Infinite Potential System

Chapter 488 Treasures, Xonya

finally? of course i took a long time to kill it, look at that thing! william retorted mentally.

-your companion could have taken care of it for you in a few seconds. even you could have done so if you used your illusion territory. a shame you're an idiot.

hah! william laughed out of contempt but didn't respond to the usual slander. he couldn't use the illusion element.

the system knew his situation as well as he did, but william had to admit that he didn't expect atticus to so easily bypass the sun stone golem's forcefield. he worried that atticus wasn't strong enough, but it seemed he should give the mythical rat snake more freedoms to help out.

there wasn't much time to argue with the system this time, as the room suddenly started to shake. william used the space element to detect fluctuations in the surrounding area, but everything was the same. even on the floors above and below, the shaking continued.

it was the entire dungeon!

-the first-time death of the boss seems to have changed the dungeon. i don't sense any labyrinthian shifts on the first through 20th floors.

that far? what does this mean? william asked.

-the layout of the first 20 floors will no longer change, it seems. above the 20th floor, the situation is unclear.

william thought for a moment and nodded. he could see with the navigation radar that the wall blocking the path to the 15th floor had lowered as well, meaning it wouldn't be long before other students discovered the situation.

i can't believe you'd answer my question for free. wasn't everything supposed to be worth potential points?

-if you spent five minutes analyzing the situation, you probably could have figured it out yourself. too bad you're a lazy hoarder with no common sense.

he looked at the third item in the treasure chest, which was a small stone tablet resembling a gravestone both in shape and color. the tablet's edges were layered with ice, varying from shades of light to dark blue and colder than the arctic.

written on the tablet were only five words, but the letters shifted around so quickly that william couldn't make any sense of the message. in the very center of the tablet was a symbol that showed two hands holding a square plate, which william guessed was instructions on how to read the message.

he leaned forward and reached out, ignoring the biting cold and a harsh wind that nipped at his forearms. his cold resistance worked hard to offset the effects of the tablet, but he still needed to use some fire magic to assist the talent.

the moment william grabbed the tablet, his hand froze over completely, his fingers chipping off half a second later. surprisingly, william felt an unusual tinge of pain that partially bypassed the effects of his mind talent. were his pain resistance not absurdly high, william probably would have doubled over and cried right then and there.

he wrapped both of his hands with torn fabric from the illusionist's cloak, grabbing hold of the tablet and orienting it just as the symbol described. the natural cold of the tablet turned the fabric to ice, but his move seemed to be correct as the moving letters arranged themselves in a specific order and remained perfectly still for a few seconds.

"tѡⱤя ????яяᄂ, ᔕяѡꝒ Ӽშɲʄѡ'ᔕ t????????შɲя"

great! a useless message that i can't even read! william opened a space ring and tossed the stone tablet inside.

he was about to do the same with the treasure chest and the two earth roots, but william's mind suddenly went numb as his eyes forcefully closed and a vision appeared.

an icy mountain reaching hundreds of thousands of kilometers into the sky and poking through clouds equally as tall appeared. william's consciousness appeared at the base of the mountain, but flew up on its own at speeds tens of times greater than he could possibly achieve now.

he flew higher and higher, the air colder and colder with each kilometer. near the peak of the mountain, william's consciousness entered a winding cave that traveled upwards instead of down. he took dozens of turns in quick succession, never hesitating at any of the countless forks and obstacles.

after crossing a seemingly impossible distance, william's consciousness arrived in a massive icy throne room, where a small and frail skeleton sat on a blue throne with rhino-shaped armrests. its eyes glowed an eerie red as it looked directly at william. it opened its mouth, its teeth bones rattling slightly in the process.

"xonya awaits you." experience tales at empire