Conqueror

Artifacts... I'm trying to find some. Even though I've been negligent with my training that lord Afal has set for me, I've been making it up by raiding some artifact dungeons.

This artifact that someone gave me before I got imprisoned in that hellhole was something I was set out to do ever since I got out of that place. I was to kill my owners when I'm bought as a slave then just run away and try to find the rest of this artifact.

"The effects are amazing but I can't wear it. I'm underleveled." Everytime I put it on, a system message pops up and tells me that it can only be worn by level 300 people... But why did someone just gave me this. An old man from a weird market nonetheless.

Was it fate..? Or something else. But this item in itself is something that I need to discover for my own.

[Deep Dark Necklace, an ancient level item that has long existed five centuries ago. This necklace opens up a secret portal that hasn't been yet discovered all these years. It is but a myth written in a book but no one has been able to confirm the true meaning of this necklace. Has two sub skills,

||Traverse||

Fall down in a dark world wherein you will be untargetable and all homing skills against you will be cancelled. After a three seconds or a reactivation of the skill you will reappear in a random location a few meters around from where you were before. 

||Subspace||

Capture an enemy to be transported in a world inside the necklace. Your enemy must be a lower level than you. The level calculation will be 20% of your current level. As of now your opponent needs to be (16) levels below you to capture them in the world inside your necklace. Any mind attacks on the captured being inside the necklace will be enhanced by 200%. You are able to walk inside the subspace but your physical body will be frozen in place and you won't be able to move your actual body outside of the subspace.

To capture someone in your subspace, they either are willing to submit to you, completely helpless or incredibly terrified at you.

This is one of the set of the Deep Dark artifacts. Having one item equipped, (Deep Dark Necklace), will give you a +50% damage for your dark attacks.]

This is from a set called the Deep Dark. I'm incredibly interested in that. That's why right now, since I'm free I'm going to find it.

I spent the next days just farming artifacts. I went into countless dungeons and got rich myself. Enough to buy a whole house for free. selling these monster meat gained me a fortune. But I don't want to hog all of these rewards for myself.

I sold it all to different kingdoms as Lam suggested and got over to 20k worth of food. I got was supposed to be rare monsters. I don't think they're rare at all. I guess they're rare to the point that no normal people could kill them since they only live in the artifact dungeons. But I don't care about such things. All I need to do is find the rest of the Deep Dark artifacts.

As Lam predicted, the haulings I got got their prices lowered by around 40% since I was bringing in too much. But that's fine. I got a lot in exchange. I bought some clothes and stacks of high quality foods and delivered to Izgoy. Everyone rejoiced but I told them that it was Lam's plan. 

Zieglind got through my lies but I just did it so that people won't depend on me as much.

I went into countless dungeons and just farmed and farmed and farmed. All I could hear for everytime I'd go into the dungeons were the screeches and my blade digging into the bones of my enemies.

I feel like I've been one with darkness itself. I scavenged and scavenged. But all I could see was the small light at the end of every dungeon. 

It was like opening a lucky box with barely a 0.1% chance of finding a Deep Dark artifact. People would just go crazy if I told them how much I have worked to find this artifact. But why am I doing this... is the question that would popped up in people who will know of my goals.

I sat down and opened up a locket with me and a picture of a woman around my age. "Anna..." I remembered thousands of memories I had with her. I reached my hand out to the locket as if trying to grasp the past and return back to there.

"Inventory." I opened it up and brought out a slab of meat and returned it back to my inventory.

If my theory is right, I will have the chance to see her again. I've been searching for ways to get her back but I still can't find a solution. This Deep Dark is one of my leads. It can access a subspace seperate from our world and reality itself. That means that if I collect all artifacts... I might go to realms that no person from this world has come and came back here.

That means... if I can see her again, I'm willing to cross multiple world just to find her. 

Her memories with me are forever etched. I have to repay here. I have to bring her back here.

That's why I'll continue this grind.

I farmed and farmed multiple artifact dungeons. If I could sell all of these to an auction house I'll be richer than our current treasury in Izgoy. But none of these are worth it. It's trash with my eyes when I got an incredibly powerful one.

After farming multiple artifact dungeons for a couple of days, I found myself in a submerged artifact dungeon. Below sea level. I'm still flabbergasted on how Lam find these information. Like he has eyes everywhere. But I'm not complaining since he's on our side.

I dived down at the sea and entered on what seemed to be a submerged palace. It looked like it was submerged hundreds of years seeing how crumbled it is and how old the ornaments and the style of the palace itself looked. 

After a few minutes, I found myself running out of breath so I dived deeper to find a pocket of air. But all I found was a giant trapdoor. As I opened it, water gushed in the basement this trapdoor was hiding. I had to act quick so I went in the basement and instantly covered it with the trapdoor stopping the water from coming in. Good thing I acted fast or this whole place will be flooded by now.

I went in deeper in the dungeon and two golems were there to guard. But they were low leveled. "Traverse!" I teleported above their shoulders and broke their weakpoint, the orb on their faces and they easily crumbled.

If I just attacked them normally, they'll continue to regen their full body with ease as long as that orb is intact.

I walked around but it's just a whole giant dome. I thought this was a dungeon artifact. There's no monsters other than this two. Lam also told me that that's why he was hesitant on giving me the location of this place. But he ran out of places to give so he just gave me this as he said.

He simply said at the time, "I'll give you the location but I doubt you'll find anything. Countless adventurers got there but all they found were some treasures that aren't even good. Are you sure you want to go?"

Of course I agreed since I'll do anything to find that artifact.

I went in and the sight was something to behold. A giant star was engraved on the floor as there was an altar at the very front. Five pillars at each intersection of lines of the star below where a never ending dark flame was lit. I didn't activate anything for that to happen. So that means that light was here hundreds of years ago.

I walked up to the altar and I saw two books and one dagger. I picked it up and a system message popped up in front of me.

[Item has been soul bound.]

[Deep Dark Sacrificial Dagger, gain 10% HP and 10% attack damage when you kill something. This bonus effect stacks up infinitely.]

[You have now equipped two Deep Dark items, you will now be able to use Traverse with an 80% cooldown (11 seconds).]

"System, what is soul bound?"

[Soul bound is a unique state of an ancient item in which you cannot sell it or give it to someone. If you throw it away, it will despawn and appear back in your hand or inventory depending on where you threw it.]

"I see..." This is great. Now I have two Deep Dark items. Just a little bit more. I then looked over the two books. The other one was Deep Dark skills. With a date attached to it at around 500 years ago. I opened it slightly and I already feel like I know so much.

I then looked over to the other one and my knees trembled from what I saw. "No... way..." This is the thing that I have been looking for but I thought it was impossible. I thought I had to cross to hell or heaven itself to bring her back... But this... this changes everything.

"Resurrection... Method..."

A spell that was once never thought to be possible. I have it in my hands.