The entire guild went quiet when they heard those words. No one spoke for a while. They understood that Jake was the Chosen, and that meant the region—what was happening—this Trial was happening around him and not them. He was the focal point of this.
Jake saw that he had their attention, so he got on a table. He looked around at everyone there and spoke, "The situation that we have found ourselves in is honestly a terrible one, and in ways, the blame comes to me.
I didn't expect the Trials to begin so early, else I would have stayed away from civilization as a whole to avoid something like this.
But here we are, and we don't have a choice now. We have to face it."
"We do have a choice. We kill the girl and all this ends, right? We don't even need to fight whatever monsters it is that the Trial will send," one man spoke. His voice was deep and heavy, resounding through the hall.
