Chapter 286 - Island (3) (1/2)
Team: HH, thursdays, Yahiko (3/12)
[Grief of the Black King]
Category: Sabaton
Rank: ???
Summary: ???
**This artifact is ‘Unique.’ There is only one that exists in the entire Tower, and it is completely bound to its owner. It cannot be shared or traded with anyone else.
**Currently, you cannot see anything about it. Only after you have certain qualifications can you see it.
When he first opened the information, he wasn’t in his right mind because of the fight with Benteke, so he hadn’t looked too closely.
But after confirming it, he laughed futilely.
‘Qualifications…..’
An important clue to discovering the Black King’s identity had turned out to be a false lead, so he was annoyed. There wasn’t anything about the conditions to become qualified, so it was even more annoying.
However.
‘That doesn’t mean there’s no clue at all.’
Yeon-woo opened the information window of the black bracelet.
[Despair of the Black King]
Category: Vambrace
Rank: ???
Summary: The past ??? were always fearful of the great and mighty Black King.
In the end, they betrayed him and locked him away in the darkness.
The Black King trembled with rage during that immeasurable eternity. Thanks to that, the three objects that bound him became his servants.
The grudge inside the objects will try to test the user because it is dark.
Be careful not to be swallowed by it.
……
Yeon-woo focused on the summary, ignoring the options and warnings.
When he first attained the Despair of the Black King, he didn’t know what any of it was about, but with the Grief that swallowed Poseidon’s Triaina, he could somewhat guess.
‘Are the question marks in the first sentence ‘Gods of Olympus’?”
The Black King Set had swallowed Zeus and Poseidon’s holy artifacts. This meant that the Black King had enmity with Olympus.
Yeon-woo especially focused on the word “betrayal.” Betrayal was usually an emotion felt when someone close to you had turned their backs.
He could guess that the Black King had been close to Olympus before becoming enemies.
‘The Black King might be a holy being from Olympus.’
In the legends, until Zeus took charge, Olympus was filled with war.
From the great war between Titanomachia and Gigantomachia to the end of Ouranos, and the stories of heroes in the War of Troy
There were countless gods who had been removed from Olympus.
And it wasn’t like the legends that Yeon-woo knew were all true. There might have been different sides to the story not known to the lower world and fallen gods not known to the outside.
However, with this, he had narrowed down the meaning by quite a lot.
If he looked for a few more clues from here, there were only a few gods who could be the Black King.
‘Those related to death who were in Olympus or close to them.’
The moment he thought of the traits of the Despair of the Black King, the gazes following him became more intense.
[Azrael quietly looks at you.]
[A god of Olympus, Thanatos, observes you.]
[A god of the Chan Sect, ‘King of Seven Hells,’ crosses his arms and observes you.]
[A god of Ea, ‘Nergal,’ burst out laughing crazily. He smirks at you, wondering if you’ll be able to find out as a mortal.]
[A god of Deva, ‘Ksitigarbha’ looks at you with sad eyes.]
[‘Dis Pater’ smiles violently.]
[‘Izanami’ swallows.]
…..
[A demon of Niflheim, ‘Hel,’ expresses his greed for you.]
[A demon of L’Infernal, ‘Halphas,’ screams, flapping his wings. He shows his lunacy.]
[‘Aesma Daeva’ looks at you strangely.]
…..
[All the gods of death are watching you.]
[All the demons of death are awaiting your judgement.]
[Agares shouts, saying not to touch what’s his.]
[The gods and demons ignore him.]
Gods and demons related to “death” or “the Beyond.”
After he acquired the Grief of the Black King, the gazes on him became stickier, and now, they were outright direct.
It was clear that they were after the items of the Black King.
‘I’ve never heard of an artifact that deals with death and souls until this bracelet.’
Actually, this was the question that Yeon-woo had all this time.
It wasn’t like there weren’t any necromancers or witch doctors in the Tower. Even Boo was a witch doctor who dealt with corpses and souls.
However, there were limits to how players dealt with souls.
He had never heard of anyone being able to freely control a thousand souls.
There wasn’t any mention of players like this in the diary either.
Nor was there anything about strengthening souls to make them servants.
Even the player closest to death, the Vampiric Lord Bathory, wasn’t this powerful.
However, the Despair of the Black King made this possible, and Yeon-woo’s combative power increased.
If he worked with his Spirit Familiars, he could defeat the Nine Dragon Sons.
Although Bathory had the trait of a Lord to rule over many, she couldn’t be compared to Yeon-woo. It was just that Yeon-woo hadn’t unlocked all his potential yet.