Chapter 287: Great Lord, My God
Loud chorus pervaded the dark room Park stood in. He watched as strange human shaped draconic beings sang in circles, their voices going higher every minute. Park clenched his fists tolerating the display. The Ice giant he had excavated from the frozen wasteland stood in the center of the creatures like it was their object of worship.
Their chant finally reached a crescendo and they stopped, retreating from the circle they had made.
Park approached one of them who like the others donned a purple robe that hid their features including a large part of their face.
The figure's hot and pointy nose jutted from the robe, and Park could tell who it was from the sight.
"I have gotten you your corpse, now the eye as we agreed." He declared, his voice cracking in between the words. Tough he may be, but he was still a fifteen year old in a strange place with seemingly no need for him any longer; fear was starting to creep in.
The figure took on a deep breath as if reprimanding themself.
"When our God wakes." The draconic creature simply said and proceeded to walk away from him.
"What?! You can't mean this. This is not what we agreed on, I got you the Ice giant corpse as you asked. That was the deal! The corpse for the eye."
"When our God wakes." They repeated before disappearing into one of the dark tunnels within the cavern.
Park's face was all crumpled up, his fists clenched, and red liquid slowly streaked from them.
He turned to see the Ice giant corpse still displayed in the center of the cave. He focused his glare at it. The corpse stood lifeless in a cylinder of green energy that sizzled electric currents.
Park walked to it, and then he activated Absolute Appraisal.
'Why hadn't I done this?'
[Status Information]
Name: Ice Giant
Level: ??
Life Force:00
Energy Level:00
Combat Ability:00
[Titles]
???
[Skills]
???
Current Status: Dead and rotting
[Additional Information] Find your next adventure on empire
Ice giants were lords of the planet before the fall: the meteors that struck and heat up the planet thereby killing most of their kind and making a large part of Mage'Earth inhospitable for their kind.
[End Of Information]
"A lord of Mage'Earth. A first lord. I see, a proper price for the eye. Hmm…" He rubbed his chin as he continued observing. Smart as he might be, Park Hyun Soo the number seven character was as naive as many his age were.
He stayed in the cave, waiting for his partners to finish what they began, and soon enough, they came and convened once again.
This time however, the nine draconic beings were clad in white robes. They began singing once again, and this was in a language that the system couldn't decipher which caused Park to feel worried, and afraid.
He wanted nothing more than to leave their midst, except for the eye he desperately wanted.
The eye of Mage'Earth was a powerful artifact created by the administrators of the world. There was only one in existence, and it was said that it gives the keeper the most profound knowledge of all that they sought to know. That was what the strange book he found told him anyways, and he was inclined to believe it, not to mention that the nine headed dragons leaders confirmed its existence by bargaining him with it.
'Just be patient, you'll get your reward soon.' He let out a deep exhale.
The draconic beings rotated around the ice giant in a circle, however in the circle with the corpse were other items Park hadn't seen ever since meeting with the bunch.
There was a massive old claymore that looked like it belonged to the Ice giant, a stone crown that looked to have been made for a giant, a beating clump of flesh which made Park squeeze his face some more, and old brown pieces of paper with words written with dull light.
Park squinted at those papers, they were the most interesting things amongst the bunch. Though he could make up the words even from the distance thanks to his super-heightened vision, he couldn't make out the meaning. To him, it was just a bunch of esoteric symbols, practically useless to him.
"Tch…" he clicked his tongue and turned away from the group.
Though they began softly, their voices were loud now, cutting through the atmosphere and threatening to pierce his eardrums.
Park could feel that it was getting hotter, not that it could hurt him since he had resistance towards extreme temperatures, but knowing that the cavern was becoming a boiling cauldron did little to ease him, and then, he began walking back and forth to abate his worry and fear.
It didn't work, but then, it seemed that he didn't have to, as the draconic creatures stopped their songs.
But unlike before, they didn't leave their positions, they merely stood, motionless like statues.
Park squinted his eyes,
"Is it coming?" He asked. His voice was immediately drowned by the deep silence that was within there.
Suddenly, the cavern burst with an increase in temperature. Park felt it and instinctively jumped. He had resistance towards temperature extreme temperatures, but he could still feel the intense heat.
Then, the craziest thing happened. The walls of the cave began to melt, and the items the group had gathered began to hover till they were up in the air, circling each other.
The speed of their spin increased, and they soon became invisible at the speeds they moved, and next came a loud boom.
The cavern shook, the ground quaking violently, and yet, the group waited patiently, patient and unbothered by the chaos around them. Their eyes were fixed to the white line that hung overhead them.
They continued their song, holding one another's hands and circling around the white irregular line that looked like a crack the more Park squinted at it.
The cave was becoming unbearably hot, and though Park wanted to fight and demand the eye, he had to leave.
He snapped his fingers and a white glow came over him, and immediately after, he was gone.
The crack spread slightly downwards just like how a crack expanded. The draconic creatures continued their song, hitting their scaly feet against the quaking hot ground, and they reached a crescendo where their voice went through all of the cavern, and out, going so far as to be heard kilometers away.
A large scaly hand suddenly jutted from the line and then another, and the hands clasped the edges of the line. There was a little struggle, but finally, the line came apart revealing a hole that led elsewhere–to a place that wasn't Mage'Earth.
The creature behind the door peeked, its massive slitted eyes hanging over those that expected him.
A red blue suddenly escaped from the door, and immediately, the draconic creatures went on their knees.
"Oh welcome great lord, oh welcome my God." They sang.