203 Queen is Back (1/2)
When they started to walk down on the stairs, the room brightened itself and revealed the items lying in the room.
The room seemed untouched and it made Knight and the others brim with excitement.
”Look there”
Arrora pointed at two vials at the end of the room that was floating in the air and radiating golden light.
When they stepped closer, they could see the glimmering golden liquid inside the vials.
”Is that what I think it is?”
Knight asked in surprise as Don nodded and reached his hand out to grab the vials but the moment he touched the vials, they heard a voice.
”Welcome my Champion”
The tigress and Arrora were startled and stepped back from the vials when they suddenly heard the voice. The voice was of a woman and it sounded gentle and sweet as it soothed Arrora and the tigress's soul.
Knight looked around and scanned the place but he couldn't locate the source of the voice as a light ball emerged in the center of the room before them.
”Who are you?”
Don asked while Knight noticed the entrance that they came through was closing.
”I'm the one who keeps this realm and everything inside alive, Don”
Arrora and Knight were shocked to see the voice had called him by his real name.
”I've been watching you and your companions, Don, you've passed every test I gave you, and now it's time you claim your last reward, now step forward, Don”
Just as the voice said, a small pillar emerged from the ground before Don and the top of the pillar had a hand mark imprinted on it.
”Place your hand on the rune to receive your last reward, Don”
”What reward?”
His instincts told him not to put his hand on the rune before knowing more about the voice and its intention.
”A secret key to this realm and a treasure that would make you directly enter the Body Strengthening Realm, the realm beyond the heavenly realm”
Arrora and the tigress gasped for air when they heard the voice and even Knight was tempted to get his hands on that treasure.
”Now place your hand on the rune and receive the honor”
An unknown force inside Don prevented him from trusting or placing his hand on the rune.
”No, I cannot”
Don said and stepped back away from the rune
”You have nothing to be afraid of, Don, place your hand on the rune, don't you want to be the strongest person in the world?”
”What are you waiting for? Go on”
The tigress urged Don but failed to notice the slight panic in the mysterious voice.
”Why don't we skip the formalities and get straight to the rewards?”
They heard the sound of someone blasting the door upstairs while Don was talking with the voice.
”You must put your hand on the rune to receive the rewards”
The previous gentleness in the voice disappeared and the voice sounded more like an order.
Don shook his head and turned to leave
”thäet thön ono vér onr unin äthr edtha, ono skálpr ver!”
(How dare you turn you back on me, you filthy maggot!)
The voice shouted as an evil aura enveloped the room and darkened the room.
Knight had never felt such pure evil aura as the tigress and the cubs were shaking in fear.
Don felt an immense force trying to make him fall on his knees while Arrora and the tigress were feeling that their happiness was being stripped away from their souls.
However, suddenly, Don's shield came to rescue again as it created a glowing barrier around them and pushed away from the dark evil aura from them.
”Aathreya”
Don remembered what Ken told him after escaping from the cave and recognized this evil aura.
”QUEEN, QUEEN ATHREYA”
The evil aura tried to penetrate the glowing barrier around them as her sound shook the room.
After the room stopped shaking, hundreds of skeletons rained down on them out of nowhere. Human skeletons, beasts skeletons, and many other skeletons belonging to various races were lying before them and while they were looking at the horde of skeletons with horror, they noticed the ground beneath them turn wet as they looked down to see the blood seeping out of the ground.
”Let me guess, these were your previous champions”
He didn't know how they died but he was sure that their deaths weren't a pleasant one.
”All your maggots lives belong to me, yours will be when the barrier around you dissipate, I will feast on your energies and consume your flesh and skin this half-elf alive and these beasts will be my desert”
The cubs held onto the tigress tightly as they shivered in fear.
”if you could, You would have done it by now, you're stuck in this place, aren't you? You're not a queen, you're just a bitch”
The place shook violently when Don said this while Knight slowly started to grab some of the items lying around the room by manipulating the wind element in the room.
”You maggot, sooner or later I will consume everything in this realm and break out from that bitch's spell”
The tigress's mind and heart were filled with dread when she heard the voice.
”Knight, look for a way out”