Chapter 168: Going Inside the Choice Room
"No way!" James suddenly said, smiling as he saw what was on the card he had received from his achievement.
[Jade Extract(Unique++++)
This extract is one of the few ingredients that users or players have used since creation to improve their body endurance. While its value and quality are less than other materials, it is much rarer than other enhancement materials.
When used and meditated upon, it will provide the user or player with 50 endurance stat points].
James smiled and realised that he had acquired a pretty good item, he was really happy, after all, what maniac wouldn't want to improve his body even more?
With that James checked the room he was in from top to bottom, he could see traces of mana but it seemed to be scattered all over the wall.
When he carefully tried to feel the mana itself, he realised that it was coming from the bookcase to his right.
As he approached the bookcase, he smiled and then said, "Holy shit, it's a movie cliche." As he pulled one of the books from the bookshelf, rattling sounds, or rather the sound of a wheel turning, began to emanate from the wall to his left.
When James looked at the wall, he said "Wicked." and started to descend the stairs down the opened wall.
When he descended the stairs, he saw an unexpected sight. The statues were around, James knew they were not Weeping Angels, but he still watched them without blinking, or rather, without blinking.
James saw statues of angels all around him.
The first statue he saw was of a radiant angel, full of life, smiling and showing his strength. The second statue showed this angel looking weakened and his face was stoic. The third statue showed the angel's neck bent downwards and tears streaming down his face. The fourth sculpture...that sculpture made James feel overwhelmed.
"Angels decomposed like this? They're not zombies, are they?" James said, his eyes tearing up as he looked at the state of the angel statue, the sight was truly wrenching.
The fourth statue was on its knees, the feathers on its snow-white wings beginning to fall to the ground, pointing to the huge heart on its chest where the heart should have been, and an expression of devastation.
James didn't know who or whoever had made this statue, but his heart was broken. Only four sculptures gave it all away.
In the fourth statue, the angel's body had begun to decompose a little, and the rejection of life in his gaze seemed to tell how terrible things had been. Find more at m-vle-mp _yr.
[Both angels and demons decompose in the same way, James, as a huge event in their lives affects them in this way. It's not like the rebellion of Lucifer and the others, it doesn't show betrayal, it shows angels or demons rotting and losing their minds. Almost every one of them were mighty warriors, almost every one of the corrupt ones].
James had decided to move on when he read this message from Gabriel, he really had no idea what he was supposed to say, he had just had the chance to see the rotten angels in the flesh and he already had an idea of what kind of life they had lived.
James wanted to leave the room calmly, he saw the door that was there for him to leave the room and he opened it and left the room.
In front of him, he saw more than a dozen rotten angels and rotten demons.
He activated his dark step ability and chose to give a proper death to the "enemies" in front of him, holding his sword Clarent tightly.
"Rest in peace," James suddenly said and in just five or six seconds the bodies of all the "enemies" fell to the ground, James had a strange feeling even when he thought about what these "enemies" that the catacomb had shown him might have gone through.
Even if James had never recognised them, he realised again that the tower was indeed a cruel place, even for angels and demons.
[Unique Achievement Won!
Kill a rotten demon for the first time!
15,000,000 Gold!]
James couldn't even manage to smile after receiving his achievement and gold reward, and then he left the room.
Every few minutes he would move to another room and each time, even if he was getting used to it, he would kill more and more rotten angels and demons, it was heartbreaking, but there was nothing he could do.
After a short time he realised that he was in a huge chain space, the catacomb he was in seemed to have only just begun to open. It seemed as if there were dozens of them waiting for him outside the room he was in.
James looked around him and saw that the door in front of him was not rotten like the other doors and that it was the jade door he had used to enter the catacomb in the first place. He didn't think he could finish the catacomb so easily.
After he approached the jade door, he pushed the door and saw that the door started to open, even if it was tiny, despite all its weight.
He was literally putting all of his strength into pushing the door, sweat started to flow from his body, and after almost three minutes, he managed to open the door and entered inside.
Immediately after the door closed, he saw that behind the door was one of the halls, just as it had been when he had first entered the catacombs.
He looked around in awe, it didn't take him long to realise what was different from the hall he had been in when he had first entered, his gaze fixed on the perfection around him.
James had an idea of what he was going to say this time, he was smiling, and the brightness in his gaze was reflected in everyone watching him, James was glowing with life, just like the first time he saw Nyx's statue.
"Woah...I didn't see them at the feast, I didn't get to meet them because of the training and the danger, but I believe it was them, after all, that's what that big portrait showed. I choose to believe so."