I Start with 13 Hidden Traits- Chapter 21

CH-21   ( Transcendental Reward )

 

 

 

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Discovery (發見).

It means finding something that was unknown to the world, something that had never existed before.

And now, I ‘discovered’ the Heavenly Spirit.

A spirit with a name that even I, a 5-year-old Rotten Water player, had never heard of.

Coincidentally, a spirit with the same name as one of my hidden traits, ‘Heaven’.

Was it a coincidence, or was it possible to discover it because of the hidden trait?

‘That doesn’t matter.’

In any case, the fact that I discovered it is important.

I reached out my hand toward the light that was the existence at the top of the Tower of Chaos and the unknown itself.

Then I took out something that I could catch in that light.

‘The spirit’s egg.’

It was a spirit’s egg.

However, it was different from a normal spirit’s egg.

The surface of the spirit’s egg had marks related to the spirit engraved on it.

For example, if it was a wind spirit, there would be scratch marks from the wind, and if it was a fire spirit, there would be burn marks.

The light spirit’s egg itself was made of light.

However, the egg containing the Heavenly Spirit was not like that in any case.

‘Covered in feathers.’

It was an egg made of white and black feathers.

The ratio was exactly half and half.

Hundreds, thousands of layers of feathers made up the egg.

This type of egg was something I had never seen before. Not only was the name unfamiliar, but even the shape of the egg was incredibly unfamiliar.

I stared blankly at the egg.

Then, a parchment with information about the egg appeared before my eyes.

【Egg containing a celestial spirit (???)】

★ An egg of unknown identity that fell from the ‘heavenly realm’, the end of light and darkness and chaos

★ Only ‘heavenly beings’ can see and hatch eggs.

It was a shorter explanation than I thought.

However, I was able to figure out a few facts from it.

‘Generally, the heavenly realm refers to the divine realm.’

The divine realm. The place where goddesses reside.

The divine beings refer to the celestials.

And the fact that I discovered this egg was proof that I was a ‘heavenly being.’

Of course, I couldn’t really be a celestial being. It must have been created due to the hidden characteristics of the ‘heaven.’

Then, is the ‘Heaven’ a trait related to the Celestials?

I swiped my chin.

If you think about it normally, it would be.

However, this was a generalization error.

‘··· The demons also call the Demon Realm the Celestial Realm.’

We often refer to the Celestial Realm as the Divine Realm, but the Demon Realm is actually also called the Celestial Realm. Mainly by the demons.

So, with this explanation alone, it is impossible to know whether this egg fell from the Divine Realm or the Demon Realm.

The fact that it had half white and half black feathers added to the confusion.

‘We’ll have to hatch it to know for sure.’

I wouldn’t get an answer right away.

However, one thing was certain, it was definitely not an ordinary egg.

The constellation of Baekjeongjeon, and the owner of the tower, the Spirit King were keeping an eye on it.

The constellations were always interested when they discovered something unique or great, but the most important thing was the interest of the Spirit King.

‘Spirits are powerful enough to create and maintain a forest.’

Spirits were the most important medium that maintained the world.

If they make a contract with a human, you can control the power of nature, and depending on the level of the spirit, you can even destroy an entire mountain.

How powerful must the power of the spirit king be?

The Baekjeongjwa of Baekjeongjeon, the rulers who rule the gap of the abyss, the giants of the earth dragons who protect the goddess, the Black Emperor and the White Emperor at the northern and southern ends of the world… The Spirit King is no an exaggeration when compared to them.

That is why there was no one who made a contract with the spirit king here in Pangenia.

The spirit king is absolutely neutral and never interferes with worldly affairs.

Therefore, the weight implied by the fact that all the spirit kings were interested in this ‘heavenly egg’ is by no means light.

It means that this egg has that much, or more, value.

《Settlement is complete.》

A new phrase came to mind at that moment.

The settlement of the content of Main Quest 3 was finally complete.

Even if you look at the previous main quests 1 and 2, the settlement time was quite long.

‘Unlike other towers, it wasn’t a tower that you had to be high level to climb.’

If it was a tower that you could climb according to the standard of a set level, the settlement would have been easy. Likewise, there would have been a standard for the score set for each tower.

However, wasn’t it the Tower of Chaos.

Climbing the Tower of Chaos was a battle with myself.

‘I guess my score might be lower than I thought.’

Winning a battle with “myself” is subjective. There was no way there could be an objective index.

I don’t know how the score is determined, but it’s definitely different from the previous main quests.

If you expect too much, you’ll be disappointed.

So, I let my expectations down a bit for this part.

‘Just getting the Heavenly Egg is enough.’

I looked at the score sheet in front of me, catching my breath.

<‘Main Quest 3: Climbing the Tower’ has been completed.>

<You have succeeded in climbing the Tower of Chaos for the first time.>

<Cannot be compared. This is the first achievement that no one has ever achieved.>

<Total score 240 points. Main Quest – Updated to ‘Hall of Fame’.> Updated

To the Hall of Fame.

At least I’m in the rankings.

An achievement that no one has ever achieved. This is higher than the score I’ve received so far.

Main Quest 1, Survival score is 220 points.

