《Teaching Heroes of Might and Magic》Chapter 21: Not all good things are good immediately
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Looking down at the chest, my eyes lit up in joy. I stared down at it, sucking my breath in as I attempted to calm myself down. Sighing in and out, I managed calmed myself down relatively quickly.
Looking down at the chest, I slowly moved my arms into the interior of the chest to pick up the two items that were inside of it; a note and a ring. Quickly scouring the ring, I began to jump up and down in joy.
Oh, predetermined chest, I shall never doubt your authenticity ever again.
The ring, this beautiful ring is a majestic item of utmost quality, that someone of my level would almost guaranteed, never possess in their lifetime unless like me, they possessed a patron of incredulous power.
[Mini Dimension Ring] is what this majestic item was called, and that is what it was. It had a small dimension inside of it.
It was in-fucking-credible. A whole god damned dimension. Well, the dimension itself wasn't that large, it was merely 1km2, but it was still a whole god damned dimension for myself.
I mean, how fucking lucky was I!? Immensely fucking lucky is what I was.
I quickly placed the ring onto my right hands middle finger and began to twirl my wrist left and right as I stared at my ring in joy.
I was bursting with happiness. This was far better than all my other rings combined. I mean I had spent a total of 125PP on my five storage rings, but they had in total a storage area of 5m2, which when compared to the Dimension Ring, was nothing. I mean, 1km2 vs 5m2? The answer of which was more useful was obvious.
I calmed myself down once more so that I could get on with my day.
I turned my attention towards the note which I dropped back into the chest in my excitement. It was the other item which came out of this predetermined chest, so I was already curious to what was written on this simple looking note.
Was it a high quality art, that would immensely aid Sasha or I's cultivation? Was it a treasure map, that would guide me to some incredible treasure? What could it possibly contain?
Calming my already wild thought process, I slowly picked up the note, before breathing in deeply and opening it.
'My dearest champion, I, your master, am deeply satisfied with your recent exploits. You make me proud with how you managed to get through so many events. It is deeply 'entertaining' and for that reason, and that reason alone, I have gifted you with this ring. Though, I'd have been happier if you chose 'Random', but sadly you didn't. If you had chosen random, I'd have gifted you the ring and 1000 Primal Points, but oh well. Do enjoy the gift and keep up the good work.
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Yours sincerely,
-Zoras'
As I read this, I froze up. 1000PP? He would have gifted me with 1000PP if I had fucking chosen 'Random'?
That god damned piece of shit! How dare he torment me?
Did he have to fucking tell me that? Why the hell would he tell me?! I didn't want to fucking know!
I threw the note away in my anger.
Sighing, I calmed myself down as I wept bitterly on the inside. Who does that to their own champion? I mean, I'm pretty sure all gods treated their Champions excellently, but my own god instead treated me like entertainment.
Wait... On that note, didn't he say he was entertained by my actions. Quickly picking up the note again, I read it and began to fume once more.
This son of bitch, did he partner up with the NSA or something? Spying on me like some creepy son of a bitch. What a huge fucking creep... but thinking about it, it wasn't really a proper reason for me to get angry at Zoras. I mean, I'm almost sure that every god watches what their champion does.
The only reason I'm angry is because Zoras is an asshole. I pointed both of my middle fingers up into the air, and began moving them up and down as I yelled at my roof.
Zev: “Fuck you Zoras” I yelled out as I stared at the ceiling “Eat this” I said as my middle fingers moved up and down, and like that, I spent five minutes yelling at my ceiling.
I must seem insane now that I think about it.
Yelling at my ceiling... Honestly, who does that?
God damn it. In this one day, I've sworn more than I have in the last few months.
I forced myself to breathe in and out, till I was sure I had gotten my anger out of my system. Once I was sure I had done so, I slowly made my way outside of my humble abode.
I thought about my actions from a few minutes ago, and thinking about it, did I really have a proper reason to get angry at Zoras? I mean, he did just give me a Dimension Ring.
Nonetheless, it was human nature, or at least I like to tell myself so, that I was angry over being given less because I chose the wrong option.
I slowly walked outside as I contemplated what I could do with my new ring, when I suddenly thought about something incredible.
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I thought about my idea, wondering whether or not it was a good idea.
I mean, I was planning on storing the temple inside of the ring, because it had more than enough space, but what if it screwed up and the temple got wrecked.
I decided that I would take the risk, because if I was going to leave anyway, it wasn't like it mattered if the temple was broken or not.
Standing outside, I looked at the temple, and prepared myself. I extended my hand and wrapped my aura around the house and the ring, and then I attempted to insert it inside.
My aura began to quake from the magnitude of my action, but I held on. My breathing was getting rough, and I was feeling the ache in my body, but it looked like everything was working so far.
Another minute passed and suddenly, I felt a large shock wave hit me. I had to close my eyes from the force because the pain was so unbearable. My muscles felt like they were about to burst, and my bones felt like they were about to shatter. I was in so much pain that I couldn't even muster up a scream.
Once the shock wave finally diminished, I barely managed to open up my eyes, to discover that the temple was missing, and a hole where previously the basement of the temple was positioned was visible to the eye.
Looking at the hole in the ground, I sighed. A perfect, flat square was visible in the ground.
If someone filled the edges with concrete and poured water into it, it would make a good looking pool.
Nonetheless, I attempted to feel the ring to see if my temple managed to transition properly, but when I attempted to scan the ring, I felt a mind numbing headache.
It looked like I was still to weak to use such a high class item. I mean, what was I expecting? That I, a slightly stronger than average human, would be capable of using a God Class Item, even if it was a low class one.
Shaking my head, I slowly began to move in the direction Sasha had skipped off to.
Now that I was carrying everything I owned on my own body, I had no reason to linger around here any more.
It was finally time to take Sasha and move on to Gilleghan City.
I had to walk very slowly, because I was immense pain currently. That shock wave fucked me over pretty badly.
Why was there a shock wave in the first place? Was it because I was to weak to move an item into the Dimension Ring, or was it because I moved something to large for my current level into an item above my current level?
Who knows at this point, but whatever it was, I had only one thing to say. 'Fuck you, Zoras'.
It was that asshole that sent me an item so far above my current level, that it was pointless for me to use it, and that using it at my level would injure me severely.
My slow trek towards Sasha continued on, leaving me to think about life and its mysteries.
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Hey everyone, Old Man here!
Now, I have a few things to say.
1. I am sorry that I took almost 20 days between posting Chapter 20 and 21. The reason for that was my files got corrupted, I got depressed, I tried to get them back, I did get quite a few of them back, but I lost Chapter 18 and forward. Meaning I had to rewrite Chapter 21 and forward.
So for that reason, I am sorry. Excuses aside, I am sorry for taking so long to get my bearing together. I am ashamed!
2. Sorry for making you all wait so long, but do not worry! I will release 1 chapter every 3 days, since I'm almost already done with Chapter 22! Just a few edits, and it might come out earlier. I'll start working on 23 soon as well.
3. I changed the name of the novel, sort of. It's full name is now as follows; [Teaching Heroes of Might and Magic: Mentor of Main Characters]. I think the name is quite cool and nice! That is all.
Love and Peace Guys,
-Old Man.
P.S. Learn from my mistakes, make backups both online and locally.
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