Flint had his put on the armor that he had made for himself and went to the workers' headquarters for the quest when he saw Jess sweating and scared. He tried to keep a professional face, but this went way above what he was ready for. He had been for four hours training with Evan, and Evan had managed to learn as much as he had for several years.
-Flint: Hello, boss. How is my partner Evan doing?
-Jess: What kind of monster you have brought here!? He just learns, learns, and learns! And implements it all far faster than me, and I was called a prodigy even if I wasn't blessed in the term of affinities. Even thought I obtained the Blunt Carrier skill tree through the blessing ceremony, I took a few months to get used to wield blunt weapons!
-Flint: Who tried to kill him?
-Jess: No one. But he has learned as much as I can teach him. In a few hours only. He would be a master swordsman.
-Flint: I think he has a good foundation. A foundation made of passives from monsters that allow him to have that much talent.
-Jess: But what you mean is that he is a monster devourer... He knows that he is going to die due to the poison in the monster meat... Unless he is eating it cooked, but that means that he will die young still. Maybe at 40 years old if he is extremely lucky.
-Flint: He is immune to the poison. Lucky him.
Evan finished a couple of reps with a wooden sword, and looked at Flint with a bored face. Flint shivered when Evan looked at him with the wooden sword in hand.
-Evan: You shouldn't talk so much about my condition, Flint.
-Flint: So you have been in the bathroom on the second floor, huh?
-Evan: Yeah. Also, I have been doing a bit of research on the quest. A noble is interested in some scouts stories about a black crystal stronger than Mythril. Quite the surprise, even back in Dawn World... Mythril was already really strong. The pickaxe of the scouts that went into the ruins to investigate broke when they tried to break the crystal.
-Flint: But...
-Evan: What he said was a theory. Maybe that crystal is the one making the tamed monsters go mad. But if so, I don't know what the hell that is!
-Jess: Well, a gold adventurer is going with us. His name is Haze.
-Evan: And how many workers will come?
-Jess: It's a group of four members with one escort.
-Evan: Any other groups going with us?
-Jess: A team of 15 knights to control us. They are the ones who will investigate the crystal.
-Flint: Something smells like a trap, and none of us is a trap.
-Jess: So you think that they will kill you when your utility has run out?
-Evan: That's an understatement, Jess. Only a fool wouldn't believe that we are just a one time team. And surely there will be a hefty sum for us if we finish the quest. But... You know that they'll try to get us killed.
-Jess: 15 silver coins for the three workers.
-Evan: 5 silver coins for a simple escorting mission? If you allow me to say this... It smells like a way too good reward for us.
-Flint: Well, big reward equals to big risk.
Evan smiled, but then heard steps and saw someone he knew of. Zerana, who also was wearing one of the armors made by Flint, had also joined the quest and seemed happy to see Evan.
Meanwhile, in the castle, David was inside an empty room with a stone gate waiting. He seemed quite scared, and he surely had a reason to be scared. Claire Clementon almost died at the auction, alongside Roger... The boss of the biggest assassin guild and the greatest noble in Elstivia almost died in an attack of Sumeragi. He almost lost all the supporters he had, and that was almost a close call.
The stone gate opened and a lot of light came out. That door was a gate to the Celestial plane, where the gods lived, and to be exact it was a gate to the area where Zerax lives.
David walked into the realm and saw a big golden city where many angels, holy ghosts and souls lived. David walked around that city, seeing how the angels could have free drinks if they needed to drink something, but he had no time to lose. David went straight to the middle of the realm and saw a big seat where many female angels were sitting while talking to a tall man with blonde hair, pale skin and blonde eyes who was wearing a pure white armor.
-David: Lord Zerax...
The blonde haired man looked at David with a smile, while the angels chuckled and drank some wine while getting close to Zerax.
-Zerax: Drop the formalities and give me your report of the situation. Our auction has done its purpose?
-David: Roderick was too confident and...
-Zerax: Don't tell me that he messed up...
-David: Yes, my lord. He failed miserably. He died.
-Zerax: I cannot see his soul... So either Cinmos has taken the soul without any respect for me or someone is a soul devourer, and he has been eaten.
-David: I suppose that Lord Cinmos has taken the soul. Because the one who stopped Roderick is not a soul devourer.
-Zerax: Maybe that one had help.
-David: Alex report said that Sumeragi had been there before and killed most of the people who were there. And there are many slashes that confirm that.
-Zerax: So we can assume that we have a soul devourer working with Sumeragi. Maybe that bastard was who ate Pyro.
David looked surprised at Zerax, Pyro was one of the biggest hit ghosts that Zerax allowed to exist. That Pyro was eaten made that David could be compromised, and that the entire plan could be compromised.
-David: I will send the royal guard after them!
-Zerax: And let the people think you are the true mastermind of the illegal auction? You lost too many supporters already to risk it all with this. Luckily Claire and Roger are still alive. Train my hero as fast as possible, then send him after Sumeragi.
