BXBX NOVEL Chapter 195 Acclimatizing To Dune
Now, this was a Quest befitting of the Hall of Kadath, though it was far more dangerous than just building the new Divine Altar. Destruction was more aligned to the stereotypical image of the worshipper of the Outer Gods than building things; that would be weird even for them.
Each Divine Altar would be for surely properly guarded by the worshippers of the said God or of whatever the Divine Altar was meant to venerate. Some may even be riddled with traps and other countermeasures against the people who would want to destroy them, or they may be hidden in almost unreachable places.
Though, Samiel was confident that four of them, plus Familiars and his Undead Army that had around ten thousand Undead, would be strong enough to breach through the defenses of almost any foe that they encountered on the 10th Floor of the Tower.
Fortunately, the strongest person on the 10th Floor, according to the publicly known knowledge, were a few Silver-Tier Professionals, but those were very scarce; thus the top powerhouses of the Floor were the Bronze-Tiers as the average Level of the 10th of the Tower was considerably lower than the 8th Floor and was more comparable to the 9th Floor or the 3rd Floor of the Tower.
Naturally, Samiel planned to target the Divine Altars belonging to the Gods worshipped by the Human and then those which were devoted to the Daemons as they were the prime enemies and he would enjoy killing the demons and cultists.
That already became his hobby... not to mention, here on the 10th Floor, he could once again unleash the full might of his Undead Army, which had increased its numbers to almost 12,000, which was a frightening number. Now when Samiel summoned his Undead Army, it looked like a sea of skeletons, zombies, dulahans and other types of Undead.
Not to mention, this would be his first encounter with the Daemon Cultists. And he was also pretty curious about the rewards from the Unique Quest and the completion of the Unique Quest would unlock the Hidden Mission of the 10th Floor... and the Hidden Missions were always something specially designated by the Akashic Records.
That was the reason why he didn\'t encounter the Hidden Mission on every Floor, because some of those were not destined to him and only the Akashic Records could trigger the Hidden Mission... and the rewards for the completion of the Hidden Mission would be something that would greatly enhance his strength.
Till now, Samiel encountered only three Hidden Missions, the one from the 1st Floor of the Tower, where he obtained a fragment of the Ultra-Order Divine Weapon, Trishula and initiated the Chain Quest Series, the Last Inheritance of the Last Human King.
The one from the 2nd Floor, where he didn\'t get anything but obtain Familiar. And lastly, the Hidden Mission on the 5th Floor of the Tower, where he created a Leveled Ability and obtained the Star Mind Protection Technique.
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After the Khaos Chapter Mercenary Party consisting of Samiel, Yvraine, Dharzug, Juulius and two felines left the 8th Floor of the Tower, they arrived at the 9th Floor, which was by one word, extremely dull and average?
Yes, that would probably be the most appropriate term... boring.
The 9th Floor of the Tower was one of the peaceful ones, which was ruled by an old hermit powerful; it was a Holy Legendary human martial artist, who long ago retired and chose to preside over the 9th FLoor of the Tower where he was born because he couldn\'t probably ascend to the Transcendence, he was spending all of his time in the 9th Floor meditating.
And naturally, due to the presence of the Holy Legendary, the entire Floor was quiet... though that would be a misconception, but rather no Floor-threatening events were happening, like the ones on the 8th Floor and maximally some wars between nations that existed on the 9th Floor took place.
When they were on the 9th Floor, they spend there approximately one year because there was no Advancement Quest in the traditional sense, as Samiel and Yvraine got the Advancement Quest to make a significant impact on the 9th Floor, which they did as they participated in the war between human nations of the 9th Floor, where one Empire was attempting to bring entire smaller continent under its heel.
Naturally, they joined the forces of the Empire because they were paying a lot of Gold Coins and with the addition of several top Professionals, the forces of the said Empire swept through the coalition of free nations and defeated all enemies and enslaved the losers.
Thus the Advancement Quest was completed and the reward Samiel got was just a bunch of Silver-Tier Mana Crystals, as the difficulty of the Quest was pretty low. That was because the average TIer on the 9th Floor was Steel-Tier and Bronze-Tiers were already being considered as top powerhouses... so... that was it.
"So what Advancement Quest did you get?"
Samiel asked when he saw that Yvriane was scowling. From just a single look, he was able to tell that she wasn\'t happy with the Quest she got. During the time they spent together, as it were already several years, Samiel learned to read her facial expressions very well, as it wasn\'t even that hard when they got to know each other better.
"Find and destroy Divine Altar of Spider Queen, Eilistraee and Kiaransalee."
Eilistraee was one of the Lesser Gods of the Dark Seldarine Pantheon and the Goddess of beauty, song, dance, freedom, moonlight, swordwork, and hunting. She was often referred to as the The Dark Maiden, the Lady of the Dance, or Lady Silverhair, and sometimes The Dark Dancer. She was the patroness and protector of the few dark elves who longed to return to the surface and live there, at peace with other races, and to abandon the endless conflicts and intrigues that dominated the lives of most drow.
