everything under heaven.
"A time to live, a time to die; Sometimes it is planted, and sometimes it is plucked out of what it has planted;
"There is a time to kill, a time to heal; Sometimes it is demolished, sometimes it is built;
“……”
As he recited, countless hazy mist emerged from heaven and earth again, as if to envelop everything in it.
In the midst of this chaos, a majestic gate slowly emerges, with huge patterns and exquisite carvings embedded in the door, as if silently telling the world a piece of epic mythology sealed in the past.
Rogers didn't have much hope, but seeing that it would work, he pointed up and down with one finger and turned to recite Hermes's "Jade Record".
"The bottom is like the top, the top is like the bottom; In this way, the miracle of the One is accomplished.
"All things are the One, created from the One through differentiation.
"The sun is the father, the moon is the mother, conceived by the wind, and nourished by the earth.
"The source of all perfection in the world is here; Its power is at its fullest on earth.
"Divide the earth into fire, extract the essence in roughness, and act cautiously.
"He ascended from the earth to heaven and descended from heaven to attain power above and below him.
"In this way you may receive the glory of the world, and be free from darkness and obscurity.
"This is the power of all forces, destroying the tenacity.
"That's how the world was created.
"That's a miracle."
The sound of a heavy collision suddenly spread through the four fields, echoing in the boundless chaos, this sound rolled like thunder, with the majesty and irresistible power of wanton declaration.
The door in front of Rogus gradually opened, and the mist between heaven and earth enveloped his body.
One by one, everyone who had been trapped in the illusion came to their senses, and they all looked at Rogers in a daze, as the fog swirled around them.
The afterglow of the silver-haired boy's recitation of the proverbs still lingered in their ears.