Chapter 164: The Ancient Book

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{Dionysus's Book}

Ancient Book.

-A mythical book that will lead you to Dionysus Origin.

*Effect : Unknown. (There will be some surprise if you can successfully read it)

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[So, is this the thing that you told me with something amazing?]

Not far from the shore part of the Big Lake inside of the Oasis, I was looking at something like an ancient book, designed the same as the fantasy-like grimoire that could be found on the fantasy movie on my hand.

After opened it, I only found a dirty scribble-like scripture and failed to grasp what was exactly written within it.

In front of me, aside from Alexa who looking at the book at my hand with an intrigued face, Anna, Anni, looking at me with excited eyes.

[The book that's in your hand is not an ordinary book! That is part of the inheritance Item! Did you know what an Inheritance Item is?! This is a mythical item that can turn a mortal into a demigod after completely collected it and understanding it!]

Anna suddenly explained the true identity of the Ancient book on my hand.

Hearing her excited word, Alexa who was next to me also shocked, seemingly flabbergasted after hearing a ridiculous thing that coming out of Anna's mouth.

[Inheritance?.... I feel like hearing this word somewhere….

Leaving that aside, isn't this item is too out of this world?! Changing a normal mortal to a Demigod, isn't this considered as the God domain?!

…..

But speaking of Demigod, in the first place, are they even exist in this continent?]

At first, the word inheritance slightly intrigued me and made me recall something, but after hearing the word Demigod, I can't keep myself calm anymore! As the existence of them was that mystical!

Maybe, if I help my woman to get the inheritance, they also can be immortal likeme without needing the help of Goddess Gaia.

[Demigod, …. That is…

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Alex, I didn't know if telling this stuff to you is a good thing or not, but considering your power which was gradually increasing day by day, maybe knowing some hidden information about them is not a loss]

Anna replied to me hesitatingly.

When I looked at Alexa, she was also making a curious face after hearing Anna who was firmed herself to explain the existence called demigod to me.

[Demigod, if you consider who was the true powerhouse in this world, maybe including their existence are the most fitting to be one of few who held a great strength in this world, alongside with the Immortal race.

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Most of them are the leader of the Ancient race that decided to hide their race and living in solitude, ignoring the state of the mortal world here... but in some of the history there are a few cases where a lucky person can get an inheritance in the Ancient dungeon and changing to be one themselves] *Anna

[Basically, most of Demigod is a hidden powerhouse, which was just their existence itself could greatly change all the state on the mortal world?

...

And you said something about a few lucky people that change into Demigod, do you have some example from famous people in this western continent?] *Me

[It's something like that.

As for the example of those lucky person, maybe you know about the Vampire and the Lycan who rule the Arshlan Dukedom?

I heard from my father's story that their ancestor once the few lucky people who successfully get this type of inheritance in the dungeon and completed the requirement to became Demigod Powerhouse.

....] *Anna

[Hmm... interesting, I wonder why they decided to live in solitude though... Their behaviors are quite strange considering they held an enormous strength] *Me

[About that...

I don't know for sure why they decided to hide in this era, but I once read about some old scripture when I was still living inside my family house. That old scripture seems written something about the Century Oath that making them suddenly decided to live in solitude until this day.

…

Of course, I'm not completely sure about this myself since I never meet one of them to confirm what written on the old scripture is the truth] *Anna

[Century Oath is it?…..] *Me

[....] *Anni

[So, there's a hidden power above the Grandmaster in this western continent? This is the first time I hear it... maybe there're some on the continent I live before, but my horizon was not wide enough to know about their existence...] *Alexa

[Huh? Alexa, did you come from somewhere outside the western continent?] *Anna

[Ah, I came from the southern continent before stranded here…] *Alexa

[That's quite amazing! I hear it somewhere, that a mortal outside the continent will get their strength level measured and forcibly changed into a status system of the western continent!

Did you experience the same thing like them?] *Anna

[Sort of..

I didn't know when, but when I go to the adventurer guild to register in the past, there's already a thing called status that changes my power level into a numerical value and something called a job that fitting on my fighting style.

Recalling the first time I experience it, at that time I was amazed that such a thing is possible.

At the same time, realizing that I just an ordinary person that has nothing special is quite saddened me too] *Alexa

[…..

I'm sorry…

….

