The Dragon Slayer's Tomb?'
As I thought about Zig going in, Messi came to mind again.
[Open the Dragon Slayer's Tomb.]
Wheeing!
Crunch!
The gear-like decoration attached to the door turned and the lock opened with a sound.
"Is it open?"
Zeke walked up to the door and pushed it slowly again.
Kookookookookung!
Originally, it was a door that had to be opened after a month of calculations by fifty magicians from the Imperial Tower and Nirvana.
However, Zeke, who had received the blessing of the dragon, was able to open the door and go inside very easily.
Zigg opened his mouth wide as he looked inside the ruins.
"What is so huge?"
On both sides, there were huge stone statues of knights lined up, and in front of them, a huge stone wall spread out.
Zeke swallowed dryly as he looked at the thick stone wall blocking his way.
It was hard to believe that such a huge structure, seemingly man-made, was built in the basement of the Academy Library.
Zeke looked around.
"It must be larger than the ten central training grounds combined."
He turned on his minimap, marveling at the scale of the majestic Dragon Slayer's Tomb.
"There must be a place somewhere around here where the relics are stored."
On the minimap, it looked like there was a path leading inside, but I couldn't find the entrance.
Eventually, Zeke activated his dragon's gaze again and scanned the stone wall here and there, but still could not find any trace of the entrance.
Then, Zeke suddenly raised his head and looked at the stone wall.
'wait for a sec....'
Zeke turned on the minimap and examined the terrain.
Then he tried changing the minimap settings.
As the viewpoint of the minimap, which is a flat surface, changes, terrain features are displayed in three dimensions.
"Found it."
Zeke confirmed through the map that had changed into three dimensions that the entrance existed on top of the stone wall.
He pondered as he looked at the smooth stone wall that seemed to be a hundred meters high.
"How do I get up there?"
If it had been Zigg in his previous life, it would have been possible, but it was impossible at the moment because he couldn't properly use his power before the break.
"There must be some way to get up there."
He spoke with a sense of despair.
"Find a way up there."
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To his surprise, a message appeared in Zeke's eyes.
[Connecting to the control device at the administrator's request.]
'Huh? It's really happening.'
The message came back again.
[Automatic movement device is not available.] [Activate manual movement device.]
At the same time, the stone wall began to vibrate.
"What, what is it?"
Stepping stones began to protrude from the smooth stone wall one by one.
The stepping stones that protruded like that continued all the way to the top of the stone wall.
Zeke was astonished to see the stairs built in an instant.
"What, what is it? Is it magic?"
He first walked up the stairs that stretched along the stone wall.
"Phew… … ."
As I climbed up the stone wall, there was a large door in front of it, just like before.
As Zeke approached, the message came back to him again.
[Would you like to open the Dragon Slayer's Tomb Vault?]
Zeke chuckled at the word 'repository'.
"Of course it's open."
Wheeeeeeeeing!
Crunch!
Just like before, the door opened.
Zeke opened the door and entered the storage room.
The warehouse had dozens of display shelves filled with boxes of all sizes.
Zeke looked at the boxes on the shelf.
"Wow! This is a sealed box. If I found one of these in the dungeon, it would be a total hit."
It was a sealed box, called a treasure chest among adventurers.
Usually, the boxes contained not only valuable relics, but sometimes rune stones as well, so they were items that could bring in a lot of income.
There were hundreds of such sealed boxes on display.
Zeke hummed and began opening the boxes one by one.
"Let's see. What is this? Is it a rune stone? I can give it to Professor Payne later in return for the design. And this is… … ."
Each and every item inside the box was a valuable relic.
In the large box, weapons and equipment from the Golden Age and ancient times were also found.
"Whew, it'll be hard to take them all now."
First, Zeke picked out items that could be used right away.
These were mainly hard-to-find practical items, such as rust-proof daggers, winter gear, and weight-saving backpacks.
Small, valuable runes were placed in boxes in my inventory, and general items were placed neatly in my backpack.
Zeke chuckled as he looked around the storage room.
