Chapter 53：The Truth Revealed

Numerous system messages has appeared on the duo's screen indicating that they finished a group of monsters.

[Sirius has leveled up]

[Kanlaon has leveled up]

[Saena has leveled up]

[Saena has leveled up]

[Saena has leveled up]

[Kanlaon has leveled up]

[Saena has leveled up]

[Player Equinox has leveled up]

[Player Equinox has leveled up]

[Player Levin Cloud has picked up cursed bark x2]

[Player Equinox has picked up 8 bronze coins.]

Saena is now level 14, Sirius level 18 and Kanlaon level 17. Adrian is now level 21 and is happy that experience is still fast growing. Adrian also noticed that different creatures have different experience gauges. It seems that when creatures evolve or are a higher tier, they need more experience that normal monsters. Saena has low experience gauge probably because it was still a magpie despite being of mythical descent. Adrian now understands why some summoners prefer prioritizing one or two monsters first before others. Luckily, Adrian has no problem with grinding experience since he knows that there are downsides of having multiple monsters at your disposal.

Adrian and Marlon took a long time dealing with the remaining cursed treants that they have been battling. Due to the five hour battle, both Adrian and Marlon are fatigued and their stamina depleted. Even Sirius and Kanlaon were visibly tired despite their high stats. Adrian and Marlon also depleted their mana which made them a bit light headed. When a player bottoms out their mana, they would experience a status called mana deficiency which would trigger light headed status which is a far cry from the way NPC's of the game experience it. For NPC's mana deficiency would not only give them a splitting headache but they would have blood coming out of their orifices which is one of the reasons some kingdoms do not like players because of them being favored by the gods because players never truly die while they could.

They are resting so that their stamina would fill up naturally and even eating the hard bread and jerky to further hasten the process. Marlon then asked the stuff that he has learned from his friend.

" So aren't you gonna tell me on how you got your soulbounds. I mean one is actually a DRAGON. D-R-A-G-O-N. You are like the only one I know who has a pure blood dragon while only a handful of top players could only get low-class ones. Tell me, is Kanlaon like the patrons of the dragonkin? You know the ancestors of the dragonkin the colored dragons. What is his species? and Sirius, what is he? Sirius does not look like the normal wolf species. How did you change their sizes? Can you change your size as well? Also, I had an odd alert when I saved you from that cursed treant." Marlon asked excitedly.

" Ok...Ok...One at a time, please. First, Sirius is a Demon Wolf. Kanlaon is a Fire Dragon and is not like the ancestor of the dragonkin which are colored dragons according to the official backstory posted on the forums. They could change sizes because of a spell that I cast on them. It would be quite a hassle dealing with people since they are both eye catching. I happened to chance upon Kanlaon in a dungeon I went to. I did not know it was a dragon egg because I got the egg from a red salamander dungeon." Adrian said continously which made him out of breath.

" What was the alert that you got? Why was it strange?" Adrian asked.

" It was strange because it told me that you are like a favored child of Gaea or something and I even got devotion stat just from healing you from mortal danger. I mean aren't we all. That was the backstory of us players. Its not like you are like the chosen one or something." Marlon said amusingly.

" I think I know why the prompt was like that." said Adrian while he was deliberating to himself if he should tell the truth.

" Tell me then." Marlon said as he was very curious.

"I think it is better to show you rather than tell you" Adrian said while undoing the effect of the Glamour spell. The spell effect wore of from head to toe and revealed his half white hair, horns and his skin tone.

When the spell effect wore off, Marlon was so shocked he took a deep breath before attempting to speak.

" Dude! You're a demon. Awesome. How did you become one. Why are other players unable to pick your race then unlike what happened to the dragonkin?" Marlon fired off questions one after the other overwhelming Adrian.

Adrian calmed down his armallite question firing best friend before telling him how he got to his position. Marlon was so engrossed in the story that he became somewhat jealous which Adrian noticed and told him that if he finds an item to change race then Marlon would be the first to know about it.

