Supreme Husband System! & Supreme Wife System!

Chapter 981: Irene’s Ascension Trial

“What, has Sister already started her Ascension Trial?” — Idan was amazed by this news.

The news that Irene had started her Ascension Trial spread quickly among the Guild members through {Whisper Talismans}.

Many people with Ordinary Systems began to envy Irene, and those with Rare Systems, which were in the minority, felt an urgent need to act.

If Irene could do it, then they should follow her and keep up.

However, what had stopped everyone so far was that the Third Ascension Trial was radically different from the first two.

Previously, most passed their trials during a Disaster, completing certain tasks and assignments from their systems. Successful completion of these tasks earned them a breakthrough to the next rank as a reward.

Right now, in order to initiate the Third Ascension Trial, they needed special conditions or a catalyst.

Each Awakened needed their own special conditions and a catalyst, and most importantly, their Systems did not provide a direct answer to the question of what exactly was needed for this.

With the advent of a new stage in the growth of their world, when further advancement is possible only for Awakened Ones with a Rare System, many began to suspect that the changes in the conditions of the Third Ascension Trial were related to this.

In the North, after abandoning their Anomaly research for the time being, Avatar Arabel and the others focused on Irene.

“Don’t worry, little sister, as long as I’m here, no one can stop Idan’s sister from passing her so—called Ascension trial,” Lucinda said confidently.

“I believe in you, big sister, and thank you for that,” Arabel replied gratefully.

Entrusting Lucinda with protection, Arabel focused entirely on Irene.

She was very scared when Irene walked inside and froze in place, as if frozen by the power of ice. Her brother Arslan was even more scared than she was.

If it wasn’t for her own affinity with the ice element, she still wouldn’t have known about Irene’s condition.

At that moment, she noticed that an unusual barrier had appeared around Irene, which both protected her and seemed to resonate with the energy of the ice element Anomaly.

Arabel wondered how long it would take.

As she watched, she couldn’t help but recall her and Idan’s Ascension trial.

Their first trial, which they passed during their stay in Limbo, took more than a month.

“That’s when we took the bloodline change potion,” Arabel recalled.

In contrast, the second Ascension trial turned out to be much shorter, less than an hour.

“It would be great if Irene’s process went quickly too.”

Although Arabel hoped for it, she was willing to give up the expedition and stay here as long as needed until Irene completed her trial.

***

Irene lost track of time, finding herself in an endless white-gray space where there was no sky, no earth, no sounds. Everywhere she looked, there was boundless whiteness and a silent silence that drove her crazy.

She walked forward, sometimes floating in the air, and sometimes she found herself falling. Her thoughts were confused.

Gradually, Irene stopped panicking. Then fear, joy, boredom, anger, shame, embarrassment, and all her other emotions disappeared. Her own thoughts began to slow down, and her inner voice became quieter.

Irene began to forget why she was here and what kind of place it was. She stopped trying to do anything, falling into a state of complete indifference.

At that moment, a white-gray mist soaked in the power of the Anomaly began to envelop Irene’s thoughts.

Her body was rapidly freezing outside, losing heat.

And at the most critical moment, an impulse of strange power swept through her entire body.

Irene’s consciousness jolted, as if she had been pulled out of a state of emptiness.

“No!” she exclaimed, wanting to drown in the void. She felt so comfortable there that she didn’t want to go back.

But then she heard the faint sound of a child’s laughter, which stopped her. Something inside her, something she didn’t know she had, responded to that laugh.

She looked around for the source of the laughter.

A hazy memory appeared in the very heart of this white-gray space.

It was not cold, but filled with warmth, children’s laughter and something very familiar.

It was her son.

Irene remembered holding his small body in her arms, his trusting gaze.

It suddenly dawned on her that if she returned to this void, her child would be left in a world without her. And even if she returns, it will only be an empty shell of her, unable to love and experience emotions.

“He shouldn’t see a lifeless shell instead of a mother,” this thought broke through the first gap in Irene’s stupor.

Following that, Irene remembered the young man’s gentle touch, his embrace, and the warmth of his lips.

A spark of life reappeared in her frozen body, as if signaling that she was still alive. This vivid memory awakened in her a desire for something more than just silence.

Then the image of the sullen young man who eventually became someone she was proud of appeared in front of her eyes. Next to him, she saw the woman who had changed this guy. This woman became an example for Irene, of whom she was also proud.

These two images helped Irene realize the purpose of her stay here and the desire to become stronger.

After that, she heard the voices of two people, a man and a woman, who gave her back the feeling of a “daughter,” a small and valuable person.

Based on these images, Irene regained a piece of herself.

“Now I understand,” she whispered to herself.

“That’s what ‘Void’ means.”

With the realization of what she could understand all this time, the white-gray endless space began to crumble.

***

Less than an hour had passed outside, and everyone was waiting in silence, not knowing how much more time they would have to spend waiting.

Arabel noticed the changes in Irene as her body began to freeze rapidly under the influence of the icy elements and lose heat. However, she didn’t make a fuss, but took on all the worries and fears.

Arabel not only didn’t want to scare her brother and the others, but she also believed that Irene could handle it.

When faith began to weaken gradually, something incredible happened.

An empty sphere-shaped space formed around Irene, which began to expand rapidly, absorbing everything around her, including Arabel’s ice cube.

Irene floated in the very center of the sphere, untouched by this force, with her eyes closed.

“What… What kind of power is this?” thought Arabel, looking at the sphere.

Meanwhile, Arabel’s real body, shocked by what was happening, received a prompt from her system.

[Element of Void]

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