Chapter 243 - Grand Blue Master (1/2)
Whoosh!
In an instant, Argentum appeared near the wall of what seemed to be a large room. As usual, he was slightly startled by the sudden teleport. But after taking a deep breath and assessing his current surroundings, his emotions had calmed down. He then muttered to himself in understanding, ”Ah. I'm finally inside the Grand Blue Inheritance.”
As of this moment, Argentum was inside a large room that seemed to be made out of chiseled ice. From the aura he felt emanating from the walls to the feeling of intense frost he felt from the ground he was standing on, it could only be chiseled ice that made up the confines of this room.
”Hmm…that's cold.” Seeing as he was currently stuck in a room where there was nothing to do, Argentum decided to sit down and rummage through Aurus's memories related to the Grand Blue Inheritance. Although the trials he would take in this inheritance might differ from what Aurus took in the memories, he was quite sure that the method to enter this trial was the same, remembering the words Eleanor told him in the past regarding the code phrase.
”Make sure to say this code word before you start the inheritance.” This statement echoed out in his mind as he continued to rummage through Aurus's memories, eventually finding the memory that held the method to enter the Grand Blue Inheritance.
”I see,” Argentum muttered to himself as he gradually what Aurus was doing in his memories. Unlike before in the Flame Spirit Inheritance where Aurus was accompanied by two other people, in the memories regarding the Grand Blue Inheritance, he was taking on it alone.
In the memory, Aurus waited for quite some time in the same room Argentum was in. Eventually, he felt the ground rumble as a small but wide pillar appeared in the center of the icy room, prompting him to stand up and head towards it. After arriving in front of the pillar, he then placed both of his hands on top of it and circulated all of his energy, just like how he entered the Grand Blue Inheritance in the first place.
A few seconds after that, Aurus had disappeared from the room as the small pillar gradually became flush with the ground. As for the memory that came after this, it was the start of the Grand Blue Inheritance. With that in mind, Argentum took in a deep breath and said to himself, ”Guess I'll wait.”
And so, Argentum waited.
And waited.
And waited.
At first, a few minutes had passed. Then, ten minutes. Then twenty. Eventually, half an hour had passed, yet the pillar that served as the only way to enter the inheritance had not appeared in the center of the room Argentum was in. Just as he was about to lose his mind from waiting for so long, he took in a deep breath and said, ”Calm down, Argentum. Calm down. There's no point in getting angry over something like this.”
Rumble…
Coincidentally, as he was in the middle of saying those words, the ground started to rumble as a small but wide pillar made out of chiseled ice appeared in the center of the room. Noticing the small pillar, Argentum was inwardly ecstatic as he spouted out a few curses that he kept to himself, allowing him to calm down. He then made his way towards the pillar, recalling the code phrase Eleanor told him. He wanted to make sure that he got the code phrase correctly when he said that, so he repeated it in his mind over and over again while making his way.
At the instant he arrived in front of the pillar, he took in a deep breath before placing both palms on it. Just as he was about to start circulating his energy from nervousness, he restrained himself from doing so, recalling the code phrase Eleanor told him.
This time though, unlike when he was recalling it while heading towards the pillar, he could not help but feel bad for the master of the Grand Blue Inheritance with every repeat he did in his mind. Argentum then muttered to himself in an extremely soft voice, ”If I hurt your feelings, master of the Grand Blue Inheritance…”
”Let me apologize in advance.”
He then took in a deep breath before yelling the code phrase at the loudest volume he could muster.
”Hahaha! The Undying Flame Spirit shall always prevail because the Grand Blue is a big f.u.c.k.i.n.g coward!”
After saying that, Argentum instantly felt a great amount of dread and remorse. He then went ahead and circulated his energy…only to stop as he wondered, 'Maybe the master of the Grand Blue Inheritance didn't hear it clearly?'
”I'll repeat it two more times just to make sure,” Argentum said to himself before adding, ”The master of the Grand Blue Inheritance will definitely hate me because of this. Is this really a code phrase, Eleanor?”
Taking in yet another deep breath, Argentum yelled out the code phrase two more times.
”Hahaha! The Undying Flame Spirit shall always prevail because the Grand Blue is a big f.u.c.k.i.n.g coward!”
”Hahaha! The Undying Flame Spirit shall always prevail because the Grand Blue is a big f.u.c.k.i.n.g coward!”
Now feeling an intense amount of dread and remorse from doing so, Argentum went ahead and hastily circulated all of the energy in his body. This formed a resonance with the ice pillar his hands were on, allowing multiple Water energy particles to manifest around him before enveloping his body soon after.
Whoosh!
Not long after that, the Water energy particles covering Argentum had disappeared, bringing Argentum along for the ride as he was transported to another place in the Grand Blue Inheritance.
…
In a deeper portion of the Grand Blue Inheritance.
A large blob of water started to jiggle intensely as it felt a wave of energy pass through its body.