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Konrad eyed the granite blocks with unhidden curiosity. Observe was not very helpful. Surprisingly, the only info he received was that they were man-made and over 10000 years old. No backstory nor specific numbers.
"Alright. Let's remove them and get inside...If there's anything inside... It should have been crushed under pressure a long time ago." He proposed.
*Oki!* Agreed Octavia.
Konrad nodded to her and focused back on the granite blocks. He once again used earth manipilation spell to remove one of the blocks but to his surprise...there was another block underneath it...
He started moving the blocks to the sides one by one, soon realizing why the place wasn't crushed. It was just so thick!
The walls consisted of over five layers of granite blocks the size of a big dog!
He spend a few minutes moving them around and forming an impromptu stairs. Finally, what appeared in front of them was an empty space filled with darkness.
"I have a feeling of Deja vu..." Konrad muttered remembering their looting of the Great Pyramid...
*Maybe a little. Haha!* Octavia giggled getting the reference.
The duo descended into the hole and Konrad summoned a light orb that followed closely behind them. Quiet a handy modification to the standard light orb.
Their feet landed on a flat surface covered in white tiles which were visibly cracked and worn out, showing the passage of time. They could finally take a look at their surroundings, only to realize that...they were in a corridor!
"Woah! What is this place!" Konrad exclaimed in curiosity.
*Is this a dungeon? Oh Daddy, please tell me that it is a dungeon with monsters and treasures! I want to fight something and find some treasures!* Octavia started to jump excitedly around Konrad in her Slime form.
"Haha, We'll see Octavia! I also can't wait to see what's out there. But where should we go?" He looked in the two directions where the tunnel descended into darkness.
He cast another light orb that floated into the shadow, lighting up the corridor that spanned further twenty meters before changing into stairs leading upward. the walls looked like they had once been covered in markings and reliefs, but now they were too damaged to be recognizable.
Konrad decided to check the stairs first, but just after walking up a few meters the duo was met with a solid wall of sand. Curiously, the walls around them actually gradually changed into sand the higher they went, finally reaching a point where the road was completely buried and there didn't seem to be anything above them even after Konrad used his earth magic to look for it. It was as if everything above this point got "Thanos Snapped" into fine sand and only this lower section remained.
"Guess we're going down then..." Konrad said and the duo returned to the only somehow lit up section of the tunnel. Of course it was really hard for the sun to actually reach so deep underground, but it was enough to change the total darkness of the tunnel into a slightly less total darkness... if it was night outside though, the total darkness would be really total... but all that didn't really matter since they had their own light sources.
Konrad and Octavia walked down the corridor in the opposite direction of the dead end, soon enough walking across another flight of stairs. The difference though was in the direction they led to, being down instead of up.
*Uuuu, a dark stairway that led into the depths of an ancient dungeon! I love it!* Exclaimed Octavia, making Konrad question himself what Anime did she watch this time...
He snorted and patted her slime before sending yet another light orb to lit up their path. The stairs seemed to be endless though. Konrad just shrugged his shoulders and walked down with Octavia rolling beside him in a funny way. She flowed down the stairs like a balloon full of water would have done in the same situation.
It took them around five minutes to reach the bottom of the stairs that welcomed them with yet another corridor. This one though, had new pathways on the sides that soon enough turned out to be actual rooms!
"I wonder what's inside the other ones. This one was as empty as a few thousand year old room could be..." Konrad muttered after checking out the first "door" only to find it empty if you didn't count the remains of... something. It wasn't organic, at least not entirely, but there were also metal parts and stone pieces. All in all Observe told him that it was scrap...
Octavia Absorbed the metal parts, because why waste free materials, and there was actually a bit of silver, iron and titanium among them! It was quiet curious, since this place was too old to poses titanium processing, but he decided to just add it to the list of many mysteries he needed to figure out.
The other rooms weren't much different though. There were simmilar remains in some of them, but nothing that could shine light on the history of this underground dungeon.
Finally Konrad went into the last room where something new finally appeared! There, amongst the remains of what ithe past must have been a bed, lied a very deteriorated skelton!
"Octavia! I found something!" He called out to his familiar who was currently checking another room.
She quickly appeared beside him and eeked in surprise seeing the skeleton.
*Eek! *Cough*... I mean, woah a skeleton!* She said, shamelessly covering her initial scare.
Konrad snorted and replied...
"Yeah, we should be able to learn something more when using observe on it." He said.
*So what are you waiting for Daddy? Do it!" She said excitedly.
"Alright, here it goes..." He said and activated the skill.
Skeleton (Human) |
Type - Ingredient
State - Advanced Deterioration
Rarity - G
Description: Bones of a Human. A common magical ingredient in many nefarious practices the likes of necromancy and curse magic/potion. This particular skeleton is what remained of Saddam Bahli, a member of the priesthood of Egyptia. He died from starvation and bodily exhaustion after suffering a sudden Magical Exhaustion caused by @)&#-$_#+
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"This! This was much more information than i expected!" Exclaimed Konrad excitedly. He quickly relayed the information to Octavia and started to ponder what he just learned.
"First, human bones are classified as a magical ingredient...that's good to know.
