Chapter 83: 83
Riveting Night walked along the pathway she had chosen, Warm Spring walking silently behind her, her steps erratic and her staff gripped tightly in her hands . To say that she was nervous was an understatement .
It couldn't be helped . Even without her aura, Riveting Night was too scary . With her dark hood that looked like the portal into a bottomless abyss, she was no different from those antagonists that seemed infallible .
When Riveting Night suddenly stopped, Warm Spring became alert and worried . She peeked over Riveting Night's shoulder to see what the problem was, but all Warm Spring saw was a chest that was placed against a small rock .
She was startled at first, but soon calmed down . In fact, she felt a slight bit of excitement .
This was normal, as chests were the gateways to loot . As a player, Warm Spring was like every other gamer, in the sense that loot could send her to heaven from hell .
Its grade looked high too . It seemed to be a Rare Chest! Such a chest had a 30% chance to spit out a Rare item, which was sorely needed at this stage .
After all, not everyone was a beast like Draco, who could effectively manipulate his benefits of reincarnation to acquire the impossible Legendary and even a Divine item(s) .
To the common player, forget Legendary, even Epic was a far off dream . Of course, there were always those who had that bloody dogshit luck and could strike gold .
The drop rate for Epic items was 0 . 1% for monsters above Major Rank . Major Rank monsters were Regional Boss monsters, just two levels below an absolute unit like Qiong Qi .
For the lower levels, the drop rate fell farther and farther to the point where it wasn't even listed .
Still, among the currently playing three million players, and even the soon to come billions of players, there were those who had that heavenly favor to acquire unfair boons .
In fact, looking at the statistics, it would actually be extremely impractical and illogical for no one to fall into such a category of lucky people . After all, if we considered it from the perspective of one person, it was clearly a pipe dream to get such items .
But when so many people were added, with that same probability, there would be a select few who could gain the seemingly impossible .
Riveting Night made no move to claim the chest . Instead she fished three throwing knives from her inventory and threw them out rapidly . Her trajectory was nowhere near the chest, rather aimed towards the general surroundings .
Warm Spring couldn't help but feel like the Vice Guildmaster was being a bit too superfluous . Warm Spring was aware of traps around chests and even knew of the hated mimic monsters, but there should be a much more intuitive way to investigate, no?
Of course, that was just a surface thought . Her respect for Riveting Night's prowess made her feel like it was more the case where the Vice Guildmaster was aware of some extra circumstances and was guarding against that .
After throwing out knives for a bit, Riveting Night stopped and harrumphed coldly .
Her form began to shine as a swirl of black light erupted from her hood . It looked like two small and black vortexes that were consuming all the light and space around her .
She was using a bloodline technique!
The Amaterasu bloodline also had three Inheritances . In fact, it was true for all the Ruler class Lineages . Pangu, Amaterasu and Lucifer had three Inheritances .
The Advisor class Lineages had only two Inheritances . They were the Buddha, Merlin and Zeus Lineages .
The Vassal class Lineages had only one Inheritance, which was why they were the weakest . This included the Morrigan, Anansi and Ilah Lineages .
Amaterasu was typically described as a celestial maiden of incomparable beauty . If one were to head to the ancestral home of the Amaterasu Lineage in Japan, one's eyes might lose their color if they peered at their collective beauty for too long .
Majority of the world's most beautiful women, those celebrities and idols who were lauded as being heavenly beauties, were from their clan in one way or another . The truly scary part was that these worldwide beauties were only the outer members who weren't acknowledged, having to fend for themselves .
However, upon deeper inspection, one would also find that Amaterasu was described as the Goddess of the Sun . However, it wasn't in terms of the sun's fiery properties, which was Yang in nature .
It was mostly in regards to the sun's light, which shined upon the world and illuminated the heavens .
Amaterasu's main property were light-based powers, which was a contrast to Lucifer's dark-based powers . However, they had been able to find common ground between light and dark, which was why Pangu sometimes had sleepless nights thinking about a child born from them .
