"The man draped by the cosmos"... that's what I called him.
That was because both the tis I saw him, he was shrouded in a flowing cloak of darkness that seed like it was made from the fabric of space and reality. It was deep and dark, with the twinkle of distant stars and the twirl of galaxies.
This ti I saw him much clearer, and made reaffirm the fitting na. But I still couldn't see his face.
It was like...it was covered by a fine black fla like haze. The only other thing that stood out about him was his swept back fine white hair that fluttered behind his hazy mask.
'Is that the real threat...the real Calamity is centered around that person?' I deeply pondered this question with ta, but I received no response.
Just then, the red system interface flickered before .
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[Rewards are ready, please approach the Throne.]
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"Ah, I almost forgot about that."
That shitty vision occupied my mind. Despite the fact that it seems I know a bit more now everything else is just more covered in multiple questions marks, even more than before.
I have a lot to think about...I made a ntal note and sighed. I dismissed the screen, and just when I was about to turn around for the Throne, sothing caught my attention from the wall, and I froze.
"What's this?"
A little different from the strange characters on the murals and walls, this one was like a crude drawing. It was small, and the way it was carved made it easily blend in together with the other unfamiliar characters, making it almost hard to notice until now.
As for what it was or represented....I actually wasn't sure. There wasn't a piece of information in my head about that from the vision.
The carving was off a long table, with what I presud to be fourteen people sitting around it? And as I recognized this, I froze.
Where have I seen this before... strangely this carving seed familiar to .
"A long table... fourteen indistinct figures..." At that mont I recalled a scene from the vision.
"When I was falling from sky..."
Yes, I rember. It was for a fleeting mont, a very small one, but I rember seeing similar shadows like this at that one point.
Was this another hint?
I raised my head and glanced at the image once more, and thought back to my conjectures about the Vision. For the most part it was mostly symbolic. Each scene I saw represented a mont in the past or future. They weren't literal for one reason or the other.
Then what could fourteen shadows around a long table in the sky an?
As my thoughts raced, I noticed there was a smaller engraving around the image. I focused on it, and just like the other tis, I instinctively understood what it ant.
"Sky...no, not that. Sky rulers? No, not exactly either..." Despite all that, I was finding it hard to translate it literally.
It seems to be a combination of two Ideas, like clouds or sky, and authority or sothing.
Wait.
Sky, clouds...Heaven...
Authority, rulers...kings?
"14 Heavenly Kings?" I was uncertain. It seed to make sense, but there was still all sorts of other literal aning to it. The na of representation was just too vague.
14 Heavenly Kings was the closest to what I could understand.
I'll ask ta later. That skill seems to be more than what I imagined...I stared at the carving a little longer and withdrew my gaze.
I turned my head to look at the throne. While I wasn't paying attention, three glowing light orbs had appeared just before it.
Are those my rewards?
I decided to push the matter of the vision and the murals temporarily to the back of my mind till I got out of the dungeon.
"Sigh...at least there's one good thing that ca out of all this?" At the very least, I was leaving with rewards for all of my hardwork and suffering.
Earlier the system seed like it was evaluating my performance like so sort of test... indeed, just as I thought, maybe the dungeon really was designed for a special particular propose. And a particular power scale.
'Does that an the type of my reward will be determined by my 'grade'? Shit, aside from the tis I was getting killed and hunting, I mostly just fucked around under the Aurora tree...'
Ah, I was never good at tests and results...
With a now heavy heart, I dragged my feet across the chamber and finally stood before the glowing light orbs that was in the way of the throne.
"What do I do now?"
ta responded.
[Stretch out your hands for the orbs.]
I nodded, and did as I was told. I reached into the first orb an—
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[Congratulations, first Reward has been received.]
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The familiar red dungeon screen flashed before my eyes. In the next mont, the light orb vanished, leaving my outstretched arm suspended emptily in mid air. I had a dumbfounded expression as I stared.
"Huh?"
But as the orb disappeared, there was sothing different. On my left ring finger, I had a golden bronze looking ring suddenly on it.
I retracted my arm almost imdiately.
"What the...is this the reward?" A bronze ring?
"What? I can't take it off..."
I tried pulling and pulling at the ring, but no matter how hard I did, it wouldn't budge a single ti.
I frowned and restrained my panic before activating my Appraisal skill.
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[Na: Ring of Solomon
Type: Cursed Artifact
Rank: Mythic
Class: Emperor
Tier: 6
Description: This Ring was used throughout the days of a wise and powerful king and has registered and manifested in 'his' glory.]
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"Solomon's Ring...holy fuck it's an Artifact!" I exclaid.
There was a stark difference between an Artifact, and an Item. I didn't know much, but I knew enough about the value a single Artifact possessed against a couple number of Items.
And it's a Mythic ranked one too... just like Items, Artifacts, followed the sa ranking. But they had more broader prospects, as Artifacts not only had Classes, but even Tiers ranging from One to six accordingly.
Receiving an Artifact unexpectedly like this was a huge gain. Enough so I couldn't stop staring with wide eyes.
I forcefully pried my gaze off the dull bronze golden ring and continued to read the description of the enchantnt.
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