OBS Chapter 2765: Branding Ceremony and Key
Chapter 2765: Branding Ceremony and Key
Chapter 2765: Branding Ceremony and Key
Just as Shade expected, as he retreated, the third treasure chest opened, revealing a scarlet tongue. Before the chest rose to reveal the slender legs and arms underneath, the lightning bolt penetrated directly into the gap in the chest.
The "treasure chest monster" is a monster that appears due to the sublimation of greedy desires. It is not a real alien creature, but a mutation of items such as the "treasure chest" due to the concept.
Therefore, even if this secret room has not been opened for tens of thousands of years since it was sealed, the originally normal boxes inside may turn into treasure chest monsters. In particular, Shade also admitted that he was indeed greedy when he saw these three boxes.
Unfortunately, different treasure chest monsters have different behaviors, and this is the third one Shade has encountered. Although the treasure chest monster is classified as a clerical level, in fact, based on the preciousness and antiquity of the treasures it contains, the upper limit of its power is actually quite high.
Although the one Xia De encountered this time did not show characteristics such as "blocking the road" and "throwing bait", it was definitely not just a clerical level one.
The lightning spear was successfully thrown into the "mouth" of the upright monster, but the lightning did not explode, because the black red tongue popped out and pushed the lightning spear in the opposite direction towards Xia De:
"Can it rebound attacks? Nightfall Seal!"
The inky shield silently absorbed the silver-white lightning spear, and when the shield disappeared, the monster with two-meter-long legs like dead branches had already strode in front of Xia De. While swishing its tongue, its two hands directly grabbed Xia De's neck.
"Body of courage!"
Xia De had no intention of dodging. Instead, he took a deep breath and his whole body suddenly swelled up until his height was exactly the same as the upright treasure chest.
Then the monster's hands changed from trying to strangle his neck to hugging Shad's body. It suddenly tried to pick up Shad and put it in its mouth to eat him, but Shad's feet just left the ground and fell back again.
Both sides of the enemy were very surprised. The treasure chest monster didn't understand why this human was so powerful, and Shade was surprised at how powerful the treasure chest monster was this time.
The lid of the box opened wide again, and the black and red bacon-like tongue shot towards Xia De's throat. Xia De's left hand then reached up to grab the tongue, and then the huge lightning gun appeared in his raised right hand again, and this time it completely penetrated the monster's mouth.
The lightning gun exploded in the narrow space, and the lightning even splashed on Shade, the caster. But fortunately, the treasure chest monster's "rebound attack" method seemed to rely on its tongue, so when Shade caught its tongue, the lightning gun smoothly penetrated its body.
"Oh~"
After a long howl, the huge monster turned into gray-white sand and quickly scattered all over the ground, and Shade's body returned to its normal size. Although it seemed that the victory was easy, it was because Shade's power after becoming bigger just overwhelmed it.
For an agile monster like the "Treasure Box Monster" whose most attacks are physical and whose body resistance is extremely high, things will become quite troublesome once your own strength cannot match it.
The box turned into gravel, and the original contents were buried in the gravel.
Xia De bent down and searched with great expectation, but he did not find the "Impermanence Card" he was thinking about. Instead, he first found a strange silver metal card. The card was not in a regular shape, but looked like the front section of a treasure chest:
"Whispering Element. Relic Derivative - [Mark of Greed]!"
Shade was really shocked this time. After a "treasure chest monster" was killed, there was an extremely low probability that its own concept of "greed" would be condensed into an entity, thereby generating a "greed mark", which was the thing in Shade's hand.
As a relic derivative, it is rated the same as the treasure chest monster itself, and is also clerical grade. The negative feature is that it greatly enhances the wearer's greed, while the positive feature is that when encountering a scene with "probability of obtaining something", such as "killing a treasure chest monster has a chance to obtain the Greedy Mark", wearing this silver medal will increase the probability of obtaining items.
Because this kind of relic derivative does not need to be worn close to the body for a long time, it can be worn when needed, so its negative characteristics can be avoided to a certain extent. This also makes this kind of relic derivative particularly valuable.
But compared to its practical value, people value its collection value more. After all, if Shade remembers correctly, all the existing [Mark of Greed] will not add up to more than 30 pieces:
"Do I really have this kind of luck?"
Then he thought of a rather serious problem:
"Wait a minute, could [Mark of Greed] be something that was originally in this box?"
