Child of Destiny

Chapter 2033: Commission (Part 8): A Mysterious Individual

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After Arthur, Leonard, and the other three Transcendent Beings from the Heavenly Resto-Bar appeared before a dark corridor leading forward.

The group took a few seconds to adjust themselves to the darkness.

Swoosh!

In response, Riko swiftly threw a talisman in the air, which quickly released a bright light and immediately illuminated the dark corridor.

The group was blinded for a moment due to the sudden appearance of the light, but quickly recovered themselves immediately after.

At the same time, their attention was immediately attracted by the engravings drawing on both sides of the corridor.

“This!?” Arthur could not help but become surprised by what he saw, especially when he was quite familiar with how the patterns were drawn on the walls.

His family, the Springfield Family, was a descendant of the Solar Dragon and a few people who had survived the ancient era. Their method of passing their legacy and narrating the history of their lineage was extremely similar to what was drawn on these walls.

He vividly remembered the time when he visited the Ancestral Land of the Springfield Family within the depths of the Sunset Dragon Valley.

During that time, his great-grandfather had brought him before a wall filled with the engravings of the ancient history of the entire Springfield Lineage.

Moreover, he could also feel the strong Dragon Aura coming from some of the more important engravings, which left a deep impression on him.

“These are the records of ancient history,” he mumbled while looking at the engravings on the wall.

In the meantime, Leonard, who was not from the same lineage and grew up as a little kid of poverty in modern times, was unable to relate to what Arthur was feeling.

However, given the history of the Asad Tribe, which was from the lineage of an Ancient Warrior Tribe, they should have similar recording methods as this one.

He could not help but become amazed at these engravings, especially when he could vividly sense the feelings and the powers of the people who had left them here.

Even though they were just a representation of the true legacy left behind by the ancient powers within the virtual world, he could still tell that they were meticulously arranged to mimic the true version of it in the real world.

Looking around, the two were able to see the history of an ancient clan and the powerful experts that emerged from it.

They also saw how they fought a few similarly strong clans or organizations of ancient times, as well as a powerful entity that seemed to be capable of wiping them out of the world.

There was also a very strong individual who came from this family and fought against that overwhelming entity alongside other similarly powerful individuals.

After looking around, Arthur was able to gain a rough grasp of these records. “Some of them are records of ancient techniques and skills of their family. Even though they are not the true legacy of this place, they can still be considered as the foundational techniques of their family’s true legacy.”

The Springfield Family had a similar way of recording history, so Arthur was very familiar with this method of passing on such techniques.

At the same time, he was also busy recovering everything, planning to bring them back home. After all, these were still ancient records, nevertheless.

Given that the trio from the Heavenly Resto-Bar were doing the same, he was sure that these records were quite reliable.

He then turned toward Laurent before asking. “Senior, given your experience and knowledge, have you figured out which clan these records are from?”

Laurent did not immediately respond because he was too busy comparing the records of this place to the database that they had in the real world. Since they could not contact anyone from the side due to the special restrictions of the dungeon, he had no choice but to do it himself.

After a while, he seemed to have finally found a match and immediately answered. “Based on the records that we have in the real world, there is a high chance that these are from the famous Tang Clan of the Ancient Era.”

“It can also be the ancient Five Poison Sect, which is an organization that was established at that time by the ’traitors’ of the Tang Sect and the Beast Palace.”

“Although addressing them as ’traitors’ due to their brightest descendants falling involved with one another is a bit too much.”

He was lost in thought for a moment before quickly adding. “However, I lean more toward the former since the companion beasts here are not the ones recorded in the Five Poison Sect’s database that we have.”

“Those guys majored in taming snakes, scorpions, centipedes, toads, and spiders. Sometimes, geckos are included as well.”

“On the other hand, the poisonous and venomous beasts cover a lot of species in the poisonous and venomous kingdom, so I think that these records are from the Tang Sect.”

On the side, Ryuto, the other third Transcendent Being from the Heavenly Resto-Bar, the one from the Aquatic Beast Race, and had the Victor Mare Class, was suddenly injected. “The Tang Clan is famous for their Martial Arts, which are based on poison and hidden weapons.

