Second World

Through the slow-motion view, Jack could see that just as his Sword of Light hit, Eldingarʼs hands were about to come down, bringing the doom of countless lightning balls down at him. At this time he cast Arcane Turbulence.

In his perception, his spell formation was forming at a normal pace. However, under an outsiderʼs perception, the runes on his magic staff were formed at five times the normal speed. Hence, the spell was cast in less than one second. Jack didnʼt stop, he continued to cast Ice Ring. Although the boss was floating in the air, it was floating very low, the Arcane Turbulence and Ice Ring could still hit it.

Without stopping, Jack also cast Energy Bolts and Mana Bullet. All four spells were cast at almost the same time due to the Dragonʼs Eye effect. The two latter spells needed travel time to reach the boss, while the first two struck at a faster rate, almost instantaneously.

Jack was hoping the first two spells would have been enough to devour the bossʼ remaining HP. The latter two were only for precaution, but if so, then it would be a race to see if the latter two could hit the boss before it released its toss.

Even though it was a dire situation, he did not forget to summon his runestone of luck just before the first two spells connected, boosting his luck stat.

Fortunately, this time his luck went through, probably due to the luck boost on the runestone as well. The combination of Ice Ring and Arcane Turbulence managed to finish the boss. As its HP reached zero, the giant balls of lightning in the air dissipated. Eldingarʼs head lifted up, he was looking up as he silently dissipated, leaving a few sparks of lightning in its previous position.

”That was a surprisingly peaceful death,” Jack commented on his opponentʼs behavior before its death.

He then heard a voice notification, ”Congratulations on defeating Eldingar. Receiving 310,000 experience points.”

Considering the level of this boss was not that high, the exp rewarded was not as abundant. But due to its Rare Elite grade, it was still high enough that it elevated Jackʼs Warrior to level 28 and Mage to level 27.

”What are you grinning about?” With the fight over, Peniel now flew back to near Jack. She had been flying high in the air during the fight. ”You have been through many close calls before, didnʼt see you being this happy.”

”Hehe, I just realized something,” Jack said to her.

”What?”

”That I can already pass the test from that Janus guy.”

”Why suddenly think about that test?”

”Never mind that, I can only give it a shot after we return to the capital,” he said as he walked to the spot where Eldingar had dissipated.

”Eh?” He uttered as he looked around. ”Why is there nothing?”

He turned to Peniel and asked, ”did you pay attention when the boss dies? Did you see it drop anything?”

”Why would I be paying attention? Itʼs not like I am the one that will get the loots,” the fairy replied.

”What, no loots? So I get only experience for that whole damn fight? So I have used the runestone of luck for nothing?” Jack complained. ”Do you know why such things happened?”

”As I have said, something is fishy. This whole expedition is weird. Not to mention, what are those four purple balls? Why is there that kind of crippling mechanisms in this boss fight?”

”Hey, it was because of those purple balls that I could win. Donʼt complain about good things.”

”I know. Iʼm just saying that it is strange.”

Now that he thought about it. Sunrise had been trying to get into this space when he had activated the portal. Did he already know that there would be a boss here? If he had known, then surely he knew about those four purple balls as well. Otherwise, with his capability, he would only be running into his death if he tried to fight the boss. But then again, even with the help of those purple balls, he doubted that Sunrise would be able to survive against the boss. Especially the bossʼ final struggle, Sunrise did not have the firepower to finish off the boss before it obliterated him. Did this mean that Sunrise himself was not fully aware of all the information in this boss fight?

He decided to not think too much about it. The idea that some players possessed this kind of knowledge about this game world was unsettling. This might point that these players might also know why they had been forced into this game world. He would ask Sunrise again the next time he met him.

He looked into the Container of Souls inside his storage. Even though the boss did not drop loots, it should at least give some souls, right? Considering its grade was Rare Elite like the Grim Sand Drake, the soul it gave should not be low, even if it was much lower level than the drake.

”Are you f*cking kidding me?” Jack cursed after seeing inside the container. There were only 236 souls inside, this soul must be his leftover ones added with the ones he got when he defeated Soundeffect. That boss just now did not generate any soul at all!

”No souls, no loots, what an absolute waste of time!” He complained.

While he was wallowing in his bad mood, he felt some tickling at the top of his head. He looked up and saw a light up there, and it was slowly floating down. As the light came down, the tickle spread to his entire body. He felt as if he was experiencing mild electrocution.

ʼSuch strange feeling,ʼ he thought. His body even beginning to shiver slightly as the light was about to drop to the ground.

”Thatʼs… No… Not possible,” Peniel seemed to be at a loss of words. She then flew closer to the light. ”Itʼs… It is! But… How can this possibly appear here?”

Jack was curious about Penielʼs reaction. Rarely did something cause the fairy to stutter. He went and approached the light as well.

”What is that?” He asked when he arrived. The thing floating in front looked like a small ball that was constantly emitting light. There were also occasional sparks of electricity coursing out of it. The surface of the thing seemed to keep on shifting, as if constantly moving, but it was stationary the whole time.

Peniel was still staring at the thing, she was mumbling something inaudible. She perhaps did not even hear Jackʼs question.

Not bothering to ask a second time, she used Inspect on the floating thing. A loading bar appeared.

Wow, it was sometimes already since I saw this loading bar, Jack said. The God-eye monocle allowed him to inspect items or persons no matter how high-level it was, but it was still subjected to some of the standard limitations, such as the time needed when identifying high-grade items. Which meant, the thing floating in front of him was one such high-grade item.

He was full of anticipation again. It would be a true let-down for not getting anything after the fight with that Rare Elite boss, and from Penielʼs reaction, this thing was certainly not simple.

Peniel finally turned to him while the loading bar was still ongoing, her face showed complicated expression. ”Are you using inspect on it?” She asked.

”Yes, it is still loading. So long! It is more than one minute already and it was still at 4%! What is it anyway?” Jack asked. It was even longer than when he inspected the Transformation Box.

”Wait for your Inspect to finish then you will see,” she answered.

Out of boredom, he used the time to practice his skill and cast spells for proficiency. As long as his eyesight was maintained on the item, his actions didnʼt disturb the Inspecting process. After a long half-hour time, the identification process was finally over. This Inspect had also given him an abundance of proficiency that pushed this skill to Advanced Apprentice.

He was, however, not paying attention to his support skillʼs level-up, as his thought was currently transfixed by the words in front of him.

Lightning God Sphere (Divine Treasure)

Required soul link to use

”Divine?” He blurted out. The highest grade he knew of an itemʼs classification as depicted in the beta guide was Legendary. What was this about Divine? It sounded way better than Legendary.

He turned to Peniel, who was still having a complicated expression. ”Is this Divine grade better than a Legendary?” He asked.

”It is,” Peniel nodded, confirming his guess. ”In fact, there are only seven such divine treasures in the world. This here is one of them.”

”Wow! Ainʼt I super lucky then to get my hands on it?”

”You are more than lucky. This is simply incomprehensible. There is no way a Divine Treasure to appear here. Especially not when it is only guarded by a measly level 27 Rare Elite. Such treasure was supposed to be guarded by at least level 70 Eternal creature.”

”But it is here right now in front of us, isnʼt it? Or is it some kind of a counterfeit?”

”No, it is a genuine Divine Treasure.”

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