Conqueror - Chapter 157

It seems that… We’re mesmerized by the appearance of the Flower of Zeratria.

It’s white five petals were glowing in a bright white color and its brightness of light were surrounding the entire arena with it.

“Oh?” A system message then popped up in front of me.

[Sky Island’s Five Stage Trial Champion, win the trials held by the sky island. This is a generated event in the world of Pandir. By unlocking this achievement, one key will be added to your inventory.]

[Sky Island Champion Key]

Use this key to enter the sky island’s second stage. Recommended level, Level 200 – Level 400.

What are these items? It seems… weird. I have never received any item like this. And the system says it’s a generated event? Does that mean that this trial is set up by the gods? This is difficult to fully understand.

I have a similar item called a Gate Key. In which it resets the dungeon and summons the monsters again twice as strong. I have never used it that much but this Champion Key seems to be completely different to it. After all things calm down, I’ll give this a try.

Teral gave Zeta the Flower of Zeratria. “Put it in your inventory now dear champion. It’s too bright for our spectators to fully see.”

“I see. Well then. Inventory!” Zeta then put it in his inventory.

“Since the both of you are considered champions since you were the last ones that reached the final trial, you will be invited into the Champion’s room and I will answer any questions you have.”

“But… we don’t have any questions…” Zeta thought for a moment. “Actually we do. Let’s go.”

“Well then.” Teral snapped his fingers and we were at a different location. “This is the Champion’s Room. Take a seat.”

It’s just a medium sized room decorated in prestigious things such as the wall being made in gold same with the floor and ceiling, high quality pottery seeing how the images on the pots move, a gigantic amounts of food on the table enough to feed a whole village with wide variety and lots of chairs around it. We took our seats and began to ask questions.

Zeta was the one who wants to question Teral first. “I just wanted to ask, what do we do to the Flower of Zeratria so that I can pierce through a barrier inside of one’s mind?”

“Hmm…” Teral thought for a moment. “Are you planning to use this to mind control someone?”

“Absolutely not. I have someone who were inflicted with a basilisk’s gaze and the trauma she received was too much. Even with cleanse skills she doesn’t seem to regain her old self.

“I see. You just need one petal of the Flower of Zeratria, two drops of the basilisk’s venom and one of its eye. That should do the trick.”

“So we need to kill basilisks… But where could we find one…” It seems that we need to kill more basilisks. Time is running out so finding them will be difficult.

“Since you’re the champion, I’ll just give them to you for free.” Teral suddenly proposed the best solution we could ask for.

“You can do that?” We were both happy at this situation.

“Well, you’re the first champions in the history of the sky island so this is something special.” Teral snapped his fingers and a basilisk’s eye and a bottle of its venom appeared out of thin air. “Here. Pull out the Flower of Zeratria. I’ll conduct the creation of the potion that you need.”

“We really appreciate this. Alright, we’ll leave everything to you. Inventory!” Zeta then showed him the flower.

“I’ll be taking one petal.” And Teral did. I’m going to combine it now. A gigantic flash of light lit up the whole room and the three ingredients suddenly flew into the air to Teral’s hands. A giant white orb of light was forming and the three ingredients flew in that light. Teral then compressed the size of the light into the size of a ball to a size of a marble. Just as he grabbed it and opened his hands, a vial of a pure white color inside was seen. “That’s done. This is Zeratria’s Blessing. It can pierce through any barrier and melt it but no living being will be harmed in the process.”

“Hold it for a second.” I told him. “Potion Duplicate!” But nothing happened. I was confused. “Skill Description, Potion Duplicate.”

[Potion Duplicate, clones a potion with 100% of the same effect as the original potion. This can only be only once on a potion and this can’t be used to clone the cloned potion. When using the cloned potion, it’ll only work once and the rest of the potion will expire and will turn into a poison. Cannot clone Legendary potions and above.]

“That won’t work.” Teral explained. “This is an Ancient potion. It’s incredibly rare and there is no way to clone an ancient item.”

“The highest type of item? Ancient?” Zeta asked.

“Yes. The Flower of Zeratria is an Ancient item in itself. So, do you have any more questions?”

“I have.” I told him.

“What is it?” He asked.

“Which… god are you?” Suddenly, the tension in that room sky rocketed.

“What do you mean?” Teral tried to play dumb.

“Just answer the question.”

“…” Teral looked intently at me. “When?”

“Did I realize? You cast spells without using words, that can be understandable if you’re a dragon or some other species but your appearance looks and resembles a human. If you have the skill called, Skill Devourer then I’d understand if you just stole it from a monster. But you just snap your finger. Three of your powers made me question if you’re really a god or just a powerful prince in the sky island. One, controlling time. When you snapped your fingers, the monsters in the second stage stopped mid air and their breaths too and their entire movement. Even if those were all summoned monsters, you can’t order them to do that. Second, where do you get the supply of monsters? You use basilisks, cyclops, banshee and an elemental dragon to hold this event daily. It’s a daily event so how can you release these monsters like you have an endless supply? And if you did, where do you hide it?”

“…” He was just there sitting silently. So I decided to continue.

“Third, the item and title I received, ‘Sky Island’s Five Trial Champion’ and ‘Sky Island Key’. Both of these items are weird and I have never received this kind of item. What exactly is a generated event and why does this item open up a dungeon with a level recommendation when I haven’t got that warning in the countless dungeons I entered. So tell me. Which god are you?”

“Haha… HAHAHA!” Teral suddenly started laughing. “Great work Zieglind Reysh. GREAT WORK! This wasn’t supposed to happen but you discovered it yourself. I AM IN AWE! FINE! You want to know who I am? Then so be it.” Teral snapped his fingers and a giant wave of killing intent was felt throughout the entire room.

I felt absolute danger and so did Zeta since he has a horrified look on his face. I knew I had to run but there was no door anywhere. All I could do was ran to the very opposite end of the wall far away from Teral. “Devil’s Advocate! Come, Bloodlust!” Black lightning struck my entire body and both of my armor and weapons were summoned.

“Sage’s Armor!” Zeta summoned his armor in which I don’t know what that is. But I feel that’s strong. “Come out, Yurid!” And this is the first time I saw Yurid. The woman living in Zeta’s soul.

We were both shocked by the power Teral is releasing. It’s way out of our league. We both feel helpless.

A giant red beacon of light surrounded Teral’s body and hid himself in there. Moments later, he emerged.

“So…” I couldn’t help but be amazed and scared at the same time. “This is a god.”

With his golden armor on his body and his golden helmet with a glorious cape on his back. There’s a spear holding in his right hand and a shield on the other. His eyes and face hidden and blackened under his helmet, a red light flickered under it lighting up his eyes in a crimson red color. “So… This is your answer mortal.”

This appearance… I knew of this. His demeanor, the way he talk and his full armor. I feel like I know him. I know this god. “I know you. The god who has watched over countless battles of humans and other species. Guiding their weapons and armors into battle… It is you…”

His voice were suddenly deeper and kind of distorted. He has completely lost his meek and shy body that is Teral and now changed into this spartan and muscly figure. “I am Ares. The God of War.”