Chapter 371
Chapter 371: Crown of Thorns
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Pranav
"Sigh, it's not interesting at all with such low-level opponents . "
By the time I finished the fight which started for reasons unknown, I pretty much figured out what was going on .
It seemed to be my fault, after all . Without realizing it, I had entered the royal palace district while it was still dark . Not only that, I misunderstood the spies reporting their respective number princes' factions as some sort of code, which was why these highly tensed spies moved against me .
By the way, I only learned this after asking all of them . The first few I asked either attempted to take me down with them while committing suicide or were killed off suddenly by flying darts and arrows that came out of nowhere . It seemed like an archaic, third-rate film where the villains killed their own subordinates to keep them from talking .
Finally, after I learned what was going on, I didn't want to stay any more in this area . I felt it to be truly amusing looking at all the black-clothed individuals on the rooftops to both sides of me as I walked out of here . I could also feel that there wasn't as much chaos as there could have been .
"So the Crown of Thorns is still here?"
The two hereditary God Equipment of the Mist Kingdom were the Roland Sacred Sword and the Crown of Thorns . I'd already given the prior over to Reyne, while the latter had been lost to time .
However, when I was doing my System's Quests, the System had notified me that I personally handed the Crown of Thorns over to the Bardi royalty, and that I had then intentionally wiped my own memory . Since the Bardi royalty had yet to be foundationally shaken, and since I hadn't heard of the Crown of Thorns being sold on the black market, there was a very good chance it was still held by the Bardi Empire .
[Crown of Thorns, God Equipment . ]
[Blessing of the Undying . The wearer of the Crown of Thorns cannot die . Even if the wearer's body is shattered into tiny pieces, the body will still be reformed . ]
[Curse of the Undying . The wearer of the Crown of Thorns will lose their sense of taste, smell, and touch—they would be similar to a zombie . ]
[Death of the Undying . The moment the wearer removes or has the Crown of Thorns removed, every bit of pain suffered while wearing the Crown of Thorns will instantly be sensed . Before the wearer perishes, they will be kept alive and suffer all the accumulated pain before dying . ]
The effect looked extraordinarily powerful . As long as you wore it, you would be truly undying . Not only that, you would be able to turn into a Berserker who didn't know pain or even fatigue . But according to the Mist Kingdom's ancestral kings, rather than calling the Crown of Thorns a powerful God Equipment, it was more like a frightening cursed equipment .
Indeed, the wearer wouldn't die, nor would he or she feel any pain . However, if their body parts were shattered into tiny pieces or decayed and rotten, the Crown of Thorns would forcibly reform their body, still in that state . However, the flesh would no longer be living and it would continue to rot and fester . No ordinary person would be able to bear viewing their own body in such a condition, would they?
That Curse of the Undying part was indeed a curse . A Berserker who wouldn't feel any pain, you say? Losing the three senses of touch, taste, and smell also meant losing your desires and goals . Any food you ate would be tasteless . Any woman a man touched wouldn't have any warmth . After wearing the Crown of Thorns for a sufficiently long period of time, that person would be no different from an undead, despite not being an undead .
As for the final effect, the Death of the Undying? It was said that a person who had the Crown of Thorns removed would scream painfully at the top of their lungs for more than three months without being able to die, each experience of pain fresh and different . Finally, that person would shatter into pieces with the most agonizing of screams .
What? Something like this was actually a God Equipment? This was indeed a God Equipment . God Equipment were typically as powerful as this one, together with tremendous drawbacks . Either the negative side effects would be ridiculously horrendous, or only Gods would be able to use a particular God Equipment . The only God Equipment I'd ever seen being casually used by mortals was the Roland Sacred Sword . And this sword was formed as its Concept of Guarding kept increasing its power . Back in the day, apart from being indestructible, it didn't have a single other useful ability .
A God Equipment was typically half of a God's soul . Other Gods who obtained the God Equipment would be capable of analyzing the secrets within . Even if a God had perished, their God Equipment would be worthy of being sought after .
The Crown of Thorns was a strange one among strange ones . You say it isn't powerful? A SemiGod wearing it would easily be able to exchange blows all day long, not caring about any injuries suffered, and easily defeat five other SemiGods simultaneously . But you say it's powerful? No ordinary person would be willing to wear it .
In that despairing battle where the Mist Kingdom was destroyed, the Mist Kingdom's strongest knight, Caesar En, put on the Crown of Thorns . Although he was only a Myth, he caused tremendous losses to his enemies . But the end result was that he was sealed away and the Crown of Thorns forcibly removed from him . Judging from how Caesar's soul never answered my summons, perhaps he had sunk into eternal sleep as a consequence of using the Crown of Thorns .
Me wanting to recover the Crown of Thorns wasn't to use it . It was far too abnormal in every way . But since it was a relic left behind by the Mist Kingdom's ancestors, the Descendants of the Mist would naturally want to recover it .
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