Others had easy lives. Others struggled.
But if ever you found yourself living an easy life, you should be worried. Deeply, profoundly worried. Because Existence was a sadistic teacher who believed in learning through suffering.
If the lessons stopped, it didn't mean you had graduated. It meant the teacher was preparing something special. Something that would make all previous lessons look like warm-up exercises. Noah had learned this truth the hard way, which was, coincidentally, the only way Existence ever taught anything.
If the path before you was smooth and unobstructed, something was horrendously wrong. Either you were being fattened for slaughter, or you had already died and simply hadn't noticed yet.
At this moment.
Noah had trekked through The Wastes as he followed the events of the Partial Simulation closely, and at this moment, he was staring at the grand and seemingly endless boundary of THE Corrupted Vault of Ginnungagap.
