Chapter 24 - Arch Mages Descendant (1/2)
Blue, red and now a new colour appeared. Purple. Soo Hyuk put back the book that he was about to pull out and walked towards the bookshelf in the middle of the line.
When he arrived in front the bookshelf, Soo Hyuk pulled out the purple book.
“Archmage Lapis?”
The title of the purple book was ‘Archmage Lapis’. Holding the three white books and the new purple book, Soo Hyuk returned to his desk.
As soon as he sat down, he opened a book to the first page. It was of course, ‘Archmage Lapis’.
“Does this book also give a quest?”
The blue and red books before all gave special quests of different kinds. What will this new book sparkling in purple give? Suppressing his excitement, Soo Hyuk dived into the book with a smile.
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I raised ten towers. The towers of Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Lightning, Darkness, Light, Healing, Poison and Illusion. I couldn’t manage them all on my own, so I appointed 10 Spire Lords to manage these new towers.
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I have to choose a successor soon. But no one catches my eye.
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I couldn’t decide in the end. Oh well, it’s not like I have to have one anyway. The city is currently flourishing as well.
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I’m sure my successor will appear someday.
The book ended with that sentence. Soo Hyuk closed the book silently.
A message appeared as the purple sparkle disappeared.
[Promotion Quest ‘Successor of Lapis’ has been created.]
[You have obtained ‘Archmage Lapis’ Letter’]
The purple book also gave a quest. But it was slightly different from the blue and the red books. Because the purple books gave out promotion quests and didn’t give any wisdom.
“……Successor of Lapis?”
Soo Hyuk was startled after reading the message.
“Lapis the Archmage……”
It was because of who Lapis was.
“It’s going to be really hard, right?”
It was the successor of the Archmage. How hard was the quest going to be? But it couldn’t be helped that Soo Hyuk was excited over this. After all, it was bound to give a special job. So, Soo Hyuk opened the quest tab and opened the ‘Successor of Lapis’ quest.
[Promotion Test – Successor of Lapis]
[It is your destiny and fortune to become Archmage Lapis’ Successor! Prove your worth by reading ‘Archmage Lapis’ Letter’!]
[Quest Reward: Special Job – Arch Mage’s Descendant ]
“……?”
Soo Hyuk was left speechless after reading the quest description.
“So I just have to read the letter?”
The quest was way too easy, right?
“Isn’t there anything else?”
Soo Hyuk thought that it was too easy. He just had to read the letter he got along with the quest.
“Don’t tell me that there’s a catch to reading the letter?”
Soo Hyuk wondered if there was a special condition or a catch to reading the reader, so to check, he opened his inventory and pulled out the letter.
[<Legend> Archmage Lapis’ Letter]
[You will be teleported to another subspace when you rip the letter.]
It was the letter from the Arch Mage, but that was all it contained.
“……?”
Soo Hyuk became suspicious as he stared at the letter.
“So, there’s no condition to opening the letter?”
He had opened the letter easily.
“But it says I’ll be teleported the moment I rip the letter.”
Nothing had happened when he opened the letter, but it seemed as if he had to rip the letter to be promoted.
“Where’s the subspace?”
The problem was the contents of the letter.
“I don’t know what could happen if I rip it.”
But he thought that it couldn’t be a big problem as the quest stated that he would get the special job if he followed the letter.
Soo Hyuk first looked at the three remaining books on his desk. He was considering whether to read the books first as he didn’t know what could happen.
“Well, the books won’t run away or anything.”
In the end, Soo Hyuk decided to rip the letter first. Of course, the quest wasn’t going to run away as well, but he was more curious about the quest.
Soo Hyuk held the letter with both hands. And pulled it apart.
Rippp!
The ripped letter disappeared in his hands and a message appeared.
[Warping to ‘Lapis’ Subspace’.]
The message appeared according to the letter. Of course, it wasn’t the only one.
[You have completed the Promotion Quest ‘Successor of Lapis’.]
[Promoting to ‘Arch Mage’s Descendant ’……]
[You have been promoted into the special job, ‘Arch Mage’s Descendant ’.]
[Obtained the skill ‘Archmage’.]
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“……”
Jang Yool stared at the monitor blankly. But his expression was slowly hardening. Then suddenly, as if a dam had been broken, various emotions flooded him at once.