At last Vash was answered, and Ba'al listened attentively. Interesting, very interesting. How much like an Ancient to bring about the granting of a wish by the alteration of probability itself. With, of course, the aftereffects of reality snapping back to consider, unintended consequences and all. Still, he had enough faith in himself to ride out whatever may happen as a result of his wish. The images that played through the Viewer on his own body didn't help in that regard, but those were fools, without his intellect or deviousness. He would manage. 

More interesting though was these trials. Twenty one total, with themes and restrictions. Well, that shouldn't be too hard, and what was a few days in the thousand year lifespan of a Goa'uld? Death was more of a worry, without a sarcophagus to heal his wounds, but as long as it was only his host, he would be fine. He would just need to make sure that a new host was at hand, or else things could end very badly for him. Other than that, he was ready. If he had to kill, then so be it. he would do so without remorse and probably without pity. Whatever challenges came, he could face them.

He stood and listened to the rest of the group, self confidence evident in his posture, if not smugness. They were an amusing bunch, though all accepted in the end. Especially that Nobuo fellow. Then there was the other, the unknown one who has previously been generating fire, though she wasn't doing that now. He was intrigued by what she said, the casual assertion that she had lived for thousands of years and couldn't die to boot. That by itself wasn't incredibly unusual by Goa'uld standards, given Sarcophagus technology that could even bring back the recently deceased, and give them those thousand year long life spans like the one he enjoyed, but if he missed his guess she didn't have access to that. Namely because she didn't have the general signs that extended Sarcophagus use manifested, which either indicated that she had a similar technology without the side effects, or was actually immortal. That was worth some investigation later on, since such a Hok'tar would make a valuable host in the ruling of his future empire, even if she was a female.

Still, it looked like it was time for the master manipulator (As the one Goa'uld to actually understand what the word 'subtlety' meant), to get to business. "I, of course, accept your challenge. This may even be fun."