NOVEL NEXT Chapter 174: Chapter 174
"The Key to the Treasury of the King? Gate of Babylon?"
"The essence of that power, yes. The Gate of Babylon is a Noble Phantasm that contains all the world's treasures. This thing? It is a real treasury with the same function as the Gate of Babylon but will not contain all the world's treasures. It will contain the treasure of Gilgamesh but nothing else. Even then, it will be a lot of treasure."
Will there be EA in there?
"Nope. There will be no EA in there. Unlike its servant-self, EA is destroyed when it creates a line between humans and gods."
"How do you know I want to ask that?"
"Your face. You still need to hide your desire, Ryan. I will teach you later."
"Right. Even without all of the treasure, I still get a lot of it in this exchange."
I look at Altrouge and say.
"Let's do this."
She claps happily and looks at Zelretch, who gave me the contract. I sign the contract and watch it dissolve. I can feel something in my body. It is temporary, and as Altrouge creates a small cut on my finger, she controls my blood to leave my body. She takes out a bottle and fills it with my blood. I can feel my body weaken, but it is not by a lot as my heart pumps more blood into it. Dragon Heart is not a joke.
After a few seconds, she is done and happily hugs the blood in her hands. After a few seconds of jumping around, she takes out a golden object that looks vaguely like a key and gives it to me.
"Here you go. Grandpa will know how to use it and show you how to make the treasury bond with your soul. Also! Gaia wants you to replace that place as a sanctuary for it."
"What do you mean?"
"Eh, it means you need to do whatever you are doing here in that place but ten times of it if you can."
She then frowns after saying those words.
"What?"
"Nothing. It is weird to feel Gaia worried someone can die because of her request. Usually, Gaia does not care about any life other than its own."
Zelretch nods his head in understanding and says.
"Yeah. Usually, Gaia is my enemy as it tries to kill humanity every chance it gets, but now? It wants someone to survive instead of dying. Anyway! With this done, do you want to go to retrieve the Treasury, Ryan?"
"Sure. I need any help I can get to prepare for the incoming threat back to my world."
Altrouge looks at me and says,
"What kind of threat is that? You are already powerful. Powerful enough to be a powerhouse of this world. What kind of monster makes you desperate for power, boy?"
"Alien Gods, Alien Mechanical Gods, and 666 Beast. Pick your poisons."
She looks at me, searching for any lie; when she does not find any, she says.
"What kind of Death World is your world?"
"World where God is dead. Yes, the Father of Angels. A world where a bunch of devils wants to release the seal Big G created to seal the 666 Beast and see it wreak havoc on the world. Lucky for me, the first two can be prevented, but the last one… I need to beat the Son of Lucifer and his minions to prevent them from destroying the seal. What makes matters worse is that we have evidence they gain help from Gods from several Pantheon."
"That is why you ask for that weapon."
"Yeah. EA is a perfect weapon against those Gods. I might be a Dragon Slayer, but Gods are a different matter."
She nods and says.
"Good luck with that. When you need help, come to me. I will help you in battle once. I promise you this."
Her body glows, and I widen my eyes. She ignores me and calls Primate Murder before leaving us alone.
"You get yourself a powerful ally, Ryan. I don't know how powerful other Gods other than Indra are, but she can fight him head-on for a few days before she loses energy because she is away from this world."
"Is she that powerful?"
"Oh, you have no idea. I might rank third because of my experience, magecraft, and Magic, but her? She has pure conceptual abilities. I am dangerous because of my Magic and my preparation before fighting. Altrouge, on the other hand, is someone who fights head-on, and she can reach 9th rank."
Yeah. She is powerful, a God-tier-level kind of powerful.
"Right! Let's go and retrieve the treasury! I can already feel Gaia grumbling. That bitch acts as if she is the one giving you the key instead of one of her minions."
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I look at the massive pillar made of pure gold in awe.
"Where the hell are we?"
"We are several hundred kilometers away from Baghdad and a couple kilometers deep underground. This is where Gilgamesh buried his treasures."
"But why build this place with gold instead of a stronger component?"
"Hah! Even with his new wisdom, he wants nothing other than the best. So he built this entire thing with gold and made sure the structure would not crumble using magic that would last for millions of years as long as the planet was still releasing mana. In fact, if you do what you are doing, this place will be even stronger. Now, I understand the reason why Gaia wants to create this as a sanctuary. She doesn't want humans to get her mana; this place is perfect because mana will not leak out of this temple."
"Right. Where do we need to go?"
"Just go to that platform and jab the key into the stone table at the end of it."
I follow Zelretch's instructions and jab the key into the stone table. Instead of destroying the stone tablet, a golden keyhole appeared, and I could hear grinding sounds from behind the massive table stone. A second later, a golden portal appeared, and I could see a massive mountain of gold on the other side of the portal.
"Welcome to the treasury. Sadly, it is in its stationery mode, and you need to do one more thing before you can take this pocket dimension with you."
"This is a pocket dimension, right? Then what with the grinding noise?"
"Ah, that is the defense mechanism deactivating. If you don't have the key and stand on the altar for too long, it will activate, and you will be dead."
"Right."
We walk through the portal, and I can see many weapons I don't know about. However, my eyes land on the two massive swords at the end of the room to the right. They release a lot of power just from a glance.
"Ig-Alima and Sul-Sagana. There are a few weapons that I know."
"Yeah. Some might not be as powerful as Noble Phantasm, but a few are even more powerful because they are weapons crafted by gods or by humans from the Age of Gods. Anyway, do you see that cracked stone tablet? Drop a blood to it."
I nod and do what he says. A second later, the tablet shines, and I can see it turn into a golden light before entering my body.
"Congratulations, you have the Gate of Babylon."
I nod in happiness, and I can hear the two dragons inside of me, happy with all the gold they can roll around with. Dragon will always be a dragon.