"Alright, as I was saying… they died here." Caius began, his voice heavy. "The next trial forced us to choose between saving our loved ones from death… or watching them be slaughtered. You might have an idea of how cruel that sounds, but that wasn't even the hard part. No… after you made your choice not to save them, it would start again—this time, you might be in the body of the killer… or in the body of your loved ones."
He paused, his voice growing darker.
"In a nutshell… many died trying to protect you all. And in the end, only ten billion survived to face the final trial."
Caius fell silent as chairs suddenly materialized behind the powerhouses, who slumped into them weakly.
This... this was too cruel.
This was insane.
"Hahaha. You think that was hard?" Caius laughed bitterly. "We were thrown into a hundred-man arena. Only one was allowed to survive. You had to kill ninety-nine others to live. We… we killed fellow humans to survive. That included your surviving geniuses."
