Mila
The inside of the inheritance wasn’t that large, at least the top part, but it branched. After the first room with the orb containing the ritual to turn humans into beastmen there was another room which flashed red every time a cultivator passed through.
With the Noble’s Sight skill Mila’d learned and mastered, along with her Laws and third eye, she was able to see karmic threads attach to every cultivator who entered, linking them to something down below, likely the soul fragment of the Shadow Thief. There was no power to the threads, no contracts, and Mila was pretty sure it was just an indicator of how they would be monitored and tested while within the inheritance.
Beyond that room then were eight different long paths, all leading down and to different directions. They weren’t far enough away Mila couldn’t maintain her Phantasmic Doppelgängers, but all her senses were blocked for any of the paths she or her doppelgängers didn’t travel through herself so she dissipated and then recreated the doppelgänger which had been talking to Isaiah and had it follow Prince Tomin’s group.
She herself was in a group with no one she recognized while her other three doppelgängers followed two random groups and the one with the leader of the Kindar Raiders in it.
With her Phantasmic Doppelgängers skill having advanced quite a bit, she could now make a total of nine doppelgängers, but she only had five minds so she generally only made four if she wanted them to do anything remotely complex. The range of the doppelgängers had also increased quite a bit, though, and that was helpful.
Moving through the log stone hallways, each path ramped downwards by about a hundred meters and then opened up into a large round chamber, reminding Mila a lot of the soulspace room the first challenge of her tutorial had taken place in, only much larger. Each was made of stone and perfectly circular with a roughly 600 meter radius and a concave ceiling 70 meters tall at the center and 50 meters at the edges. Only, instead of a couple hundred other humans, there was just a humanoid and human sized golem standing in the middle of the room and, instead of a glowing rune made of fire providing light and hinting at the purpose of the room at the top, there was a large orb glowing with green and blue light.
In each of the room’s the golems, who all looked to be wearing stone armor and held large two-handed swords, turned their glowing purple eyes to the cultivators at the entrance to their rooms. Then a System notification showed up in front of Mila’s eyes, and likely those of all the other cultivators in the inheritance as well.
The Soul Fragment of the Shadow Thief has offered you a quest.
Prove Your Worth I (Legendary)
You must accomplish the following:
Fight one on one against a weakened E rank golem for 96 seconds Keep the Soul Fragment of the Shadow Thief’s interest Not die
Rewards: You may continue deeper into the inheritance
Do you accept?
Yes/No
Mila accepted, as she could tell most of the others did as well, and, in each room, she watched the golem take one hand off its blade and point at a cultivator, in most cases a native. Then it made a ‘come here’ gesture and everyone realized that cultivator was the first up.
In each room, the cultivator chosen stepped forward and there was a gong-like sound. Then the golem moved, about as fast as a cultivator with 500 or so effective agility and, in every room, the golem’s large sword hit the cultivator with what looked to be about 750 effective strength, the cultivator instantly dying and blood splattering the floor and wall.
A good portion of the cultivators in each room Mila was watching then tried to flee, but the golem in each room moved far faster than before, with what looked like an effective agility of around 1300, and two thirds of the fleeing cultivators died. The ones who hadn’t accepted the quest, however, and the clone Mila’d sent to follow them, managed to leave.
Mila’s clone followed further and watched as those who hadn’t accepted the quest left the inheritance, Isaiah allowing them to pass, and she only killed five of them, the five who were obviously not natives, breaking their necks with telekinesis at the entrance. Then the clone headed back into one of the testing chambers she hadn’t seen yet.
There were about sixty people left in each testing chamber and the following hour or so wasn’t pretty. The golems all called up a second challenger and the results weren’t much different than before. Then, after a 28 second break, another cultivator took the challenge and died, then another, and then another.
A few people tried to run away again while others were challenging the golems, but they were quickly killed, the golem speeding up to chase them before returning to the challenge fight, its effective stats again lowered.
There was soon an obvious pattern to the order in which the cultivators were challenged, each subsequent cultivator able to survive a little longer. And, by the time there were only a dozen or so people left in each testing room, cultivators actually started to pass.
It was pretty obvious the golems were choosing people in order of perceived strength and it was also pretty obvious most of those who remained were members of the Kindar Raiders.
It wasn’t that the Raiders were particularly strong, most seeming to have only uncommon grade skills, but they were all agility-based cultivators with high levels, and they all had at least one movement skill.
It appeared they’d had more information about the inheritance than they’d given out, and they all seemed to have spent the entirety of the last year out in the wilderness fighting the beasts which had transformed into monsters to level up.
Ava Gale also passed, her class based around wind Laws and agility, and Prince Tomin somehow seemed even higher leveled than her, likely having hunted like crazy once Ava’d finally managed to remove the contract restricting him. He passed quite easily as well, being the only cultivator Mila saw do any damage to the golem, leaving a small superficial cut on the golem’s shoulder armor, and, when he was done, it was the turn of the Kindar Raider’s leader in another testing chamber.
