Distraught.
The living room gradually fell silent again.
In the dilapidated house, the cold wind blowing inside brought a chill, as if it had also extinguished the hope in everyone's hearts.
Everyone returned to their places.
Several Awakeners stared blankly at the ceiling.
The old electrical wires were tangled like a spiderweb.
As the first people to enter the trial, their emotions were already beginning to collapse.
After the torment of waiting came two consecutive failures.
The solution deduced by the blond man had clearly been so coherent and reasonable.
They could not even find a flaw in it.
Yet the body that had been cut apart mocked them like split lips.
The blond man had not even revealed his name before he died.
"What exactly is it?"
"Ha—ah!!"
Clutching their hair, the Awakeners gathered around the dining table and agonized over the correct answer.
Their thoughts were twisted venomous snakes, crawling everywhere and becoming entangled with themselves.
Facing the wall, Agassi, who had once wanted to form a team with Lin An, actually began to pray.
"My Lord Christ, bless me."
"I want to go back. My children can't be without a father!"
"Please grant me wisdom."
He wept bitterly.
Everyone present was an awakened will-user, but having a strong will did not mean that everyone possessed extraordinary thinking and logic.
On the contrary.
Many of them simply had more Mental Strength, or rather, talents inclined toward skill activation.
Agassi, for example, was actually just the captain of the Safe Zone's Rescue Team in the real world.
He only knew one skill, Holy Light Art. His rank and strength had entirely depended on powerful Awakeners carrying him through the levels.
With his healing ability, aside from encountering fear during the early stages of the apocalypse, when had he ever