“Some of them are experts at taming venomous insects and animals. There are also quite a few arts from their lineage that focus on assassinations and proper swordsmanship, but most of them are from the branch clans.”

“There is even a branch where they use poison to create some Jiangshi, a type of undead or zombies, during the ancient era.”

“In the current era, there are quite a lot of families and sects who have inherited their techniques. However, the most famous ones are the Hidden Scent Sect of the Silver Wing Continent and the House of Toxins of the Lost Soul Continent,” he added after recalling the information that he knew.

Hearing this, Arthur could not help but turn to Laurent once again before asking. “Senior, what are your plans after acquiring this knowledge and the legacy of this dungeon?”

“Don’t tell me, you are planning to sell it to the concerned parties?” he added while looking at the latter with suspicious eyes.

Laurent chuckled as he waved his hand. “Don’t mind the minor details. At the end of the day, everyone is just making a living.”

“Tsk! Tsk! No sense of righteousness at all,” mocked Arthur before continuing to record all the engravings drawn on the walls of the corridor.

While doing this, he started wondering about the person who was bored enough to create a program to insert all these ancient legacies into the game and why they had to go through all this trouble just to ’hide’ them.

During this time, the group advanced very slowly as they recovered everything drawn on the walls. They were afraid that they would miss even a minor detail, so they made sure to cover everything and did it twice as well for double insurance.

After a while, the group finally reached the end of the corridor, which led them to the seemingly floating circular platform.

They looked at the huge hall that had a deep pit of endless abyss at the center.

They immediately realized that there were four tunnels with platforms similar to the one they were standing on.

They immediately realized that the other parties who were involved with the legacy that this dungeon had seemed to have arrived as well.

They swept their gaze at the opposing parties and realized that they were unable to see their appearance due to the powerful veil of energy that was shrouding their platforms.

Aside from the blurry silhouettes that the other parties had, they knew nothing about them. This made it harder for them to gauge the strength of those from the opposing sides.

However, the one that surprised them the most was the sole figure standing on one of the circular platforms.

Unlike the other parties, which had five members in their group, this particular platform only had a single person standing on it.

They seemed to be observing the other parties while they were staring at them. It was as if this person was not sensing any form of pressure coming from these top-notch experts of the game despite gathering their intense gazes being directed to them.

The invisible pressure that they were emitting and directing to them seemed to be nullified by their aura alone.

Looking at his stance, which was standing straight like a pole and holding a scepter behind his back, the four other parties seemed to feel an invisible pressure that was capable of crushing them by this sight alone.

“Senior, didn’t you say that it is impossible to enter that gate with a smaller number of Transcendent Beings? Then why is that guy alone?” asked Arthur without taking his gaze away from that mysterious person.

“Based on what we are seeing, I think it is either he wiped out his teammates or threw them off the platform,” said Laurent with a somewhat solemn tone before adding. “But since there is an invisible wall preventing us from falling, then it is most likely the case.”

Hearing this, everyone within the group could not help but wear a serious expression, especially when they could not think of anyone from the pinnacle of expertise they knew who could achieve such a feat.

Of course, there was also a chance that the other four Transcendent Beings were among the weaker experts of the game, letting this mysterious person defeat them all by themselves.

However, they knew that there was a very small chance of that from happening since they knew how hard for a Transcendent Being to pass their Tier 3 Promotion Quest and how difficult for them to reach the Awakened Continent.

Of course, the trials for the Epic Classes and Races were still the most difficult of all, but that was only because they were trying to break free from the restrictions of their respective races, which were supposed to be the most ’basic’ classes within the game.

Their trials were much harder since they had to break the barrier of a regular race and become an ’Epic’, rivaling the Ascended and Transcendent Beings.

On the other hand, the Transcendent Trials needed an individual to either become so strong or so talented to pass it, or become extremely powerful during the process.

Either case could only lead to a single conclusion.

This mysterious person must be strong!

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