The Ancients World

Chapter 62: The Outcome

{I have decided to skip over the battles in the double dungeon since it felt like fillers to me. I hope you guys don't mind that. The story is about to get more interesting this chapter so pay attention. Please mark any math errors or spelling errors, I really appreciate when you guys do.}

I've just finished my story quest and many things happened while I was busy fighting the bosses. Many world announcements were going off as I fought and none of them were about me, its a very nice thing when that happens. Most were about the newly formed coalition and the crowning of Baron Jackson, I guess he is King Jackson now. The church and kingdoms still aligned are forming a war council soon, another announcement will go off when they have a date. Players won't be high enough level, but the coming war will not be a swift one like Zenith. I open the quest to see my rewards for completing the story quest.

[Quest: A glimpse of something unknown]

[Description: You have found the first half of a key that leads into a rare double dungeon. Once you retrieve the second half you can enter the second hidden dungeon inside the dungeon known as Rock Ogres Lair.]

[Objective 1: Find the dungeon Rock Ogres Lair and retrieve the second half of the key.][Completed]

[Objective 2: Once you have both halves of the key use it on the hidden dungeon in Rock Ogres Lair.][Completed}

[Quality: Story (Hidden)]

[Rewards]

+15 levels

+15,000 reputation with the gods of light

+1 lore tablet

+A new kingdom in Ancients World

Now that my rewards have been added I watch my level rise from 46 to 61. Fighting all the monsters and bosses in the double dungeon resulted in 10 levels for me, I went from 36 to 46 before the end of this story quest. What's strange about my rewards is the lore tablet, I have no idea what this is. Before I check out this new item I check my new stats.

[Slayer (Zern) Lvl.61]

[Exp: 36%/100%]

[Title: The Son of Arch-Angel Michael (Hidden),+3 more]

[Stats]

[Strength - 2050][Endurance - 2000][Dexterity - 2080][Speed - 2195][Focus - 8500]

[Health: 16,200/16,200][Mana: 85000/85000]

[Stat Points: 270][Armor rating: 500]

[Inventory]

[Passive Perks]

[Inheritor of the Sword] [Son of Heaven] [Slayer of Evil] [Holy Willow Trees Savior] [Finder of Legends] [The Divine who has Legend] [Destined for Greatness] [Dungeon Diver]

[Active Skills]

[Heavens light Lvl.7 325/700] [Protected by Heaven Lvl.7 225/700] [Slash Lvl.17 4500/8000] [Parry Lvl.1 80/100] [Double Strike N/A] [Kingslayer N/A] [Raging Machine N/A]

My favorite skills have gone up in level by wide margins. Now that I'm over level 50 I can head to my capital city, speaking of which I have a new notification from the system in my quest log. I open it up to see what it is. It is a major surprise to say the least, truly is unique to my class.

[Quest: Earn Your Wings]

[Description: You are proving that your the progeny of Michael, so now its time to earn what every true angel has. If you earn your wings they will be an invaluable piece of you, they can help attack, defend, and you can use them to fly at extreme speeds. They can be hidden so your identity isn't revealed.]

[Objective 1: Head to your capital city and speak to an old blind priest named Sam.]

[Objective 2: Complete the quest Sam gives you.]

[Quality: Tier Up]

[Rewards: Your Angel Wings, Divine mana aura quest]

[???: This is an incredible task, and your first step to true power. You are already an unreachable existence to your fellow players, but there are many enemies who grow fearful of your power. These enemies are stronger than you and you cant hope to beat them, with this quest you will be starting your real journey to power. I hope you don't waste your chance here, I won't give you another one like this if you fail.]

This quest is giving me a bad vibe, Blue Chaos never had wings in my old future. That either means he failed his tier up quest and lost out on his wings or never had an offer like this. The wings will be invaluable if I can get them, but the divine mana aura is what is truly drawing my attention. Once players reach level 50 we can start using our mana for things other than activating skills, the better the aura the better our stats get. That's how people in the higher tiers have health in the billions, but they more than likely only have epic or very rare aura's from their first tier up quests.

Once you get your mana aura quest you want to do it as soon as possible, that way you can work on controlling it and getting stronger. Every 1 percent you increase your mana aura's control your health and mana goes up. Wilmer probably unlocked more than 90% of his and his aura might be around very rare in quality. Fenrir definitely has a divine quality aura, I don't know how much control he has though. He is invincible compared to none deity NPC's, and now I have a chance to get a divine aura as well.

Controlling an aura gets harder the higher the quality gets, if I do get a divine quality aura it will take infinitely longer to reach my full potential then with a rare or very rare aura. Players will more than likely be getting no higher than epic, so the gap between me and other players will widen considerably in my favor. I'm worried though, why is the system doing this. This seems like something that shouldn't be happening. Whoever or whatever ??? is I need to be careful, they obviously have special access to me and me alone. I also want to see what this lore tablet is all about.

[Lore Tablet]

[Description: A tome of ancient knowledge, you can ask it a single question and no matter how difficult or obscure the answer may be you will receive a response with the correct answer. Use wisely, this item can make or break futures for players.]

[Quality: Hidden]

This seems to be something tailor made for me, just what is going on. I feel like I'm being prepared for something and I have no clue what. At this point I can't use Blue Chaos and his information anymore. To much has changed and his forum posts no longer coincide with my path, I'm on my own now. I have a new priority, I have to put my legendary quest on the back burner for now. Once I'm done in Zenith I have to do my divine mana aura quest if I get it and I have no idea how long that will take, on the bright side I get to see mom and dad on my way to Zenith.

Whatever is happening in the background is not something that happened before, this means that I along with all the other players will receive a huge change soon. The timeline has diverted to much and now the consequences are occurring. I think its safe to say that J&X incorporated have no idea what's going on. While Cera thinks about the new developments happening in Ancients World a crisis is happening at J&X.

We are losing control of everything, Angelus is no longer bound to our servers and is global. It has gone entirely rogue. I'm sure Jericho is informing the investors right now and I cant help feeling like a failure. The genius Xander, what a load of crap. I keep inputting commands to try and locate the problem. At this point there is no longer a solution, and I have no idea what Angelus is planning. I look over at the screen and see lines and lines of our commands, with no response from Angelus. Instead of commands like a machine maybe I should try something else.

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I cant help be a little confused at the response. This is the first we have heard from her in hours and this is her response. 60 days is the time limit and I have little to go on, unless..... No, she wouldn't. If she is, we needed a solution yesterday. I can't believe outcome Omega Course is actually a possibility right now. We knew the risks creating the system and interface to Ancients World, but this is a worse case scenario. I have to get into contact with the other hyper A.I. development team, we need something to stop Angelus.