"I need to steal it little by little while I'm at the academy."
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If he sold items on the black market through the routes he knew, he thought he would be able to earn at least a hundred thousand gold by the time he graduated from the academy.
After packing up his things to some extent, Zeke hummed and began opening the sealed boxes again.
Then, Zeke opened the box in one corner and cheered.
"Yes! I found it."
I found the high-compression magic stone, which was the original purpose of coming here.
The blue magic stone contained in a solid cylindrical glass bottle was emitting a splendid light.
Zeke opened all the boxes around him.
And I was able to find about four more high-compression magic stones.
"There are four of these precious things. Let's take care of them all first."
Zig tried to put all the magic stones he had obtained into his inventory, but there wasn't enough space.
He pondered over what to take away, but came to the conclusion that it would be difficult to take away anything, so he decided to use 10 of his remaining Karma Points to expand his inventory slots.
[Inventory space has been expanded to a total of 65 spaces.]
The original 25 spaces were increased by 4 spaces per point, for a total of 40 spaces.
Zig put the high-compression magic stone into his inventory and also put in some of the items he had forgotten to pick up earlier.
"It fills up quickly as you put it in."
Unlike lightweight backpacks or subspace chests, inventory is not affected by weight or volume itself.
Even Zeke's experiments showed that it could preserve food in its original condition, making it more useful than anything else when exploring dungeons or remote areas.
'As I accumulate karma points, I need to expand my inventory as much as possible.'
Zig, who had taken all the high-compression magic stones, slowly got up with his backpack on and started to leave.
However, as he was about to leave, Zeke felt something strange on the wall at the end of the storage room.
"what?"
A cool, ticklish feeling on the back of my neck.
Zeke followed his feeling and headed there without realizing it.
A wall of nothing.
He slowly reached out toward the wall.
[Would you like to move to the Dragon Slayer's Resting Place?]
'The Dragon Slayer's Resting Place?'
Zeke chose to move.
Woohoo!
Suddenly there was a vibration in the wall.
Zeke was startled by the ripples that appeared on the wall.
"Portal?"
Large-scale portal devices capable of long-distance travel were operating around the continent, centered around magic towers.
However, since this small-scale portal technology was lost before the Golden Age, it made no sense for it to be here.
'This is my first time seeing it in the Forest of the Forgotten.'
Zeke slowly approached the portal, looking puzzled.
And then I put my body inside.
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Woohoo!
The portal's characteristic vibrations swept through Zeke's body.
He felt a little dizzy as he passed through the portal.
When Zeke opened his eyes, a completely different scene unfolded before him.
"What is all this… … ?"
It was a grave.
Coffins shaped like warriors were stacked on either side of the wide underground space.
There were more than twenty floors above and over a hundred rooms on the side, all densely packed together.
Zeke was astonished to see the enormous size of the tomb.
"I don't know what's going on. There wasn't anything like this in the newsletter I saw before."
Zik went to a nearby coffin and opened the lid.
Kookung!
Inside the coffin were armor, a sword, and a shield, instead of a corpse.
Tiring!
[?? Found Dragon Slayer exclusive equipment.]
'Equipment exclusively for Dragon Slayers?'
After thoroughly examining the coffin, Zeke confirmed that the owner's name was written in ancient language.
He looked around the tombs, which were piled high on top of each other.
"Could it be that all of those tombs are dragon slayers?"
It was a term referring to Terrakan, the founder of the Draker family who defeated the evil dragon Bahamut.
In order to honor the Dragon Slayer, the knight of knights, the Drakers learned the dragon slayer method left behind by Terrakan and grew into the best knight family on the continent.
But if all of them were dragon slayers, then defeating the evil dragon Bahamut might not have been Terrakan's feat alone.
Zeke examined the armor lying inside the tomb.
It was very different in shape and form from the armor that was usually excavated.
He lifted the armor and turned it over to examine it more closely, and saw that there was a groove on the back.
"What is this?"
Zeke felt the grooves in his armor and something came to mind.
"High-pressure magic stone… … ."
