Chapter 63 - The Mystery Reward (1/2)

”Y-y-yyyyeeaaahhhh. I do. It is my fourth quest reward. And it is my second to last one.” Said Mesa a bit awkwardly.

”If that is your second to last quest reward, what would be the last one?” Asked Jasmine.

”I honestly don't know. All it says is that it is a mysterious reward. I've asked JARVIS whether he had analyzed it and he did and even he couldn't figure it out. Apparently, it is a reward that the One Above All wants to give me, but he has kept it a secret what it is.” Said Mesa

Getting back to business, Mesa closed his eyes and tried to focus on opening the Gate of Babylon. A few minutes later, for some inexplicable reason, he felt something of a connection to something he couldn't describe. It was like some kind of new organ that wasn't in his body, but he still felt a connection to it.

GATE OF BABYLON

And just like that, several glowing golden ripples appeared behind Mesa out of which weapons stick out. Looking back, he sees all these weapons sticking out and this puts a big smile on his face until he is woken out of his daze by Jasmine.

”Mesa, what is that? You said that you had a sword that was even more powerful than the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword, but why are those sword sticking out of a portal and where is that sword you were talking about?” Asked Jasmine.

”Well, this is the Gate of Babylon. It is a special vault filled with many treasures that had been collected by Gilgamesh. You may have read the Epic of Gilgamesh, but this Gilgamesh originates from another universe that is similar to my universe. But anyways, the Gate of Babylon is filled with many, many treasures that Gilgamesh had collected during his lifetime and stored inside his vault. What the Gate of Babylon allows me to do is, bring out the treasures from inside the vault and shoot them at my opponents with super speed. And every single one of those treasures has its own abilities. And that sword we were talking about, is stored inside the Gate of Babylon. But I won't take it out right now.” said Mesa

”What? Why?”

”Because the moment you lay eyes on that sword, you will be overcome with a sense of dread like no other. Your senses will start going out of whack as you look at that sword. And besides, this sword is more powerful than Excalibur and Yamato. Who knows if the heavens will try to retaliate against its existence in this universe.” Said Mesa.

”Why would the heavens try to retaliate against it?” asked Jasmine.

”Because its power is neither holy nor demonic, but destruction itself and its name is Ea: Sword of Rupture. Its power is to destroy the world itself. Its attacks unleashes a storm that opens an abyss that crushes all of creation, reducing everything to the nothingness that was before Genesis. And once the hole to the abyss of nothingness is opened, it will continue to expend, taking everything with it. It will take the land, the sky, the people, everything. If I used this right now, it would completely destroy this planet and it would make a hole in the Primal Chaos Dimension itself. So that is why I don't want to take it out.” Said Mesa to the great shock of Jasmine.

”Holy shit! I knew it was powerful, but to think it would be this powerful. But if this is your second to last reward. I am honestly dreading the final quest reward.” Said Jasmine in slight fear at what was to come.

”Honestly, I think it will be fine. Having the Gate of Babylon is already an enormous boost to my power. I don't think the final quest reward will be like the Gate of Babylon.” Said Mesa as he took out the final quest reward.

As the light of the final quest reward faded away, what was left was….. a box. What Mesa saw before him was a regular old cardboard box that was 2 feet wide by 2 feet long by 2 feet high. Looking at the box and to each other. All three of them had a look on their face that said 'What?'. Before long, Jasmine broke the uncomfortable silence between the three of them.

”Uhhhmmm…. Maybe the quest reward is inside?” Said Jasmine a bit awkwardly.

”Yeah… Let's open it then and see what this 'mysterious object' is.” Said Mesa as he opened the box and saw that it was filled to the brim with packing peanuts.

”What is this stuff?” Said Jasmine as she takes a handful in her hands.

”These are packing peanuts. Back in my world, these would be used as a packaging and cushioning material to protect fragile objects from damage during its shipping process. Let's just throw everything on to the ground and search it that way. Would be faster that way.” Said Mesa as he flipped over the box and spilled out its contents over the floor. As they were searching through it, there was nothing but packing peanuts everywhere and nothing that could be regarded as a quest reward.

'Seriously?! Is this it?! I went all balls to the walls to gain every quest reward and the top quest reward is nothing but a box filled with packing peanuts!' Thought Mesa to himself in frustration before Ophis called out to him.