Astonishing as the view before them, Maya quickly gripped Daisy tighter as they started falling downwards.
"Hold on." She beckoned before landing on the ground. She quickly got on her feet and started sprinting again but the others were catching up.
She was running out of essence and didn't know whether they could make it in time. Her thoughts clouded her surroundings not noticing a trip wire set up behind a tree and bush. She tripped on it setting of a mechanism that sunk the ground revealing a hole below her as she quickly tossed Daisy over who let out a small cry before almost falling in except for Maya who fell into it. Her arms gripping the edge, Diasy pulled herself up and let out a sigh. She turned and knelt down looking at Maya's unconscious body.
"Maya!!" She shouted, no response.
"God damnit, Maya wake up!"
Maya remained motionless, Daisy almost fell into panic before talking to herself.
"Come on, you can do this Daisy, you just gotta get her from down there but how are you gonna do it is another thing." She thought as she heard the other breachers running throught the tree lines. She looked at her hands and clenched them, let out a breathe and closed her eyes
"Looks like am using my gift." She thought.
A small thread like line appeared on her hands as she placed them on the ground as the threads intertwined and flowed down the hole to Maya's body and reached her hands then, she opened her eyes as Maya's eyes also opened.
"So this her body huh?" She talked as Maya, looking at the thread and Maya's body under her control.
She gripped the thread from the wall and used it like a rope and climbed up to reach her body. She held out her Maya's hand touching her own as she opened her eyes blinking Maya laid infront of her unconscious. She raised her finger and and thread poured out from it as it twirled and twined in the air as it entered Maya's ear.
"Let's get you awake." She thought as she experienced Maya's memories flow through her as she found herself in a white horizon.
Daisy stared in astonishment before a gold hue appeared before her.
"Your not supposed to be here, Arbiter."
Daisy's expression changed before the void disappeared and she awoke breathing heavily. She got her and touched her nose only to see blood at the tip of her finger.
"What are you, Maya?" She silently asked.
The other breachers had already reached the chasm, the boy with a white top and brow coat looked at the chasm. It was wider than the Grand canyon itself.
"How are we even gotta make this jump?"
He asked, he's hands in his pockets. The other boy with the blue and white sequint jumpsuit laid back on a tree just looked quizzically before saying,
"Beats me, but we won't know just by being here it's almost sunset."
They both looked up and saw the orange ray's in the horizon. The girl with a long green dress and scarlet hair walked forward from the dense bush cover dragging one unconscious breacher.
"Let's try throwing him in?" She suggested.
"Are you kidding me!! First you wanted to kill the two girls who were unconscious in the forest now you want throw some loser into the chasm?"
The boy with the white shirt asked bewildered.
"What? She looked dangerous so I thought I could kill her. And also who's gonna care for this so called loser if we aren't gonna find out how to get across." She snapped back one hand on her hip the other holding the collar of the unconscious breacher's shirt.
"Either way we are not sarcrificing somebody just because we think it's part of faith." The boy with the the jumpsuit said.
"What if true faith requires a sacrifice?" She asked. The boys just stared at her.
Back in the forest Maya woke up feeling drained, she quickly checked her stats showing her essence had been almost depleted. She let out a sigh and found Daisy staring at the sun, Daisy turned and ran towards her.
"Maya! Thank Mundus your safe." She said hugging her.
"Yeah I never expected the place to be bobby trapped." Maya said. Daisy pulled out before talking again
"We need to hurry it's almost nightfall. Can you move?" She asked staring at her.
"No, I can barely even stand." She said trying to stand on her feet.
"Let me." Daisy said as she held out her hand and Maya held it and felt a sudden jolt of energy course through her.
"Now let's head to that chasm" She said smiling as they held hands and walked through the dense forest dodging the traps before hearing a large murmur infront of them as they came to where all the breacher's gathered and they were in a deep bickering session.
Maya tried her best to analyze the situation but the girl with the long dress shouted and throw the breacher's body down the chasm.
A few gasps and murmurs ran as they all peered at the edge trying to see what happened but they couldn't even hear nor see the body.
"See, I told you nothing wasn't gonna happen." The boy with the white top said his face covered by his palm in disbelief.
"Here comes the uproar girlie." The boy in the jump suit said staring at her incompetency. The other breacher's started murmuring and cursing under their breathes.
The boy with the jumpsuit came to Maya and Daisy's side before asking.
"Guessing you don't have any idea on how to solve this?"
Maya and Daisy looked puzzled, the test was about testing one's faith but how to go around it, Maya didn't know. Then she recalled Alucard's words May Mundus be with you. She thought hard before staring at Daisy who seemed to be deep in thought as well.
"Daisy?"
"Yeah?" Daisy asked
"You said there are other trying places such as this one right?"
"Yeah...I mean we are in Mundus so all test areas are connected."
That clarified Maya's suspicion, it was a gamble worth taking but she had to do it herself to find out.
"Take me to the edge."
Diasy and the boy looked puzzled before they walked her to the edge as the others watched them.
"What are you going to do?" Daisy asked
"This" she said before free falling into the chasm.
"Mayaaaa!!!" Daisy screamed as Maya plunged into the darkness. There was a short silence expecting something but nothing happened. As Daisy closed her eyes in disbelief, she heard Maya's voice.
"Come on, jump just like how we did in the river."
Daisy opened her eyes to see Maya on the other side but her voice sounded so near.
"Close your eyes and follow the thread." She said before Daisy fell in as she close her eyes the moment she disappeared and found herself on the otherside. The others followed after and they all appeared in time before it turned dark. They murmored in satisfaction as Alucard appeared.
"Congratulations, you stayed with Mundus and passed the test of Faith, now alot of you didn't make it, but we have no time to mourn, on to the next test" he said clapping before they were blinded by a bright hue of light.