Then We have this Priesthood of Egyptia... Well it simply means that this Saddam was a priest and lived in Egyptia. But why Egyptia and not Egypt? Is that just another name or was it how it was called this ten thousand plus years ago?
But the most important part...That Magical Exhaustion! It means that this priest actually had magic! This is getting more and more interesting..." He side with excitement.
The duo decided to leave Saddam where they found him and delve deeper into the dungeon. The appearance of a dead priest in a place like this made the duo wonder what it was used for before it was buried.
They walked for a while down the corridor that at some point turned into a slope going deeper into the underground. Nothing out of ordinary happened though, until the duo reached what appeared to be...
*This looks like a Boss Room!* Octavia Exclaimed Making Konrad snort, but he couldn't say that she wasn't right.
A huge metal doubledoor depicted with reliefs of multiple Egyptian gods stood in their way, as if saying "The Final Boss awaits right behind"
"Haha, maybe you're right, but for now I'm more interested in the metal making those doors. Something feels weird about it..." He first laughed and then muttered the last part.
Ritual Chamber Doors |
Type - Door
State - Magic Deterioration(partial)
Material - Orichalcum->Steel
Description - Doors to the Main Ritual Chamber of the destroyed Citadel Of Magic. The doors were coated with a thick layer of Orichalcum. In order to stop the outside magical interference from affecting the rituals happening in the Chamber the doors were also originally enchanted to repel magic, but beause of the @&@)_$&+# the doors deteriorated to their current state after serving their purpose.
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"Citadel Of Magic?! What?! But how, when?! There's no mention of anything like that in the history! Octavia, now i can't wait to see what's behind those doors. If this doors were really supposed to stop magical interference and they "Served there purpose" Maybe whatever happened to magic didn't affect the inside of this Chamber!" He assumed with stars in his eyes.
Without further ado, Konrad pushed the Doors open. He needed to use all his strength as the hinges were rusty above belief. Thankfully though, with a bit of telekinesis and his inhuman Strength the door opened with a schreech, basking the duo in a purple light...
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Current Status
[• Konrad Caster •]
Race - Human
Class - Magic Swordsman
Status - Healthy
Mana ~ 3069/3069MP
Mana Regeneration ~614/min (4x5%/min)
Blood Capacity - 6500/6500ml
Blood Replenishment ~ 1000ml/day (500ml/4daysx8)
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Stats:
Strength - 40
Perception - 42
Agility - 36
Intelligence - 36
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Skills:
- Language Comprehension:
- [@π&¥@&€#∆££#&∆¶$
- Language Of Birds
- Health Regeneration: x8
- Mana Regeneration: x4
- Lesser Mana Affinity
- Space Storage: 24 m^2
- Observe: Basic
- Status Deterioration Block
- Mana Sprint
- Dragon Skin Technique (Stage - 3 • Spiritual Connection Stage) - 2%
- Ambidexterity
- Lesser Fire Resistance
- Lesser Frost Resistance
- Medium Chaos Resistance
- Poison Immunity
- Shock Immunity
- Blink Affinity
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Equipment
- Ring of Arcana (200/200)
- Bracelet of Hecate (2000/2000)
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Soul Bonded Artifacts:
- Cooking Grimoire
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Familiars:
- Octavia [ Slime ]
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Description:
Konrad is a...
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.
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...Hard.
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//Konrad's inventory list//
- Food!
- Water/Drinkables!
- Enchanted Orichalcum Broadsword
- Steel Broadsword
- Steel Gauntlets
- Steel Armour
- Compass Of Random Journey
- Map Of Revealment
- Medium Health Potion
- Floating Ice Prison formation
- Teleportation Formation (->Greece)
- Teleportation Formation (->Gacha Space)
- Teleportation Formation (-> School)
- Teleportation Formation (-> Caster Palace)
- Teleportation Formation (-> Giza)
- Smartphone
- few changes of clothes
- Konrad's favourite knife
- Konrad's personal Grimoire:
- Fire magic
- Light magic
- Wind magic
- Mind magic
-Water magic
- Gravity magic
- Space Magic
-Combination magic
- notepad for quick observations.
- • Fey Language Dictionary •
- bunch of different trinkets he thought might come in handy someday...
- Spelunking equipment
- Diving equipment
- Hiking equipment
- Climbing equipment
- Prize orbs:
[} User targeted Summoning (Another World Hero) {]
[} Common Gemstone Draw {] x6
[} Rare Gemstone Draw {] x2
[} Lesser Mana Potion +5 {] x17
[} Medium Mana Potion +50 {] x3
[} Lesser Health Potion {] x20
[} Medium Health Potion {] x5
[} Great Health Potion {]
[} Chosen Language Comprehension {]
[} Pure Iron Dagger {]
[}Mana Capacity +1{] x15
[} Mana Capacity +10 {] x3
[} Steel Gauntlets {] x2
[} Pure Iron Broadsword {]
[} Medium Health Potion {] x2
[} Steel Helmet {] x2
[} Steel Armour {] x2
[} Steel Boots {]
[} Steel Shield {]
[} Basic Weapon Manual (User adapted) {]
[} Broken Sword {]
[} Ambidexterity {]
[} Lesser Frost Resistance {]
[} Observe {]