Chapter 265 - The Hoarder (5) (1/2)
Chapter 265 – The Hoarder (5)
Team: HH, thursdays, Yahiko (7/12)
[This is the 27th floor, the Lake of Ghosts.]
[You have arrived in the waiting room.]
Yeon-woo appeared with the blue portal. With the message that he had safely arrived at the next stage, Shanon’s scolding filled his head.
「You fool! How could you forget about that?!」
Yeon-woo wanted to cut off his connection with Shanon for a moment, but he knew that Shanon would return with worse nagging later, so he stopped himself.
「And aside from that, you tossed me into a burning pit? D***!」
“No one got hurt.”
「What the f*** are you……?!」
Yeon-woo moved ahead with Shanon behind him and spread his hand open. As he did, Apophis’s Poisonous Fang appeared.
When he had exploded the Wave of Fire using all his strength, Yeon-woo belatedly realized his mistake. He had been filled with the thoughts of finishing the stage and completely forgot about the Apophis’s Fang.
Because he might’ve lost the hidden piece, Yeon-woo didn’t have any other option but to force Shanon into the explosion. No, to be exact, he kicked him in.
Thankfully, the shedding of Apophis didn’t die easily, and Shanon had been able to take his fang from him when he was at death’s door.
Due to the system, Shanon wouldn’t be hurt from an explosion that his master, Yeon-woo, caused, but it wasn’t like he was unaffected. Of course he would complain.
However, Yeon-woo ignored Shanon and examined Apophis’s Poisonous Fang.
[Apophis’s Poisonous Fang]
Category: Miscellaneous
Rank: ???
Summary: A fang taken from Apophis’s shedding, the hidden boss of the 26th floor. There is poison inside of the fang, and if an artifact is created from this, it will have the poisonous property.
**There are other hidden functions, but you cannot see them. Please satisfy the conditions.
**It was heavily damaged from shock. You need the touch of an outstanding artisan to restore it.
On his left hand, he pulled out a hidden piece he had already collected.
It was a small red bead.
[Tears of Ra]
Category: Miscellaneous
Rank: ???
Summary: A treasure protected inside the center of the 26th floor’s castle walls. It is a holy artifact that the sun god himself gave to protect the castle from Apophis’s snow monsters. It has been used so much that it has nearly lost its uses as a holy artifact.
Yeon-woo poured his magic power inside the two hidden pieces. Ching. With a clear sound, it shined and shook like it was about to break. Still, Yeon-woo didn’t stop.
Then, from some point, little cracks started to appear on the surface of the two hidden pieces. When they shattered, their real forms were revealed.
There were tiny beads about the size of a fingernail. A red bead appeared where the Tears of Ra had been, and a blue one for the Apophis’s Poisonous Fang.
[You have earned ‘Ra’s Tear Glands.’]
[You have earned ‘Apophis’s Poison Glands.’]
The sun god Ra chased after the demonic creature Apophis’s tail on his chariot, and Apophis chased after the chariot to swallow Ra. The legend of how day and night came to be was reflected in the hidden pieces.
Ra’s Tear Glands and Apophis’s Poison Glands both have forms that are the opposite of each other. When these were combined, an elixir with holy power could be created.
Clack—
Like what it said in the diary, there was an infinity symbol (∞) along the curves of the beads.
[You have completed the ‘Glands of Gods and Demons’ after combining Ra’s Tear Glands and Apophis’s Poison Glands.]
[You are able to pick from holy power and demonic energy.]
[Which would you like to choose?]
You could only choose one property. If you chose holy power, it meant that Ra had hunted Apophis, and if you chose demonic energy, it meant that Apophis had swallowed Ra.
A magic organ that created magic power or demonic energy. It had its limits, but priests or contractors would be tempted to have it.
However, because I had the Dragon’s Blessing, I wasn’t able to choose easily.
His brother had coincidentally received a hidden quest while defending the 26th floor.
It was a quest that said he wouldn’t be able to guard the castle, so he should raid the source of the monsters.
Then, he had found out about Ra’s Tear Glands and Apophis’s Poison Glands, and he had succeeded in creating the Glands of Gods and Demons.
But his brother hadn’t been able to choose easily.
Holy power wouldn’t be much help to him because he already had the Dragon’s Blessing, but he felt like Kalatus would be upset if he chose demonic energy, so he couldn’t choose that.
Eventually, his brother had handed the strength over to Aether, who had desperately needed it.
Aether chose holy power and swallowed it. From then, Aether began to slowly leave Arthia. It was because he had gained the holy power he had wanted to so badly.
‘That was your mistake.’
Yeon-woo sighed thinking of his brother who liked people too much and gripped the Glands of Gods and Demons.
He had already thought of something.
“Holy power.”
[You have chosen holy power.]
[The ‘Glands of Gods and Demons’ has been modified to ‘Glands of Gods.’]
[Agares is dissatisfied at your choice.]
[Hermes nods his head with satisfaction.]