Infinite Realm

Chapter 119 - 115 : Temple Of Chains

(AN : Alert me of any errors)

"Me?" Gotze pointed at himself.

"Well, you are the fastest of us all here." Herald said while spreading his arms out.

"But I can't even spot the monsters!"

"Don't worry, I will lend you my [Sefiris' eye]." Herald smirked. 'That's what you get for calling me four eyes.'

The group then agreed on Herald's suggestion after all, Gotze was indeed the fastest and the skills of his [Assassin] class made him suitable for stealth missions like this. With [Sefiris' eye], he would also be able to avoid the monsters on the way.

"Good luck then." Purple Winter cheered him up while Herald plastered an over-exaggerated derisive grin on his face.

. . . . .

"How long is it taking him?" Panda kept staring around the entire place in search of Gotze's Silhouette.

"Long. Even if his [Agility] is above 12, he would still take some time to scout the entire place. Remember, he still has to be careful moving around even if he has [Sefiris' eye] with him." Herald commented.

"Hmm?" Ink Snow felt a presence beside her.

"I'm back." Gotze appeared out of nowhere.

Ink Snow hurriedly asked, "Did you find any?"

Gotze smiled mysteriously before saying "Yes."

"Hah."

Everyone immediately released a sigh of relief upon hearing that. Even though they were prepared to abandon the mission and complete it another day, the time and resources spent on this would go to waste. So it would be much better to try and complete the mission now rather than later on when they are much stronger, far into the future.

"How safe is it?" Ink Snow realized something and promptly inquired.

"It's okay. All we need to do is avoid the other monsters and we are good to go. I went through the breach and inspected the periphery and it seemed safe to me." Gotze replied.

"Alright then. Let's go."

With that, Gotze lead the team over to the location of the hole on the wall. It was located on the east side of the edifice and as the structure was as big as a huge stadium, it took them at least 30 minutes of running before they reached it. The reason for the long time wasn't only because of the size of the building but also due to the fact that they had to avoid monsters on their way there. Sometimes, they had to wait for the monster to pass and at other times, they had to circle round it.

"Over there." Gotze pointed at a particular spot on the building's wall.

There was a crack there but not your average crack. It was better to call it a fissure on the wall. Part of the wall had collapsed to form a breach through it. For an unknown reason, all they could see in there was total darkness. This was even with the brilliant light of the scorching sun beaming down on the entire place.

"It looks creepy." Purple Winter broke the silence while staring at the 'black hole'.

"Infinite Realm did good with this imagery. They just bumped my Nyctophobia[1] by one factor." Panda commented.

On the other hand, Herald looked at Gotze skeptically and then asked "You sure you went it?"

"You didn't actually expect me to enter alone? What if there was a teleportation formation that would send me elsewhere? Or even a shield that would prevent me from exiting from the same place?"

"Then how did you..."

"I used a handy too for the [Assassin] class or rather, my subclass [Hunter]. It enables me to be able to scout any place without having to actually be there." Gotze replied with a smug smile.

The [Hunter] subclass was one of the few battle sub-classes and was mostly picked up by assassin players or Rangers. It not only increased their damage output, attack power and attack speed but it also gave them a few useful skills, one of which was [Detect] that lets players scout an area within a specific radius for any life-form.

"Enough talking. Whether he did it personally or not doesn't matter. Let's go and remember, all we need to do is to find signs of a living creature; we don't need to fight it."

Ink Snow added that last part because it was highly possible that whatever might dwell here wouldn't be as simple as a level 10 monster. After all, the guards at the front door, though stone golems, were level 25. She was right to do so as their mission was just to find a relic or a monster that had the same energy as the relic she had before.

Once they got close to the wall, Panda and Herald hesitated a bit to go in first so Ink Snow took the lead with Purple Winter and Gotze forcing them in.

Inside the hole was a corridor with candle-stands hung on the wall. The strange thing however, was that these candle-stands didn't have any candles on them. Strange blue stones were planted on the candle-stands and these were actually the source of light for the entire place.

With the aid of the faint blue light, the group looked around at their current location. Black stone walls with inscriptions carved on them,  green coloured tiles that lay on the floor and the really high ceiling that was at least 20 meters away from them. All these were the most noticeable features of the creepy corridor.

[[ System notification :

Congratulations! You have discovered the [Temple of Chains]

]]

"Temple of Chains? What the hell does that mean?!" Gotze looked at the notification with a bit of surprise.

In Infinite Realm, as not all players are truly enthusiastic about gaming for more than 6 hours in real time nor did they actually have such free time, they looked to make a few bucks via various means. Some of which were fully focusing on their money-making sub-classes like Blacksmithing, Alchemy, and the rest, with hope that they could advance faster and sell their goods. Some decided to search for materials and the rest before selling them to other players. One other special job was the information gatherers and these guys sort and gathered numerous information, assorted in multiple ways.

Ranging from information on forums like who the newest pro player that joined the game was or what event was trending before to in game information like history lessons that could be found in libraries, where to grind to get 2 star materials or to profit the most and so on. Since some players barely have enough time to visit the Town library or even to finish the books there, they usually buy information from these people. Snow's team undoubtedly did the same thing.

There were various religions and Temples in Infinite Realm and from the generalized information they got, there was no such Temple like this Temple of Chains ever recorded. There was not even a religion of Chains or any religion associated with chains. Though some demonic churches did have chains associated with them, this was in an inadvertent manner; their religion didn't value chains so much as to name a temple after it.

"The System says congratulations but doesn't even bother to give us a little reward or something." Panda smiled wryly.

"It's quite cold here." Purple Winter said.

In other to cope with the hot weather outside, the team had worn light clothes, ones far lighter than the usual leather armor worn by assassins and rangers.

"This cold...it isn't just from the air; it's the ambience here. It reeks of an ominous aura." Herald said as he studied the place with [Sefiris' eye] on. He had gotten it back from Gotze right after they had reached the entrance of the breach.

"Everyone, enter formation and raise your guards up. This is uncharted territory so expect anything. Also, switch to metal armour for those need to and the rest, switch to your best armour." Ink Snow commanded.

"This might be a much more dangerous place than we thought."

. . . . .

Within the building were 4 smaller temples arranged in 4 different directions when considering the entrance down South; one at the North, another two at the East and at the West with the last one being at the centre, a bit far away from the entrance.

Within one of the temples, the one in the centre to be specific, was a passage underground. It lead to a dark room that barely had any lighting except the few 'stone-stands' in there. There was no furniture here neither were there any noticeable object or feature here apart from one thing, a 19 metres diameter pool that lay at the centre of the room.

The pool was bordered by 19 red stones that were indented at the boundaries of the pool. Though it was called a pool, it wasn't one of water. It had an azure coloured liquid within it, together with the blue light that came off from the stones on the wall, the entire room was light in a faint azure colour.

Everywhere was calm and quiet like a cemetery as if there was nothing here but suddenly, the already bad lighting dimmed even more as a creature's silhouette was spotted in the pool. The shadow only lasted for less than 3 seconds before it disappeared and the entire place brightened up once again.

AN :

Infinite Facts :

To better imagine the building's layout.

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I           O   I

I                     I

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I  O           O   I

I                  I

I         O        I

I                     I

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       I          I

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      Y        Y

The 'O's are the smaller temples. The 'Y' are the two golem guards.

PS : It might look a bit ruined in some phones and different fonts.