Chapter 46 - The Space Trials
Darkness.
Moments later.
The world that opened before Lucas wasn't made for humans.
It was a realm assembled from chaos, a place beyond time, space, and logic. The sky was neither day nor night but gradually shifted from deep violet to crimson red, as if a wounded sky was struggling to heal. Floating islands drifted aimlessly above jagged mountains. Rivers flowed upward. Trees twisted in on themselves. Gravity fluctuated…
Lucas had no time to react before he was hurled onto the cracked black earth.
He hit the ground hard, coughing, his vision blurred.
"What… the hell is this?" he muttered, trying to get up.
Then a voice echoed from the void calm, emotionless, yet terrifying:
[Welcome to the Space Trials.]
[Current Trial: Phase One – Survival.]
[Objective: Kill or be killed.]
Then the world moved.
From the shadows, white creatures oozed into view, insectoid in structure, with long twitching limbs…