" So, you are an Imp species from the Daemos race. Your race are considered as demons and are different from devils but all the church aligned with 'good' treats you like an evil being which means that the top officials of the churches do not know of this." Marlon stated.

" I think that they know the truth but are deliberately not saying anything. Devils are actually aligned with evil because of their race compulsions of trickery and generating chaos using devilish schemes." Adrian said with a grave smile.

" Oh! the prompt said twin gods but from the Church of Life's doctrine, Gaea does not have a twin." Marlon stated again.

This simple fact actually made Adrian dumbfounded because this was one of the first piece of true history that he acquired when he was just beginning. From what Marlon stated, it means that the world is unaware of the God of Death, Abbadon or more specifically chose to bury his faith.

Adrian then recounted the history of the gods that he knows to Marlon and even though it was boring his best friend thought it was really interesting because it means that even upright organizations bury truth when it does not align with them.

" They probably hid it because people might become scared at the notion of worshiping the God of Death. Even I did not know they buried that information because Priest player are secretive of their doctrine so that other players would not know of their secrets." Adrian stated like it was an undeniable pact.

A few moments later after Marlon heard the story, a system prompt appeared in his interface and he heard a voice.

[You have learned of the dark secret of the Church of Life. Be careful not to alert the Pope of the truth that has been spoken to you. The Goddess of Life, Gaea, has seen your plight and wanted to talk to you.]

[ My child, the true friend of our champion. Now that you have learned of the secret that my wayward children has kept hidden, you would be in danger if they learn of this. Which is why my brother and I have decided to send you to a mission to uncover the forgotten truth.]

[You have heard the voice of the Goddess of Life, Gaea. Devotion Stat +100]

The voice of the goddess was so nice to hear that it felt like your own caring mother was singing you a lullaby to put all your doubts and worries away. After a few seconds, a quest notification appeared on Marlon's quest log.

●Quest Notification●

Uncover the Truth I(Link Quest)

The Church of Life has concealed the records of history containing the creation of the world. Retrieve these records and make sure that the higher ups of the church do not know of your identity.

Clear Condition: Find records of the Real history of the world without being suspected.

Reward: Random Epic Skillbook(Priest Class)

Failure: Excommunicated by the Churches aligned with 'Good'

Final Link Quest Reward: Unique Job Class 'Envoy of the Twin Gods'.

Time Limit: None

Marlon rubbed his eyes in disbelief because he did not expect a quest to pop up. Even hearing the Goddess herself was shocking because only the Pope could hear the Goddess' voice according to the higher ups of the church. But he heard it himself and he got 100 Devotion stats just from hearing it. While Marlon was doing theatrics, Adrian became confused of his best friend's actions. Adrian did not know what Marlon was doing so he waked him from his stupor.

" Are you okay?" Adrian said with a worried expression.

Marlon snapped out of his stupor and immediately hugged Adrian and stated that Adrian was his lucky star. Adrian then separated himself from Marlon and calmed him down and told him to explain the situation which Marlon happily agreed. A few moments later even Adrian's eyes were bulging because of the revelation. Adrian did not expect that he would generate a quest just by telling him about the true history of the birth of the world and the gods.

" This means that if I had chosen a Priest, I might have gotten the the unique job class 'Envoy of the Twin Gods' but it does not bother me. I already chosen Summoner because I want to enjoy the game first before succeeding in it." Adrian thought.

Adrian's speculation was correct. If he had been a priest he would have gotten the unique job class.but he also did not support that theory because he became a Daemos because of Sirius. It was Sirius that triggered the event for him in the town of Genesis. The reward equivalent to the unique job class that Adrian got was probably the Asmodian Prowess passive skill that erased the serious grind for experience for summoners. What Adrian did not know was that there were different triggers in order to get the Amulet of Chaos. Players were just too excited to exit the town of Genesis to be bothered to notice. There was a trigger for each job class but alas ignorance bliss.

" Let's just focus on the dungeon. We will talk about this topic later." Adrian said as he beckoned Marlon to venture forth the dungeon and continue their quest.