While all this happened on earth Yeon was still suffering in the different levels of Hell. After Sword Rain Yeon reached the level 6 of Hell.

  [Level 6 – Starvation

  You must survive for 2 months on this polluted nd. This nd has only one river which is polluted with pollutants from your pnet. Air is polluted as well. Nothing else is there on this nd. You will feel hunger, thirst, exhaustion. Excretion is not possible. You can only die of starvation or thirst. After death time limit resets.]

  Great. After all the external pain now comes the internal pain. I think the most a human can survive only on water is a month. I never felt the need to get this knowledge so I am not sure. But that is probably only possible with clean water. How am I supposed to survive here for 2 months by drinking only polluted water?

  I looked around the level and there’s literally nothing on this level. The nd itself smells bad and is almost bck in colour due to pollution. A river can be seen from where I am and it’s greyish in colour. The smell from river is even worse than the smell in nd and air. I tried drinking some water, while the taste wasn’t bad, the smell was awful and obviously I had stomach pain after drinking that.

  I thought of walking along the river on this level to see if I am alone here or not, but I gave up the idea since walking will tire me out and I don’t have any food. I will die of hunger in that case for sure. Slowly and painfully a day passed by. This level is constantly on room temperature, at least I don’t need to worry about hot/cold weather.

  While on earth I used to eat very less and there were times when I wouldn’t eat for almost a day, so I thought this won’t be an impossible level. But that was just me being na?ve, afterall on earth I would eat like a beggar the next day if I didn’t eat the previous day and there’s no way I can do that here. For the first time I felt starvation to this extent.

  On the third day, to calm my hunger, I drank the water non-stop. After some time, the side effects of polluted water kicked in. I had intense stomach pain. My head was dizzy, and I was having problems standing straight. Eventually, I lost my consciousness. I woke up the next day and thought that this is a good way to get out of this level. I will starve for two days, then drink like crazy on the third day and lose consciousness for the third day. Just like that, three days will be done, and if I repeat this 20 times, two months will be done.

  Yeah, that didn’t go well. On the 12th day, I lost consciousness and woke up to the first day. I died. So, I don’t think this is a good pn. What do I do though? There are only two options either I die of starvation or poison if I drink water. A sudden thought came to my mind. I think I read this before somewhere humans can create antibodies to illnesses on their own, but the probability is very low. What if I drink this polluted water just enough for me to not lose consciousness at regur intervals? I might become resistant to poison. It’s a slow poison, not a deadly one. Maybe I can become resistant to it.

  I tried doing this, but it wasn’t as easy as I thought. The amount of water I need to drink is not easy to decide. After 77 deaths from starvation or poisoning, I finally got the right amount of water to drink. Today is the 29th day. I haven’t survived this long here till now. But I think I am reaching my limit. Eventually, I lost consciousness again and woke up to the first day again. I have no choice but to leave it up to the smallest probability of my body resisting the poison. This is the only solution I can think of right now.

  After 13 more deaths, I finally entered the 30th day. Since I was not able to cross the 29th day, I thought now I have resistance to poison, but I was so wrong. I died on the 39th day. I guess the resistance wasn’t enough for me to survive the time limit. A sudden thought came to me, what if I am stuck on this level for eternity. Although I got over it rather quick. I mean, there’s no way Satan would want that. I am pretty sure he wants me to suffer through all the 10 levels, and he feels joy in it. While I got over this thought, another realization struck me suddenly.

  I feel like I am losing memories after this much torture. Every time I go through this torture, I feel like something inside me cracks. And as time goes by, the cracks just increase. I remember all the important stuff about my family, friends, and major incidents in my life. I don’t know what I forgot though… it just feels like I did. I think I need to keep reminiscing about my memories to make sure that I don’t forget any more of them as I go through this trial. The moment I die and restart, I start thinking about the oldest memory of mine to the most recent memory. I just keep repeating this. I fear I might lose more if I lose focus. I don’t like this feeling of cracks forming inside me.

  After a lot more deaths, I finally survived the given time limit of two months. To make sure I don’t lose focus, I stopped counting my deaths. It’s pointless anyway to count them. The amount of trauma I have after going through 5th and 6th levels are insane. It’s really a stroke of luck that I am able to even think rationally in this state of mind.. The countdown started and soon I entered the 7th level.