Chapter 581: Treasures (1/2)
Just like the Treasures of Zeus, the heir to Chronos is also entitled to receive some treasures in order to protect themselves against the dangers that they have to face.
Unlike Zeus where each candidate is only allowed to have one, as the Heir of Chronos only appears one each generation, they are entitled to at least three. Before Raven went back to his abode, Lucas already took him to the treasury and asked him to pick the things he wanted.
According to Lucas' explanation, even the weakest treasure of Chronos is filled with vast antiquity. Even Ancestor Zeus didn't know where in the world did his foster father got them.
The first time Raven saw the treasury, his jaw almost hit the floor due to astonishment. There was a whole wall filled with numerous scrolls where the description and the treasures themselves are concealed. Even if they were sealed, Raven could feel the ancientness on each of them.
There was no such thing as a trash treasure amongst them. Every single one was powerful. Raven could even confidently say that if all of these treasures were to be held by the most trusted personnel of the sect, they'll be able to conquer the whole Divine Realm with them.
Of course such a thing is nigh-impossible to happen since the sect held it's moral values. Still, seeing this at least gave Raven some sort of confidence.
Maybe their chances to win the upcoming war isn't as little as he initially thought they were.
Raven then did what he was asked to, and picked three treasures that he likes. Thankfully he wasn't on a time limit so Raven took his sweet time reading through the details and speculating inwardly. In the end, these are the three he picked.
The first one was something called: 'Rotten Bark of the World Tree.'
He picked this one in order to use it as a catalyst to accelerate his won world tree seed's growth. While it doesn't really fully justify why he picked this branch instead of others, a rotten the first place. Raven didn't bother explaining.
He himself felt the yearning of the seed. Although he too was a bit bummed that he had to pick this one, he just followed his instincts instead. He already had an idea how to use this thanks to the world tree seed.
The next one is called the: Shell of Absolute Beginning.
This is a treasure of very unknown origins. Even with Ancestor Zeus searching the lands, he never received any traces nor clues as to where this come from.
The shell was big, it could almost act as a shield. And if Raven saw someone in the future doing just that, he'd probably won't be able to blame then.
The reason why Raven picked up the Shell of Absolute Beginning is because he was reminded of his Master Geezer. He could still remember how he was pushed to the brink of death by those greedy people in order to claim his research from themselves.
The reason why he was sent into wherever he is now, is because only his research and experiments about the 'Absolute Beginning' 'somewhat' succeeded. They all thought that Geezer found a way to condense Origin Energy, allowing himself to go beyond the realm of Divinity.
The description of the shell was somewhat vague though:
'Fate. Only those who have fate with this shell shall be able to use it.' That was written by 'Chronos' himself.
Well, Raven didn't know if he was truly fated with the shell or not. He could hold it just fine, he didn't feel any signs of discomfort doing so. Which should mean that he is fated with this shell - that, or it maybe because way too much time has passed and any sort of enchantment placed on the shell were already malfunctioning.
Raven didn't dwell too long on this matter and made his final choice. Which is a treasure called: 'Primordial Ink'.
This time, just like how it was with the world tree seed, he also felt some sort of attraction towards this item. That attraction was coming from the link he shared with the Brush of Wisdom.
Raven had no idea why the Brush of Wisdom wanted this ink so bad that it jumped out of his body and rooted Raven in place, disallowing him from moving on unless he picked the ink as well.