To be honest, even though I was born with something special, but sometimes I also think this System thing is quite ominous somehow.

deciding someone's fate so casually like that... is quite a bit…

I heard a lot of case that some noble daughter or son who gets their status appraised and showed that has no specific valuable skill or talent in it will be abandoned by the head of the family, and cast out by their family member…] *Anna

[Yeah, the western continent people sure have their own problem…] *Alexa

….

Hearing Anna and Alexa who already started to have their own conversation, I realized that people in this world have their own power measurement method depending on where they live.

Even though I'm quite intrigued about the topic the two of them talked about, but somehow I can't stop thinking about the Century Oath thing that Anna told me before.

For some reason, I couldn't help myself to recall Fenrir's words when I met him inside of my soul in a recent time.

That Wolf once told me, that the world here was already on the brink of collapse.

When I hear the Century Oath which was somehow manage the powerful existence called demigod to life in solitude, linking it with my own experience when I first met Gaia, which she asked me to not unbridledly using my strength at that time, I ruled out the possibility of this stuff not connecting into each other.

There must be something that was connecting between the two.

It seems, there's something aside from creating a system to maintain the Western continent and Northern continent, which the people in that both areas heavily depend on utilizing magic power as their source of combat style.

Maybe, for whatever reason, the existence of the demigod itself already gradually destroying the balance here…

But, after thinking about it until here, I couldn't help myself to feel something is missing…

….

In the end, I can't recall anything and decided to stop thinking about this stuff on my own.

Since my knowledge about this world is very limited in the first place, trying to speculate it by myself will not bring me anywhere.

So it's better to stop here…

.....

[Still, Anna, how you get this mysterious ancient book anyway?] *me

I asked Anna who already stopped her conversation with Alexa.

Somehow, after appraised the book once again, I couldn't help that start thinking that this place is connecting with the God Of Wine Dionysus.

Thus, maybe after asking what mean that made her get this book, I can find more clue about this in the same way.

[Ahh, I get it from fishing in this lake! Before that, Let me tell you something, this item, I believe that this is an Ultra rare item! So, please give up if you trying to find something on the same scale and value with this book!] *Anna

After giving her answer, I saw Anna began to make a smug face.

Looking at this, I couldn't help myself to be amused.

After all, when I recalled the first time I met her, she gave me a vibe of a virtuous mature woman.

So, seeing the childish side of her like this is quite amusing to me.

Leaving that aside, the thing about getting this item by fishing is what takes my interest the most.

When I saw Alexa who was next to me, she makes a normal expression and just looking at the book in my hand with interest.

'Hey! Isn't the thing about getting a rare item by fishing sound out of place somehow? Why you act normally like that?! Please react with something!'

This thought suddenly appeared inside my head after seeing her plain reaction even after hearing Anna's ridiculous words.

It seems the one who feels that there's something wrong with the logic here was only me.

Anyway, since I was also quite curious, I decided to try it myself.

Giving back the book to Anna, I began to walk closer toward the Lake's shore.

Looking at me who was suddenly head toward the shore, the three ladies observed my action with an amused expression.

'What was with that face? Humph! You guys seem to underestimate me too much! Let me show you something good for you all!

Fishing?! Don't be ridiculous! With my power, controlling the lake here and gathering all the inside of it is….. easy… pea- eh?! What the heck happened!'

Just as I want to smugly show off my elementals manipulation skill, all of a sudden, I feel like something is wrong when I just enter the shore area of the Lake here.

For an unknown reason, when I try to control the water in this lake with my magic power and skill, I failed miserably!

Not only that but when I just enter the shore area of the lake, I feel like entering a new world, and feel that all my active skill that was inside my body being robbed from me, making me into a normal human, just like what I used to be I my previous world.

[You enter the non-combat special Area….]

[All your skills temporarily unusable]

[Welcome to the Dungeon Special Area!]

[There is a special rule in this special area when you follow this rule you can get something Rare~Ultra rare(Low probability) out of it!]

[The rule is: please use a fishing rod item to fish something in this Lake (Only fishing rod listed with Item in the appraisal is counted)]

[There's a lot of things that you can get from this lake, what are you waiting for! Grab your fishing rod, and start fishing! Test your luck to get a special item that only can be found here!]

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[Caution* spending your time fishing too much will make your dungeon exploration progress to be stuck

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Dear challenger, please spend your time wisely]

Before I could finish digesting the sudden loss of my ability to use my skills, these rows of notifications suddenly appeared inside my head and made my mind blank for a while.

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[W-what the heck is this!!!]