The witch took out the potion. As Elijah was about to believe that this was too easy, she went on to explain he needed to infuse divinity or else she had no reason to give the potion to him. In her words, if a god could not control divinity his possession is certain and that would be no fun. He could not use the Necronomicon trick this time. He was not that helpless though. He had enough time since the Golden Gate situation to form a solution. At first, he had wanted to use incantations before trying to get some skill. Unfortunately, his efforts in getting a skill were useless but he did manage to create all kinds of divine energy-based incantations. The catch was most of them were useless. However, he was beginning to think maybe he should abandon his old scale since the incantations he valued very much had come to be of little use and an incantation-like divine construct solved his transportation problem.
Divine infusion was the name of the incantation. He thought it was an augmenting type of incantation and useless given his only weapon was a book. An incantation had to be tested though and he had used it with a weapon. The damage was way less than even his basic spell and for that reason, he had put it aside. Divine infusion also could not work in a situation like divine gate because you needed to touch the item. Elijah decided “no incantation is useless” as his new motto and policy. Anyway, there were not many restrictions on the number of incantations. Although you had limited quick access to incantations. To cast incantations you could not always draw all the runes though you could and Elijah had used it a few times. It was incredibly inefficient since you could open the menu, put the incantation on quick access, and assign a gesture. You could also match gestures with words. He guessed later on the game would make you do that so access be harder. With divine infusion, he did finish the quest.
He received notification that he had gone up a level. This was the benefit of having a territory. Since getting the territory a stream of influence would come regularly. It also boosted his recovery.
The eye decided to remind him of his presence. This time the eye that appeared showed the path. It was a very long one. He had to fight monsters every once and then. He was going from hell's capital to the outskirts of hell itself. If he was not being a little impatient he would have searched the capital entirely but something in him could not leave this legacy aside.
If he was being honest he was not being logical. Rationally he knew that even if the gamble of legacies had proven wise farming a few quickly for his family and himself was the better choice. However, his intuition told him that he would regret it if he let go of this primordial. Now it was even simpler. Everything was just as a game should be. Explore the dungeon get the reward and get out. No need to play chess with an AI though he would admit a part of him looked forward to it. The satisfaction when you best an advanced AI and pretend as if you do it every day.
His destination was named Veil of Chaos. Finally, he arrived at the destination. The veil was like a vertical layer of water if the water was reflecting the night sky and occasionally whirlpools appeared in. A rift appeared. This time the most gigantic beholder He had ever seen appeared. Unlike a regular beholder, it was not one eye surrounded by tentacles. It was four eyes each pointing to a direction. Because of the numerous tentacles below and above it looked kinda symmetrical. He knew he was being too much but he felt a sense of morbid beauty in this creature.
“The fact you are here speaks volumes to your greed. As expected of an evil god. The witch has already revealed it and you are still here. This is better than even my wildest imagination. I will open the veil. I am its key. I am the door in the eye and the key to the legacy. However, I waited for someone like you for he to resurrect. I will open the veil and then you will face the currents of chaos. Do not overestimate yourself as your gods tend to do. Use the potion and finally meet the obelisk. Solve the mystery and the legacy is yours otherwise the chaos shall consume you.” said the eye before merging with the veil. The veil became black, all-consuming black. As a final message, the eye had said “Before my creator resurrects me I shall say the doors are darkness, death, and fog.”.
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If it were not for the risk of interrupting the monologue carried He would have responded to the urge to call him a corrupted creature before his eventual end. He stepped forward and entered the dark waters. It did not take a genius to figure out darkness meant this. He expected he would instantly appear on the other side but what encountered him instead was pitch-black space. After a while a light appeared and a road. After that from darkness, a figure rose and stepped onto the road. Figure after figure appeared. As they rose from darkness and stepped into the road with light at the end, they seemed to lose their quality. They seemed to be made of shadow and seemed wispy. At first, he was confused as to why they appeared but it all changed when they began to resemble his brother and sister. Some of them began to become like villagers in the tutorial. Timothy, Elisa, and Ka all appeared in succession. He had to face the shadow archetype it seemed. He was joking of course but it was not entirely wrong.
They began to murmur all kinds of things. Some said “You killed me” others “You manipulated me”. He tried casting some incantation and to his surprise worked but shadows regenerated. He then had to try discussion. Dealing with them was incredibly simple. This was not inside his mind. These shadows were not something he had to face so he did something, he twisted everything. He turned to villagers who said you killed me and said I did not. I only gave the magic circle Ka was the one who cast it. He did this more than a few times. As shadows entangled each other he easily passed them. He was about to reach the end of the road where it turned out a door was. An ivory one. Passing the ivory one he was attacked by ghosts. He had already faced ghosts. They were flying all over the winter maiden legacy it was not that difficult. He then faced the currents. He used the potion. He managed to petrify them but by no means they formed a straight path. Fortunately, there was no need to be Indiana Jones. He used divine construct and passed this easily. He finally reached the obelisk as the eye had said. It was located on a circular piece of land made of black sand. A triangle was drawn in blood-red lines. Within the triangle were three intertwining circles. Each circle was a cycle. Inside each circle, something strange would happen. In one a silver stream was running and sometimes it would branch then converge. This river made this circle. In another, a sapling would grow and wither and it constantly repeated this cycle. Finally, there was one that was a lantern-like thing sometimes shown with light and sometimes seemed to absorb light leaving nothing but darkness. In the center of the area shared by all circles, there was a flaming area that seemed to power the circles. The obelisk was built on the flame as if the flames wanted to burn it. The fire produced visible smoke. They spiraled and converged to the top of the obelisk. Trails of smoke harmonically form two helix shapes like DNA. At the convergence which was the top of the obelisk, a sphere of darkness was located. It was like a strange heartbeat the way sometimes it produced a cosmic picture and then retracted it and did it again and again.
A single eye opened from the obelisk and from it, a dark purple bolt was shot at him.
Bury myself in black sand?!! What the fuck is wrong with the game. This is VR not old-school RPG. I am not commanding the character I need to bury myself what kind of twisted logic is that?
Elijah though priding himself as an intellectual could not help but curse the developers. At least he had an idea of what he had to do for the rest. Not that he particularly liked his guess about the last part.
