Conqueror

All we could hear was the deafening cheers of the crowd as we took those dragons easily. This skill that I've got was something I got from achieving level 350. I was given a choice on what path I should take when I saw that message from the system.

-Choose Path-

[Holy Path]

A high continuous damage path. Your free skills when redeeming level up will change to this path and will lock the other path's skills.

[Dark Path]

A concentrated, slow damage path that deals massive damage. Your free skills when redeeming level up will change to this path and will lock the other path's skills.

And I chose the first one. I want to support everyone on the rear so I chose that. But to think this is this powerful... My efforts are finally showing. I won't get left behind anymore.

And so we're here... on this fateful day. Finally finished everything. We've gotten the attention of everyone. Their trust and their unwavering encouragement for us. 

We've finally beaten these monsters that we were struggling to get even near to. Everything has finally ended... And here we all are in the final battlefield. We already won. But it is still not finished.

"I'm leaving. Goodluck to you two." Helga suddenly announced.

"Same. I'm an enchanter! So what do I even do here?" Same with Feran. 

The two of them left the battlefield and left the two of us here. The crowd went silent. And then, Neco offered something. "Listen Rize... we already know who will win in this fight Rize. So I'll give you the first hit. And once I dodge it, I'll go after you."

"Haaa... fine." Seems like he's confident that he'll win. "Dispel." I broke down the Law Breaker. "Barrier!" I casted a small barrier around us both. 

"Why even bother making a barrier around us both? And this'll break easily with a single blow."

"Can you though?"

"Hmm?"

"Law Breaker Number One! Disable all dark magic!" Using the barrier, the radius of the Law Breaker becomes smaller so that the mana cost will be minimized too. The dark armor and the coating of dark magic on his daggers instantly disappeared.

"Cra-" 

I quickly shot a single light arrow, "Binding Light Arrow!" and strapped his feet on the ground, he couldn't move nor do anything. He was just there. "Looks like I win. I won't get overtaken by a newbie."

"I can accept my loss Rize since I was naive but uh... C- can you do something about that?"

"About wh-" A could then see a bright light behind me. But then... I forgot something. The hundreds of angels behind me took aim. I couldn't do anything to stop it. "Dispel!" I immediately dispelled all of my skills activated and began to run in another direction but Neco was still there, waiting for the binding light to disappear. But it wasn't fast enough. A barrage of bright light followed and I couldn't see anything. A consecutive amount of attacks followed.

I was wishing for him to be fine there. Everyone was just silent. The fog dispersed and it revealed two of the guards putting up a shield. "That's enough. Rize Reysh wins the trial."

Everyone's heavy heart dissipated when they saw that Neco was fine. I was also worried too but it seems that everything was fine. I looked up and thanked the guards but I noticed something strange. There was a crack in the air of some sort? I didn't saw well but I guess it wasn't anything serious.

We were brought to the place where the caster gave us everything we needed and the items that the reward gave us. The Flower of Zeratria, a vial of a weird green potion thingy..? It was said that this was named Potion of Life or something. Neco instantly took it from my hand. He apologized after but it seems that he needed it. No one argued since we didn't know what that is.

After all that, we've been given some artifacts here and there that is specifically made for us. We registered as a team so even if one of us gets through everyone will still be rewarded. For me, I got the Quiver of Elements.

[Quiver of Elements]

An infinite source of arrows. Can't be given or traded. Can be easily imbued with magic. 

For Feran he got this bracelet. Which is pretty amazing since he's pretty weak and useless in combat.

[Bracelet of Imbuement]

Link this bracelet up to five people. Once your health is below 70%, you'll be randomly teleported to one of the five people that you're linked to. Has a range limit of ten kilometers. Has a one hour cooldown per teleport.

Neco got the Raging Feet, which is an overlay equipment that doesn't need to be equipped. It can be applied to the feet without taking off the boots.

[Raging Feet]

An overlay equipment that gives the user more speed and allows the user to leave a trail of continuous damage depending on the element.

"What does the continuous damage do..?" Feran asked the host of the trials.

"Well as we can see in the fight with the trials, you're mainly using dark magic. You can imbue this with a dark magic and you'll leave a trail that deals dark magic damage to anyone standing on it and slowly sink enemies into the ground. It depends on what element you're using." The host immediately replied.

And finally, Precia got the beautiful tiara.

[Tiara of the Goddess]

All healing spells will now take effect immediately.

"Hmm..? What does this mean?" Helga asked. "Its beautiful but I don't understand the use."

"Take the regeneration skill for example, it regenerates 5% of maximum health points per second for the next ten seconds. But if you equip this, you'll regenerate 50% of the maximum health instantly and the waiting time for the next ten seconds will be gone. Its the same with other spells." The caster said to her.

"Regeneration is a simple basic heal spell that you can get at level 20... And you're telling me its better than Great Heal that recovers a large portion of health with this item!?"

"Yes. It seems that everyone is happy with their results. I have to congratulate each and everyone of you." 

A system message then popped up saying that we got bonus rewards. But no one is saying anything about the key... Maybe its just me since I finished first place? But apparently this unlocks a gate for the next trial... I'll hold onto it for now since I'm still exhausted with this battle and... I can't do anything by myself. "Alright everyone, let's head back!"

All of us went back to the same old inn and we were all greeted with congratulations. Everyone was having fun, beers and bottles were flying everywhere. Laughter was the thing that was heard throughout the whole night.

We did it. I still can't believe that we did it. After all those failures and losses, we managed to pull through. Somehow. This just proves that we finally have some use for him. 

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Two days later, we finally went to the guild and we were instantly greeted with congratulations by the front desk and everyone. "Congratulations! Your fight with the trials were exceedingly amazing. No one could've done that feat so we're promoting all of you to the highest rank we can offer. Monarchs!" A black, obsidian plated badge was given to us. A symbol of the sky island with our names below it. "You can now take any quest available."

"Thank you very much!" It seems that things were going well. I don't have to worry about anything. We're now finally going to get much more decent quests so that we can raise the favor of this kingdom to our side! "Can w-"

Someone then barged through the door and guards lined up. A single noble? Or maybe a royalty went through holding a message. He then gave me the scroll that was on his hand.

The Reysh Party, I've seen your heroic deeds and your contribution to this island.

Eliminating a quest that wasn't meant for you, doing low level tasks despite being strong,

And finally, doing something that none of us could do.

Defeating the trials that sky island has to offer despite it being incredibly much more difficult.

I would like to ask for your party to take a visit to my castle and hopefully we can be more friendly

And get to know each other.

Thank you for your service.

Signed by: King Herayu Turvasz

We finally got the attention of the nobles... We're going to play by their hands first then coerce them into helping our kingdom... Everything is going to plan as expected. "Tell the king I accept his message."

Murmurs were going all around the guild, everyone were just shocked and was in awe. But we just ignored that. We're finally moving forward for all of this.