Due to the sudden bright flash and loud explosion noise, he instinctively dropped to the floor to avoid getting blasted away. But he didn't feel any destructive force hitting him. The Brightness slowly receded. He looked towards the pedestal at the center of the room. The pedestal looked fine, it still stood at its place without any sign of damage, not even a scratch was visible. However, the floating cube was gone.
He stood up, bewildered. The flash and explosion sounded so powerful, but it seed that was it. Simply light and sound, there was no force in it. Which he appreciated, he would hate it if the reward of solving the puzzle was getting himself blasted to pieces.
He approached the pedestal. The cube was really gone. The top of the pedestal was empty. He tapped on the panel screen, no response.
"Are you kidding ?" He said out loud. What did he waste all those hours solving the puzzle for?
He was frustrated. He looked around the room. It was exactly the sa as before, only without the floating blocks anymore.
So that's it? Should I go now? He thought dejectedly. He still had to go through that bloody Lizardman again. Then he still had to fight his way around the neighborhoods, looking for a place to spend the night. By his estimation, the sun should have set by now. He had spent a rather long ti working on that puzzle. He thought about spending the night right here, but he was not sure if it would be safe. What if after so ti, the lizardman was allowed to co in. He didn't want to get ambushed by that dreadful monster while he was asleep.
When he was still contemplating on what to do, he thought he heard sothing. It was faint at first, but it was getting clearer. It was a woman's voice. In the beginning, he couldn't make out what the voice was trying to say. It was like an unintelligent murmur, or so strange foreign language. Finally, the woman's voice spoke out sothing he could understand.
"Young adventurer, you have done well."
Jack looked around, trying to determine the source of the voice. But it was as if the voice ca from all directions at the sa ti. Like echo reverberating from the curve walls.
"I thank you for your endeavor in reforming my consciousness," the voice continued. "A few more days, and I might have lost to the void. Forever gone from this world."
Upon the last sentence, the voice seed to condense. It's no longer sounded as if it ca from everywhere. It sounded like it was spoken from right behind him.
He turned around and saw a stunning woman in a white garnt. Her feature was perfect. Her thin yet long eyebrow accentuated her blue eyes below, which were like clear water and gave a sense of tranquility. Her aquiline nose and full lips were perfectly proportionate with her flawless face. Her long golden hair was half-covered by a white head veil. Her white robe was simple with no decoration. However, it still gave the impression of richness.
The woman walked towards him. The gracefulness of her movents showed a disciplined temperant. Her gaze was calm. She exuded a mature and firm ntality. Jack didn't know why, but the closer she got to him, the calr he felt. All his worries evaporated as if morning dew touched by rays of sunlight. He felt true peace for the first ti since the world changed.
Her voice which was like a well-tuned lody spoke to him, "It was a good thing you have stumbled upon this place and managed to reconstruct the core of my consciousness. It would have been a disaster upon the world otherwise. There are dark forces in this world that wish to prevent
from getting in their way. Now I need to reconvene with my brothers and sisters to discuss our plan."
He was completely lost on what the lady just said.
The woman looked at him with a serene deanor and asked, "Do you have sothing that you wish for my assistance before I leave?"
What? She was going to leave already? Jack was imdiately whipped back to attention. "Wait, wait!" He called out, afraid the lady would vanish as mysteriously as she had appeared.
"Yes?" She gazed at him patiently as if an elder to her junior.
"Are you saying that big floating cube from before was you?" He asked.
"It was part of my consciousness," she answered. "But with it being fragnted, I might as well be lost. You have my gratitude, young adventurer."
"Um, you are welco. I am Storm Wind by the way," he offered her his in-ga na.
"Nice to et you, Mr. Storm Wind." She gave an enchanting smile that might charm any being.
"May I be so bold as to ask for my lady's na?"
"That's too kind of you. You can call
Serenity."
Serenity, the na suited her very well. Jack thought in his mind.
"Is there anything else, Mr. Storm Wind?"
What was this? Normally in an RPG ga, you would be given a clue or reward once you cleared out a stage. Why did it feel like he was not getting anything for his troubles?
"Do you know what had happened to the world?" He asked.
"What do you an?" She gave a confused look.
"The world. Before, it was a real-world with millions of people in it. And now it was a ga world with monsters roaming in it."
"I have no idea what you an, Mr. Storm Wind," she said. "But there is indeed foul wind afoot. As I ntioned before, there are Dark Forces rising. If we didn't do anything, the world as we know it will be no more."
Crap, this might be a storyline of this ga world. He would not get any clues regarding the changes to the real world from her.
"If you have nothing more, I will take my leave."
"Wait, wait!" He said nervously. Bloody hell, why was she so anxious to leave. It looked like he had no choice but to be shaless. If he could not get a clue, then at least he needed to get a reward for all his troubles.
"You said you were safe because of , right? Shouldn't I get so rewards from it?"
"Ah," she seed to have realized. She looked at him as if he was a debt collector.
Damn! Why was it looking as if he was the bad guy now? Shouldn't it normal for the hero to be rewarded after saving a maiden?
"Well, I have restrictions that prevented
from giving you things that may directly upset the balance of the world," she said. "This incident was not ant to be, so I was not ant to give any rewards. That being said, you did save
and were indirectly the benefactor of the world. As long as it was not rare items, then I could still award you, but of course, giving you normal items was also not appropriate considering your rit."
She appeared to be having deep thought for a while. Jack silently waited beside her patiently.
After so ti, she finally said, "All right, I've thought about it. I will grant you three gifts."
"Three?" Jack was excited.
"The first is my blessing," she said as she blew a kiss to him.
He stood there blankly. What? That's it? Are you joking with ?
Before he was about to protest for such vague reward, he heard a sound of notification.
"Congratulations, you have received the Blessing of Goddess. Permanently increase luck by 10."
He imdiately opened his status window. Yes, it was an Inherent Skill. It was there under his other inherent skill Immortal Soul. His luck was now 13 points including the bonus from his ring. That was a great boost from before. He figured with such high luck, the drop rate should not be too shabby now, right?
Wait, he suddenly realized sothing. Did it say Blessing of Goddess?
Goddess?!
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