Chapter 8: Chapter 8 Gem of Eternal Darkness
Outside the Crenoth kingdom border,
"My lord, we are near the border of the Crenoth kingdom. We will arrive there in sunrise."
Rexhell turned to Adrosiean and said respectfully. Adrosiean simply nodded as an answer. He could see a small road that leads to the border gate of the Crenoth kingdom.
"Umm?"
Adrosiean suddenly saw Rexhell's strange expression. He seemed to be wanting to tell him something but looked cautious.
"Do you have anything to say to me? If then hurry up and speak up."
Adrosiean turned to Rexhell asked in puzzlement.
"Please forgive my insolent my lord but how are you going do with... I mean... your appearance...?"
Rexhell carefully asked with a low voice. He had heard that demons take pride in their appearances. Their bodies and appearances are like their own symbol just like their names.
Rexhell was not sure it was real or not. However he did not dare to accidentally offend a demon lord with his words. He was extremely cautious while talking about Adeosiean's appearance.
Adrosiean look down at his body. He was currently in his demon form. A two and a half meters tall demon lord with a pair of horns and large wings on his back. It was certain that could not get into the human kingdom with this appearance.
"Oh right. How could I forget about this. But this is not a problem."
Adrosiean took out a masquerade mask from his inventory. He put it on his face. It is not a full mask but only covered his upper face.
This mask is a legendary grade item, the Mask of Deception. This is not a main item but a side item outside of the category of the eight equipments.
The side items do not provide any status and buff for the players unlike the eight main equipment items. They are only used for their own skills or effects.
Furthermore, activating the side items also require mana just like some main items. For the mask of deception, it drains the user's mana continuously when using it.
But it was nothing for Adrosiean who has a large mana pool and a high mana regeneration bonus from his two mythical grade items and legendary grade items.
Adrosiean thought of an appearance in his mind and willed. Eerie darkness came out of the masquerade mask and engulfed his whole demonic body.
Under the twisting darkness, Adrosiean's frame became smaller and smaller until it reaches the height and size of a normal human. After the transformation, the darkness retracted back into the masquerade mask.
With a thought from Adrosiean, the masquerade mask faded and disappeared. He had concealed the mask.
Adrosiean's appearance was now completely different. His figure resembled that of a young man in his twenties. His features youthful and innocent. His body was fair and weak.
Adrosiean looked down at his reflection from the nearby small pond.
"The effects are better than I thought. This appearance is exactly the same as my pervious life."
He willed. His legendary grade equipment, the primordial black dragon scale armor covered his entire body.
The clothes did not appeared when he was transformed. It was not ideal to stay naked in front of his demonic followers. The item only transformed his body. It cannot conjure clothes out of nowhere.
"But this frail appearance won't be a good thing. It look too soft and weak. This is not accordance with my powerful image. I should change into another appearance."
Adrosiean thought. He was now a demon lord. He cannot look pale and fragile. The appearance and charisma matters when it comes to commanding other people especially these demonic fanatics.
In the game, there are a lot of concealment skills and items. Appearance changing was not difficult for high level players.
Depending on the level or type of the skills or items, a player can change into other NPCs appearances. Some high level skills and items even allowed custom appearances.
As a legendary grade item, Adrodiean's masquerade mask also allowed custom appearances.
But most player rarely used these things. In the game, their characters are already custom made appearances to begin with.
Additionally, there are many ways of detections and unless the disguise was a high level, it would be useless.
Thus, changing appearances to trick other players were not very useful in the game. Those were cheap tricks that only works on low level players.
Most players only used these skills and items against NPCs. Even then, it only worked on low level NPCs. It was impossible to trick high level bosses.
Adrosiean thought of another appearance to change. His mind thought of an appearance. However before he activated the mask of deception and changed, Adrosiean suddenly got a feeling of a presence that secretly watching him.
Adrosiean eyes opened and looked around. This presence is not from Rexhell and the demonic cult members but from another source. Adrosiean suddenly looked up.
On one of the trees, he saw a bird sitting on a tree branch, looking at him. Adrosiean concentrated his eyes.
"A raven?"
