VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

Chapter 239 The key of Potential

They dived deep into the water and as the light started diminishing little by little, they started seeing things that weren't visible from the surface.

There were all kinds of things at the deeper level of this lake, this deep lake…

Starting from the bolls of flesh that were made from the dead bodied of the creatures that fell into this lake, something that was collected by a small organism that appeared to be like a mix of Beatle and Squid.

It was a strange creature, and there were hundreds of them.

They weren't like the big fishes that live above the water and they were certainly not something that can be considered something simple.

'Fascinating…'

His eyes told them about them as well, and they told him how they were a mutated species evolved from something that was called (Sea Eagles) a bird like creature that wasn't actually a bird but something that resembled a seal.

It was complicated how something that was a sea creature resembling a bird could evolve into a squid that was nothing like either of them and at the same time turn into a bug that was pretty much unrelated to them all.

He didn't know how adaptation might have played a role in this and how the hell they might have evolved into this but, this was not a place that followed logic so, he didn't think much about these things.

'Forgetting that, this place is really quite something…'

He was going down, and he was seeing creatures that one would see in the deaths of oceans.

Creatures and mysteries that weren't explainable even with data and logic.

[{ Master… we are reaching the bottom. }]

Sera was using her light element magic to brighten the area around them, but they were making sure that the light is only enough for them to see a little bit around them.

They would use it as a vision directly if they could, something like night vision lense or something, but Sera needed to use more Mana than usual to do that.

And, in a place that they didn't know much about it wasn't really a good idea.

They were better off without it since this small lamp like light was doing a good job as well.

So… they continued going down while observing the wonders of this place.

And, when they reached the bottom of the lake, they observed the unnaturally flat surface which, instead of a natural surface, seemed to be something man made.

"This is different from what I expected…"

It seemed to be something like a proper floor made- carved- out of stones.

It was almost like some sort of an artificial floor. There was no plants on the surface like what they had expected and there was also no creature around this lake floor.

The water was clean here, unlike what they were expecting as well, and for some reason… there was light in here.

"Shut down the light for a minute, Sera."

[{ Yes, master. }]

He asked her to shut down her own light so that they could find where that light was coming from.

There was something about this light that made them curious, and since the main reason they had come here was because of the Core of the forest above them, they were going to look for the source of this light.

"There. It's coming from that side."

The spell was still in effect, thankfully, but there were cracks appearing on the surface of the bubble.

"Let's go, Sera."

[{ … }]

"Sera?"

[{ Ah, yes master. }]

She seemed to be out of focus for a moment, but she returned back to herself when he called out to her and moved forward with him.

She was flying ahead of him outside of the spell while using her own spell to maintain herself in that water.

She had to protect him in here, and for that she needed a little more freedom than what she could get inside of that spell.

[{ I'm feeling strange, master… }]

They approached the dull source of the light.

He walked and she flew. Stay tuned for updates on empire

"Hmm? Is something wrong, Sera?"

There was something ahead of them. There was something here which was the center of this entire forest and was something a divine creature as well as his eyes could not perceive.

And, Sera was saying she felt weird for some reason.

However, she did not stop while saying that and simply continued flying towards the source of that dull light… which was yellowish at first, but then it started turning a little shimmering.

It was gold.

[{ There. }]

The light, the golden light, was coming from a golden source.

"Is that… a key?"

And that source, the center of this entire forest, the center of this lake, the object which the divine creature could not perceive, something even his eyes could not analyze… It was a key.

A key as big as a boulder.

"Is there… something written on it?"

There was something about this… key, that attracted even Elio's eyes.

He looked at the key, the giant golden key that had strange carvings on it.

It was rune language so he could read it a little, but these markings were familiar to him.

They were, in fact, something carved on his hand.

"Sera?"

Sera was saying she was feeling something strange earlier, and that started not long after they reached the floor of the lake.

It was strange that she was saying that something was strange when she had not even found the big fishes in this place strange until now, so, Elio got worried and looked at her.

[Ding!]

However, she was simply floating before him. Still. Staring at the key with her golden eyes, her golden feathers somehow glowing with the light that was emitting from the key before them.

Also…

[{( You have found the Key of Potential. )}]

He heard a somewhat familiar voice once again, and, right after he heard that voice, something happened.

-Ooooooooooooooong!

A bright light exploded from the golden key.

"…?!"

Sera, who was still and flapping her wings until now, started moving again, and, she wasn't going back to Elio.

"Sera?!"

-Oooooooooooooong!

She was going towards the key.

And, the key was reacting to something…

Something, that was closely related to Sera.

[Ding!]

As well as something that was closely related to him.

[You have discovered a [Relic]! Rewarding Exp!]

[Ding!]

[Level up!]

[(Level-99) > (Level-100).]