The Ancients World

Chapter 13: The Ancient ruins of the Dryads III

The guard uses slash as well, but his armor makes him really slow. I dodge and I can tell this guy is powerful. If I get tagged once I might lose all 775 of my health. This is the hallway to the rooms I need and he is the only one around so I shouldn\'t have to worry about him getting any back up. I see my opening and I unleash my slash skill.

[Sentinel Guard Lvl.15 Elite]

70,000/70,000 HP

-4,462.5

-4,462.5

-4,462.5

I take more than 13,000 health off and I get him good. With that heavy armor there is no way that he can catch me. I wont be able to cause any bleeding damage, but I can still get full damage on him. There is no way for me to be able to inspect his armor rating right now, but I know for sure that it is less than mine. He is a guardian that uses his high health as a crutch. I keep using my slash skill and playing the fight safe. Eventually I am able to whittle him down to one more slash combo.

-4,462.5

-4,462.5

-4,462.5

+2000 exp

+500 slash mastery

[Slash has leveled up]

This fight went way faster since I upgraded my strength. I wont add anymore points into strength for awhile. I need to bring up my other stats as well, no single stat is unworthy of being leveled up. They are all important to your characters growth. He didn\'t drop anything worth while and now I have access to the rooms I need.

The halls and rooms look like they have been taken care of this entire time. Its probably the guards fulfilling the orders their masters left for them. I reach a finely decorated door and the words treasury on it. I will grab my item on my way back, that means Lady Melina\'s bedroom is further down the hall and on the right. I go down the hall and reach a door that is more decorated than the others.

I push it open and a undisturbed room is before me. Everything looks like it has been taken care of every single day. I don\'t know where a girl would keep a diary, I\'ll just start at the desk in the room. I approach the big table with a mirror on it and lots of make up line the corners. I look to the right and beautiful dresses line the closet. I sit down in the chair at the desk and start going through the drawers. I feel really wrong doing this, like I am invading someone\'s private things while they are watching me.

There is no one here and I cant seem to let the feeling go. I go through all the drawers and I cant find the diary. I get up and think, the only other places I can think of it being is under her pillow or hidden in her closet. I really don\'t want to go through her clothes and I approach the big bed. I lift up one of the pillows and there is nothing there. I lift up the other one and see a blue book, I pick it up and place the pillows just like they were.

[You have picked up the sub-quest item]

The man who sent me in here said I had to bring it to him. He never said anything about not reading it. This might hold clues or lore of what happened to the dryads. I open the book and I begin reading, there are things about everyday life for Melina and her family. Turns out Melina is the younger sister to Elenore. I skip to the end pages of the book since this is the closest written things at the time of the disappearance its a good place for info. I start to read it and I am kind of suspicious of what I read.

"Big sister Elenore has been really sick as of late, dad said I cant see her since she is taking a long nap. I wanted to see her so bad I snuck into the main chamber where she has been kept so the healers could help. She was asleep, but no matter what I did she never woke up."

By the sounds of it this is a sleeping curse, I wonder who would curse the 3rd princess of the dryad kingdom. I flip the page again and there is more important information.

"I heard dad ordering the troops today, he was yelling about hurting Prince Blake for doing something he did. Blake and Elenore were suppose to get married to bring peace to our 2 kingdoms. I don\'t know what happened in detail. When I asked dad he yelled for me to go to my room. I hope that everything is okay."

I flip the pages and come to the last 2 entry\'s in the diary.

"Lots of people who have gone near Elenore have been falling asleep lately. I heard uncle Roderick saying something about it spreading and people become lost. Dad said I am not allowed to leave my room under any circumstances now. I see less and less people walking around outside my bedroom window."

I turn my eyes to the final page next to it and I am surprised by what I read.

"There is hardly anyone left in the castle anymore, I have been getting more and more tired now days. I haven\'t seen or heard from dad or Roderick in quite a while. I hear yells and screams coming from the main chamber at night and it scares me. I feel like taking another nap now and I will wait till father tells me it is alright to leave my room."

I feel an echo of pain in my heart reading these words. I don\'t know exactly what happened, but I have a feeling that this Prince Blake was not actually a Prince and wasn\'t actually Blake. This seems like the work of a powerful witch or mage that was hired to do this. I have never heard of a curse putting someone to sleep and it spreading as people get lost or disappear. I put the diary in my bag and leave the room, I walk down to the treasury and open the door.

There are weapons and armor everywhere. I have a foreboding feeling touching anything that is in my view. I use inspect on one of the items and I can see why I feel this way.

[Sword of the First Dryad Queen req. Lvl.??? (Fake)(Cursed)]

[Description: This weapon belonged to the warrior Queen Merydeth. The curse upon this weapon is a by product of the horrible events that this blade has witnessed. Anyone who touches this blade will suffer a horrible fate beyond imagination. This weapon is fake and a trap.]

[Damage: ???]

