Chapter 66 (2/2)

Nate, who was thinking about something, said in a determined voice, “I’ll work harder from now on.”

I grinned, “You just have to keep it up as you’re doing now.”

*

After obtaining the items to be sold through the Senator, there was the last assignment left for the dungeon to be dealt with.

Dungeon Clear.

I wandered through the field with Penetration and telepathically told Nate and Hibiki the location of the pieces of text to be collected using the [Battlefield Command]. We scattered to gather the text, but this process didn’t take long because I gathered the pieces while flying with the [Stardust Wing].

The reason why the dungeon has not been Cleared so far was because of the Dragon as well, but the contents of the prophecy periodically changed, and all existing pieces disappeared every time. In other words, if the treasure hunt process were too slow, you would have to do it again from the beginning.

“I found another one! You said this was the last one, right?

“Yes.”

Nate handed me the last piece. It was a metal cube embossed with otherworldly characters.

We immediately moved to the altar. Then we stopped in front of a rectangular metal plate located at the center of the altar.

“That’s the prophecy.”

At the top of the long plate, there was a row of grooves. After placing all the cubical pieces in the air by psychokinesis, I found the ones that matched the symbols on the grooves and inserted them. In that instant…

Whoo!

Below the first line of the text, new lines of lettering began to appear until the entire metal plate was filled with letters.

At that moment, the system message rang.

You’ve met the clear conditions of the dungeon!

– Clear condition: Combining characters to complete the prophecy

– The boundaries of the dungeon are weakened.

Then a message popped up that only I could see.

– The user’s contribution to the Clear is number one (Contribution Rate: 95%).

– Additional rewards are available according to your contribution. Do you wish to accept it?

Nate asked, “Are we going back to Earth now?”

“We first need to take the prophecy and rewards.” I pointed to a metal plate with completed sentences.

Hibiki, who was looking at it carefully, said, “The inscription here doesn’t belong to Earth, does it?”

I nodded my head. This was called the Archid script, written in the prophecy. I didn’t know what dimension it existed in the past, but I knew for sure that it has a very deep connection to the system. For example, like this prophecy, this text was often observed with means by which the system, such as this, explicitly intervenes with hunters.

“Well, should we use an Evaluation scroll to read?”

Human beings of this period had yet to decipher the Archid script fully. They needed help with skills or items.

“That’s usually the case.”

But I didn’t have to tear a scroll or to use [Analysis] magic. Of course, it couldn’t normally be interpreted until the characters were read using [The Successor’s Eyes]. Then how did I read it? It was simple. I already knew this text.

“The top three lines are simple information explanations. In 191 days, about six months from now, an S-Class dungeon will open, and there will be about three months left until the dungeon break takes in. Everything written under it is a kind of number. Those translate to values that refer to the latitude and longitude of the Earth.”

“Wow, you know how to read those? Jin-Wook is really amazing,” Nate said with a truly admiring expression.

On the other hand, Hibiki still had an expression that indicated it was hard to figure out what she was thinking.

Beep!

I took out the terminal and converted the values of the prophecy into Earthly values, “The place is in London.” I clicked my tongue, “The prophecy is unpredictable like this. Time and place… don’t come out in the nearest order.”

Swoosh!

I took out a dagger and wrapped Mana around it, and then I started to carve the metal plate.

Swish!

“Huh?!”

Blue sword energy made numerous string-like lines and crosses across the prophecy. As Nate couldn’t understand what I was doing all of a sudden, his eyes widened, “Jin-Wook, why…?”

After some time had passed, the surface of the prophecy had completely changed. In the place where the Archid Scripts were grooved in, the original symbols disappeared, and only the newly engraved letters that I grooved remained.

Hibiki spoke, guessing my intentions, “Did you write a different prophecy from the original content?”

“Yes.”

What would happen to the S-Class dungeon due to opening in London, I knew from the future experience. It appeared as ‘very unstable’ from the moment it opened, so they hurriedly gathered high ranking hunters, and they succeeded in Clearing right before the break took place.

There were no prophecies, and it was before the period that Angelica appeared, but they defended the catastrophe with humanity’s potential power.

But…

“I wrote down something more urgent and much more dangerous, so people would know right now.”

I could read it since I’d written it myself, but I experimented to see if the contents could be clearly delivered to others as well.

[Analysis]

I activated a spell. It showed what kind of explanation it would give if other people would use [Analysis] spell on this prophecy.

‘That’s done right.’

The exact contents that I had carved appeared. It said that a month from now, a gate would be opened in a rural city in Korea that connected to an A-Class dungeon. That gate, which would appear in a ‘very unstable’ state, unlike the one that will appear in London, will give enough time of three months, it will turn right away to the break state.

Those dungeons were called this by humanity: ‘Immediate Break type Dungeon.’

Now, it was time to choose a reward, “I’ll be right back, so don’t panic if I disappear.”

Shortly after that, I disappeared, leaving Nate and Hibiki with blank expressions. My view changed, and instead of the altar that I was standing on, I could only see thick-textured darkness.

– Please select a reward.

White stars were scattered in the dark space. I looked around calmly at the fragments of light. ‘That’s too bad. There are no SSS-Class ones.’

It was disappointing considering that the compensation could be offered at a higher level from the dungeon’s difficulty.

‘Is there was a mechanism that I didn’t know about yet? Why was it offered, even with a lower contribution rate in the Siheung 8 Dungeon, but not offered here? Perhaps, simply luck?’

Thinking in that manner, my gaze stopped at one of the starlight’s clusters as I looked around.

‘SS-Class skill.’

I was able to predict the identity by observing it closely.

[Teleport (Rank: SS)]

It was a skill that the Dragon used to escape before it died. Some magic skill cards are given in the form of mastery, while others come in the form of single unit spells. For the former, if one takes up the [Fire Mastery] skill of a particular rank, it allows multiple spells such as [Fireball] and [Flame Field] to be used as a package, so it was preferred, but the power of the spells did not go over certain standards.

On the other hand, the latter spell, which did not belong as a mastery card, was magic with a powerful or unique effect, beyond the standards mentioned earlier.

As precious as it was…

‘I’ll pass on this.’

I’d seen this skill even before I met today’s Dragon. It was the same I had learned since I saw the scenes of it being used by alien races in my previous life. However, it was inefficient for other colleagues besides me to learn.

‘Is there anything else?’

In the meantime, my eyes fixated on another place.

‘Yeah, that would be better.’

“I’ll choose this.”

A mechanical system message answered me:

– Granting user-specified rewards. Thank you for your hard work.

A white star came up to me out of the black sky, and it circled and seeped in me by sprinkling powder of light. After the white glow had been completely soaked in, what remained was a small marble that glowed in amber.

I held it in my hand.