In the past, the System’s identity was a hot topic because it sometimes acted like it cared for humanity, but often took actions contradictory to that. The Trial Test’s main purpose was to train the Awakened, but the System limited the number of survivors in each round and scrapped all the stragglers. They, of course, couldn’t go back to society and died on the spot. Therefore, we, the Awakened, had no choice but to group together and fight against each other. At some point, there were cases where we killed our fellows more than the monsters.

If I considered the System that forced us to commit atrocious murders as an Evil System, all the contradictions it displayed were now comprehensible. The problem was that there was only one notification window that could convey its intentions, so we couldn’t really tell whether there was only one or two Systems. I felt like I had suddenly opened Pandora’s box. If this assumption became fait accompli, there was a high possibility that later Awakened would be divided more arbitrarily than the Eight Evils and Eight Virtues.

I turned my head towards Woo...