Novel Lived
Chapter 196: Black Myth Ruins (3)
Chapter 196: Black Myth Ruins (3)
Aleron opened the special-tier treasure chest.
The chest opened, spewing out two colorful orbs that held something inside each of them.
'Two things, eh? Let's see.'
At the same time, a window panel appeared listing those items in the orbs.
[List of rewards from the treasure chest. ]
1. Magic Heart of Barbarian- Innate Gear.
2. Staff of Reanimation Rift-Equipment Gear / Paragon-rank.
'Wow!'
Aleron touched the orb containing Innate Gear first. It popped up and revealed a fiery red beating heart, holding immense vigor and power.
'This magic heart seems strange. What even is Innate Gear?' Aleron curiously touched it and got information about it from the cosmos will in a panel like his system.
[Vital Heart of Barbarian]
-> Requires a minimum of 1,000,000 points in all physical stats.
-> Gear Placement: Heart/ Bio-core of a lifeform.
-> Effect(s):
1. Your heart absorbs poison, curses, and other harmful effects, converting them into Strength stat.
2. You gain one Fatal Regeneration per 100% of your blood additionally stored in Vital Heart. Fatal Regeneration can be used to instantly heal fatal injuries, including even a severed head to regenerate a new head-it takes 24 hours to store one Fatal Regeneration if you eat proper food.
3. Your natural healing factor is significantly boosted.
4. Your physical stats are increased by 50%.
'Wow, this is awesome!' Aleron's eyes shone and he immediately used the heart by dropping a drop of his blood on it.
The heart faintly glowed before it melted into his hand and reached towards his heart before beginning the process of settling it.
[A new banner is in creation...]
[Gachapi: It's good we got an Innate Gear now. This product is of higher cosmos and it's sort of like equipment, but we can't just willy-nilly remove them. However, considering your expertise in Body Path, I'm sure you'll be able to remove an Innate Gear once you learn how it works.]
[Astral: Master's physical is so powerful now.]
'The requirement is 1,000,000 points in all physical stats, which is the limit of foundational stats for Ascension rank. Haha, thanks to my job class, I've already crossed this number in my physical stats.'
Aleron could feel his physical body getting stronger and new powers blooming in his body. [Gachapi: Innate Gears are going to be juicy. The one we got is actually considered trash-tier Innate Gear because it's of the lowest grade. However, we will get good ones in the banner.] Aleron looked at the 2nd orb and grabbed it, popping out a staff.
'This staff is of Paragon-rank. Let's see what sets it apart.'
[Staff of Reanimation Rift]
\__Rank: Paragon-rankn/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
|_ Grade: 1-Star.
\___Mystic Path: Reanimation Evolution - 2-Star Path.
\_Effect(s):
1. Increase Magic Potency by 50% +100,000.
2. Grants access to the Mystic Path rune: Reanimation Evolution.
\_Skill(s):
1. Reanimation Abomination: Those killed by you can combine together into an abomination with synergized physical body, magic source, and soul power with extraordinary power without limit to their lifeform-Only works on beings killed by you, and the Reanimation Abomination only lives for 1 hour.
'Only one skill? But it grants access to this so-called path rune. Hmm, it seems that this rune is only granted to those who bind with this staff.'
[Gachapi: Master, this Path Rune is something only for Paragon-rank, so it's useless to you.] 'I see. Well, this stuff is suitable for Darzax, so I'll unbind it after this event and give it to him.'
Aleron bound to the staff and soon gained the path rune.
'Wow, this is some kind of knowledge. It's the first time in a long time that I can't understand something easily, haha.'
[A new banner is in creation...]
'Alright, it's time to continue our adventure,' Aleron flew forward into the mid-tier island
zone.
These islands were bigger than the patch of floating islands Aleron left behind in the low-tier island zone.
He flew towards one of the random islands in this mid-tier island zone and entered meditation to recover his spent soul energy.
His Magilore did not need to recover due to his unlimited source, while his Vigor energy fully recovered after he acquired the Vital Heart of Barbarian.
His Vigor energy's potency, capacity, and recovery speed depended on his physical stats, so acquiring this Innate Gear also increased those parameters of his Vigor power.
After twenty minutes of deep meditation, Aleron recovered all of his soul energy and proceeded towards the ruin on this island.
