Cerys looked at her sister and brother and noticed how strange their reactions were.Even though the two of them were not like Cerys, who hated humans, that also did not mean that they liked people humans to sympathize with them, and to be angry at the misfortune in the life of ordinary mortal that they know for less than a week...
Gods are supposed to be neutral. Their role is to manage and protect their worlds. It is forbidden to meddle with mortals and pick favorite countries, races, or even individuals.
'What is so special about that mortal?' thought Cerys
Then she sighed and stomped on the ground.
Thump!!
The moment her feet touched the ground, a golden/pink wave of energy went in all directions of white space. When golden/pink energy reached Dalia and Duncan, they woke up from their rage and looked at Cerys.
"Divine Energy of Love..." murmured Uriel in a low voice with a shocked expression.
Even for Uriel, who served Cerys for a thousand years, it was rare to see her master use her Divane Energy.
Divane The energy of love had the ability to control the emotions of anything in existence that could 'feel' love to some extent. Of course, that is not her only power since there is her Battle Mode in which she is really terrifying.
Cough!
Cough!
Dalia and Duncan faked coughs and tried to act as if nothing had happened to hide their embarassment
"Please continue, Uriel," said Dalia as she averted her gaze from Cery's piercing glare.
Uriel squeezed her left arm , which was still shaking from the outburst of aura that the two gods released, and started talking again after she calmed down.
"I left spirits to look after him and listen to anything he said after he came to the dungeon. If we exclude swearing and complaints about how hungry he is..I found out from what he was talking to himself that this human had some sort of plan with kingdom and reward from this dungeon, but I wasn't able to find out that was his goal. He seems to be rational person but at same time he look bit crazy..he often talk to himself and made weird remarks."
The Gods seemed to be thinking about something when, unexpectedly, Cerys asked a question evyrone had on their mind.
"Do you think he is the one we were waiting for?" ... " Cerys asked, in a serious tone that could hardly be heard from her.
Uriel closed her eyes and started processing all the information she had about Orion to answer her master to the best of her ability because she knew the seriousness of this question and how it could affect their lives.
The final reward should go to the person who cleared the dungeon as said the last prohercy left by the Father of Gods, Sariel.
They didn't understand its meaning until it was too late for them and they ended up in their current situation.
Because of that, they must rely on outsiders like this to solve the mistakes of their past.
"I think that it's him, master," said Uriel while lowering her head in a sign of respect.
She believed in Fate rather than in Orion as a person.
She knew more than anyone, even more than the gods themselves, how low the chances were for someone to find this dungeon, which was covered with many seals and special magic circles, so that it was impossible to register the existence of the dungeon itself if you didn't know about its location beforehand, which was already impossible because the only one alive who knew about its location was Uriel.
But someone found it and that someone turned out to be a human being who bore the blood of a mythical creature? How can such a coincidence be possible?
And if this was not enough, the boy who entered this dungeon cleared his first trial..he cleared the trial that was made to make hell look like a pleasant vacation destination.
As if this was all planned beforehand by someone. The boy who was waiting for his death randomly found the only place on this planet that could save him.
'If this wasn't fate's doing, I don't know what was'
Cerys sighed the moment she heard Uriel's reply. She believed Uriel. After all, Uriel was the only angel that wanted to stay with her, even though she knew that she would be slowly poisoned by corrosion if she stayed near the gods and ultimately die if they couldn't find the right person in time.
Then she felt a gentle hand stroking her on the head.
"Sister..."When Cerys saw what her older sister was doing, she blushed and whispered cutely,
Cerys' response made Dalia chuckle since she thought it was cute. Cerys right now looks like a puppy that missed its owner.
"Don t worry, Cerys." I know how important this decision is for us. We will watch and see if he is able to clear the other 2 trials and if he will really be able to clear this dungeon and reach this place. We will just then decite together whenever he is worthy. "
Even if Dalia said that to reassure Cerys. She knew that their time was slowly running out. She didn't feel good about putting such a burden on this innocent boy, but for a better future... to finally stop this tragic story that was repeating over and over with no happy ending for anyone.
'Someone has to destroy it. ' tought Dalia to herself
Without him realizing it, Orion got into a situation that would help him achieve his goal in the future and finding out the reason for all his past suffering.