[Quality: Legendary (Fake)]

[Durability: Infinite]

If someone who wasn\'t sensitive to magic and decided to take all the fake and cursed items in here they would suffer greatly, a player might have to delete their account from the permanent debuffs. I can only hope that others will recognize this game mechanic before touching anything. That only means these items in this room are distracting you from the real treasure. I inspect the pieces one by one and they are all fake and cursed.

I get through all the ones in plain sight, but I feel a slight pull of air and there is no opening in this room other than the door. I follow the little bit of air in the huge room and come across a wall. I can feel air coming in and out of it, this is a hidden passageway. I touch the wall and I get a system notification.

[You have discovered a hidden passageway]

[Do you wish to enter? Y/N]

I think yes and the passage opens up as dust and dirt cover the ground from the movement. There isn\'t any magic protecting the single item in this room. There is a small chest on a podium and I walk up to it. I check its information.

[Chest of the Forest King]

[Description: This chest belonged to the first dryad and holds his most treasured item.]

[Do you wish to open it? Y/N]

If I\'m a betting man than this is the thing holding my quest item. I think yes and the chest opens. I see a little horn you can blow into. I inspect its information.

[Horn of The Forest]

[Description: This horn was used by the Forest King to create an army of automaton wooden soldiers to protect his people from the invasion of the Arch-Demon Leviathan. This happened 1200 years before the first war. The Forest King saved his people and the kingdom that day, but it came at the cost of his own power and life force to fuel the Horn of The Forest. The Arch-Demon Leviathan was casted out of this world after his defeat by the Arch-Demon Pride and was the first occupant of the underworld.]

[Quality: Legendary]

[Durability: Infinite]

[Special requirements: You have to have an extreme amount of mana to use this weapon, if you don\'t have the required mana you will use your life force instead. As a player you could have your account destroyed from using this item having to fulfill the conditions]

[Do you wish to bind this item to you? Y/N]

An actual legendary item and it doesn\'t even have a level requirement. Every Legacy and higher item is unique with its own rules and requirements. They don\'t follow the traditional scheme and workings of the ranking system. This item was never discovered in the future, I wont use this item because its a quest item and tailor made for a magician. I think no to the binding ability. I can see why Baron Jackson wants it, I just hope he can find a use for such a demanding weapon.

I place it in my inventory and the most annoying thing happens and its the one thing I cant control. Sometimes I wonder if Blue Chaos was annoyed as I am right now.

[World-wide Announcement: The Son of Arch-Angel Michael has found the first legendary item out of all the players!]

[World Mission Announcement: The church of light wants any information regarding The Son of Arch-Angel Michael. They have increased their rewards! They are now willing to give class upgrades!]

[World Mission Announcement: The church of the darks ones want any information regarding The Son of Arch-Angel Michael. They have increased their rewards! They are now willing to give gold rewards!]

I wont be keeping the legendary item and I don\'t like the fact that I now have an even bigger target on my back now. I then get a new system notification. Hopefully this makes up for this mess.

[You are the first player to find a legendary item]

[Do you wish to accept the hidden rewards? Y/N]

I never heard of this before and I am sure nobody wrote it in the forums. That means the first person to do this kept it a secret. I think yes and I am mind blown by the rewards for such a thing.

[For being the first person to find a legendary item you will receive 2 new perks]

[Finder of Legends - Passive]

[Description: You will have a huge increase in potential powerful item drops and finding them in the world.]

[The divine who has legend - Passive]

[Description: You are an incredible existence to the NPC\'s and players of Ancients World. +100 to all stats.]

I have to open my stats panel to make sure I am not getting joked around with. My heart flutters when I read it.

[Slayer (Zern) Lvl.7]

[Exp: 5090/9000]

[Title: The Son of Arch-Angel Michael (Hidden),+1 more]

[Stats]

[Strength - 305]

[Endurance - 255]

[Dexterity - 260]

[Speed - 255]

[Focus - 255]

[Mana: 2550/2550]

[Health: 2240/2240]

[Stat Points: 0]

[Armor rating: 320]

[Inventory]

[Skills/Perks]

[Inheritor of the sword (Passive) - Son of Heaven (Passive) - Heavens light Lvl.2 0/200 (Active) - Protected by Heaven Lvl.1 25/100 (Active) - Slash Lvl.7 200/700 (Active) Slayer of Evil (Passive) - Holy Willow Trees savior (Passive) - Parry Lvl.1 80/100 (Active) - Finder of Legends (Passive) - The divine who has legend (Passive)]

I can\'t believe my eye\'s at what I just got to see. The divine who has legend perk is probably the same thing that helped Blue Chaos so much in the beginning, he must of had a legendary item and his divine class. He had an announcement just like the one I had so that means I have more pieces to the power behind Blue Chaos. The sneak never wrote about it in his forum. Now all I got to do is get out of here and talk to the NPC that gave me the sub-quest. I can\'t help being curious with what is in the main chamber now. I might think about going in there. I\'ll think about it as I walk down this long staircase.