Chương 28: Conclusion of the 1st Floor

Even though Azathoth has wiped out the original Ego of the armor, there still remained some bits that Samiel was able to reign in and control, as they didn't really have any kind of sentience and acted more on their instincts than anything.

Suddenly, a familiar creeping miasma burst out from the armor as it shot towards all things made from the metal in the room, especially a few tens of weapons, pieces of armor, or any other equipment, even before Samiel could do anything and absorbed everything in one gulp.

[Holy-Grade Artifact Armour, Rao's Vengence has absorbed and assimilated a large amount of metal, which was rich in mana.]

[The restoration progress of the Holy-Grade Artifact Armour, Rao's Vengence has been increased by 1%]

'All of these things just 1%? Though I should be glad for that, things here were old, ancient, and probably usable only till the Steel-Tier or maybe Bronze-Tier. Fucking armor assimilated even the gold ingots which were left here.'

Samiel cursed his armor as he started looking around the Treasury, as now approximately half of the items disappeared as they were absorbed by the miasma released from the Holy-Grade Artifact Armour, Rao's Vengence.

He was beyond angry that the shining gold bars disappeared as he almost cried imaginary anime tears... so much gold and all of it was eaten by his armor. That was just depressing... really. No, Samiel wasn't a dragon who was enthralled by gold, but he liked collecting treasures and being rich.

At least now, the deterioration process has completely stopped, and restoration has begun, at least better than nothing, he could lament. What else remained for him to do? He could only hope that one day, the armor would completely restore itself, and he would have another overpowered piece of equipment on his person.

If not for that, he would probably have another rage moment, destroying everything around him or rather freeing. Samiel noticed from the time he awoke his Lord Class Knight of Niflheim and obtained Ultimate Ability [Winter Ruler], it reacted on a subconscious level to his mood, and if he was angry or something, it would be automatically active, freezing everything in his sight.

He was pretty angry because, right before he entered the Tower, he spent all of his riches and precious things to buy himself a few Magic Tomes, so literally speaking, he was poor as fuck right now.

In the Treasury Room, he found some Magic Tome on various branches of Magic, mainly the Elemental Magics, like Fire Magic and so on, then there were a few Mana Crystals, some random things, some jewels, and others.

The most notable thing he found was a weird pale rock that radiated something reminiscing a moonlight; it was probably some kind of peculiarity or maybe rare treasure. It gave a very calming feeling, and he had a hunch that this would be something very precious.

After he completely cleared it out, not leaving a single thing here, as he could always sell what he didn't need, and as he was a money grubber and treasure hoarder, he decided to make the best out of it.

[Hidden Mission: Clear out the 1st Trial set by The Last King of Humanity has been completed.]

[Chain Quest: Inheritance of the Humanity has been initiated.]

[Chain Mission: Inheritance of The Last Human King has been initiated.

Description: After reaching Steel-Tier, clear out the Steel Gatekeepers.

Reward: ???]

[You have obtained 1,000 Record Points.]

[Due to being a mortal connected to Akashic Records, you obtained additional Record Points.]

[Additional 500 Record Points have been obtained.]

Samiel smiled in delight as all people connected to the Akashic Records could exchange knowledge with the Akashic Records, as it was basically not only the "manager of the reality" but also an information dimension.

Record Points were a method of how Akashic Records evaluated the value of knowledge and then put a price on them in layman's terms.

The myth of Akashic Records containing every piece of information was false, but not that far. As long as someone is connected to the Akashic Records, he could use his own knowledge to exchange it for the Record Points and then use the Record Points to exchange for the knowledge from the Records.

Another method to obtain Record Points was to make remarkable and unique achievements that are notable enough to be recorded in the Archives of the Akashic Records, just like Samiel cleared out the Hidden Mission and initiated Chain Quest related to this.

Though he knew that his Achievement didn't stem from this alone, but rather, he managed to Achieve to clear this Trial as Old Deus by basically tricking the Will of the Last King by depending on his Patron God.

Akashic Records didn't really care about what he did, as long as it was something remarkable. So in the end, the result was the same, and he got his Record Points, which was good. Though, there were some restrictions on their usage.

For first, only knowledge available or known to the Akashic Records could be exchanged and nothing else. One cannot obtain Abilities or Skills, but instead, one could ask for knowledge on how to awaken ability or master some already owned skills or learn skills.

Also, one cannot obtain anything "material" like Items, Bloodlines, or anything like that. Of course, obtaining direct power like increasement in Level or Tier was also absolutely out of the question. However, one could obtain locations of Inheritance Tombs, Legacies, buried treasures, and so on, as long as their location is recorded within the Akashic Records.

