Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

Not only that, the moment the entity sensed the glistering crystals in his hand, it was as if it had gone absolutely crazy. A terrible amount of hatred and grudge flowed out of the entity and it pounced at Simon without any warning.

The speed at which it charged at Simon, was too fast for him to react even with his [High Speed thought processing] skill active. Before he knew it, the entity was already in front of him and its enormous scythe on top of its head.

Just when it seemed like Simon's head would be chopped in two, the glistering crystal erupted out with a brilliant radiance that pushed the subordinate of Ozymandias back until it slammed onto the wall.

'Çhance'… Seeing the opportunity that he had been waiting for when his enemy's guard was down, Simon hurriedly ran towards the barrier.

The glistering crystal was the quest item that was absolutely necessary to have to clear this round. No matter how many teammates or subordinates one brings, one cannot clear this round without the crystals that were a part of Yela's crown.

That is why, Simon was sure that the glistering crystals had a part to play in his current trial. And he was right, the crystal was an absolute lifesaver and the only option to hold the subordinate of Ozymanidas back.

Arriving in front of the barrier, Simon flashed the crystals towards it. When the light from the glistering crystals touched the barrier, a path big enough for him to pass through, opened up in the barrier before swiftly closing.

After he was inside the barrier, Simon sighed a breath of relief. The barrier was there to protect Yela's crown from falling under the hands of Ozymandias' subordinate and from what he had seen previously, the entity wouldn't be able to break in anytime soon. Thus, giving him a moment of respite to plan his future actions.

<strong>BANG… BANG…</strong> seeing the entity swiftly get up and bang the barrier in fury further proved his deduction.

"Now then, it's time for me to clear this absurd trial. As per the information, the crown along with the last remaining glistering crystals should definitely be here" Simon said looking at the pristine white coffin that lay silently in front of him.

From what he had seen in the Historia, the body of Yela was also resting here. The woman was someone who had laid her life to protect the people of her empire and even managed to defeat and seal the heart of the being while poisoned.

Someone like her, deserved her rest and if not for the quest asking him to get the crown, he wouldn't have disturbed her sleep.

With the banging of the barrier providing a unique kind of symphony, Simon stepped near the coffin and slowly opened its lid. Inside it lay, the skeleton of someone who was a beauty when she was alive.

She was wearing that blood-stained white clothes which he had seen in the historia. Though now, with the passage of time, the colour was mostly faded. On her left hand was the item that he needed to complete the quest, the crown.

Simon did not know how many years back the event's in the historia took place, but Yela's crown, even after all this time still looked the same. Though it was missing two of the three glistering gems which were previously embedded in it.

The crown was not some decorative item but a powerful artefact capable of sealing the heart of ozymandias and dealing with the curse energy. Out of habit, Simon used [Analysis] on it only to be shocked by the results.

<strong>Item Name-</strong> Radiant Crown of Brilliance, <strong>Rank-</strong> [S] (Damaged), <strong>Buff-</strong> Magic +2000, <strong>Skills-</strong> [Divine Absolution], [Infinite Imprisonment], [Damaged], [Damaged], [Damaged].

An [S] rank artefact, this was the first time Simon had seen an artefact of that rank. Even his Crimson Blazing Flame Blade was only an [A] rank blade, how can he be not shocked. Although, it was currently damaged, Simon was sure that when it was in perfect working condition, the skills it had was many times more powerful than his Crimson Sword.

<strong>BANG… CRACK…</strong> hearing the dull cracking noise of the barrier behind, Simon snapped out of his daze and swiftly took the crown out from the coffin. He noticed that there was two depression on it meant for the glistering crystals.

As soon as he placed the crystals and completed the artefact, Simon thought that the condition of the crown would be restored back from its damaged state and he would get himself an [S] rank artefact.

However, how could it be that easy to stumble upon an [s] rank artefact that easily? All his hopes were drowned when he found out that the crown was still damaged and unusable.

SHATTER… it was at this moment, the barrier behind him was shattered and he could feel the entity's aura lock onto him. There was no time to stay dejected about a possibility that may or may not have come true in the first place.

His first priority was to complete the trial and get transit rock to return back. Simon turned towards the entity with the crown in his hand. From the heavy menacing aura it was releasing, it would not wrong to say that it was absolutely mad at him.

How could it not? Its job was to destroy the crown but because of Simon's interference, who in its perspective was just an ant, not only he failed to get to it first, but he even allowed the latter to complete it.

If it had a mouth, it would have been spouting curses at him. Nevertheless, even in front of such heavy oppressive aura, there was not even a tinge of worry in Simon's mind. The reason for it was simple, now that he had completed the crown, he had almost but cleared the trail.

If the crown in the historia was able to suppress the heart of Ozymandias, then it should easily be able to deal with a mere subordinate in its damaged state. And he was right, as soon as the hostility of the entity was directed at him, an information window popped up in front of him.

[Do you Want to use Yela's crown to invoke [Divine Absolution] to purify the Fifth finger of all evil? <strong>YES/NO</strong>].

Yes, of course, yes. There was no reason for him to press NO unless he was a mentally retarded person. As soon as he read the information on the display, he pressed YES.

At this moment, the air around him started to ripple and an invisible energy flowed out of the crown, locking the entity in place. Next, a golden light seeped out from the crown that was so radiant that Simon had to cover his eyes with his hands.

The golden light swiftly took the form of a golden sword that drove itself inside the entity which struggled to free itself. Unlike how creatures bled when slashed or hacked, the entity in front of him, did not bleed whatsoever even when the golden sword inserted itself in its body.

Though it did not bleed, it was not like the golden sword had no effects, thick clouds of curse energy came out of its body and was swiftly being purified by the golden light.

Seeing this sight, Simon instinctively felt a little revolted. It was not due to the entity or the clouds of curse energy it was releasing, he had repulsion because of the golden light.

The reason for it was simple, the radiant light was none other than the higher form of Light and holy magic.

The entity struggled intensely under the purification of the golden sword and it continued for a couple of minutes when suddenly, something came out of the body of the entity and made a run towards the exit.

However, how could it run from a skill that was meant to purge it? Immediately, the golden sword transformed into golden chains, that kept on following its target until it was tightly bound by it. When the golden chains brought the thing that tried to escape, Simon wore a confounded face as he looked at the thing that was covered in the gas of curse energy.

It was as big as a golf ball and it continuously changed shape. Sometimes it was a ball, sometimes a cube and sometimes something unknown. Whatever it was, it was an enigma, even [Analysis] did not work on it.

The skill did not even activate when he tried to analyse the thing. While Simon was looking at the thing with consternation, another window appeared in front of him.

[Do you want to use Yela's crown to invoke [Limitless Imprisonment] to seal Ozymandias' remnant intent? YES/NO].

"So this was a remnant intent?" Simon had an amused face. Nonetheless, he still pressed YES.

Just like in the Historia, when Simon pressed, complex sets of runes came out of the crown, binding and forming a monolith of some sort around the intent. Simon caught the monolith that was in the shape of a rhombus and as big as a tennis ball.

Inspecting the monolith which had complex carved on it, he found no signs of the intent breaking out. Relieved, Simon fell on his butt and looked around him. It was then, that he noticed the entity's body turn into a shape that looked very much familiar to him, in fact, it wasn't long since he had seen it.

After the intent left the body, the rest turned into a gigantic grey finger that was as big as a pillar. the mmoment Simon saw the finger, he was stunned, if his memory served right, it was from the gigantic hand of Ozymandias that was cut off by Yela.

The thing that he thought was the subordinate of Ozymanida's turned out to be one of the finger of its hand.