Wielding the power of the dark, which promised endless power, and of the light, which promised endless life, such a child would be feared even by the Heavenly Emperor .
The first Inheritance of the Amaterasu Bloodline was called the Goddess of Light Inheritance . This particular bloodline trait allowed the descendants of Amaterasu to purify all evil in the world, and ghosts and malicious beings feared them to death .
Some of the weaker Amaterasu Lineage girls would become Shrine Maidens while the weaker males would become Exorcists, two notable fields of occupation in ancient Japan .
This Inheritance had only offensive power, and could assault anything possessing evil . In truth, 'evil' was a very vague and subjective term . Evil required there to be good and bad, which were both reliant on morals .
Morals were in turn subjective creations by the dominant party in any sapient society, meaning it could change as long as a new dominant party appeared that felt differently about the matter .
As such, the true terrifying ability of the Goddess of Light Inheritance was its subjectivity . In other words, whatever the Amaterasu Lineage members considered to be evil could be assaulted through use of this bloodline trait .
This was an Inheritance that was geared to fight the supernatural and supernormal, how could the average man stand up to it? In terms of raw offensive power, it was closely tied with the Lucifer Lineage's Horned Demon Inheritance .
The second Inheritance was the Celestial Maiden Inheritance . This was an auxiliary Inheritance that was of a support type, similar to the Dark Angel Inheritance of the Lucifer Lineage .
This was the source of the heavenly beauty of the Amaterasu Lineage descendants . In terms of raw looks, the Celestial Maiden Inheritance was slightly stronger than the Dark Angel Inheritance .
It could not be helped . The female form was worshipped among the human race, so naturally a female beauty was much more potent than a male beauty . An auxiliary effect of this Inheritance was the ability to manipulate the minds of others .
The Lucifer Lineage's Dark Angel Inheritance's auxiliary effect was psychic abilities, which focused on using one's own mind to perform certain feats . The Amaterasu Lineage's Celestial Maiden Inheritance's auxiliary effect focused on controlling another's mind to achieve certain effects .
Similar, but different .
The final Inheritance was the Abyssal Eye Inheritance . This particular bloodline trait focused on using ocular techniques that were extremely esoteric and otherworldly .
The Abyssal Eye Inheritance had a long list of techniques that came with it, but its main function was to summon various aspects of Amaterasu and her relations, as well as to peer into the eyes of the heavens .
Right now, Riveting Night was using an Abyssal Eye technique called Vortex . She was swallowing all light and space before her into her personal dimension in her Abyssal Eye Inheritance's bloodline .
For the record, she had no idea what was in there or even how to remove anything from there . Everything she swallowed up could be considered as gone forever .
Of course, to use such a skill took away a lot of power . Her Bloodline purity was slightly lower than Draco's, which was at 95% . Riveting Night's was at 80%, so she could not muster as much power as Draco could .
However, she had the best training possible, meaning that there was no wastage in her usage . Unlike Draco who wantonly spent bloodline power for even the simplest moves, Riveting Night spent as little as possible, even when using such a draining skill .
The result of her efforts was that a large monster that was made up of a huge eyeball and tentacles was pulled out of the void beside the chest . It was a Beholder!
It had a mouth with rows of sharp teeth, and at the end of each tentacle was a smaller eyeball .
「Name: Mini-Beholder – Specialist Rank monster
Level: 12
HP: 900/900」
When Warm Spring saw this ugly monster, she blanched and stepped back instinctively . It was totally different to see such a monster through a screen and seeing it in what was almost real life .
The instinctual horror, that irrational human fear, washed over her senses .
The same couldn't be said for Riveting Night as she stood firm . She reached a hand out to Warm Spring and firmly pushed her behind herself .
"Stay behind me, I'll handle this . "
Riveting Night's sonorous and lovely voice was like the tinkling of bells of Warm Spring and her heart began to thump a little as her face flushed .
"Okay…"
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