Because of these limitations, those who carried out transactions with the Akashic Records were mainly Magic Casters, Scholars, Invetors, or other similarly minded people. Obtaining the Record Points was not an easy feat, and most prices of the knowledge in the Akashic Records were high; like some were astronomical.

Samiel started calling it a systemless system because it reminded him of the system novels he read a long, long time ago, but this one didn't give you anything out of thin air. Normally Systems like that would give people abilities, bloodlines, skills, and practically everything, but that left them that unsavory feeling of unease.

What if the system disappeared? Would all of my power disappear too? Especially when someone got even "cultivation" or whatever from the system. Those were probably the most important question in the game.

But at least he didn't fear the fact that if he lost the "system", he would be powerless as an ant.

Here there was no such danger, fortunately.

So, even if the Akashic Records provided the rewards in Quest only in a very restrictive way, it was still better than not having your own power, or living in fear, that if you lost the system, then you would lose everything.

***

After Samiel cleared out the Trial, he returned to Yvraine, as he promised her to help with her own Quest from the Moon Goddess. Without her help, he wouldn't have cleared his own Quest so fast and effectively because she provided him with essential information and items required and even formulated a plan for that.

On his way back, Lady Luck smiled at him once more as he encountered another group of Orks; his kill count on Orks had crossed 5,000, and now he had 120 Steel-Tier Ork Undeads, all of which were later stages, around Level 20 to 22.

"You are back?"

Yvraine asked nonchalantly as she continued practicing with her blades, as he had been out for five or six hours. When it came to her mastery over the blades, she was very diligent about her practice and practiced every day for several hours.

"Yeh, I completed my last Quest on this Floor; we can proceed onto yours... what is it?"

She stopped, annoyed that the man never properly listened to her every word as he should.

"Moonstone. I need to find a Moonstone, which is a scarce treasure across a myriad of dimensions; it is priceless to Moon Gods or anyone who wants to become Transcendent in that way. Additionally, for example, Gods with Domains over Moon could use the Moonstone to strengthen their power, or their worshippers built altars to channel power from their God better."

Explained Yvraine as she frowned at Samiel's absentminded expression as she shouted at him.

"Are you even listening?!"

Samiel woke up as he looked annoyed.

"I am thinking, woman."

He answered as he took out the weird rock he obtained from the Iron-Tier Treasury and threw it to Yvraine; as he enjoyed her looks of shock.

"This is..."

She had hard words for this.

"Probably the Moonstone... I found it by chance, so now, it is yours."

Samiel said as he repaid her for her help. It was rather an irony that a piece of rock he randomly found in the vault after he cleared the Trial was, in fact, the thing that Yvraine kept looking for the entire time she was on the 1st Floor.

"..."

She didn't say anything but closed her eyes, probably communicating with her Goddess as she most probably completed her Quest and could advance into the 2nd Floor at any time.

[Advancement Quest Ork Hunt has been completed.]

[User Samiel Zentaur has killed 5,031 Orks during the Advancement Quest Ork Hunt.]

[Calculating Rewards.]

[Rewards calculated.]

[You have obtained x100 Steel-Tier Mana Crystals, x10 Bronze-Tier Mana Crystals.]

Samiel heard as he completed the Advancement Quest and obtained a ton of Mana Crystals. All of these would greatly ease up his advancement to the Steel-Tier, but he would be able to quickly rise in Level, at least up until Level 18 or Level 19, probably.

Just wishful thinking.

"Now what?"

Asked Samiel, as basically now both of them could ascend to the 2nd Floor any time.

"Either you go to a higher floor or remain here."

Answered him, Yvraine, as she finished communicating with her Goddess. At the same time, Samiel was pondering over something and looked at Yvraine, weighting his opinions.

"Here, take this if you want to go in that direction."

She threw him some object with weird inscriptions and runes all over it.

"This is a special seal that allows people who hold this special seal to appear at the same location when climbing the floors. Usually, the teleportation to the higher Floor, if you are climbing the Tower, is done at random, meaning you can appear basically anywhere on the higher Floor, so with this seal, we can appear at the same place if you want to team up with me... not that I mind as you have proved to be useful during our time here."

Yvraine explained to him the usage of the seal, and he just kept it as it didn't seem to be bad to have someone during the tasks, as he could use some help.

Especially if someone wasn't afraid of worshippers of the Outer Gods, and additionally, his God Azathoth told him that Yvraine didn't present danger to his path.

"Then let us meet on the Second Floor."

He said, and she agreed, as the Tower teleported both to the 2nd Floor.