Divine Heritage: Only I Can Judge The gods-Chapter 46: White Room (1)

One week later...

Today was the last day Ark would spend in the Wielder’s center. So far, he had enjoyed their hospitality but now it had finally come to an end.

After breakfast, he sat a little longer in the cafe, staring at the room for one final time. By evening, he would be gone and had already packed the things.

Just as he was about to leave the cafeteria, a golden screen popped into his vision.

At first, he thought it was his regular daily training and was about to close it when one word caught his eye.

’White room?’

[—:Mission Notification:—]

[Task: Survive 15 Minutes in the white room]

[Task Type: Training]

[Task Duration: 4:59...4:58]

[Quest Rewards: Fatigue Refresh]

[Quest Failure: Temporary Restrictions on Primary Artifact]

’What is the white room?’ Ark thought, slightly confused by what was in front of him.

Throughout the past week, he had been completing his daily training as well as doing his own personal practice, nothing new had happened throughout.

Now that he had finally gotten a new kind of training, it was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up.

[Enter the White room?]

[YES] [NO]

Ark picked up his tray and quickly returned it to the counter, then hurriedly left the cafeteria, quickly heading over to his room.

He had no idea what would happen when he entered the white room, so it was safer if he did it behind closed doors.

Once he finally got to the room he tapped the [YES] and waited.

Not even five seconds later, the world around Ark began to change. The walls of his room imploded on themselves, twisted and vanished.

"What the hell?" Ark remarked as the ground disappeared from his feet and he plummeted, falling through the clouds and open atmosphere until he collapsed on a pure white surface.

He awkwardly stood up and observed the area around him, everything was stark white, the sky, the walls, the floor...

There was not a hint of colour in sight. Or so he thought, until his eyes landed on a shade of purple.

There was someone else in the room, a girl with silky purple hair and silver eyes. Currently, those eyes appeared pure white, as they reflected the world around them.

"Silver?"

She smiled as she approached him.

"Welcome to the white room!"

A screen popped up just after she spoke.

[Welcome to the White Room!]

"Oh wait... I was working on it before you came and forgot to disconnect.

"Working on what? The console?"

Many questions were already filling Ark’s head, what did she mean she was working in the console?

Was it faulty? Could it even be faulty? Or was the console somehow incomplete...

"Anyways..." she began, completely ignoring his question.

"As you already know, you are a terrible fighter."

She stared at Ark in a ’matter -of-fact manner.’

"You could have worded that better, I slayed a manticore you know?"

The only room was suddenly filled with the sound of laughter.

"A blue tailed manticore, just one level above trash! Hahahaa." She held onto her stomach as she laughed.

"Well, hahaha... I guess at your level..." She then stared at Ark who had a serious expression on his face.

"I almost died, you know?"

"Uhum.." She fake coughed. "Yes, manticores can be tricky... congrats."

"As I was saying..." Her voice became slightly subdued. "Manticore..." A small smile brightened up her face making Ark realize once more that the girl in front of him was probably far from human.

Her beauty was the unexpected kind, the one that left anyone who saw her more than stunned. Her frame, although a little shorter than average, just seemed somehow perfect.

She had delicate shoulders and a slight dimple in her cheeks... for a moment Ark was lost in them.

And then she spoke, snapping him out of the daze.

"The white room is meant to help you out with your beginner phase, before you move up to me teaching you, then ’her’ eventually."

Ark wanted to ask who ’her’ was but he had a feeling it was something Silver wouldn’t answer and so he asked a different question.

Maybe it was one of the other two girls...

"So what exactly is this place?"

"It is like a simulation, but at the same time it is not. It is a world in between simulation and reality. Using this room, you can gain more experience without having to directly risk your life... somewhat"

Ark nodded before asking another question that had been on his mind.

"Where were you during the past week?

She had been as incessant as a mosquito the previous week only to completely ghost him the next week.

"I had some things to attend to... that doesn’t mean I don’t know that you used your curse."

"It’s not like I had a choice in the matter you know?"

"Yeah yeah," she said as a golden screen appeared in front of her. "Just don’t overdo it."

The world began to change once more. The pristine white sky was now gaining colour, the floor turned brown only for grass to spring out of it seconds later.

Soon the entire place transformed into an open field before Ark’s eyes.

"By the way Silver..."

"You seem to have a lot of questions today, one week’s worth no less..." She said, not bothering to look up from the screen she was operating.

"Something weird happened during the exams."

"Is that so? What happened?" A crystal clear spring appeared a few inches away, just to disappear as she clicked her tongue.

Something had been bothering Ark since the exams concluded. There was one thing that happened that didn’t make sense in any way.

He had somehow survived the venom of a manticore, no explanation he could think of was sticking.

"I somehow gained immunity to a certain venom during the Trial. Why do you think this happened?"

She paused, her finger moments from touching the screen, and stared up at him.

"Immunity?"

"Yes, it just sorta happened."

"But that doesn’t make any sense, you haven’t unlocked the healer class right?"

Ark shook his head. Silver looked pretty confused, it seemed there were still things even someone like her was still unaware of.

"I guess I’ll look into it, for now let’s just focus on your training."

Just as she finished speaking certain spots on the floor were bathed black and out of it came infernal creatures.

Their bodies were as black as charcoal, as though they had been paused through a furnace. They wore pure steel armour and held various types of weapons.

Currently, they were three but Ark was sure it would not remain that way for long, the goal was to survive after all.

His axe appeared out of thin air, the comfortable weight of the weapon resting in his palms.

"These are Infernal Marauders. They are considerably stronger than those trees you fought back on the mountain."

’So she was watching...’

Silver smiled as a chair appeared behind her. She sat on it, resting her face on her fist.

"Think you can last five minutes?"

Ark braced himself as the first marauder charged, a black curved sword pushing forward.

He dodged to the left and delivered a kick to the beast’s gut, just before completely dividing the beast in half.

Then he turned to face her. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

"What do you think?"

Something else moved in the corner of his eyes. Ark quickly hopped back as the black sword tore through his jeans.

The creature he had severed... it had regenerated, its body as good as new.