He murmured. Adrosiean immediately activated several detection skills. Countless detection skills shot towards the raven, instantly scanning it. Adrosiean found several magic enchantments on the raven's body.
"Scouting using animal's vision? Interesting."
Adrosiean grinned with interest. In the game, it is a rare skill that only some of the races have.
Although it is not a powerful skill, it was quite useful. Adrosiean did not hesitate and immediately activated his skill.
An eerie darkness suddenly flew out of the dark gem on his chest and swallowed the raven whole.
This dark gem is Adrosiean's another mythical item called 'Gem of Andakaya' or simply 'Gem of Eternal Darkness'. It was embedded in the middle of his chest.
In fact, gem of eternal darkness was the first mythical item that Adrosiean obtained even before he got the crown of Aryumaya.
The crown of Aryumaya is originally not Adrosiean's. It was found by another player named Neraras.
Neraras was one of the top players in Rise of the Worlds. He was Adrosiean's best friend as well as a rival from another guild. Neraras was the original owner of the crown of Aryumaya.
When Adrosiean found and acquired his second mythical item, the dualist type, it was not compatible with his control type mythical item, the gem of eternal darkness.
By that time, Adrosiean was already accustomed of using the gem of eternal darkness. He prefered the gem of eternal darkness over the dualist type mythical item.
Thus, Adrosiean decided to exchange the dualist type mythical item with another mythical item that more compatible with his gem of eternal darkness.
After considerations, Adrosiean had exchanged the dualist type mythical item with the crown of Aryumaya from Neraras which more compatible with his gem of eternal darkness.
Adrosiean's best friend, Neraras is formerly a rank four player with the crown of Aryumaya.
But after he got the dualist mythical item from Adrosiean, he quickly rose to rank two in solo and only below Adrosiean who has two unique items in his possession.
Of cause, the threat of Neraras was only powerful in solo but in team battles, he strength was quite low. Dualists are extremely powerful in solo battles but weak in normal team fights.
In solo fights, Adrosiean had been almost defeated by Neraras many times in the past. Neraras was a very skilled player. Although his skills were slightly lower than Adrosiean, it was not much.
Even with the overwhelming power of two mythical items, Neraras with a dualist unique item is a very powerful opponent for Adrosiean in solo battles.
At the same time, somewhere near in the forest, a beautiful black dressed sorceress collapsed to the ground and coughed a mouthful of blood. Her eyes widen in shock and fear. She is none other than the black raven sorceress.
She had been observing and watching Adrosiean through her familiar raven's vision. It had not been long. However, her raven was discovered in a short time and suddenly got swallowed by a terrifying darkness.
The black raven sorceress had met many powerful descenders who could detect and see through her ability. In worst case scenarios, her familiar raven would get killed.
But even then, it never affected too much to her and there is no way to suffer a backlash by just losing a familiar.
However, she somehow received a lot of internal injuries. She had no idea how it was possible. She had never met someone who could damage her directly like this.
When her raven got swallowed by the strange darkness, she sensed a terrifying presence of a monster looking at her through her connection with the raven. The pressure is extremely intense and she felt like a mere ant looked down by a terrifying demonic god.
"Black raven, what happened? Are you alright?"
The beastmaster beside her helped her stood up. He was surprised and puzzled when the black raven sorceress suddenly coughed blood and collapsed.
"A demon god? Impossible! No! We have to run! Hurry!"
The black raven sorceress's face was extremely pale and her eyes were filled with pure horror. Before her raven got killed, she sensed that the other party gazed back at her.
She had no idea how it was possible but her senses tell her that her location was exposed.
She didn't care about the puzzled expression of the beastmaster and immediately used a teleportation scroll that was given by the leader. It is a valuable item but she hasld no choice but to use it to save their lives.
A teleportation circle appeared beneath the two of them. With a flash of light, they disappeared from the spot.
At this moment, a silhouette dropped down from the sky like a meteorite onto their previous location. With a loud explosion, a giant crater was formed from the impact.
Adrosiean's figure walked out of the smoke with expressionless face. His dragonic wings spreading were wide. He flew up from the giant crater and retracted his wings.
"Hmm. Interesting. They ran away really fast. How decisive of them."
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