Dungeon. It is a pocket dimension that contains monsters and treasures for the brave adventurer but also contains a hidden ability to connect one world to another. We don't know what it was in the beginning, but now…
Now it is too late. Earth gets invaded. Celestial beings that pose as angels and demons that lure humans to their cause, all of them have one goal: conquer Earth.
Half of the world is destroyed, and humanity is on the brink of destruction. There are still millions of humans, but they are nothing but slaves to the celestial and demons. Anyone who chooses not to join either faction will be killed.
I am the last remnant of the independent faction.
I want to kill them all. I want to kill the people who betray humanity to sell their souls to their masters. However, there is nothing I can do now.
"Then, what about returning back to the beginning?"
I take out my spear and point at the source of the voice. I can see an old man and a young man standing in front of me. They look frail and ready to die at any moment.
"Who are you?"
"My name is Zurvan."
The man introduced himself.
"And my name is Seshat."
I look at them blankly and say.
"You guys are God and Goddess, huh?"
The energy they release is something that can only be released by God from mythology. God is something that appears when the first dungeon appears on Earth. They are key figures who give power to hunters who enter the dungeon.
However, they are one of the culprits behind the destruction of Earth. They give their blessing to the people who eventually betray them and sell them to the Celestial and Demons. They do help us fight the two factions, but because they choose a lot of maniacs as their champion, it accelerates the destruction of Earth.
"We are."
"What do you guys want? Gods are dead. Most Pantheons are gone; you guys are already too late. What do you guys want?"
Zurvan looks at me with a sad smile and says.
"And we are sorry. In our foolishness, we do not see the danger of the dungeon. We only thought that it was something that we could use to get more followers. We do not see that it opens up a path that leads to this."
"Yeah, no shit, Sherlock."
He ignores me and continues.
"And I want to change that. However, to do that, we need your help."
I look at him for a few seconds and say.
"What is it? We are already lost. It is better to let this world pass on."
Instead of Zurvan, this time, Seshat is answering my question.
"We want to send you back."
"Time Travel?"
"More like Regression. Your body will regress to its previous state."
Zurvan nods his head and says.
"We will also give you part of our power. However, in exchange, we want you to do something for us."
I look at the two of them and say.
"What is it?"
"I want you to kill the Seven Deadly Sins of the Demonic Army."
"And I want you to kill the Ten Commandments of the Celestial Army."
I look at the two of them for a few seconds before saying.
"Deal. They are also my target, after all."
Zurvan and Seshat look at me with a smile before Zurvan says.
"Thank you, Adrian. I, Zurvan, command Time and Space! I invoke the Ancient Power bestowed upon me by the Creator of the world! Take this man to the beginning of the Time Corridor! I bless him with the power of Zurvan!"
I can see my body glow and feel it change as well. My body slowly disappears, but before it can fully disappear, Seshat looks at me with a small smile and says.
"I, Seshat the Keeper of Knowledge, give my power to Adrian Bailey! May the Vault of Knowledge be the tool for him to save this world!"
Another change is happening in my body, but before I can ask them anything, I can feel my body pulled by an unknown force. The last thing I can see is Zurvan and Seshat waving their hands.
The next thing I know, I am staring at the almost forgotten ceiling. It is the ceiling of my old apartment. I am truly returning to the past, huh? I get up and search for my phone. I turn it on and look at the date.
"Ten years after the first dungeon appeared, huh? That means I have two more decades before the end of the world. However, it is already too late to prevent the Celestials and Demons from infiltrating Earth."
However, it is enough for me to grow stronger before the first dungeon break that wrecks my town.
Luckily, I already have my hunter certificate and am a C-rank hunter because of the amount of mana I have in my body. This amount of mana is not enough to cast the skill and spell I have in the past, but it is enough to cast a simple skill and spell.
I need to increase my level and skill in the dungeon. Speaking of level…
|Adrian Bailey| |Level: 1|
{Strength: 15}
{Endurance: 11}
{Agility: 12}
{Mana: 25}
|Unique Skill: 3|
{Recall(C-Rank)}
{Temple of Time and Creation (EX-Rank)}
{Record of Creation (EX-Rank)}
I blink for a second at my status window. Normally, someone is only born with one or zero unique skills. However, sometimes people are born with more than one unique skill. When someone has three unique skills, they are considered a prodigy even when their unique skill does not surpass D-Rank. When someone has one unique skill with at least a B-rank, they are also a prodigy.
Now imagine the surprise of the Hunter Association when they know that I have three unique skills, two of which are EX-Rank, the highest ranking skill.
They will kill their mothers to get me to join the Government rather than a personal guild. Sadly, I know that I cannot trust the Government, at least not fully. Both Celestial and Demons have already infiltrated them, and I don't know how deeply they have been infiltrating the government body.
I shake my head and put that away for now. I don't intend to show others my status window, after all. Let's see what kind of power these unique skills hold for now. I press the first one and read it.
[Temple of Time and Creation (EX-Rank)]
{Temple where God Zurvan created Life and managed Time. When in this temple, you can choose between two options. The first one is to control time in the temple so that it moves slowly, and the second one is to bless all creation-based activities and increase the resulting potency by one hundred percent for two hours.}
|Cooldown: 48 Hours|
Creation-based activity? Does that mean crafting? Wait. Does that mean spell creation is also included here? That opens many possibilities. Perfect.
I press the second one and read the description.
[Record of Creation (EX-Rank)]
{Book that records the creation of the world. This is the book that Seshat used to write about all the events of the world. This book contains countless knowledge of the world}
|Cooldown: 72 Hours per activation|
I frown a little at the wording. What does it mean by countless knowledge of the world? Does that mean it contains many skills or something? Let's test this out. I use the skill and see a black book appear in my hand.
As I opened it, I could see a long list of skills and spells appeared in front of me. I wonder if this book has the spear skill I used in the past.
I blink a little when I see the list shortened to five. Yes! It has the spear skill I used in the past! Not only that, but it also has the complete version, so I don't need to complete countless dungeons to collect the technique.
Without hesitation, I take the skill and feel a rush of knowledge in my brain. Even though I have the complete version, it is still level one, and I need training and experience to improve it.
That is where the [Temple of Time and Creation] comes. I can train there and increase my spear skills to an acceptable level.
I nod and activate the [Temple of Time and Creation]. A second later, I appear in the middle of a grand temple, and with a mental command, the sky changes into purple and I know the time has stopped.
"Let's do some train."