Pain

"10,000 years? What…what the hell are you talking about?" Williams looked at the pained expression on Dilan's face, confused and not sure what to say.

"I can tell that you resent me a little bit. You don't believe that it took me 27 years to return to Milarn, and that is pretty much correct. I could have never spent only 27 measly years to finish the Trials I've been given. Add a zero or two, and we're much closer to the truth…" Dilan said, causing gazes of confusion and doubt to appear on the faces of the people around him.

However, Dilan didn't even pay attention to anything or anyone around him. He looked down at his hands and smiled bitterly.

"I could have rushed through the trials, and come back to you guys, without any gains and as the same weakling, I've been before I left.