The "she" beside his ear started laughing again, but fortunately Xia De guessed wrong.
He bent down and searched the sand quickly for a few times before finding something new. However, it was not the Vientiane Card, nor was it a glass-like "Fragment of Time", but a familiar green leaf:
"【Leaf of Eternal Youth】?"
This touch did not trigger the [Ancient Sound], which probably means that this secret room was built in the Second Age, but two items from the First Age were placed in it.
Xia De looked at the leaf suspiciously. His first reaction was disappointment, but then he realized that the leaf was more than just a leaf:
"Will there be power and information here?"
He then raised his head skillfully and placed the new leaf in front of his eyes. As the golden light flowed along the veins of the leaf, a piece of information appeared in Xia De's mind out of thin air.
This information points to an ancient ritual called "Time Proof", which involves finding a giant tree in the forest and digging a pool of water under the tree. Then, one would put the "Leaf of Youth" in one's mouth and jump into the pool carrying an object related to time, such as a clock or hourglass.
After ten minutes, they will emerge from the water again and leave their names on the tree. This way, the ritual is completed. As long as the name on the tree is not destroyed, and the person carries the pocket watch or hourglass as "proof of time", the person who completes the ritual will not enter another time due to accidents.
Of course, if there is no "Eternal Youth Leaf", you can also make a magical item called "Time Cicada" through alchemy. This magical item can also play a similar role as the Eternal Youth Leaf in this ritual, but from the information obtained by Xia De, this magical item is very expensive and requires the power of a god related to time to make.
"Avoid entering other times? With this ritual, others can come to Vista Glades without worry."
He thought so, and then dug into the pile of sand again in confusion:
"That's all? Nothing else?"
The seeds that can be planted in the tree holes, the crown that symbolizes the elven kingship, and the ritual that can prevent being affected by the power of the tree holes are certainly good gains, but this is not why Shad went to such great lengths to unlock the secret of the "Temple of Time".
"Where is the 'time fragment' that can remove the time curse? Where are the clues related to the Ritual of the Chosen? Could this be the Ritual of the Chosen?"
Of course, the ceremony of the chosen one is not that simple. Even the simplest ceremony so far, Iluna's "hanging sacrifice" in exchange for power and knowledge, is much more complicated than this.
But there was really nothing else in the pile of sand. When Xia De stood up in confusion, he didn't know whether he should be happy about his harvest or disappointed that he didn't find what he was looking for.
But he did not leave immediately, because the stranger knew from many stories he had read in the past that there might be another secret room inside the secret room. The hidden passage behind the secret room of the "Temple of Time" in the forest was a good example.
Then the life ring appeared, and the spiritual light of the [Time and Space] spirit rune illuminated the surrounding walls. Xia De originally just wanted to give it a try, but he didn't expect that under the spiritual light, something actually appeared on the wall facing the stairs.
But this time, it was not the hidden passage that was revealed, but a small square secret compartment that appeared on the wall. Although the [Time and Space] Spirit Rune was still used, Shade felt that it was the power of time rather than space that was at work this time.
This time there was no need to solve the puzzle. A wooden key floated in the secret compartment. This was of course the time key that Xia De was very familiar with, so Xia De was even more puzzled:
"What does this mean? And why is the key so dark in color?"
Thinking in his heart, he stretched out his hand to grab the key, but suddenly there was a sound of wind behind him, and Xia De turned around subconsciously. As his body turned, the yellow moonlight sword appeared in his hand and swept across, and after a ding~ sound, the moonlight sword was shattered by the pointer tied to his hair.
In the sky full of yellow light, the brass pointer continued to pierce Xia De's face, but he turned his head and dodged it. Then the pointer touched the time key in the secret compartment behind Xia De, and the key was tightly attached to the pointer when the two touched.
Just when the hair tried to pull the pointer and key back, Shade's hand grabbed the woman's hair first. In a flash of silver moonlight, the tough hair was cut off.
Shade reached out to grab the pointer and key with the whispering element, but they disappeared before his eyes.
He raised his head and looked towards the stairs. He saw a woman who looked to be in her forties, with naturally curly long black hair braided into thirteen bunches. The bottom of each bunch of hair was tied with twelve rings with metallic clock hands. The "watchmaker" already held the hands and the key.
Her left eye, which resembled a glass bead with a dial inlaid inside, glowed slightly. She found the scene where the secret room was completely underground ten minutes ago:
"Time returns!"