Chapter 1252 The Third Trial
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Ding!
[The [Aquarius' Broken Trident: Ariel (Broken) (C Grade)] has absorbed the [Sea Dragon's Divine Fang (S Grade)] Material Item!]
[It has regained a part of its former strength!]
Upon absorbing the Fang, the Trident began glowing. More of her cracks were now healed, and she no longer looked like she was some cheap trident you can buy at any shop in the port town, looking clean and shiny.
Her three pointy tips had finally regenerated, although they were still not as sharp, and her aura had improved and she seemed to emanate a strong enough Aura that seemed to hold divinity within it.
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[Aquarius' Broken Trident: Ariel (Broken) (A Grade)]
[Effects]
[Fortune]: [A]
[Physical Strength]: [A+]
[Magical Power]: [A]
[Dexterity and Agility]: [A]
[Abilities]
[Ancient Relic of the Guardian of the Seas (Broken)]: This item is broken and has lost most of its powers due to the passing of time and the death of its original wielder. However, if it can find a new wielder and new materials to be repaired with, the legendary weapon's true power will be unlocked.
[Description]
An old-looking sea trident that was once wielded by Aquarius, the Guardian of the Seas. It lacks its original powers due to the passing of time and the death of its original wielder. It is barely stronger than a simple wooden spear. It has been repaired twice, enhancing its stats and Rank, but it requires more materials.
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"Hehehe, now I am quite the amazing weapon, aren't I?" Ariel laughed. "A Rank in all stats! I am literally perfect!"
"Hmmm, I wouldn't say you're that strong though." I said. "At most you're ok. But still, you lack any abilities so you're just one stick."
"One stick?! I am THE Stick!" Ariel said angrily, pointing herself at me.
"Anyways, it looks like its already beginning, get ready everyone, it's the last trial." I said, as the dream started to distort around us one last time, everything started changing and transforming.
FLUOOOOSH!
[The [Third Trial] is about to begin!]
The scenery quickly changed. We found ourselves once more in the seas. Aquarius was sent far away once his mother used her last strength to save his life. It seemed as if years went by since he was sent in that bubble, and when it finally popped, he found himself in the middle of nowhere.
Much farther away from his home, and in a completely desertic sea. There weren't even reefs, nor fish, the only thing he found was sand below the sea and nothing else. His eyes were filled with sorrow, and his heart seemed completely empty.
"Everyone… mother…" Aquarius sighed, suddenly submerging himself into the depths of the sea, and falling over the sand.
He didn't move, nor did anything, he only slept. Over time, the sands moved over his body, and he was buried. Years seemed to go fast forward, perhaps hundreds, or maybe thousands of years.
Aquarius decided to hide and bury himself, and to sleep for an eternity, trying to forget his sorrow. However, he did not just slept. He spent this entire time in the Draconic Records, where he was able to speak with his siblings.
Despite being able to speak with them and slowly heal his heart by learning from them, he also learned a harsh truth. His mother was no longer able to speak through the draconic records. She had not died, yet she wasn't alive either… whatever they did to her, it was some sort of imprisonment between life and death, and she was unable to speak to her children.
"What has happened to mother? Why is she not responding anymore?" Aquarius sighed, many times he tried to speak to her figure, only to find her mute and in a deep sleep. Black chains wrapped around her body, and she was unable to do anything about it.
"We've been looking at her since this happened." One of his sisters sighed. "It appears the power of the Chaos Spirits… or maybe something even stronger has taken ahold of her body and soul."
"As we are all dead… We can't do anything to help her." One of his older brothers said.
"You're… you're perhaps the last sea dragon, Aquarius." One of his younger siblings sighed.
"Aquarius, you're our hope." Another said.
"But I… I couldn't save anybody! I couldn't do a single thing…!" Cried Aquarius. "I am useless and weak… No matter how hard I train, I can never compare to the strength of that monster… The monster that killed all of you and took mother away…"
"Aquarius, we trust you!"
"Please trust yourself as well!"
"You're our last hope, so please…!"
"No… I am tired of this… I am tired of always failing… I am tired of losing everyone, of losing everything… I don't want to die in vain either!"
Aquarius cried, feeling the enormous responsibility weight upon his back. He was unable to bear with it and ran away from it. He had suffered so much that it was understandable. He didn't wanted to fight anymore. He didn't wanted to suffer anymore. And if he was truly the last one, he didn't wanted to die in vain and end his entire family for good either.
"Aquarius!"
His siblings called for him, but he didn't respond, he never accessed the Draconic Records after that day, and once he woke up from his slumber, he swam across the seas for many years, hunting monsters when hungry, and always sighing in silence.
[Over the many years of his long life, Aquarius went through large amounts of suffering. His heart was broken and his mind destroyed. He had no more motivation to live either, and simply lived like a wild animal, eating when hungry and sleeping when tired.]
[Like this, for many years, he never found a purpose other than to survive to keep his species alive. Never to find any other purpose, nor anything that could fill his empty heart.]
[Until one day, over a thousand years after the incidents that killed his siblings and took away his mother from him, when found a small village of Mermen, the first people he had ever seen through his entire life, which were being attacked by two gigantic Sea Kings possesing the same dark auras from the Sea Kings he once fought before.]
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