Legacy of the Betelgeuse

Chapter 261 - Episode 261: Mentor To Her Disciple.

I'm in the backyard of Ezira's palace, it has a vast plain field surrounded by walls and towers, I wonder why she built such a place and I think I understand that she's more comfortable being surrounded by walls and towers like how she used to be when she was still alive. Ezira is holding her sickle far away from me, she's staring at me and swinging her sickle. The breeze is very calming and comforting but knowing that I'm going to have a duel with her is really something that I would have never expected.

Ezira is pointing her sickle at me while smirking.

"Show me everything you got and if I'm satisfied with your skill then I will consider to bestow you my greatest ability."

I smirk and grab my chained sickles and ready my stance, I activate all the skills that I have then run toward Ezira. Ezira just standing there and waiting for me, and when my [Dominion] skill reaches her, she's surprised when she feels weakened by it. Ezira smirks and then disappears and reappears behind me, she flips her sickle and swings it at me but I manage to dodge it and roll to the side. Ezira is amazed that I managed to dodge her attack, but she disappears again and appears in front of me, she slashes her sickle upward and I barely dodge it and the tip of her sickle almost touches my chin.

I create a distance between me and her because I can't touch her since her movement speed and attack speed are way superior to mine so there's no opening for me to attack her. Ezira is staring at me for quite a while but then my heart suddenly pounds really fast and my body feels like being squeezed by something. I look at my status screen and I see a debuff status, [Tyrannize Gaze], a debuff that appears because I'm staring into her eyes and it reduces my status by 80%, this is scarier than my [Dominion] skill but the downside is that it only works if I'm staring into her eyes but as soon as I look away the debuff is gone and my status resistance is inferior to her skill.

I'm on my knees while catching my breath, I look at the sky and I have no idea for how long that we have been fighting since there's no day or night but all I know is that I have been fighting against her for more than 12 hours since I got the exhausted debuff on me. I'm on all four then I can feel the freezing cold blade around my neck, I look down and Ezira's sickle is on my neck ready to slit my throat, so many debuffs are showing on my screen and all of them are a pain in the ass. This is the first time to see all my status become 1, the debuff is not just from herself but also from the accessories, armor, and weapon she's using, from reducing my status resistance, my status points, ATK, DEF, HP, and stamina.

I remove my sickles, scythe, daggers, staff, and spellbook on the ground then lift my hands.

"I give up."

Ezira chuckles and pulls her sickle away from my neck, she walks in front of me and stands just there. I look up and I see Ezira is offering her hand to me, I grab her hand and she pulls me up. Ezira is staring at me for quite a while and then she giggled for no reason, she walks toward the palace and she waves her hand and tells me to follow her into her palace.

We enter the Palace and walk up the stairs, she turns her head while staring at me from the corner of her eyes with a smile on her face.

"I'm glad that I took you as my disciple, you're already on par with some of the heroes here."

Before I can open my mouth, someone enters the Palace. We both see all the legendary heroes are barging in with Ivonna is walking behind them, Ezira is furrowing her forehead and walks down the stairs while staring at them with confusion.

"What are you doing here?"

Eveth looks at Ezira and points her hand down.

"They are back, we need to be prepared!"

Ezira is surprised and squinting her eyes with disbelief.

"What? Already? Have you closed the portal?"

Eveth nods.

"I already did."

I look at Ivonna while raising my eyebrows, but Ivonna immediately shakes her head and she has no idea what's going on either. Eveth said that they are here, but who are they? Is it the thing that threatening the Land of Sigrid? While I'm busy thinking about it, Ezira reaps open a portal with her hands.

"Trevor!"

She startles me and I look at her and raise my eyebrows.

"Yes?"

Ezira is pointing her finger at the portal.

"Leave! You too, Ivonna!"

I furrow my forehead and shake my head.

"Why? What happened?"

Ezira is rubbing her forehead with her left hand while flipping her right hand.

"It's not the right time to explain, just leave for now."

Without asking further, we both are walking toward the portal but then the ground is shaking heavily like an earthquake. What was that? Is that an earthquake? There's no way that there's a natural disaster happening in the Land of Sigrid, and the only thing that I can think of is that it must be them, but how the hell did they manage to shake the tower this big and create such a massive earthquake in this floor which is the highest floor in the tower? Shazjae can't even be compared to this tower and I don't think even if Shazjae uses all its strength, it won't be able to create such an earthquake like this.

We both then decide to enter the portal, and before we teleport to Orion, Ezira stares at me and she doesn't say a single word at all but then suddenly she throws something at me and I grab it and hold it onto my chest. Ezira says something but the sound of the portal sucking us in is making me unable to hear what she says. Ivonna and I teleport back to Orion, Ivonna and I are just standing next to each other and still processing what just happened, then I proceed to look at the thing that Ezira threw at me.

[Legendary Extension Runestone obtained!]

[Legendary Extension Runestone: A legendary item that belongs to the Heroes of the Orion, an item that allows the players to upgrade the Legendary rarity equipment to the next Rank randomly (up to 1 - 5 Ranks). There is a very small chance it will give an extra enchantment socket/Passive Skill/Bonus status on the equipment. Forge the Legendary rarity equipment that you want with the Extenstion Runestone. Cannot be traded, marketed, or sold to NPC]

I look at it and scoff and then chuckle with disbelief because this is the most precious item that can't be obtained from anywhere or by upgrading the normal Runestone until it reaches Rare, Epic, Mythical or Unique, and lastly Legendary, and making a legendary one will cost thousands or more of Common Runestone, not to mention the only way to get the Runestone is from doing the enchantment and the used stone turns into Runestone if lucky.

Ivonna looks at the Runestone and she's surprised to see one with a different color and shape.

"Is that a Runestone?"

I look at her and nod.

"Yeah, and it's a legendary one."

I show it to her and let her grab it, she carefully takes it from my hand and looks at it in every direction. She chuckles with disbelief and looks at me.

"Did Lady Ezira give it to you earlier?"

I nod.

"Yeah, I think it's because she wasn't able to teach me a single skill of her, so in exchange, she gave this to me. What about you? Did Eveth give you something?"

Ivonna nods.

"Yeah, she gave me another skill that can help me to defeat Kalitzar and his army later."

I'm humming with understanding while I'm looking around. I realize that we are still in the Temple of Gloom, the building is there and so I try to enter the Land of Sigrid again. Ivonna agrees to check what's going on in the Land of Sigrid that could make the Legendary Heroes panic, but when we are about to enter the Land of Sigrid, there's no portal and we are just looking at the ceiling waiting for the portal to open but it doesn't appear. We both then realize that Ezira said something about closing the portal and Eveth replied that she did, I think what Ezira meant is this.

Ivonna is squinting her eyes while sighing.

"What's going on over there? Why did they forbid us to enter the Land of Sigrid?"

I sit on the step and look at the ceiling while putting my hands together in front of my mouth.

"No, I don't think they forbid us to enter the Land of Sigrid."

Ivonna looks at me and furrows her forehead while tilting her head, I look at her and nod.

"I think they are trying to prevent those things to enter the Orion."