That young man showed off strength which was somewhere between Ava Gale and Prince Tomin, but his fighting style was more reminiscent of the Shadow Wolves the undead had brought than anyone else. He teleported from shadow to shadow as he fought and he seemed to have a high grade Law Egg of the shadow path, though Mila could tell it wasn’t a Law Egg of Obfuscation.
He, Tomin, and the other cultivators left in the rooms with her clones were quickly able to identify who she was due to the golems not targeting her, and they all quickly moved through the doorway which had opened up on the other side of their chambers, a doorway with a forcefield her clones could not pass through, so she lost sight of them.
Mila then dissipated all four clones, as it was finally her turn. The group she had joined had more Kindar Raiders cultivators than most so, being the last one to get a turn, she was several minutes behind Prince Tomin and the Kindar Raiders’ leader.
The golem attacked her with its large sword, but she easily dodged without using any skills. She might not be an agility-based cultivator, specializing more in Spirit and Soul, but she’d grown to level 14 and she’d monopolized the rewards for ending eleven of the twelve invasions. Her base agility was already two thirds of the way to one thousand, so she could just dance around the golem when it restricted its stats, not even having to follow the optimal movement paths she could now see thanks to her Law Larva of The Tactician’s interaction with her Third Eye Princess uniqueness.
At the same time, she was also able to confirm something about her uniqueness’s interaction with her Law Larva of The Reaper. Previously, she’d confirmed her weakness sight as she called it could show her the weaknesses of monsters, which had already proven useful, but now it seemed it worked on golems as well, and she was pretty sure she would be able to destroy the golem in front of her if it kept its stats restricted, though she didn’t even try.
What she did do, however, was send all the information she’d gathered about the golems to Aalam, who was waiting several kilometers out from the inheritance in case anything went wrong.
One of the other cultivators in her group who’d passed the test, one she was pretty sure was a member of the Kindar Raiders, then held his hand out at her when she was almost done with her test and, for about half a second, she was unable to move. She managed to pretty easily pull herself back with Telekinesis to save her life and then she returned the favor by grabbing that cultivator with Telekinesis as well, pushing him right into the path of the golem’s swinging blade.
Nothing happened to her for interfering with another cultivator, but she wasn’t sure if it was because he’d attacked her first or if the soul fragment of the Shadow Thief just didn’t care, so she didn’t risk killing or enslaving any of the other cultivators still in the room, most of whom were now looking at her with fear.
After her test was done, she got another System notification showing she’d passed the quest, and then she and the other trial passers in her group entered into the door on the other side of the room and Mila realized she couldn’t sense back into the previous part of the inheritance site at all, the clone she tried to send back dissipating immediately after passing through the door.
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Mila
The inside of the inheritance wasn’t that large, at least the top part, but it branched. After the first room with the orb containing the ritual to turn humans into beastmen there was another room which flashed red every time a cultivator passed through.
With the Noble’s Sight skill Mila’d learned and mastered, along with her Laws and third eye, she was able to see karmic threads attach to every cultivator who entered, linking them to something down below, likely the soul fragment of the Shadow Thief. There was no power to the threads, no contracts, and Mila was pretty sure it was just an indicator of how they would be monitored and tested while within the inheritance.
Beyond that room then were eight different long paths, all leading down and to different directions. They weren’t far enough away Mila couldn’t maintain her Phantasmic Doppelgängers, but all her senses were blocked for any of the paths she or her doppelgängers didn’t travel through herself so she dissipated and then recreated the doppelgänger which had been talking to Isaiah and had it follow Prince Tomin’s group.
She herself was in a group with no one she recognized while her other three doppelgängers followed two random groups and the one with the leader of the Kindar Raiders in it.
With her Phantasmic Doppelgängers skill having advanced quite a bit, she could now make a total of nine doppelgängers, but she only had five minds so she generally only made four if she wanted them to do anything remotely complex. The range of the doppelgängers had also increased quite a bit, though, and that was helpful.
Moving through the log stone hallways, each path ramped downwards by about a hundred meters and then opened up into a large round chamber, reminding Mila a lot of the soulspace room the first challenge of her tutorial had taken place in, only much larger. Each was made of stone and perfectly circular with a roughly 600 meter radius and a concave ceiling 70 meters tall at the center and 50 meters at the edges. Only, instead of a couple hundred other humans, there was just a humanoid and human sized golem standing in the middle of the room and, instead of a glowing rune made of fire providing light and hinting at the purpose of the room at the top, there was a large orb glowing with green and blue light.
In each of the room’s the golems, who all looked to be wearing stone armor and held large two-handed swords, turned their glowing purple eyes to the cultivators at the entrance to their rooms. Then a System notification showed up in front of Mila’s eyes, and likely those of all the other cultivators in the inheritance as well.
The Soul Fragment of the Shadow Thief has offered you a quest.
Prove Your Worth I (Legendary)
You must accomplish the following:
Fight one on one against a weakened E rank golem for 96 seconds Keep the Soul Fragment of the Shadow Thief’s interest Not die
Rewards: You may continue deeper into the inheritance
Do you accept?
Yes/No
Mila accepted, as she could tell most of the others did as well, and, in each room, she watched the golem take one hand off its blade and point at a cultivator, in most cases a native. Then it made a ‘come here’ gesture and everyone realized that cultivator was the first up.