It was a giant golden circular building, but with cracks and holes that constantly oozed out red and blue sparkling smoke. This smoke gathered above this building and transformed into unique visages of beastly monsters resembling wolves and foxes.
'Let's see what this ruin got for me,' Aleron entered one of the holes and arrived at a huge hall littered with vines, trees, and flowers.
The ones releasing that sparkling smoke turned out to be this strange greenery!
'Woah, what is this?' Aleron's eyes glinted as he expanded his Monitor Dome, which only
sized up to 100 meters radius with him as the center.
[You have entered the ruins of Blazinga Wild Enchanter]
[Blazinga Wild Enchanter's Academy]
__Challenge spot: 0/5.
Dangerous encounter: 0/1.
'So we are in an academy, eh? Let's explore it.'
Aleron could observe the entire floor since it was around 70 meters in radius. Quite big and filled with wild but strange greenery that oozed out sparkling red and blue smoke.
'I can't feel anything special in this hall,' Aleron frowned. At least, the various effects within
his Monitor Dome couldn't detect anything special.
[Gachapi: Master, this is a mid-tier island's ruin. If that low-tier island's dangerous encounter monster, that Willow tree monster had the power of a higher cosmos, then this ruin
is more dangerous.]
Aleron nodded. He remembered the warning when he entered this Black Myth Ruins event.
'Hmm...there's something,' Aleron blinked and suddenly found a strange pattern. All the vines had linings on them in a particular direction.
All of the flowers were slightly tilted to one side.
And, all of the trees had their leaves pointed to one side as well.
The flowers and stuff on the left were pointing slightly at the northeast and those on the right
were pointing at the northwest.
Due to the formations of those flowers, vines, and tres being chaotic in this hall, this wasn't discernable unless one paid attention to it.
'What are they pointing at?'
Aleron walked while curiously observing ahead in his Monitor Dome and found the point
where all those things pointed.
He teleported and arrived right in front of it-a part of the wall at the end. Just a 2-meter- wide slab of wall that didn't look anything special than the other walls beside it, but Aleron
felt something.
'My guts are saying there's something behind this wall.'
Aleron took several steps back before he stood in a boxing stance, his legs juggling and his
body vibrating.
'I want to explore the power I can unleash by utilizing my physical body.'
Aleron vibrated his cells, making it such that all physical force he generated by moving into
his right fist.
He also used Magilore because it was his unlimited energy source. However, he also used
vigor force and consumed his stamina by making this physical action.
'Not too much. Just enough that I can recover within several seconds.' After a few seconds, Aleron was ready and suddenly threw his right fist forward, blurring as it
tore through the air and even space slightly. He felt his hand entering a new realm of speed as
The threw this fist at the fastest possible.
*BOOM!*
His fist unleashed a roaring wingless dragon in the form of impact, designated by vigor energy, and magilore, bearing all of the power he gathered and exploded on the wall,
breaking it apart and revealing day-light scenery amidst this dark hall.
Aleron walked inside and saw what he deduced was a classroom.
There were 35 chairs with attached tables, wide and wooden with exquisite design. In front of
these chairs was a blackboard, a table, and a chair likely belonging to a teacher.
'Is this a challenge spot?' Aleron thought as he blinked curiously and looked around. 'Why
there's a sky, sun, forest, a flowing river stream, and such things here?'
[You have triggered the dangerous encounter-Blazinga's Regret]
*Crack...*
The sky cracked with a loud sound, prompting Aleron to look up.
'What the hell?'
A giant pair of eyes lit up from the cracks before a big chunk of the sky shattered a 20-meter
tall humanoid descended, with 7 fox tails, wolf ears, and a slender but lean muscled physique adorned with exotic blue and red patterned outfit.
[Astral: Damn, we triggered a dangerous encounter right off the bat due to Master's keen
insight.]
[Gachapi: stop buttering up. This is a dangerous situation where our Master can lose if not careful. Master, this being is powerful.]
'Yeah,' Aleron's expression was absolutely somber and he was churning out defensive skills
using Magilore, stacking them around him as the first thing to do after he saw this strange
being.
This time, he got a more detailed panel of this dangerous being with stats, unlike the Monster Tree Willow's detail panel.