I wore nothing but my simple clothes, one that seemed to be made out of the cheapest fabric in the world. I got nothing on me to protect myself against anything coming.

“Bring it on!” I shouted in defiance, while not trying to hide my hatred and anger at all.

“The first test is coming… Sustain the attack for two days… Oh wait, you got punished for your cowardance! Sustain the attack for five days then.”

“…”

Since when was the double of two five? F*ck! Even I got such injustice from such a formidable being!

Screw you then! “Bring it on!” I clenched my fists and anticipated what was coming.

What else? It was going to be lightning, right? There was nothing else here but barren land and lightning.

However, against my expectations, the attack that came was something that I never expected.

The land around me was rocky and solid. However in the next few minutes, many places changed and started to turn into a semi-solid state.

As if they were pulled with a hidden gravitational force, these semi-solid rocks were pulled out, forming a shape of giant spears, broke free from the ground, solidified at a visible rate, before plunging at me at fast speed.

*Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!*

I didn’t stand idle and watch without doing anything. If I got my gears and weapons, I wouldn’t need to worry about any of this.

They were, after all, mere rocks coming at me.

However I was wearing nothing, having nothing but my fists. I didn’t know if my physical strength was preserved or not. And I didn’t take the gamble.

If I could, then I’d evade them using my agility. At the same time, I tested my body condition.

I could jump fast and high, my reaction was superb like before. Did that mean I still held my inhumane strength or what?

Let me test it then.

As I kept jumping around like a monkey, evading everything coming, at one point I purposely jumped low and let one rocky spear fly near me.

I clenched my fist, waved my arm, and when that sharp and deadly large piece of rock passed by me, I simply hit it with a punch.

*Crack!*

“Sigh! As expected!” I landed and didn’t delay for even one second. There were too many rocks to count.

So I jumped again and again, kept testing the limit of my strength here before reaching a conclusion.

It wasn’t that my strength was weak, but it was these rocks that held special endurance to them.

It meant I couldn’t just depend on my strength to crush these rocks.

“This is… Bad!”

Just when I thought things were going my way, and in less than six hours, a new change happened.

The spears that kept coming and failed to even touch a single hair of me started to show a sudden change in appearance.

I was surprised the first time I passed by one of these rocks. I saw it grow suddenly in size, with its surface swaying like the surface of a lake after throwing a rock in it.

Then without any warning, much thinner spikes came out from it, aiming for my life.

“Go away!” as it came fast and without warning, such an attack was indeed lethal. However I didn’t hesitate, used both fists to crush the incoming spikes.

I managed to survive this attack with two bloody fists. I looked at the rock which kept hovering in the air for a few seconds, covering up hundreds of metres, before crashing down like all others.

“Dammit! So they kept changing in time? This is really bad!” I knew that my earlier tactic wasn’t going to work.

The rocks would attack me in a way that I couldn’t evade. So I had to exert my strength and keep hammering the spikes, crushing them whenever they appeared.

Gradually I learnt a few tricks as well. Instead of just going directly at the spikes and clashing with their sharp edges, I could simply attack them by aiming at their shafts.

It was a bit tricky as I noticed the growth speed of these spikes differ from the sides of the rocky spears.

So instead of just simply jumping up to bypass the incoming spears by overpassing them, I started to simply fly paralel to them.

This proved more effective and lessened the burden over my hands.

Yet the injuries I got healed at a much slower rate than ever. It seemed like I lost the ability to heal.

At this moment, I really missed my healing sacrifice for my class. I tried before to activate the system, tried to activate any of my class abilities or summon anything from my huge arsenal.

But I failed. As that mysterious voice said, external strength wasn’t allowed. And I was left to face the incoming threats by myself.

However, was I this weak to begin with? Even if I depended mainly on the external forces for the most of time, I got many boosts to my strength.

So it wasn’t like I only had my external strength. I was strong.

Yet the next change exerted more pressure over me.

The first change happened after six hours. Yet this one happened after one day. Like this, I just happened to stay here for almost a day and a quarter.

I knew this wasn’t even close to half of the entire period of staying here. But the delay of the change gave me hope.

Just surviving this one and the next would be the last change in this trial.

As for what happened, it was simple. The spears that passed over me triggered something and spikes from the ground appeared all of sudden, attacking me without any warning.

The first time it happened, I felt like my life was hanging by a thread. If I got hit, I was sure my body would be hacked in many places.

I wouldn’t lose my life at once, but it meant I’d be heavily wounded and wouldn’t be able to last till the end.