Kiaransalee was another Lesser God of the Dark Seldarine Pantheon, was a Goddess of revenge and undeath, a former necromancer queen consumed by thoughts of retribution. The Lady of the Dead was driven insane ages ago yet retained her twisted cunning, recalling clearly every slight towards her, whether real or imagined. The Vengeful Banshee was said to have repeatedly died before coming back with a vengeance, and the Revenancer gifted her favored drow with existence as undead driven by hate and spite.
Both of these Goddesses were not the strongest one of the Dark Seldarine Pantheon, but they were one of the most cunning and especially Kiaransalee was considered one of the greatest enemies of the Seldarine. And Eilistraee was the one whom every elf should be wary of because she was the seducer who was seducing elves to worship the Dark Seldarine Pantheon.
Eilistraee was known for her habit of luring away the elves who were worshipping Seldarine Pantheon, corrupting them and turning them into drows, especially targeting the Legendaries of the Evels species across the Cosmos.
There were many cases in history where countless powerful and mighty elven Legendaries were seduced by the promises and silver tongue of the Goddess of Beauty, some of them were even from the Silvermoon Elven Race and there was even a case of one Holy Elven Legendary in some Middle Word.
"Hmm... that is good; I got Unique Quest that is about destroying the Divine Altars... though my Advancement Quest is to construct the Divine Altar dedicated to the Outer Gods, which could prove a bit troublesome considering some of the materials needed on the construction of the Divine Altar are relatively hard to obtain... especially the sacrifice would be needed to complete the Divine Altar fully."
While it was the truth that Samiel never built a Divine Altar dedicated to the Outer Gods, it didn\'t mean that he didn\'t know how the building one. It was just arduous as one needed plenty of precious resources, depending on the grade of the Divine Altar he wished to build, but even the one for the Mortlas was very hard to build.
And naturally, the most troublesome part of building the Divine Altar was the activation of the Divine Altar. The majority, if not most, of the Divine Altars needed to be activated through something, like some sacrificial ceremony or ritual, perhaps a spell or anything like that.
To activate the Divine Altar to the Outer Gods, one needed to perform a ceremony with powerful sacrifice when one would prove the dedication to the Outer Gods and prove his martial might by sacrificing a lifeform that was at least one Tier higher than the person carrying out the sacrifice.
"That could be troublesome... also, where are Juulius and ork?"
Yvraine asked, seeing that neither of the two were near their location, meaning during the teleportation by the Tower\'s System, they must have been separated into two pairs of two. Depending on the calculations of the Tower\'s System, they may be separated by either short or long distances, but overall... this is not a good situation.
Samiel didn\'t even have his Familiar with him, but he could sense Nefertari\'s approximate location due to their bond and she was pretty far away from him, though apparently, she was not alone, as she was transported together with Juulius\'s familiar Tytos.
Typically beastmasters had a special type of spatial equipment that contained small worlds where they had their familiars and tamed beasts rest, but Samiel never bought it because Nefertari didn\'t like being stuck in some pocket dimension and preferred to roam free. Now he was considering that opinion, though only before teleportation by the Tower\'s System to a higher Floor.
In an environment like the dunes of the Sikarra, it would be best if they were together... especially when they encountered some Arrakian sandworms; Samiel wanted to avoid the creatures as long as possible because fighting even one of the monstrosities was a nightmare.
He was very well aware that the Arrakain sandworms were useless to fight against with great numbers because even Steel-Tier sandworm was big enough to eat hundreds of soldiers at one go, so that was practically a no-go zone.
The only possibility was to use overwhelming firepower to and kill them in one hit the moment they left the safety of the sand oceans or... to use counter elements. As nature balanced itself in a wonderful equilibrium that completed the cycle, the Arrakian sandworms had one fatal weakness that was extremely deadly to them...
Water.
To each one of them, water was like the most dangerous poison personally concocted by the Gods of Poison, Nothing was more dangerous to the Arrakian sandworm than water, and depending on the size of the worm, it would be possible to kill them with a few water-attributed spells if they were precisely cast.
Not to mention, Samiel could always use his Level 3 Ultimate Ability Winter Ruler to freeze the sandworm or freeze surroundings around the sandworm, which would then subsequently melt within a few minutes, thus drowning the sandworm in water and ultimately killing the creature.
"Nothing we could do about it... we will do it like previously on the 9th Floor. Now can you please create some ice? It is getting too hot here."
Yvraine said that they had a method on how to find each other if they were in each other\'s vicinity. Instantly afterward, Samiel used Winter Ruler as he started freezing some parts of Yvraine\'s and his armor, which created a nice cooling effect that would last at least five to six hours until it was gone and their armors would get heated up by the scorching sun.
Luckily, this time, he was wearing a hat that was blocking the sun, as he decided to keep his hunter outfit because he looked intimidating and cool in the clothing... and most importantly, Yvraine thought too that he looked badass in it.
"So... where should we go?"
Sometimes Samiel even cursed that he was undergoing the Journey... sometimes it was a total pain in the ass, where there was nothing than hardships and problems and sometimes, he envied those who didn\'t need to undergo this arduous and problematic process of climbing the entire Tower.