"We're not done yet actually." The ghost says and laughs.
A barrier appears around UCHK, disallowing it to ever leave the campfire. UCHK feels the heat of the fire and starts screaming in pain.
"Survive until the monster gets completely cooked and dies." The ghost says. "I've made all the monsters even more aggresive than they were until now." He adds.
Seconds later, countless monsters run up to the peak of the mountain, all of them start running full speed at Mikey. They don't care about anything, but killing Mikey.
(10 minutes later)
Mikey stands at the peak of the mountain which had literally heightened by about five meters from all the corpses of monsters that he has killed in these past few minutes.
He can't see the campfire nor the Ultimate monster, as the barrier that is trapping UCHK is completely covered by corpses aswell.
He's looking up at the red sky that's filled with stars.
"When will this be finally over? Why the hell is that stupid chicken burning for so long?" Mikey asks.
He sees another horde of monsters running uphill. These whole ten minutes the monsters have been attacking in hordes. This is the fifth horde that Mikey has to fight.
His body is covered in blood and organs of all the other monsters. His muscles are so sore that he almost can't even feel his own body. His forearms are so tired that he can't even hold his swords anymore. He cleared the last horde by using simple attacks only.
He prepares for the fifth horde, but just before the monsters can reach him, the Ultimate monster finally dies and the second trial ends. All of the monsters dissapear and the moon turns back to being white.
Mikey is teleported into another area, again. He finds himself in a pitch black room, or so he thinks atleast.
He can't see anything, he doesn't know if the room is small or infinitely large, that's how dark it is. After a while of nothing happening and the ghost not appearing, Mikey decides to walk around a little. Mikey realizes that this pitch blackness is actually an open area, not a small room.
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He eventually finds a light in the distance, he approaches it, and soon, he can make out a shape of the light. The light seems to be coming from a small wooden hut, Mikey approaches it, he realizes how strange this entire scenery is.
A small wooden hut in the middle of literally nothing, everything besides the hut itself is pitch black, the blackness makes the shape of the house seem strange.
Without giving it much thought, Mikey decides to enter the wooden hut. His body is barely holding up. He's still covered in blood of the monsters which he had killed.
He comes inside the hut, the inside looks quite cozy, as if he was inside a family cottage. Mikey comes into what looks like the living room. The ghost is sitting there on a sofa. There's a table in front of the sofa and another sofa opposite to the one which the ghost is sitting on.
Mikey sits in the opposing sofa and looks at the ghost. The ghost is drinking what looks like a chocolate milk from his mug.
"You want some too?" He asks. He then snaps his fingers and the same mug with chocolate milk in it appears on the table.
Mikey, without saying a single word, grabs the mug and takes a sip out of it... he then THROWS it at the ghost. The mug goes right through the ghost and smashes against a wall.
"Hey! That wasn't nice!" The ghost shouts at Mikey. "This is going to be your house throughout the entirety of the third trial, you probably shouldn't destroy it the first day you're here." He adds in.
"Tell me about the third trial." Mikey says as he stares down the ghost.
"All you need to know right now is that you should rest. Take a shower and wash away your blood. Tend to your wounds and go to sleep. If you need food or water, it's in the kitchen. More or less anything that you'll need is in this hut." The ghost says and dissapears. He then reappears for a short moment and says. "By the way congratulations, you're the first person that managed to get through my second trial." The ghost actually dissapears now.
Mikey looks at his covered in blood body and judges that the ghost is right about the fact that he should clean himself. He stands up and explores the hut, he finds the kitchen, the bedroom, the bathroom and a really big underground storage.
While in the storage Mikey says: "This is probably what he meant when he said that anything I'll need is in this hut."
Mikey looked around the storage and found tons of various tools and usefull stuff.
Before Mikey walked upstairs he searched for something that could help him recover his wounds.
He found disinfectant and bandages, he put them in his inventory.
While on his way upstairs, Mikey falls to the ground, his body is slowly giving up. He lies on the ground for a few minutes and then finally stands up again. It's taking all of his strenght just to walk, if he had to fight right now he would probably lose a fight against one singular zombie, even though his health bar is full.
Mikey went into the bathroom and took a shower. He almost fell asleep during the process. After finally washing away all the dirt and blood from his body, he realized that he probably shouldn't change back into his clothes as they're a complete mess too.
Mikey wrapped the towel around his waist and went into his bedroom. He found a new set of clothing on his bed which looked exactly the same as the clothes which he had up until now.
"Did the ghost put that there?" He asks himself as he looks at it. There is a mirror in his bedroom, he looks at it and sees all the cuts, bruises and wounds on his body. He starts tending to his wounds.
None of the visible wounds are too critical, disinfectioning them and wrapping them in bandages was enough. The real problem are the inner wounds, Mikey's wrists and ankles are completely blown out. Almost every single muscle in his body is screaming for medical attention. Of course, there's no doctor here or anything, so that's out of question.
Mikey changes into his new clothes and goes to sleep in an instant.
What Mikey doesn't know, is that the trial has began right now.
The ghost appears above Mikey and casts a strange spell on him which disallows Mikey from waking up, until he completes a certain task.
This means that atleast a part of the third trial will take place in Mikey's head while he's asleep.