“We are here now, lads,” Shambala said after looking around.The guild was surprised, wanting to know what Shambala was talking about.“Hahaha, why are the lads looking confused? Oh, I get you lads do not know what I mean by we are here now,” Shambala added."Yes, sensei, where are we? Because I cannot see anything of interest here,” Krystal asked.“Look beyond what you see, lads,” Shambala said, as he wanted them to make out what he was saying.“Did we reach a camping spot?” Grover asked, showing where his mind was. He had always wanted to rest.“Did we reach a good training ground, sensei?” Vladimir inquired.“Or perhaps you stumbled upon something you have been looking for?” Krystal asked.“Quite close, but that is not it,” Shambala retorted.After much thinking, Shambala noticed they were not getting it yet.He then laughed and said that he had found the location of the best type of artifact, and they were there already.“Lads, we have reached the place that has one of the best in
When they got to the artifact, Shambala walked forward and noticed something different.Although he knew that the artifact was good, he was now wondering how their artifacts worked in the crypt when they were not beast-type artifacts. Looking around the body of the artifact, he noticed that the spirit of the artifact was dormant, which was why they could use other artifacts in the crypt. "Lads, we just got ourselves another beast-type artifact. It is a Raven-beast-type artifact, though,” Shambala said.“How then did we use our artifacts, sensei? I thought you said, ” Krystal asked as Shambala cut him short.“I know what I said, and you are right to ask that. The Raven spirit of the artifact is dormant, which is why you lads could use your artifacts in here. I am thinking of a way to get it awake so one of you can bond with it and we can move on to the next,” Shambala added as he dropped the artifact back.“Now we have to find out what can wake the spirit up, and if nothing works, we
Soon Grover found himself in another space; this time in front of him was a huge bird.“Bloody hell, you are the Raven?” Grover asked.The huge bird had red eyes, but they were shot when Grover was pulled in.“You are not going to say anything? So much for a smarty pants like sensei said you would be. Look, big birdy, I do not have all day, okay?” Grover angrily added. “Hahaha, welcome to the Dark Clan,” the Raven replied as it finally opened its eyes.“Who gave this shithole such a name? Too solid for what I am seeing in here, if you ask me,” Grover said.“That is the point; no one asked, and no one will. Why does the universe keep sending fools to die at my talons?” The Raven retorted.“Now you are wrong; no one else out there was able to access this ‘dark clan’ of yours, so I think the universe knows what it is doing,” Grover replied."Oh, really, we will have to find out about that real soon,” the Raven added.“I bet we would,” Grover said with a grin on his face.“I cannot wait t
“No fighting? Can this be the best day of my life? My goodness, conquering an artifact has never been this busy, but I should not underestimate this bird, as it is corny and smart everywhere that spells evil,” Grover thought all these to himself.“You know I can hear your thoughts, right?” Raven asked as it looked at Grover with an evil smirk on its face.“How is that even possible?” Grover inquired in shock.Seeing the shock on Grover’s face, it laughed and said, “You have forgotten that I rule this place and my rules apply here. I told you to pay attention, Grover, the human. You humans are the same; why would you be stubborn in a life-and-death situation? Well, guess you have chosen the path of death then,” Raven added as it looked sternly at Grover.“For the record? My choices are mine to make, and like I said, you will be surprised at the things that I can do in a game,” Grover said.“Indeed, you are not the first until you know the game; I would not brag if I were you,” Raven st
Grover began to change his expression as he compared all four rules in his head. He suddenly burst out, saying the rules were unfair.“Why are the rules so unfair? This should not be this way,” Grover began to complain as he saw no way out of the mess Raven had just created. At first, he thought he could win the big black and corny bird, but that was no longer the feeling he had after summing up the four rules he needed to abide by in order to win and conquer the spirit of the Raven. Now he wished he had to fight the Raven instead of facing it on a board game with his opponent giving the rules.“You are in no position to tell me what to do or what not to do, human! Now we are going to start the game, and there is no turning back. Besides, there is nothing unfair as long as strength is involved; if only you were strong, these complaints of unfairness would not have even come up,” Raven said, as he was already becoming pissed.Grover knew and had to accept that this was a test of his p
Raven became depressed for a month and fifteen days. As the days went by, Raven stopped disturbing itself about what it could not change; it went on to decide that there was nothing on Earth for it anymore.It finally possessed the artifact it remained to date.When it was in the artifact, it felt like someone picked it up, and it contained a spell it knew was meant to absorb people into things, and it was surprised it knew it very well.The person appeared before him and, out of anger, asked what the person wanted to do with his master’s thing and why he was in his master’s house.The person, out of fear, was stammering.“You thief!” Raven thundered angrily as it possessed the thief and made him kill himself, and his soul was struggling to leave the artifact. Raven did what it did not believe it could do; it chanted another spell, and the soul of the intruder became bound to the artifact too and could not leave.Raven did that to a few others. The Council of Artifact Makers took the
Grover had to survey the idea that came to his mind slowly and carefully so he would not make any silly mistakes.The idea he had was that the main challenge was not to play the game but rather to outsmart Raven at its own game, which meant he just had to distract Raven from his initial plan of distracting him and get into his head.After he realized this, he began singing and did not think much about it again.“Are you ignoring me, little human? Why are you not playing?” Raven asked. “Do you want your three hours to run out and you die?” It added.“Relax; I have gotten used to the rules. Let us play now,” Grover said as he noticed that Raven was trying to hide something from him. His instincts to be right began tinkling, and he smiled as he made a silly-looking move that even a novice would not do.“You think you are going to win by making silly moves? Or you think I will pity you because you cannot play, which I know you can do quite well?” Raven said that it looked like Grover wa
With what Grover did, he already knew that he had won the Raven spirit; if he had not, the spirit would not be trying to find out what he did."Well, we both know that I have won this fight or game or whatever you call it, and there is nothing you can do about it, Mr. Raven,” Grover said, smiling at Raven, knowing fully well that he was taunting Raven.Seeing the look on Raven’s face, Grover laughed so hard that he held his stomach.Raven also laughed, trying to bring up a reversed psychological effect on Grover, but Grover was too clever for such a thing.“You think there is nothing I can do? We both know you cheated, and that alone should be a reason for me to take your soul without any further waste of time,” Raven said as it went further with the reverse psychology thing.“Hahaha, you know that is not true, and I did not cheat. Well, just so you know, the rules you gave did not address cheating. The rules themselves were clear that you were cheating, so why bring up cheating as a