In each room, the cultivator chosen stepped forward and there was a gong-like sound. Then the golem moved, about as fast as a cultivator with 500 or so effective agility and, in every room, the golem’s large sword hit the cultivator with what looked to be about 750 effective strength, the cultivator instantly dying and blood splattering the floor and wall.
A good portion of the cultivators in each room Mila was watching then tried to flee, but the golem in each room moved far faster than before, with what looked like an effective agility of around 1300, and two thirds of the fleeing cultivators died. The ones who hadn’t accepted the quest, however, and the clone Mila’d sent to follow them, managed to leave.
Mila’s clone followed further and watched as those who hadn’t accepted the quest left the inheritance, Isaiah allowing them to pass, and she only killed five of them, the five who were obviously not natives, breaking their necks with telekinesis at the entrance. Then the clone headed back into one of the testing chambers she hadn’t seen yet.
There were about sixty people left in each testing chamber and the following hour or so wasn’t pretty. The golems all called up a second challenger and the results weren’t much different than before. Then, after a 28 second break, another cultivator took the challenge and died, then another, and then another.
A few people tried to run away again while others were challenging the golems, but they were quickly killed, the golem speeding up to chase them before returning to the challenge fight, its effective stats again lowered.
There was soon an obvious pattern to the order in which the cultivators were challenged, each subsequent cultivator able to survive a little longer. And, by the time there were only a dozen or so people left in each testing room, cultivators actually started to pass.
It was pretty obvious the golems were choosing people in order of perceived strength and it was also pretty obvious most of those who remained were members of the Kindar Raiders.
It wasn’t that the Raiders were particularly strong, most seeming to have only uncommon grade skills, but they were all agility-based cultivators with high levels, and they all had at least one movement skill.
It appeared they’d had more information about the inheritance than they’d given out, and they all seemed to have spent the entirety of the last year out in the wilderness fighting the beasts which had transformed into monsters to level up.
Ava Gale also passed, her class based around wind Laws and agility, and Prince Tomin somehow seemed even higher leveled than her, likely having hunted like crazy once Ava’d finally managed to remove the contract restricting him. He passed quite easily as well, being the only cultivator Mila saw do any damage to the golem, leaving a small superficial cut on the golem’s shoulder armor, and, when he was done, it was the turn of the Kindar Raider’s leader in another testing chamber.
That young man showed off strength which was somewhere between Ava Gale and Prince Tomin, but his fighting style was more reminiscent of the Shadow Wolves the undead had brought than anyone else. He teleported from shadow to shadow as he fought and he seemed to have a high grade Law Egg of the shadow path, though Mila could tell it wasn’t a Law Egg of Obfuscation.
He, Tomin, and the other cultivators left in the rooms with her clones were quickly able to identify who she was due to the golems not targeting her, and they all quickly moved through the doorway which had opened up on the other side of their chambers, a doorway with a forcefield her clones could not pass through, so she lost sight of them.
Mila then dissipated all four clones, as it was finally her turn. The group she had joined had more Kindar Raiders cultivators than most so, being the last one to get a turn, she was several minutes behind Prince Tomin and the Kindar Raiders’ leader.
The golem attacked her with its large sword, but she easily dodged without using any skills. She might not be an agility-based cultivator, specializing more in Spirit and Soul, but she’d grown to level 14 and she’d monopolized the rewards for ending eleven of the twelve invasions. Her base agility was already two thirds of the way to one thousand, so she could just dance around the golem when it restricted its stats, not even having to follow the optimal movement paths she could now see thanks to her Law Larva of The Tactician’s interaction with her Third Eye Princess uniqueness.
At the same time, she was also able to confirm something about her uniqueness’s interaction with her Law Larva of The Reaper. Previously, she’d confirmed her weakness sight as she called it could show her the weaknesses of monsters, which had already proven useful, but now it seemed it worked on golems as well, and she was pretty sure she would be able to destroy the golem in front of her if it kept its stats restricted, though she didn’t even try.
What she did do, however, was send all the information she’d gathered about the golems to Aalam, who was waiting several kilometers out from the inheritance in case anything went wrong.
One of the other cultivators in her group who’d passed the test, one she was pretty sure was a member of the Kindar Raiders, then held his hand out at her when she was almost done with her test and, for about half a second, she was unable to move. She managed to pretty easily pull herself back with Telekinesis to save her life and then she returned the favor by grabbing that cultivator with Telekinesis as well, pushing him right into the path of the golem’s swinging blade.
Nothing happened to her for interfering with another cultivator, but she wasn’t sure if it was because he’d attacked her first or if the soul fragment of the Shadow Thief just didn’t care, so she didn’t risk killing or enslaving any of the other cultivators still in the room, most of whom were now looking at her with fear.
After her test was done, she got another System notification showing she’d passed the quest, and then she and the other trial passers in her group entered into the door on the other side of the room and Mila realized she couldn’t sense back into the previous part of the inheritance site at all, the clone she tried to send back dissipating immediately after passing through the door.
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