I set out of my journey to the lower floors to reach the Hikes Kingdom, the Enemy of the Tepes kingdom according to William. I had no knowledge about any of the two kingdoms, so what i first did is gather information, however William did not permit me to enter the Library so i had to find things out myself. after a few days of exploring on the 97th floor i found a temple, inside it was dimmed and no sign of any light was to be shown. I activated my skill First conqueror of the tower.
[Activating First Conqueror of The Tower!]
once activated i began reading bout this temple, apparently this temple belongs to a higher being known as Roxar of the Binding drake. "Hm.. I guess I'll check it out." thus i entered the temple only for the door to close behind me, It appears that the only way to get out of here is either i die or i clear this temple and obviously i wasn't going to choose the first option.
the moment I walked deeper suddenly the once dim temple was now glowing with light, i can clearly see my surroundings and only then did i see that there was a book on the ground. i grabbed hold of it and began skimming through it. from what i understood it was telling the history of the Tepes kingdom and how it was founded. it seems like Tepes was the name of the founder of the kingdom and she founded the kingdom at a young age making her the youngest queen. that is until the Hikes kingdom sent enemy troops and killed her but what they didn't know is that she had already given birth to an offspring who continued the kingdom's glory.
"Interesting..." I said to myself and then looked at the hallway of the temple. I continued walking down the hallway and it seems like some monsters have been living in this temple i summoned my daggers and began accelerating towards the monsters and killed them. "That was fast... are they too weak? or maybe... I'm too strong?" i mumble to myself as i then keep going onwards.
i kept walking till i finally found it, the boss room. I peeked inside the room a bit only to see a throne and a Knight standing there with a sword. "So you're the boss?" i looked at him and then without answering me he lunged towards me, I quickly deflected using my dagger which i summoned mere seconds before his sword reached me. "I guess, this is a boss fight!" i said as i then jumped and was now behind the armored knight.
He looked at me with his sword in hand and once again lunged towards me, my dagger and his blade clashed multiple times as I tried to find a weak spot in his armor but if i had to describe it, his armor had almost no weak spots. it was my first time finding armor that was nearly not flawed. i quickly regained my focus and began examining to find his weak spots till i realized something. the boss was only attacking in the dark, thus i assume he is weak to light i then jumped at the ceiling of the temple and waited for it to try and attack me and when it did i dodged letting him break the ceiling, light engulfed the now broken temple as he began screaming.
His Armor was melting now as i can finally find weak spots so i began my assault. i quickly hurried and attacked only for him to push me away. My body slammed against the wall roughly as i can see him now approaching me i got up and then began lunging towards him dagger on hand as i finally managed to make a hit on him. slashing his hand i continued to attack him more and more. despite me damaging him less, he was still taking damage due to the light coming from the broken ceiling. finally i managed to stab through his once protected chest which was now pierced by my dagger.
a window appeared in front of me saying
[Mission Complete!]
"Huh... it appears this was a mission, oh well i beat this guy at last." i then looted his sword and noticed it had a special affinity.
[ Sword of the Binding Drake
Rarity: S
Abilities: The sword can bind any enemies to place for 3 minutes, during that time any attack done to the binded foe is doubled.
Special Affinity: If used against a dragon, it will last for 30 minutes instead of 3 and will weaken it when sword on hand. ]
This sword would be useful if i ever went against a dragon, now let's see what else is th- [A higher being would like to communicate with you!] huh? a Higher being? i wonder who it is...
i answered. "Hello?"
"Are you the one that completed my temple?" Said the unknown voice as i put two and two together. this was none other than Roxar of The Binding Drake, the higher being who owns this temple.
"Yeah, It was me." i said calmly as he then seemed to laugh and said "Good, then i assume you found it difficult?"
"No not really, only thing that was hard is this Knight." i said looking at the now dead Knight as Roxar responds sounding rather disappointed at my answer.
"I see.. well there is one last treasure left in this Temple, if you wish to find it then it's literally right in front of you." he said as i then looked in front of me only to see a chest.
"You mean that chest? yeah i was going to loot that before you called me."
"Let me act like a guide for you! this is my Temple after all!" He said seemingly angry as he then hung up.
"Goodbye i guess." i said as i looted the chest which had some nice jewelry i can sell and a cool pair of boots that seemed to have a nice ability.
[Boots of the lake
Rarity: R
Abilities: Allows the wearer to Walk on water and Allows the wearer to breathe underwater. ]
other than those two things there were other books telling the story of the Tepes and Hikes kingdom and their conflicts.
it appears the ones who started this conflict were the Tepes when they kidnapped the youngest daughter of the Hikes kingdom and... wait what? the founder of the Tepes kingdom was originally... a Hikes?! which explains the war! because of that they believe all of the land in the Tepes kingdom rightfully belongs to the Hikes... i guess i have learned of valuable information. but if this is the case doesn't that mean that every other descendant of the Tepes family is actually a Hikes? that would mean that the war they fight now is pointless! they're both from the same bloodline.
with important information acquired i continued my journey towards the Hikes kingdom.