If my guess is correct, where we live can't be that simple, especially the purite crystals, we are sure that inside them there is pure magic, indeed they themselves are pure crystallized magic, this is not something that would happen just by chance.
There must be some mystery down here and I intend to find out.
At that moment Balthazar stood next to me, waiting for me to wake up from my thoughts and reflections. With a nod he swam in front of me and knelt down.
- My lord I would like to ask you one thing, but it is somewhat costly - A strange question to my mind, we have nothing like money, so we have no budget to spend, we hunt or gather our daily food, which in one week has given us 2 experience points, somewhat sad, we also have no valuable goods, so.... what would be that high cost?
- Tell me Balthazar, what is it that you need - I could see that he was very nervous and even pale, but when I heard his answer I understood everything and worse for him, Lilith was as always behind me.
With a quick movement, Balthazar's left arm ended up aiming where I couldn't imagine aiming before and his head was slammed against the rock wall.
With Balthazar's grunt of pain and the slam against the rock wall, Demora, like the others inside the cavern, excluding Saun, who was still guarding the village of turtle men, came out.
Lilith didn't hold back at all and with a second blow of her head against the wall she told everyone what she had asked of me.
Her costly price was to ask me to bet my life.
When they heard it, everyone went into a rage, how could they bet the life of someone they served, they didn't understand how Balthazar could be so stupid, so foolish, as to ask for that.
But what surprised them the most was my answer.
- So be it Balthazar, what do you need - Quick as the wind they tried to make me change my mind, but they had not seen what I had seen.
[System warning, you have just found a unique opportunity to get the abyss].
[Make your choice]
A) Accept the request B) Deny the request.
We are weak, too weak, so much so that we can't even talk to a fishing village, what if a war focused player showed up, they would take away our little home and everyone would die, luckily I haven't set the life stone yet and we have the option to be nomads, but I don't feel like becoming one.
It was obvious that I would accept the risk.
With my acceptance, Balthazar extended his right arm and opened his tightly clenched hand, in it could be seen a dark blue crystal, it looked polished and was as small as a thumb.
Gal was surprised to see it, he had recognized it.
Then he said what he had to do.
- This crystal was hidden under a group of crystals, Gal handed it to me because of its rare appearance, in contrast to the lilac crystals. When I saw it I knew it was special, so I focused on studying it, leaving the other crystals for the future, thanks to my individuality I was able to understand two things.
The mana it contains is softer than the lilac crystals and more concentrated, plus how to use it.
He smiled, with his perfidious expression.
- You have to swallow it -
Now I could understand why the high price, there have already been cases in LAZ, of players dying or having negative effects after eating what they shouldn't and of course it's obvious, that you don't have to eat anything with concentrated mana, unless you are a monster and less something that has more concentrated mana than the purite crystals, which are literally mana so concentrated as to crystallize.
But I had already accepted and had no intention of backing out, if I could get the abyss, at least we would be able to defend ourselves.
Or not to fear anyone.
Without anyone having more time to object I swallowed it and with it a terrible pain flooded my brain and my eyes.
[You have consumed a dragon vein seed, you have obtained magical sensitivity (divine) for 3 days].
[You have gained 4 wisdom points]
[You were the first player/reincarnated to use a divine item, you get a divine class choice after finishing the quest: Arrival in the Abyss]
I could see the knowledge being transmitted to my head, all those ideas and inspirations.
But when I opened my eyes I understood, now I could see.
The lights emitted by the crystals and not only that, our cave looked like a root and thousands of them were in this huge hole, all running down, now I could see the whole of the immense underwater cave, those roots were the same color as the crystals, it was just beautiful, so and so beautiful, but the beauty became ephemeral.
When I followed these roots with my eyes I ended up looking down and that terrified me.
Not much deeper from our position there were hundreds of thousands of fangs pointing at us and with them dozens of eyes looking at us, with a voracious hunger, they were beasts, all of them minimum demon class, I almost fainted from fright.
Luckily for us, I had prevented Lint and Caronte from exploring the dark background.
Now thanks to the divine sensitivity I could see them.
But I also saw something strange, all the roots ended at one point and all the beasts had left a free hole, where they did not approach, it seemed that they feared that place.
At that moment an epiphany hit me, it was the door to the abyss.
Without haste I moved away from my comrades giving them an order.
- Do not follow me, under any circumstances! - Without stopping to look at them or answer their questions and objections, I began to swim in a straight line, until I was directly above the door.
I was scared, very, very scared, I could say that this would be the most terrifying experience I would ever have, or I hope it would be.
With my heart in my throat I started to run down, it was risky, but I'm not stupid enough to go down slowly either, besides the fear wouldn't let me go down from fifth gear.
When the beasts saw what I was doing, they all threw themselves at me, my heart stopped beating, but I couldn't slow down, I didn't want to slow down.
And when their breath was already bathing me, millions of black chains came out of the skin of all the beasts, tying them to the ground, their fangs were only a few centimeters away from me, I could even appreciate that none of them had a tongue, something I was grateful for.
More than an impossible mission, it seemed like a test of courage, if I had panicked and moved slightly to either side right now I would be dead, plus as an extra fact, a divine object is almost impossible to obtain, anyone who came here without it would do it blindly, in other words they would be dead if they don't have the ability to fight dozens of demon class beasts.
Somewhat calmer, I focus my attention on the bright spot, at the end of the cave.
Now that I was closer I could tell that the cave was funnel-shaped, with what I would say is the door being the lowest point.
Soon I was already a few dozen meters away and then I could notice it, the aura of terror that we felt when I was given Demora, was the aura of the abyss.
I was almost there.
Almost, but from the door, a chain shot out.
I could feel the cold in my chest, the chain had pierced my heart.