Jason was in the bamboo he was currently wandering in the it swinging through by grabbing onto the green handles placed there originally. He would look behind every now and then to make sure that nothing was behind him.

Nothing was behind him, really, nobody was near him or anywhere close to him. Jason guessed that the giant monster gorilla was just waiting for him at the entrance like it expected him to follow the actual path, hah as he would ever do that. He had just done a little sidestep and somehow, he must have evaded the giant monster gorilla.

It seemed really easy, almost too easy, wait that wasn't a foreshadow was it?

Well, it didn't matter, Jason kept on swinging through the entire forest which was surprisingly silent as if all life had disappeared from it. The forest was so thick that Jason couldn't see what terrain was after the forest. It took all that Jason had to notice the green handles in the green bamboo forest. Really, whoever designed this part was evil. And then arrows started flying at him from nowhere. Yeah whoever had designed this was pure evil.

Jason started to jump through clusters of arrows and dodge giant swinging scythes (wherever those came from)

And then he looked behind him again to see parts of the forests behind him being crushed. The forest was visibly getting destroyed as Jason raced on. Bamboo was falling, leaves were flying all around the destroyed part and one silhouette stood out.

Of course, it was Jason's new nightmare, the giant monster gorilla, Jason's speed started to pick up and his arms started to blur.

Swing and run through the trees as Jason might, he could not beat the endless destruction and tyrannical power that was the giant monster gorilla.

Jason could see the giant monster gorilla getting closer to him, well he still couldn't see the gorilla clearly but the destruction of the forest definitely was visible, leaves started to blow in his face, adding to his confusion of dodging arrows and other traps. For some reason, fireballs also started to fly at him. And if Jason hadn't been swinging through the trees for his life he was sure he would have been knocked out in the first wave of traps. The good news was the giant monster gorilla was taking some damage from the various traps set by what Jason would now call the devil.

Jason looked around as he ran faster, there was no way he could escape from the giant monster gorilla he could only just hopelessly plod on hoping for something or somebody to save him.

And something did indeed save him, The forest suddenly ended at a huge, vast, cliff, it was spread before him when he emerged from the bamboo forest. Jason had barely grabbed onto the last handle embedded on the last bamboo and stopped himself from falling off the cliff. He didn't have time to look down but he could tell that they were high up, maybe the devil had put in an unnoticeable slope so that they were always going up. Maybe it, because they were already high up or the training center, was made on the hills.

But Jason did know one fact, he was in a very high spot.

Breathing a loud sigh a relief he looked back, and he regretted it so hard. The giant monster gorilla was barreling through and emerged at full speed towards him.

Jason reacted quickly and held onto the handle on the bamboo tree for dear life.

For a second he actually thought it would work, but when the giant monster gorilla literally bulldozed the bamboo he was holding onto over. He knew it was over, he flew off the cliff with the giant monster gorilla, his eyes full of blame as he glared at the gorilla.

He was falling but it was taking a long time to die so he looked down. First of all, he regretted looking down. But then he noticed that the roaring noise that he had heard from the beginning was getting louder and louder.

Enduring the urge to throw up he pinpointed where the roar was coming from. Below them, Jason hadn't had the time to look down the cliff (because of, you know the giant monster gorilla bulldozing him) but now that he had all the time of his life to look down he saw the source a waterfall.

his first thought when he saw it

"yeah I should have figured that out way earlier"

his second thought was

'Holy **** I can survive'

Jason looked to his right to see the giant monster gorilla falling next to him its arms flailing, Both of them were getting closer and closer to the ground and Jason knew he only had a small window of time.

He did a swimming motion with his arms, absolutely nothing happened. You would expect something to happen, but alas air is different than water.

So Jason did the next best thing, he angled his trajectory and tucked himself into a dive position to get closer to the giant monster gorilla.

It worked, he was moving closer to the giant monster gorilla, but at the same time, the ground was also.

Once he was close enough to grab onto the fur of the giant monster gorilla he started grabbing parts of the fur and using it as an anchor.

Jason had to admit he did pull out some fur, intentionally and out of spite, but that wasn't important.

Climbing across the giant monster Gorillas's body was much harder than Jason had expected, it was like crossing a bridge or a tightrope expect that the winds much faster than expected and were swinging you all around the place. In short, it sucked for both him and the gorilla but more for the gorilla.

Once he got to the edge, he leapt off and got close to the side of the cliff, right underneath him was the waterfall.

Grabbing his sword he stabbed it into the cliffside in a desperate attempt to slow himself down.

