"Is that really all right?"
After Fang Li watched Emilia leave, the witch's voice rang out behind him.
Echidna had appeared behind Fang Li at some point. With a faintly mocking tone, she said this.
"Given that filthy thing's mental age, I don't think she'll be able to clear the trials so easily, you know?"
A vile remark came from Echidna's lips.
It was enough to show just how much Echidna hated Emilia.
"If even the first trial reduced her to that state, can she really clear the remaining two?"
Echidna spoke casually.
"Your expectations for her may not necessarily be rewarded, you know?"
Echidna was being as sarcastic as possible, freely disparaging Emilia.
Perhaps Emilia pulling herself together had only made this witch unhappy instead?
Not to mention that, in order to support Emilia, Fang Li had even written off his past grievances with this witch who had effectively become his enemy.
That, too, displeased Echidna.
Unfortunately, Fang Li showed no reaction to Echidna's sarcastic words. He merely asked calmly.
"What exactly are the three trials?"
Just like that, he asked about questions that were not supposed to be revealed.
Echidna raised a brow, then indifferently disclosed the questions.
"—'Face your own past.'—"
"—'Witness a present that cannot exist.'—"
"—'Confront the calamity that is bound to come.'—"
"Those are the true forms of the three trials."
Echidna's answer made Fang Li understand the nature of the three trials.
They tested the past, present, and future of those taking them.
Fang Li could even guess their contents from their names.
If facing one's past meant confronting something one had once regretted or found painful, then the other two trials were surely similar.
Witnessing a present that could not exist referred to the present one wished to have.
Those who craved