Fifteen minutes later, after Hilda left the first floor, Leo and Leona passed their trails with only two minutes difference between Leo and Leona.
Both sisters only managed to pass the first and third requirements while failing the second one, where they had to kill Cyrus before he killed their family.
Still, they both earned a total of three promises from Cyrus, which were more than enough to make both of them ecstatic, and like Hilda, they wanted to enter the second-floor trial as well since there were no penalties.
However, they were both told to wait since Hilda was already going under the trial, and Leona even had to wait longer since it would be Leo's turn first, according to her clearing the trial first.
This made Leona quite unhappy, but she was secretly happy about Leo's passing as well, not failing.
Cyrus, on the other hand, earned 2000 SP and LXP after both sisters became temple devotees.
But his focus was on the second floor. The clean and lush grass field right now was charred and destroyed, and there were many craters.
At this moment, Hilda was punching a two-meter-tall humanoid figure which was half crimson and half purple, and it had no face or clothes; it was a mannequin.
The only distinguishing feature of this mannequin was the glow black '2' on its forehead. However, this mannequin's body was filled with punching holes while its entire shoulder was missing, as if someone extremely violent had blasted it apart.
Hilda's punch was coated with a gray sheen at this moment as she punched the mannequin's chest while gracefully dodging its punch.
The moment her punch connected, the mannequin's entire body blasted back with a booming sound, and with all those holes in its body, it finally couldn't withstand the destructive Qi of Hilda, and its entire body blasted apart!
Hilda gracefully landed on the group as both of her pale white shoulders were exposed because of the clothes tearing apart from them, except that damaged or her little rough breathing, she was completely fine.
The system voice rang at his moment as it rang previously two times,
"[Congratulation on passing the Phase Three!]
"[Congratulations, Temple Devotee Hilda, you have completed the Second Floor Trial: The Worshiper's Prowess!]
"[You have met the requirement to become the Origin Lust Sword Temple Worshiper!]
"[Your Temple Status has been updated!]"
With fiery vigor in her eyes, she quickly opened her temple status.
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[Origin Lust Sword Dimension & Temple Status: Hilda]
[Dimension & Temple Ruler: Cyrus Lust]
-Dimension & Temple Rank: Origin Lust Sword Temple Worshiper
-Special Talent(s): Evil Destruction Physique (???)
-Cultivation: Mortal Tier-10
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[Temple Benefits: Origin Lust Sword Temple Worshiper]
-Temple Residence: Temple Floor 5 (Worshiper Lodging Number 1)
-Description: You have gained a medium private room where you can increase your cultivation by a 3% faster rate.
[NOTE: You can directly enter your allocated residence by calling out or thinking about the allocated floor and residence number as long as you are in a 10-miles radius of the Temple and exit in the same manner unless the Dimension & Temple Ruler does not restrict this authority.]
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[Reward(s): 6 (Pending) (+3 New)]
[NOTE: Please focus on rewards to see the pending rewards.]
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With those rewards, Hilda earns six more promises from Cyrus, and now she has twelve rewards that she will receive from Cyrus.
"[You have cleared the Second Floor Trial!]
"[The Dimension Ruler has intervened!]
"[You can't start the third-floor trial until the Dimension Ruler gives his order. You are going to be transferred to your Temple Residence.]"
Hilda was startled as she didn't expect that Cyrus won't allow her to enter the third-floor trial at all despite her wanting to. But when she thought about her almost depleted Qi and nearly exhausted state, she felt a strange warmth in her heart.
'Was he watching me and didn't allow me to continue because he knew I was exhausted and didn't want me to get injured?'
Just as her thoughts started to wander in a strange direction, she suddenly vanished from the second floor, and all that damage left behind her started to mend at absurd speed!
Just a few moments ago, when Hilda passed the second-floor trial.
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[First Origin Lust Sword Temple Worshiper has appeared!]
[One Time Reward: 20,000 SP, 20,000 LXP & 2,000 XP has been rewarded!]
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[Origin Lust Sword Temple Worshiper has been added to the Origin Lust Sword Temple Ranks!]
[Temple Worshiper Acquisition Reward: 2,000 SP, 2,000 LXP, 200 XP has been rewarded!]
