'Damn...' Both the Thirst and Hunger relics were still the same as they were... without a single change! 4 minutes had passed since hunger dropped to 3 points, yet nothing has changed... Rashin hasn't failed yet. Rashin hasn't lost the fight against the two terrors yet.
'So... there is really a way out of this...' Rashin thought, A new opportunity showed itself to assist him in the most critical time.
He still has a chance to defeat that disaster... that terror!
'Wait...' While he was thinking about that great assist, something else popped into his mind. Before, when he was meditating, he realized that the sounds of migrating birds and the clangor of swords between those two anonymous warriors felt like it had taken so many hours.
That's when his eyes grew wider, before he discovered the psychic aspect, he was engaged in self-murdering sessions to be able to gain SP which was converted into strength later after, but... he spent about 5 whole hours during that time.
Sounds of birds and clangor of steel started once he realized he was chained in this fragile body and it continued without any stop... until he started to meditate...
The birds flew far away and the clangor of steel stopped, ending with a horrific scream of death's pain.
'It all... makes sense now...'
What is the final string in this riddle? Well, Rashin had already managed to grasp the hidden meaning and the last string in this riddle...
'It was all about... Death! The time gap between the moment I die and when I wake up again... those 2 minutes...' glancing at the relics in front of him once more, he caught the instantaneous decrease in thirst and hunger by 1 point as 2 other minutes had passed.
Unintentionally, Rashin smiled once more. Although, he is still in the domain of failing the trial, this twist will bring him more time than he could ever imagine...
'...those 2 minutes... didn't only stop me... it also pauses the whole trial!' Thanks to his psychic meditation, Rashin was able to come out with this conclusion. Rashin solved the first riddle. A crucial point he reached indeed.
Now, all he had to do was to put this revelation into action, using it to overcome the terror he was facing. Speaking of terrors, this revelation made another twist in the events of their horrific fight against each other a common twist that happens nearly in every story... Betrayal!
'Hehe, so... Hunger! What do you feel after your comrade had betrayed you...'
'I never expected you to be my on my side... curse of the fallen corpse!' in this horrific fight terrors, the first one was the disaster of thirst and hunger that endangers his existence in the trial, not giving Rashin any chance.
Rushing with all of its might to end him once and for all unfortunately that terror had a huge defect, a defect that restrained its full power which is none other than time itself.
The second terror was the curse of the fallen corpse.
Although Rashin called it with that horrific name, it still deserved to be called with that name. This terror had and still has the power to chain Rashin within it, unable to do or deflect any of its effects... only with SP being that terror's terror.
The third one was Rashin himself. Having the ability to control the terror that the curse of the fallen corpse fears the most and it was the SP.
Turns out that even with his numerous attempts to attack the curse of the fallen corpse with sp, the terror that he wants and thrives to perish it from its existence was his comrade from the beginning.
With this new perspective in his corrupted mind, Rashin and the curse of the fallen corpse have united to defeat the third terror… Hunger!
Truth has to be said, Rashin must have been so tired and on the edge of dying because it's the most logical thing to be understood. In fact, he must have felt so exhausted from the initial start of the trial.
Hunger and thirst were so far below already... how didn't he even feel hungry or thirsty? The only answer to this was... immersion! Rashin was fully immersed in his self-slaughter and psychic meditation causing hunger and thirst to be barely noticed.
Only after the warning of failing the trial because of its terror, did he notice that he was really hungry. Still, he didn't care and cared only to fight as a terror himself.
The fight had reached its Pinaccle, and after the twist of the earlier event, the curse of the fallen corpse teamed with Rashin at the most critical time. It's 2v1 now, with the terror of hunger being stabbed in the back by the curse of the fallen corpse, the power balance shifted to their union leaving the terror of hunger behind... weakened!
'Are you ready... curse of the fallen corpse? My plan has been installed in the mind you preserved for me. Let's go, Anikii!' His plan was simple... really simple. His plan was... thinking!'
Silent: "Ah shit, here we go again with another dumb solution… thinking?! Really?!"
Of course, Rashin wasn't as dumb as anyone might think.
Silent: " Why do I feel that this was said only to me?"
Rashin was one of the terrors in this fight after all. He still has no answer to how to overcome the terror of hunger. Although their opponent was alone now, the terror of hunger was the strongest among them, pushing Rashin to the very edge of his limits... using the curse of the fallen corpse as a puppet under his command.
A terror of manipulation, Rashin knew he would never dare to talk low about it and he had to spend more time to think of how he would get this terror down.
Rashin's key point was... using the curse of the fallen corpse to his advantage too with self-murdering. There is a saying that says" If you want to fight a monster, become one first!" and Rashin had put it now in his shattered mind.
'Hehe, to fight a terror of manipulation, become one first.'
With this, an arm was seen raising up high, posing to deliver a punch that would shatter him for... I can't remember how many times he had died.
'Using the time from posing to punching to think and repeat until I put my hand on the solution to this disaster... to defeat you! Terror of Hunger!'
'Sorry, curse of the fallen corpse. I have to use you to win, you are still on my side, but you are being used by the terror of hunger too. Leave everything to me, Anikii!'
' Yoo,Terror of hunger, time has come to tear ourselves a part...'