Azrael stared at the glowing screen.
"Survival of just a training?" he muttered. "That should be easy."
Then his eyes dropped to the reward.
One hundred thousand.
He felt a cold weight in his chest.
"This system would never give me something like that for free," he thought.
"It won't be easy. Nothing ever is."
He scratched his head and hissed. Hiss.
"Oh, I forgot. Hey system, where was my last reward for the villain's act?"
The blue screen flickered. It took its time.
Then words appeared.
[Quest Failed]
[Reason: Chosen path created an unknown timeline.]
Azrael clenched his teeth. Clench.
"What? I will go mad at this," he muttered. "I am not getting a single reward, not one."
He rubbed his face with his palm.
"System, what's it all about? This timeline thing. And how do you know these timelines?"
There was no response.
The blue screen stayed blank.
Azrael leaned back, his mind spinning.
He thought hard, calculating from the day this all started.
