Chapter 713: Heaven Will Bestow a Great Mission……

Tang Luo and the others entered the relic, beginning a journey completely free of worry.

There were hardly any branch paths, and the chance of encountering relic monsters and mechanism traps was basically zero.

Even if any existed, they had already been cleared out during the time the relic had been open.

The earliest adventurers to enter the relic would bear the risks of pioneering, but also have a greater chance of obtaining better things.

Some adventurers accidentally discover a completely new relic, actively pioneer it, and have the chance to get rich overnight and retire thereafter.

After all, the size and danger level of a relic cannot be known without entering it.

Some relics are even just a simple treasury.

There is no danger at all.

If the discoverer lacks confidence, they can still profit by selling the information.

They usually sell it to well-known adventuring parties or adventurers' guilds.

Adventuring parties will choose to pioneer it, while adventurers' guilds will decide based on the situation—either resell it or post related missions.

Whenever a new relic is discovered, for the nearby adventurers' guild it is a business opportunity, opening the market's doors.

Many adventurers' guilds have grown strong by profiting from nearby relics.

As they went deeper, the scenery around Tang Luo and the others became more complex.

Most of the relic's interior is maze-like, with various branch passages, divided into separate spaces that connect with each other.

As for relic types, there are surface relics, underground relics, and special spatial relics.

Surface and underground relics are clearly divided by direction.

Surface relics are now rare within the main areas of human activity.

Most have already been discovered, pioneered, and even thoroughly explored.

Even experienced adventurers on the continent and powerful adventurers' guilds cannot tell how many underground and spatial relics remain.

Surface and underground relics at least physically exist before one's eyes, merely sealed off.

Spatial relics are different; they can be understood as a "space ring"—small in appearance but containing a separate world inside.

Worth noting, up to now there has never been a case of a relic being broken through from inside or outside to connect with the outside world.

The only way to enter or exit a relic is through its own self-opening entrance.

Even a peerless contemporary hero, someone stronger than a hero but short-lived, unable to act for various reasons, more like a tool-person's miracle king, cannot break the "relic's wall."

The relic Tang Luo and the others are currently exploring, although its entrance is in the mountain body and looks like a surface (mountain) relic.

Actually it belongs to the spatial relic category.

Its internal structure is a cave maze, a non-natural formation with various artificial traces.

As a product left over from the war between demons and humans, the relic is naturally man-made, at least altered or influenced.

As for why there are so many relics and why they are so sturdy,

all we can say is that the ancients were truly too strong.

The deeper they went into the relic, Tang Luo and the others began to split from the rest, and the Brave's "Heavenly Divine Soldiers" adventuring party entered a solitary adventuring state.

"These things are really ugly."

The Brave Fa Si Te Ken's double-handed sword was ablaze with fire; one strike cut the relic monster before him in two, not to mention.

The fire followed his attack, wrapping around and even roasting the remaining corpse into charcoal.

Although the corpse quickly turned to ash, the air still smelled of scorched burnt.

"Don't use your fire sword anymore," said the Elf Kai'er, frowning.

The mage Merlin beside him also nodded firmly.

"Oh, okay." The Brave accepted the advice readily, swiped his hand, extinguishing the flame on his blade and covering it with a layer of frost.

The effect of a strike became slowing and freezing.

"Armor Technique."

Tang Luo pretended to wave his staff, but actually his other hand drew symbols in the void, creating a Blood Sigil·Iron Armor charm and threw it onto the Brave.

"Oh, oh, not bad."

The Brave's senses were still sharp; he immediately felt an invisible armor draped over him, and fought with greater vigor.

Beside them, Uncle Asher was somewhat speechless; this Anubis's staff was completely useless.

Staff-type weapons can enhance spell power and speed up casting, among other things.

The point of spell release is also the staff's tip, not the mage's hand.

This guy moved both hands together, and ended up not using the staff at all.

What are you holding the staff for then!

Uncle Asher muttered a complaint in his heart, then continued gripping his large shield, defending as solid as a fortress.

They ventured into the territory of a monster known as the Fire Poison Insect within the relic.

The Fire Poison Insect has a strange appearance; its overall shape resembles a swollen, thick-bodied snake, lacking scales, with skin rough like bark and hard as old leather.

Its head bears a large single eye and a mouth, and its midsection has a pair of legs resembling those of a grasshopper's hind legs.

Its leaping ability is astonishing; its basic attack is to leap and strike, while a few can spew high-temperature poisonous fire from their mouths.

Such monsters have currently vanished from the outside world, existing only within relics.

Upon first entering this "chamber," the Heavenly Divine Soldiers adventuring party was caught off guard, but relying on their strength, they quickly turned the tide.

Victory is now merely a matter of time.

Tang Luo exercised his support role, equipping the Brave with iron armor, healing, and flight.

While letting him shout and cry, he killed enemies soaring into the air.

This preliminarily proved his strength as the continent's top supporter.

Ten minutes later, the hero stood in place, raised his sword high, and came to celebrate his victory.

He was unscathed, and his minor wounds were healed by the Blood Seal·Healing.

He sheathed the sharp sword into his waist scabbard, and the hero laughed, saying, "Let's continue."