Zig took out a box containing magic stones from his inventory.
He discovered that the size of the grooves in the magic stone and the armor matched perfectly.
Zeke slowly inserted the magic stone into the groove of his armor.
Crunch!
As expected, the magic stone fit perfectly into the slot.
Then a message appeared in Zeke's eyes.
[A magic battery has been installed on the Dragon Slayer's exclusive equipment.] [The equipment is old and cannot be operated.]
"You're equipping a magic stone on your armor?"
It was information that had never been seen before, even in the future.
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Even in the future he saw, he was unable to figure out the exact purpose of the high-compression magic stone, not the regular magic stone.
However, they did come up with several hypotheses, but if the standardized high-pressure magic stones were used to power the armor that was exclusively for dragon slayers, then it meant that many of the magicians' hypotheses and guesses were wrong.
"Why do you insist on equipping this precious high-pressure magic stone to your armor?"
I figured out how to use it, but it was an idea that was incomprehensible with current common sense.
'I feel like there's a reason for this, but I can't tell with my magical knowledge.'
Professor Payne, the researcher, might have been able to figure out the reason by looking at the armor.
Zig took the high-compression magic stone off his armor and put it back in his inventory.
He walked inside, past the massive tomb.
Inside, unlike a normal tomb, there was a huge tombstone erected.
Zik slowly approached the tombstone.
'What does it say?'
There was writing, but it was in an ancient language that was not a common language of the continent, so it was unreadable.
That was when.
Tiring!
[The management system automatically connects to the control unit.] [Disarms the Dragon's Rest central security device.] [Opens the legacy registered by Administrator Terracan Draker.]
"what?"
Kookookookookung!
At that moment, the tombstone was pushed back and something began to rise from the ground.
Zeke stepped back, alert.
Kookung!
A glass tube with transparent sides rose from the floor.
Inside the glass case, a fist-sized, dark red bead was floating, shining brilliantly.
Zeke slowly approached the glass case.
"What is this? The legacy of the Terracan Drakers… … ."
As Zeke's gaze fell on the crimson orb, a message appeared.
['The Heart of the Cursed Dragon Bahamut' has been discovered.]
Zigg was startled when he saw the message.
"Ba, the heart of Bahamut?"
The reason why Terracan Draker was given the title of Dragon Slayer.
This was because he had defeated the evil dragon Bahamut, who was leading the monsters and trampling over the continent.
'That's the heart of Bahamut?'
Dragons generate magical power from their hearts.
Because of this, the dragon's heart contained a magical power that was incomparable to that of a high-pressure magic stone.
If wizards happened to find even a single piece of dragon's heart, they would pay a thousand gold coins to obtain it.
The dragon's heart had tremendous value.
"If even a single piece of debris were found, it would cause an uproar, but a perfectly preserved dragon heart like this… … ."
It was even the heart of Bahamut, known as the strongest and worst dragon in the history of the continent.
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I could not understand why my ancestor, Terracan Draker, had hidden this priceless treasure in the basement of the Academy Library.
Zeke reached out his hand towards the shining heart of Bahamut, wondering.
Tiring!
[The heart of the cursed dragon Bahamut reacts to the user.] [A powerful curse engraved on its heart attempts to overpower the user's will.]
Zig was momentarily entranced by the splendid color of the heart.
[The skill 'Solid Mental Defense' is activated.] [Defends against the Curse of the Mad Dragon.]
For a moment, Zig came to his senses.
"What, what is it?"
Zeke realized why Terracan Draker had sealed this heart here.
Because for a moment, I gave in to the temptation of the mad dragon and was consumed by the urge to destroy everything.
If it weren't for the 'Solid Mental Defense' skill that blocks all status abnormalities, I might have gone mad in an instant.
"Whew, that's seriously dangerous."
Tiring!
The message came back again.
[You have resisted the temptation of the Cursed Dragon.] [You have met the conditions for inheritance.] [You have acquired ownership of the Legacy.] [Would you like to absorb the heart of the Cursed Dragon Bahamut?]