[NOTE: Special Temple Rank Effect has been activated! (Dimension Ruler will gain 2 SP and 2 LXP from a Temple Worshiper every 24 Hours!])]
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[Temple Worshiper(s): 1/500]
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[Notice: One Temple Devotee Position and Resident has been vacant!]
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[Temple Devotee(s): 2/1000]
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[Spirit Points (SP): 134,040/150,000]
[Lust Experience Point (LXP): 150,000/150,000]
[Experience Points (XP): 6,630/10,000]
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[Dimension Point Bank has been activated!]
[Dimension Point Bank: All the extra SP/LXP/XP will now be stored in the Dimension Point Bank automatically and will release upon point meter reset!]
[NOTE: Dimension Point Bank has a limit which can be increased by evolving the dimension!]
[Current Dimension Point Bank Rank: Bronze]
-Dimension Spirit Point Bank: 0/1,000,000
-Dimension Lust Experience Point Bank: 423/1,000,000
-Dimension Experience Point Bank: 0/100,000
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Cyrus was about to sigh in frustration when he thought about how the extra fifteen thousand LXP would be wasted until his SP cap was filled. Still, when he heard the abrupt notification of the Dimension Point Bank, he instantly straightened his back.
After reading the description, Cyrus was extremely pleased as he even praised the system, "You finally do something about all those wasted points! Good!"
In an extremely pleasant mood, Cyrus looked at Hilda, and he knew, despite her exhausted state, she won't back down from the next trial, so he intervened and told the system to send her to her resident.
He didn't want her to be gravely injured for what was about to come.
After Hilda, it was Leo's turn to take the second-floor trial. She also has tons of fighting experience like Hilda, but she didn't have her destruction Qi nor her physique, so she was only able to pass the first phase in almost an hour. Just barely to meet the minimum requirement to be a temple worshiper set up by Cyrus.
However, Cyrus welcomed it with open arms as more free points were added to his status.
At this moment, Rita finally awakens after spending an entire hour on the first requirement.
Except for Hilda, who passed all the first-floor trial requirements in record time, or the twin who was able to break the first requirement with their strange mentality, Rita and Carla had spent an entire hour set by Cyrus in those reality-like illusions.
While Rita probably had spent the least time in the reaming two illusions, still, she was fourth, and that was a hard-cold fact. When she heard it, she didn't seem pleased at all!
But could do nothing and wait for Leona to finish before she could release her pent-up fury.
On the other hand, Carla finished in the last and over half an hour later than Rita. She only managed to make the minimum requirement by passing one illusion which was quite shameful for an Epic Class Sorceress like her, and she nearly fainted from embarrassment.
Still, since she passed, it matters little to Cyrus as to how she did it. He set that minimum requirement exactly because he didn't want anyone to fail and they could enter the temple ranks.
If he had the option to give free seats, he would've already been selecting the women to give them away as he wanted to raise those point bars quickly.
But alas, the system didn't give Cyrus full control over those trials, probably because of this exact reason.
Still, it didn't affect Cyrus much since he knew once he started to distribute the cultivation method in the dimension and turn it into a cultivation dynasty, it was a matter of time before those seemingly too many empty positions would turn into too little.
After Leo ended her trial, Leona also achieved minimum success in the second trial.
However, when it was Rita's turn, it turned out to be a nightmare for her when she faced a hundred of those mannequins with '0' on their forehead. They were all in the same realm as her and had a basic fighting experience, while she didn't even have that.
Although she managed to defeat over forty of them before she ended up exhausting all her Qi, and Cyrus had to intervene and save her at the last moment, or that stubborn woman nearly lost her reason and refused to admit defeat.
Lastly, Carla also manages to survive the first phase and become a temple worshiper. But she was left in an extremely pathetic state.
At the end of the first trials of the Origin Lust Sword Temple conducted by Cyrus, he earned,
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[Temple Worshiper(s): 4/500]
[Temple Devotee(s): 1/1000]
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[Spirit Points (SP): 142,040/150,000]
[Lust Experience Point (LXP): 150,000/150,000]
[Experience Points (XP): 7,430/10,000]
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-Dimension Spirit Point Bank: 0/1,000,000
-Dimension Lust Experience Point Bank: 8,423/1,000,000
-Dimension Experience Point Bank: 0/100,000
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