-David: Understood, but I still believe that sending the royal guard after them would be ideal.
-Zerax: And be cautious. Lately, I have seen Namika way too happy to not be related to your late troubles. Maybe she reclaimed Roderick. We need information. Something else to report?
-David: It is a stupid question but... Has that Evan reincarnated in this world?
-Zerax: Cinmos has said nothing about it. But if you feel like he could be in this world... Take the measures needed to make sure that he is dead.
-David: It is that my brother seems to have crawled out of the Celestial plane and wears his corpse.
-Zerax: That is impossible! Cinmos would never do that! But maybe Namika broke that taboo...
-David: The worst of all is that he has taken a new name... Evan.
Zerax looked at David and started sweating. Even for a god, any godslayer like Evan would mean danger and a risk of being hunted down. Luckily, the remaining gods had become enough strong to not be that easy to hunt... But their plan of using Earth people to get connected to an item that connected the people of Earth to Terra, with a gamelike interface, in order to be able to get their souls upon death and use them when required while taking away some mana from Earth... Well, it was magnificient until the godslayers found the godly realms, and that the treacherous fallen god known as Dragus soured the relationships between players and gods with his attack on the players themselves.
-Zerax: So Namika has pulled that one up. The black flame devil is alive in our world using the corpse of your brother. You should kill him.
-David: My assassins have lost arms and legs trying that! Even Mina has lost an eye!
-Zerax: So he is that strong already? I think that we should try to stop his plans as best as possible. But we cannot kill him and with the loss of your supporters, we will be unable to attack him easily without causing a civil war. Because he already can defeat your best assassin and if we sent an assassin of the angel race we would have to delay our plans a lot. Knowing of him, he could easily be a problem for our plan. And trying to get into our plan is like impossible, who knows if he's the dark lord or not.
-David: I understand. I will prepare the hero to kill him as fast as possible.
-Zerax: Good, but be really careful with that... Do not look down on Evan.
-Female Angel: Lord Zerax! We could kill him in no time.
-Zerax: Maybe but then Namika would try something. I know her enough to be sure about it.
-David: Well, I will take my leave.
-Zerax: Wait! I will give you my stigmata, Sunshine.
-David: Really!?
-Zerax: You have done a great job. Also, I can produce as many stigmata as I need with this era. Like the other gods and goddesses. The soul flux is enough strong to give me materials for making stigmatas, and the prayers will enhance my power. And if you bask Sunshine in tons of prayers, it might become even stronger.
Zerax got up from the seat and grabbed a golden claymore that had many runes attached to them and a big white mana stone attached to the guard that was hidden behind the seat and gave it to David.
-Zerax: May you use it for our benefits, David.
David smiled and left happy the realm while many ghosts and the angels looked at him with an envious look. That said, they knew better than trying to get Sunshine for themselves since Zerax would punish them if they did so.
Divine Eye: The World Administrator
Creator: Namika.
Owner: Not known yet.
Abilities tied to it:
Inspect all: Active, 10 MP. The user can inspect all of the target.
Hide self: Active, 1 MP. The user can hide the status and the skills he owns from any kind of inspecting or analyzing skill and even put a false version of it.
Modify status: Active, 50 MP. The user can increase or decrease his/her own status or the status of his/her allies to a maximum of a 20%.
Generate Gate: Active, 250 MP. The user can create gates that lead to anywhere the user has been before.
Instant teleport: Active, 30 MP. The user can teleport anywhere around 500 meters.
Overtake: Active, 250 MP. The user can control what the people say and do up to a limit.
Create Element: Active, 1000 MP. The user creates an attack of the element he wants.
Create Pocket Dimension: Active, 2000 MP. The user can create a pocket dimension and customize it to his/her liking.
Last Resort: World Administration: Active, 0 MP. The user can use the modify status on a higher level that allows him/her to change anything of the target and allows the user to use the Administration commands
Administration commands:
Delete: The user can delete the target as long as it is not alive.
Transfer: The user can transfer the target to any location of the world.
Perfect Overtake: The user can control the target. Only can be used on one target at a time.
Divine Sword: Sunshine
Creator: Zerax.
Owner: David.
Abilities tied to it:
Ultimate Dispel Curse: Active, 250 MP. The user can dispel any kind of curse used against him but is unable to use it several times in a short time.
Zerax Barrier: Active, 550 MP. The user can create a barrier to block attacks that are done with a stat lower than 500.
Holy Divine Blades: Active, 200 MP. The user creates several blades of holy light that pierces through any enemy.
Zerax Cannon: Active, 2000 MP. A cannon shot that will destroy anything without a stat at 1000.
Last Resort: Ultimate Wave. Active, all the mp that the user has. The perfect mana powered slash that can cut through almost anything. Exception: Those with INT at 1000 and VIT 500.
And another chapter done! I hope you enjoy it!
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