《Subordination system》The Fall
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Jason was hanging there, looking around for any options. Desperation was on his face and anxiety filled his mind as his grip was slowly slipping. Without any other ideas, Jason took out another horn from his inventory and jumped off the wall onto the other side of the pit.
Jason still didn't have the ability to climb a sheer 50 feet with a flimsy rabbit horn so he started to fall down while jumping and stabbing into the side of the pit repeatedly.
It was a stressful situation with one mistake being able to send him plummeting into the pit of metal spikes.
It took 30 min to descend 50 feet with the rabbit horns safely. With four of the horns breaking. When he reached the bottom of the pit, he let out a sigh of relief and was able to figure out how he could see the end of the pit clearly. Multiple torches were lit up the entire pit showing off the deadly metal spikes in the middle of it.
Jason lightly fell to the side of the pit away from the metal spikes. Looking around he could see the torches leading into a darker pit. But Jason, of course, looted the dead rabbits, while he was doing that he had a sudden inspiration and took all of the metal spikes that were impaled on the ground.
Now with his beginners' wooden sword and a metal spike in hand, he slowly edged into the cavern. It was completely illuminated by torches and it was a relatively big tunnel that could fit a few horse-drawn carriages.
As he walked the tunnel transitioned from a dreary rocky wall to a pure white marble wall carved with intricate patterns of flowers or humans. The torches also started to disappear and instead were replaced by natural sunlight that seemed to fliter from some unknown ceiling or opening. Finally after some time, he came into a large room, or chamber would be a better way to describe it. Marble pillars supported the chamber and brilliant arches were everywhere. Making it seem like the inside of a cathedral.
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Everything was white, the floor was white the pillars the walls even the light looked like it was giving a white radiance, in fact it was so white that it even started to hurt Jason's eyes.
In the middle was a chest, just a regular wooden chest that stood out from its surroundings thanks to its normalness.
Jason did what any other person would do, he dashed toward the chest intent on opening it but stopped out of caution. He already could picture the chest being a mime or something sinister like that.
Jason poked it a few times with his sword and checked if anything was weird. Nothing happend so he carefully went up and carefully opened the lockless chest. The chest creaked open slightly and the it seemed to burst open with a glow of pure white light.
An even whiter light filled the room and something seemed to escape from the chest and float in the air looking at Jason who had to close his eyes from all the bright lights, a mysterious voice spoke.
"Young adventurer, thank you for setting me free. In return, I shall gift you a blessing"
[You have freed an unknown entity]
[It offers you a blessing do you accept?]
Jason didn't hesitate and answered
"yes"
the voice spoke again
"what do you desire?"
Options started to appear in front of Jason
[strength]
[growth]
[money]
He had only three options and no further explanation was given to Jason.
Boops started to help him again and reasoned
'hmmm okay, so strength you'll get if you just level up, and money we will get a lot of if we play our cards right. Sooooo"
Boops finished,
"I think you should go for growth as it could give you certain beneficial things.'
Jason nodded
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'alright I had the same train of thought too'
He chose the growth option and the entity shrouded in white responded
"good choice young adventurer, most people are fixed on momentary gains but you have an insight that goes past monetary gains"
After saying its praise, it raised its hands and a white light entered Jason's body
[you have been given the growth blessing +20% Exp gained]
Before Jason and Boops had time to celebrate their large gain the entity said a final thank you and disappeared in white light.
The room which was once full of radiance and whiteness started to lose its radiance and everything started to fade back to a normal greyish sheen. Instead of the brilliant white that the chamber was originally in.
With nothing else to do Jason left the chamber and went back to the tunnel.
But now he had another problem, and that was trying to get out of the pit he had just fallen into. He had a idea of how to get out though. He pulled out the metal spikes placed them into both hands and readied himself.
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