The Rise Of Calamity

Chapter 313 Trials Of The Temple III

[Sorry about uploads slowing down lately. I have college finals in a month and I am trying to focus on studying, writing for my next novel that will be coming out on WSA, and trying to sleep for more than 4 hours a day while simultaneously trying to make chapters on here. I love making chapters for both my novels (This one and the one that had yet to come out), but sometimes it can get a little time-consuming especially when I am trying to juggle everything at once. Therefore I might be putting a small hiatus on this novel when may comes around while focusing on getting out one chapter a day for my other novel. This does not mean that I am dropping this novel! I am just going to take a break and will be returning to it immediately after I finally have time in my schedule. For now, however, I'm going to try my best to stockpile as many chapters as possible to make sure I don't spend too long on my hiatus lol. I will be returning on July the 1st with a huge mass release! Do not buy the privilege chapters for next month! You have been warned]

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They all simply watched as 3 different objects appeared in front of them out of thin air.

"What are those?" Ronny asked as he took a step forward, yet right before his foot would have touched the ground once again, Lea stretched out her hand and held him back from stepping forwards.

"Rewards dumbass" Jacob chuckled

"No need to be such an a-hole about it" Ronny pouted

"Dumbass" Lea chuckled

"You too Lea! Come on" Ronny cried out which just made the other two laugh at his dismay.

"Anyway, we should probably choose one of these, shouldn't we?" Jacob suggested before looking at Lea.

"Yeah... we should. But who should get the prize?" She asked, this time looking at both of them who glanced towards each other and immediately pointed toward her without a single second of hesitation.

"M-me?" She asked, seemingly perplexed.

"Well, your mana eyes had helped us through this journey more than anything else. The least we can do is give you it."

"But I am the one who pulled you into this" She countered.

"The other reason is that if you give it to any of us, we are probably going to fight over who gets what, so the safest decision is to just give it to you and hope that in the next one we get to pick more than once" Jacob chuckled causing Lea to fluster up even more than she did originally.

"Okay, thanks," She said before turning around and facing the three options.

When looking at them, she could see that all of them had a mana signature whether that would be because of the runes engraved onto them or because of the thing inside that made it so that the item would naturally release mana.

Under all the items there was a sign that explained everything the items did.

[Blood Stone]

[When broken, all the runes will shatter at the same time releasing the blood essence into the sky. The blood essence will make the next moon a blood moon, an event that has amazing benefits yet at the same time, extreme dangers that the user might have to face throughout the night. This item can only be used once]

'Oh my god... That is amazing... If the normal reward is this powerful, imagine what the reward in the center of the temple is like' she thought, but she quickly shook her head dismissing that thought and the greed that would come alongside it...

'Next' she thought as she turned her head towards the second item and read it to herself, yet she was still left extremely shocked when she read everything on it.

[Inheritance Stone]

[A stone that stores the knowledge, power, and abilities of an Astral being at the highest stage of their cultivation. The man who had put all his power, knowledge, and abilities into this stone was hailed a God amongst his men, yet when he had left his world he had been cast to the side like an ant in the infinite cosmos. Not much is known about the abilities that can be inherited from the stone other than that it could lead to the inheritor receiving and comprehending the element of 'Astral Ice'.]

'I see' She thought while reading on before finally moving back and closing her eyes.

'Nothing can be better than the one in the middle, right?' She asked herself.

Before coming to the temple, she did not even hear anything about the Astral plane and the people within it, nor did she believe in an infinite cosmos. Instead, she just believed that the gods had trapped them within a world of their own where the closest planets were all that existed past their planet.

She then moved to the last reward that unlike the other two, looked like it was made out of dark obsidian and instead of being another stone, seemed to coil on itself and become more like an obsidian shell like a shell one would find in the beach but instead of being colorful, it was simply made of a pitch-black material.

'A seashell horn?'

[Horn of the Underworld]

[Call upon the gates of hell and manifest 1 for 5 minutes. This item can be only used 3 times]

'What the fuck?' Lea thought to herself, yet without thinking, she had already moved back to the inheritance stones and had already snatched it off its little podium, making the other two disappear.

When she touched the stone, she felt as if it was calling for her to smash it, but at the same time, she knew that at this moment in time, it would have been a bad idea. For all she knew, it might throw her into a deep sleep where she would be forced to comprehend everything inside the stones for days on end, making sure that every single bit of information had been thoroughly engraved into her mind before she can wake up.

For this reason alone, she chose to put it in her dimensional ring as she turned around to the other two who had glints of excitement and curiosity in their eyes as they looked at her.

"I picked a stone called an Inheritance stone. It apparently puts all the memories and abilities of someone who had owned it before into your body. I don't want to use it now but when we get out, I might be able to use it" She chuckled and turned around once again to walk towards the next area which happened to the next trail.

When she turned around, her hair fluttered up and her skirt moved a little, yet before they good even look away she had looked back and asked with a sinister teasing smile.

"Are you two not coming or are you getting cold feet?"

'Damnit' They both thought as they realized they couldn't hold back from the urge of looking down...

They were men after all, and Lea was considered moderately attractive in the eyes of almost everyone.

When they finally started moving and had gotten out of the rewards room, the same voice from earlier rang in their minds, yet instead of feeling shivers down their spines, they felt a feeling of determination flare up deep within them.

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