Main Quest 2, Obtaining a Class score is 230 points.

And this Main Quest 3, Climbing the Tower score is a whopping 240 points.

With this, I thought I could expect a ranking.

But the rewards weren’t over yet.

<Beginner’s luck? The ‘Constellation of Fortune’ is surprised by the result. The rewards have been upgraded.>

<The ‘Constellation of Adventure’, excited by you, who are the adventure itself, licks its lips. The rewards have been upgraded.>

<The ‘Constellation of Battle’ praises you for winning the fight against itself. The rewards have been upgraded.>

<The ‘Cursed Constellation’ shows interest in you, the owner of the Heavenly Egg. The rewards have been upgraded.>

<The ‘Constellation that Guides the Black Light’ remembers your name. The rewards have been upgraded.>

<You have ‘Lucky Dice’. You will receive a reward list one level higher. >

<Roll the dice six levels higher in total.>

<The reward level exceeds 20 levels, and the reward level transcends.>

Three constellations that have appeared so far and two constellations that I have never seen before.

A total of five constellations responded.

When the lucky dice were added, and the reward level was raised by six levels, a sign appeared indicating that the reward level itself had changed.

This meant that if you exceed 20 levels, you can receive a transcendent reward.

In other words, the reward level obtained while climbing the Tower of Chaos was at least 14 levels or higher.

I had expected that there would be levels to the reward, but it seemed to be much more systematically subdivided than I thought.

‘Transcendence of reward?’

However, I did not know exactly what it meant for the reward to transcend.

Does it mean that you receive a transcendent reward?

Or does the level of the reward itself change?

However, I soon found out what it meant.

<You can choose two of the twenty rewards below.>

<‘True Attitude’>, <‘Chammadou’>, <‘Extreme Iron Helmet’>, <‘Destruction Gloves’>, <‘True Stamina Potion’>, <‘Extreme Wand’>······.

True, True, Extreme, Destruction.

Items with the four titles above all mean that they have reached the extreme.

Even an ordinary item becomes an incomparable treasure when given these four titles.

Both the performance and options change to match the treasure, but you can’t get them even with money. This is because transcended items cannot be traded or transferred in the first place.

Only one.

Equipment that grants certain power to the user.

Just as humans get stars to transcend, these four titles could only be given to items that had transcended.

‘··· So this is what transcendence of rewards meant?’

I was so surprised that I was speechless.

If it weren’t for the Heart of the Iron-Blooded Monarch, my heart would’ve burst.

The effort required to obtain those four titles was no joke; it was like walking around the Earth.

However, because it required such enormous effort, it didn’t surpass the normal equipment or tools… But it was a ‘reward’ that was given to me, not something I made.

I would’ve shouted “jackpot” if I had chosen just one, but it asked me to choose two.

I was definitely more excited than when I completed the previous two main quests.

At this moment, I hated the Heart of the Iron-Blooded Monarch for forcibly calming my excitement.

‘This is incredible.’

I stuck out my tongue as I checked the items one by one.

I couldn’t come to my senses in the flood of rewards that poured in.

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It was when I left the tower and crossed the portal.

– Quite a feat, King of Knights.

The golden spirit that had first allowed me to enter the portal spoke.

A being like that, a gatekeeper leading to the Tower of Spirits.

However, an ordinary gatekeeper could not know the details of those who climbed the tower.

Above all, he called me King of Knights. King of Knights was the title I had when I was Wilhelm.

I turned my head in confusion, but the portal closed in an instant.

······ Wasn’t the golden spirit just a gatekeeper?

“Oh. You really climbed the Tower of Spirits!”

Before I knew it, the High Dryad was right in front of me.

She was with numerous dryads guarding the area, its eyes wide open as if they were going to pop out.

I took a deep breath and asked,

“How much time has passed?”

“Not even a day has passed.”

Just one day.

It wasn’t just a feeling, but I had spent at least a hundred days in the Tower of Chaos.

But here, only one day had passed.

Jeeeeeeing!

Another portal opened, revealing Hudson and Isabella.

“Gasp! Gasp! Uweeeeek!”

As soon as he emerged, Hudson vomited out his stomach.

In the meantime, no part of his body was intact, as if he had suffered through something.

His clothes were tattered, and his hair was burnt and crooked.

Bow!

Isabella bowed her head briefly to me.

Unlike Hudson, Isabella had not changed at all in her appearance.

She looked like she had just taken a walk in front of her house.

“Druid! I apologize for doubting you.”

The High Dryad formalized her speech.

She was finally treating me as a ‘guest’.

“If you give the ‘spirit egg’ to the forest as promised, we will treat you as our eternal friend. Of course, you will be rewarded accordingly.”

Ah.

······ That’s right.

I had definitely decided to give the spirit egg to the Dryad Forest.

The problem was that I had only brought one egg.

When I climbed the Tower of Spirits as Wilhelm before, I got five spirit eggs.

This time, I climbed up thinking I would get many eggs, but all I actually got was one ‘Heavenly Egg’.

‘Should I run away?’

At that moment, the High Dryad’s eyes shot up.

“Druid! Are you not going to keep your promise?”

··· Her expression was shocking.

 

 

 

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