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* The Dungeon's Second Trial*
Orion slowly woke up, seeing an unfamiliar celling.
"Déjà vu?" said Orion, with a voice that sounded tired and pissed off at the same time.
'Why do I always wake up in a different room every fucking time I somehow pass out? '
'Curse? is this fucking curseee!!' Orion screamed inwardly
He got confused because of all the events that happened to him in a short span of time.
After Orion calmed, he began to look around and noticed that the dungeon had this time completely changed.
He was now in a spacious room that reminded him of the interior of some palace. With a marble floor and multiple pillars lined up on both sides of the room,
The room was empty. There was nothing except Orion and an 8-meter-tall, gigantic statue of an angel made of silver. The angel was holding a 6 meter long, western-looking sword made from gold.
"I fuck... is this that thing where if I don't bow to the statue it will start shooting lasers from its eyes?"
He stood up from the ground and started slowly walking towards the statue.
But nothing happened.
He started doing weird dances, but the statue didn't react.
He then started imitating weird break dance moves he saw in one movie, but the statue didn't move a bit.
Sigh
He felt relieved because if that statue had used the same mechanism as the angel statue in a certain Manhwa, he have read .His career as a protanoginst would end after 15 chapters.
"Yup, this would be hella embarrassing if someone saw me.." said Oiron as he lightly chuckled.
He had no idea that four divine beigns were watching him, one of whom almost died laughing.
"It seems that it doesn't react to my presence." I hope I don't need to fight this shity reference from s*lo leveling.. "
He sat down with crossed legs on the cold marble floor and started thinking about how to clear this trial and what he already knew.
"In the original, this trial would be a trial of wisdom where you would receive questions from an unknown voice."
Orion had forgotten what the room of the second trial in the game looked like. He couldn't be sure if this was the same place as the one in the game..
"If you answer even one question incorrectly, you will be kicked out of the dungeon and lose the chance to get a rare weapon and the heart of [Celestial]. It was something like an item that would get you a rare skin of an angel and a spear that would be helpful against demons. "
This dungeon was only a one-time thing, so if you fail once, you won't be able to enter the same type of dungeon ever again.
"In the game, [Saintess of Marphas], you could freely change the appearance of your character, but not their race. If you want to change the race of your main character, you would first need to clear special dungeons and obtain the [Heart series].
In this dungeon is the heart of an lowest class angel. This would make you look like the lowest class angel. And you could gain special modes with wings, holy aura, and other bullshit. The boring thing is that even if you change your race. It didn't really affect the story or your abilities, so it was just a trashy skin item that would make you buy more race themed items from the game shop, like robe of angel, halo, and other items that you need to pay for if you want to make your character look prettier. Dumb kids are an easy way to make money. The only good thing about these types of dungeons were the weapons in them."
Items that gave special skins were useless to Orion in his previous life because they had no effect on the story.He would never think that this type of useless item would be his only chance to save his life now.
"It somehow pisses me off how things aren't going as planned..." This was supposed to be as easy as a fucking walk in the park. " Orion puched a statue from anger, but the only thing that was demaged was his little fist.
Unknown to him, a bit of blood from his injured hand was left on the statue, which caused a reaction.
Rumble!Rumble! Rumble
Due to the 8-meter-tall silver statue's rapid movements, the ground began to tremble. The statue began to move as the monster awoke from its long slumber. Its eyes begin to shine in blue light. When the statue saw a human in front of it, it pointed its six-meter-long golden sword at him.
"AS PER AGREEDMENT SIGNED BY BLOOD, THE TRIAL OF WISDOM BEGINS!!!"A loud and mighty voice echoed through the whole room.
Orion covered his ears to prevent his eardrums from exploding with an expression on his face that said:
What the fuck?Im dead? Who the hell signed something like that bitch? I want to punch creators of this game...
[ A/N There were some personal problems irl, so I couldn't release more chapters, but it should be solved now so I can concentrate on writing..probably. If you want me to write more of this novel, show me your support with power stones,comments or with positive reviews so I can know that I'm not just wasting my time. As always, thanks for reading my novel.]