25 - (Season 1) Gathering at the Holy Church of Damian
Season 1
Universe 1
Day 30
Jim looked outside his apartment. Winter was approaching the end as the sun rised later and later each day. The temperature slowly decreased everyday. Even though the weather outside was cold, the temperature in game was much warmer. Jim logged on feeling the sun and the wind bathing in his body. After obtaining these rewards, Jim felt great starting a new day. He went into the town to see what was new. As he was walking by, he noticed a newly built church. He entered the church out of curiosity and was one of many in the crowd entering the church.
He sat down in one of the few benches that were empty. In a few minutes, an elderly man came out. The first 5 rows of benches greeted the bishop. As the bishop spoke everyone listened carefully.
Bishop Carl stood at the podium and cleared his throat. “I thank all of you for coming today. Everyone from believers of the church of Damian to fellow adventurers, I urge you to join our crusade. We have found an underground dungeon where traces of a lesser demon resides. We have concluded that the demon is weakened after its encounter with one of heaven’s angels; however, I have received word that the demon was too powerful and the angel had to retreat. The Church of Damian asks all adventurers to join a crusade to exterminate the evil within the dungeon. All participants will be rewarded handsomely with 10 gold coins. This should cover for a couple of months expenses or a year depending on what you use the gold for. I cannot promise that this will be an easy endeavor. Some of you will lose levels, items and may even be cursed, but I trust everyone is an adult. There is however some good news. A team of priests will join you. Three priests each at level 25 will join you on this trip along with 60 elite members from the church. Any holy artifacts will be held by the church if found in the dungeon. Everything else will be yours to keep.”
Everyone started chatting about this dungeon and started forming their own opinions. Recruitment starts tomorrow in the morning.
Jim asked Jake and Sera if they had any objections. Neither person had any issues. They decided to go to the blacksmith for weapons. Now that Sera was in the picture, Jim needed a weapon for her. Sera politely refused as she used mana to fight. She said she would ask if anything caught her eye.
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Jim visited the most popular blacksmith in town. He browsed around and found numerous weapons. Longswords, shortswords, maces, shields… Jim spent hours looking at items; however, nothing resonated with him. He went to 3 blacksmiths and nothing intrigued him. As he was about to log off Sera prevented him from logging off. He asked why she stopped him. She told him to use his mana eyes. Jim understood that she wanted me to use super sight. Jim activated super sight and saw what she was referring to. Mana escalators existed all around Jim, but Sera saw a pecular mana escalator that was shining. Jim stepped on the mana escalator and stood on it for 10 seconds. Initially he thought he as going to get off soon as it was guiding him to a building. Sera said to not jump off and brace himself. Jim was prepared and was about to prepare for recoil for hitting a building wall. He was surprised when he phased through.
Jim was reviewing the building which was made of a special mana structure. It was similar to the mana that the time escalator was made of. Jim couldn’t quite put it into words. As he was thinking, a cloaked figure came approached Jim and welcomed him to the Library of time.
Jim and Sera was flabbergasted. Sera was shocked even more than Jim. He asked why she was speechless. She sent jim a telepathic message.
Sera said “Even when I was the apostle for the god of time, I have never been able to enter the Library of time. My master told me that if luck and fate was on my side, I may be able to enter the library once. You on the other hand are not even an apostle and the power you hold is insignificant compared to me in the future.”
Jim didn’t know if he should feel insulted or proud to have entered before Sera. The cloaked figure asked if they needed anything.
Jim asked if he could have a tour of the library. The cloaked figure said the library is made of 9 floors and said that Jim would need to prove himself if he wanted to move to the upper floors. Jim asked what he needed to do in order to move through floors.
The cloaked figure said that he would need to defeat the floor owner. He took off the cloak of the hood and introduced himself. I am Rick, the owner and manager of the first floor of the library. The rules are simple. You must defeat me. Jim asked how strong he was and Rick started laughing. He said in simple terms “In your world, I would be akin to tier 8” .
A moment of shock passed through Jim’s head. He has only head about tier 6 players being the limit of his world. How the hell did he get to tier 8? Jim was shook back from the news. Jim asked Rick, how he was able to defeat him when he hasn’t reached tier 1. Rick expected this question and answered that they are restricted to 2 tiers above what the challenger came in from. Jim was almost sure that he would make a fool of himself if he challenged Rick, but he knew that if he didn’t try, he wouldn’t know for sure. Jim accepted the duel and they entered into a ring that appeared out of nowhere. Jim said that this looks very similar to the global ticket reward ring. Rick was surprised that Jim recognized this ring. It looks like you didn’t just drop in here from luck. Having the global ticket reward must mean that you have some talent. Come and show me your talent challenger Jim.