Chapter 33 - I Have My Means

"Boys smash all those piles of stones and beat up that old cot"

he looked at the skeletons as he said,

"Boy, let's discuss this, why resort to brawl when we can use brain"

The haughty and arrogant Sage was long gone seeing the undead army and now he was looking for a small hope to save himself from this demon,

"Ohh..! you are finally talking like a sage"

Shiva chuckled seeing this change in the old man,

"so tell me what can you give me to spare your life"

Shiva looked at the old sage with expectations,

The old man was dumbfounded by his demand, It was already 500 years since he was confined here, all his possessions would have been either destroyed or claimed by someone already, at this point he really had nothing to give him,

"....."

"Now don't tell me you have nothing? skellies get ready"

Shiva said seeing the old man, The old man was scared shitless by the undead as he hurriedly replied,

"I do have something, It's an Epic ranked quest"

A quest window popped in front of Shiva,

[ Quest of an Old Sage

Rank:- Epic

description:- The old man who was once a sage was now confined in the tower of ruins becoming nothing more than an old cot, He wishes that you could free him from this confinement.

completion condition: free the old sage from the confinement of the Tower

Reward: Eye of the old sage]

Shiva looked at the quest delighted,

"Oh! you have an epic ranked quest, but then why is the reward your eye??"

"Kid, Do you think the eye of the Sage is something you can easily get, forget about large guilds, even high rankers would lick my boots for the eye of the sage"

"with the eye of the sage, you can discern about anything you want, you will know about anything as long as you see them"

"Ohh!"

Shiva was shocked to hear about the eye of sage from him, as a saying goes "If you know your enemy, you already won half the battle" what's better than to know about the enemy you are fighting, just imagining all the things you could do with the skill was riling him up"

"Then all I have to do is bring you out of the corridor, right!?"

"Kid, do you think the Epic rank quest will be that easy, you will not even be able to take a single living thing away from the corridor, even if you want to do that, your power is too weak, You can come back after climbing 70-80 floors or maybe considering your potential, maybe at 60th floor come back looking for me"

"What!! I don't have that much time"

he was thinking about other methods He thought about 'Rise from the dead' but he had already used all his four slots so that was not possible, as he was thinking a Crazy thought appeared in his mind, A smile appeared on his face as he asked,

"It will be fine as long as I bring you right? does the condition of your body matter"

A chill was sent on the old man's spine seeing him,

"Boy! don't do anything Crazy, to complete the quest my soul has to be present outside, if you are thinking of killing me and taking my body out then just forget it"

The smile grew on his face as he said to the old man'

"Kuke, That's exactly what I wanted to hear"

"Boy, don't do something stupid, you can always come back again"

"That will be too much of a hassle, besides I have my means so don't worry"

The old man was seriously doubting whether to believe him or not when Shiva said,

"Kapali, Kill him"

"What!! boy leiste..."

The old man was surprised by his sudden order and tried to persuade him but was interrupted by him,

"Don't worry like I said I have my means"

Kapali's sword descended down his neck as Shiva finished his words,

He inwardly cursed as his last words,

'Fu** you'

*****

The old man appeared somewhere which looked like a black river, there wasn't even a single being around, he thought looking at the black river flowing,

"Seems like it is the river of reincarnation"

"damn that boy, Fu** him, fuc* his family, How dare he kill this old sage"

he was letting out a series of curses to Shiva, when he heard a voice,

"Hey old cot, If you are here answer me, hey old cot"

It was him, his nemesis, his enemy, it was Shiva,

"Hey boy, what the hell did you do to me, where the hell am I?"

He asked angrily,

"I dunno! this is the first time I am using this skill so I too don't know anything"

"Whaaaattt! you bas****d"

******

coming back to when Shiva ordered Kapali to kill Old sage,

The Skeleton army completely devastated the stone pil.....ahem! stone summons,

After the old man died, Shiva came near his body as he stretched out his hand,

"Soul reap"

A white ghostly hand materialized in front of him digging right into the old man but there was no physical impact, but after a minute or so it came out while holding a white ball,

With that few messages appeared,

[You have successfully reaped the soul of 'Lindos', the one-eyed sage]

[You have acquired a passive skill 'Soul storage']

[The soul of the person will be stored in soul storage]

[You have acquired the title 'Soul Reaper']

[you have completed the quest ' Quest of an Old Sage']

[ Quest of an Old Sage

Rank:- Epic

description:- The old man who was once a sage was now confined in the tower of ruins becoming nothing more than an old cot, He wishes that you could free him from this confinement.

completion condition: free the old sage from the confinement of the Tower

Reward: Eye of the old sage]

[You have acquired ' The eye of a Sage']

"It seems it worked..."

Shiva smiled seeing the last notification.

*****