The weapon he usually uses is not the Hero's Sword on his back; as the hero Fast Kent himself would say, even he finds using this sword quite costly.

This is the sword used to deal with the Demon King.

He doesn't usually use it, but when danger arises, he will draw the sword without hesitation.

He behaves much more intelligently than the demon folk.

At least he won't do something like "I put my powerful weapon in the storeroom to protect it."

"Take a look, do you need any materials?" the hero said after celebrating his victory.

Everyone shook their heads in unison.

After a relic monster (magic beast) dies, it will completely turn into a pile of ash in a relatively short time.

Including the King of Miracles who can walk out, after death he will also quickly turn to ash.

However, some magic beasts leave behind a part of their body.

These leftover parts are usually decent materials.

They also constitute part of the gains for adventurers who venture into relics.

After a fire poison insect dies, the part that can be left behind is its pair of strange legs.

As a material, it can be added to shoes to gain considerable jumping ability.

To the Heavenly Divine Soldiers Adventuring Team, it's not something worth collecting.

After confirming nobody wanted them, the hero used his space ring to collect the few broken legs on the ground.

Later, selling them would serve as the team's activity funds.

That's what was said, but aside from his childhood friend Merlin and himself, nobody else in the team really needs the activity funds.

On the contrary, they can even subsidize the team.

Uncle Arthur used to be the captain of a fairly famous adventuring party.

In their final adventure, his party met with an accident, nearly wiped out, leaving only Arthur.

Although he had amassed a great fortune in his adventuring career, Arthur did not end up with the outcome of "having money and living it up with his companions for the second half of life."

He spent his days drinking to drown his sorrows, becoming the ultimate drunkard among the super-rich.

Everyone thought Arthur would drown in alcohol, until he met the hero Fast Kent.

He became his companion.

Frankly speaking, Arthur's money (including his companions' wealth after death) is enough for him to live luxuriously in a drunken dream for ten lifetimes.

Kailan, meanwhile, is a noble lady whose monthly pocket money matches the annual expenses of an ordinary commoner family of seven or eight.

As for the newly joined "Anubis" of the adventuring party,

Looking at his staff and his clothes, one can tell he is absolutely not a poor person.

That clothing, faintly glowing red, is not immediately apparent.

But the staff, according to Arthur's seasoned adventurer experience, is estimated to be more expensive than all his gear combined, or rather more precious.

At most, he just lacks cash on hand.

However, from this perspective, the hero is the richest—the Hero's Sword is a priceless treasure.

Unfortunately, it cannot be liquidated.

During the adventure, all gains, unless they are some suitable precious equipment, belong to the hero.

Arthur and Kailan don't care about money; adventuring with the hero has never been for money.

As a newcomer, Tang Luo had no objections to this distribution method, anyway he doesn't care about money.

The group passed through the fire poison insect's territory and continued deeper into the relic.

Along the way they cleared thorns and brambles, reaping much, and Tang Luo's support ability also earned everyone's recognition.

What "continent's top support"? That's surely an exaggeration.

But without doubt, this is a gold-rank adventurer worthy of their gold-rank team.

Adventurers and adventuring parties alike are divided into iron, copper, silver, gold, platinum, diamond, master, and the highest legendary tier.

Rank has no direct relation to strength; it's not that the stronger you are, the higher your rank.

Rather, it is based on a comprehensive assessment of the adventurer's tasks, reputation, etc.

The hero himself is a gold-rank adventurer, Arthur is a diamond-rank adventurer, Merlin is a silver-rank adventurer, and Kailan is the lowest iron-rank.

But when they actually fight, the hero, without using the Hero's Sword, can burst forth and defeat Arthur.

Kailan also often instant-kills Merlin without taking damage.

Rank cannot indicate strength.

And Anubis, being unranked, combined with his special magic beast, should be the team's second strongest.

The strongest is surely the hero, who can forever create miracles.

Even one who cannot turn the tide in a life-or-death desperate situation, what kind of hero is that?

You may seem stronger than the hero, but in the end you will always lose to him.

This is the hero!

Now, the hero stands in a cave, hands on hips, laughing loudly to the heavens.

Not far before him lies a strange egg, about a meter high, its surface wrapped in a faint glow.

At a glance you can tell it's not an ordinary object.

It's an egg that can be taken out to hatch!

Divine pet reserved!

Not even two hours ago, Hero Fasiteken was still envying Tang Luo's flashy magic beast.

Now, he too is about to have one.

When Heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on a person, it first sweetens his heart and will, strengthens his bones and sinews, fills his flesh and skin, fortifies his body, and blesses his fate!

"What do you say, I should give this... Boom!"

With a bang, the cavern shook, dust and rubble fell from above, interrupting the hero's words.

The hero widened his eyes, looking ahead.

The position where the egg had been was replaced by a flat large stone; the egg had originally been stuck to the wall.

The egg lay between the wall and the stone, and the gap between the wall and the stone was zero.

"Whoosh—"

From behind came the sound of Tang Anubisi Luo letting out a sigh of relief: "Good thing the dog acted in time, otherwise the magic beast's birth would have put us in danger."