The waterfall got closer and closer the roaring was getting louder and louder so much so that Jason thought that he couldn't hear his own thoughts.

Jason was falling straight toward the waterfall, his sword wasn't able to completely stop his fall, so he put it back into his inventory for safekeeping.

The waterfall was gushing out a hidden river in the cliff so Jason fell and smacked into the beginning of the waterfall.

Jason was riding the waterfall or at least he tried to he was floating on the top but when it got to the part where the water actually fell he wasn't so lucky. The moment he started falling thousands of pounds of water just started pouring down forcing him to the ground.

Jason quickly looked down to see if the place where he landed was going to keep him alive or turn him into meat paste.

Luckily the waterfall poured into a large lake, and the lake looked deep enough to dive in even from Jason's height.

He rode the waterfall into the lake with what he thought was his safety ensured. He looked behind to look at the waterfall and saw some dark patches.

'Ah, those' he thought nodding as if he already knew what the origin of those dark patches was.

'I'll need to remember to go back here later'

He continued falling down the waterfall, when he got close to the end he tucked himself into a diving position and let gravity take control of his body.

*Splash*

Jason was underwater, he could feel the coldness and hear the quietness of the water. He surfaced spitting out the mouthful of water he had just swallowed.

For some reason he instead of thinking about the course he just thought to himself

'man when am I going to be a fully-fledged rose knight, I mean as a trainee I get no benefits, but at the same time I don't know how to become a real rose knight'

Jason climbed out of the lake wondering where he should go, he wasn't sure if falling off the waterfall was part of the course or not. If it was, then the designer was actually satan.

Jason was in a small valley that was completely enclosed beside the lake that he had dived into. Large cliffs surrounded Jason on all sides with parts of the cliff jutting out into the land. The lake was about the size of a regular lake, Jason could see the end of the lake but it would take him a few minutes to swim to the other side. Looking around he could see the height that he had just fallen, the cliff that he fell off of looked like it was immersed in clouds, he could barely see the part where he fell of off, it was even hard to find the source of the waterfall he had jumped into.

Jason had a feeling that something was in the lake. But decided to explore on land a bit more. He started peering behind the parts of the cliffs that jutted out, they were all covered in darkness except for one. It was right under the sun and when Jason looked in he could see the grass and the rocky cliffs and more importantly the tunnel that was lit up by torches hidden on the backside of the cliff.

Jason marked the mysterious place in his head. The place confused him something was missing in it but he couldn't figure out what it was. He looked back at the shimmering lake, the roaring waterfall, and the mysterious large cliffs Something in him knew that he was going to return here and figure out the source of the weird feeling he had here.

He turned around and plodded through the tunnel.

Jason walked through the cave. Nothing was really different except when he walked through all he saw was the walls and the torches appeared in front of him every time he rounded a corner.

He felt like he was walking forever. Jason wasn't scared, but he started to feel bored. Every time he turned around another corner the only thing that waited for him was more cavernous tunnels and more torches. On the plus side, Jason was along with his thoughts, he was thinking many things. Some of the things he thought were important like thoughts about his family or what really was his course in life. Other times his thoughts were stupid like how armrests were chairs for your arms.

Eventually, Jason forgot that he was even walking or even moving, the only thing that he was focused on was his thoughts he didn't direct them but he let them move freely shifting randomly from subject to subject.

Jason didn't know it but every time he was thinking and using his brain, It was like working out his brain making it stronger, faster, and smarter. But Jason didn't know this and just continued along with just his thoughts.

The adrenaline rush from the waterfall incident was starting to wear off, snapping Jason back to reality by the flood of weariness in his entire body. And then with impeccable timing, he saw a light in front of him. It couldn't be anything else besides sunlight.

Now Jason was really feeling it his legs started to wobble his vision started to get blurry. Dragging out the rest of the energy he had he walked to the end of the tunnel.

The gust of fresh air that hit him when he stepped out felt like the sweetest fruit of them all after being stuck in the cramped cave for god knows how long.

*clap* *clap* *clap*

Jason turned his head up looking for the source of the clapper. It was Lyle standing on a wooden platform in the trees looking at Jason. He jumped down and helped Jason sit down on a wooden stump nearby. When Jason had rested enough, Lyle faced Jason and with a solemn attitude addressed Jason

"congratulations trainee Arch, you have formerly passed the trial of agility and wisdom under the witness of me Lyle Anchord and the rest of the Blue 2 squad."

Jason looked back at the platform to see 4 more people standing on the platform. They were all in different shapes and sizes but Jason could see that they were all smiling.