"So are you ready for the first trial?",asked Sir Waltzberg with an indifferent look etched on his face.For a few moments he was silent before he looked at the fifteen powerful Vermillion before saying "So are you really sure that I cannot go back Sir Waltzberg",he asked."Do you want your soul destroyed before you even try participating in the trials",the vermillon bird threatened him while he emmitted killing intent suffocating him for a second."I accept I accept sir",he hurriedly replied to the vermillion bird in front of him.He just wanted to replace the awkward and scary atmosphere with a little joke so that he would laugh.. It's like want his uncle once told him "Kiddo no matter what happens in life , concerning life's circumstances and even in the toughest predicament you should always wear a benevolent smile on your face and be happy because Joy is the best medication",his uncle told him when he was right years old when they had gone fishing while he ruffled his hair lovingly.
"Okay", Sir Waltzberg looked at the fourteen soldiers behind him and he nodded at them."So what's the whoaoaoaoaoaoaoaoaoaoao what in the name of superficial validation ",he was shocked because in an instant they had teleported to a place where the river was not even blue and it was nothing but red because instead of having water in the river there was thick viscuous lava flowing ."What is this is it hell or something",asked Ray as he felt the very intense heat that was coming from this river."Naina explain",Sir Waltzberg commanded the lady who had once talked earlier to describe the place that they were."Ok sir",she bowed down towards Sir Waltzberg before she looked at him the same way she would look at a dead man with a pitiful expression written on her face "You see this place is called the River of Holy Original Fire and in it we Vermillion birds were created by The Immortal Golden Phoenix millions of years ago .This river is sacred unto is and we respect it.
We came from that very lava , that's s how we came into life you see there was nothing in this world but at the end the very things that you are seeing right now and the things you will see in this realm is that everything was made by The Immortal Golden Phoenix.When he heard this information he was surprised very surprised because if they came from this river then it meant that the river was itself was powerful.This river is the source of our fire it's the source of us vermillion birds and the phoenixes who you will see and that is if you pass the trial and your soul is able to make it in one piece she smiled sweetly at him.
As he gained more knowledge of this world he was left in awe although he was sweating very much he kept on nodding until he heard her last sentence.He looked at her and it seemed like she enjoyed seeing him in this predicament judging it from her smile.That smile was picture perfect if he had brought his phone then he would have captured that beautiful smile almost made him run towards her and just try to capture those beautiful lips and take put her in his embrace not only her but all the other females were beautiful extremely beautiful .These were femme fatales,they had that kind of beauty that would destroy empires well not only empires ,they would make the heavens admire them and look at them with utter jealousy while the whole earth would be disgraced and left in embarrassment.
"Wait what am I supposed to do here he looked at her with the hope that she would not tell him what he thought she would tell him because if it was he knew that he would be a dead man well not a dead man but a man erased from the very plane of existence and would not be found in the book of having existed man why was life so unfair he thought.He thought that he would fight against one of them with a sword or something not that he was a pretty impressive swordsman but it was that his uncle who was a very skilled swordsman trained him and although he was not a skilled one he knew about the way of the sword.He imagined that it will be one of those Japanese fights whereby they would fight for their honour but know that was just him being delusional and hanging own to something called hope but damn it felt like these dudes wanted him dead and dead he was according to their mindset this weak fool could not pass through the first trial .
"That's easy your first trial is to get into that river and fully immerse your body in it and your soul and body will be baptized in the River of Holy Original Fire and if you pass the trial you would have passed the test",said Naina casually.Hearnig this he almost fainted from shock because he was in a big mess.