Cursed Immortality

'Noble Spirit Flames!' 

'Now, this is peculiar…' Jacob narrowed in eyes with uncertainty. 

This was entirely out of his expectations since he imagined a beast of direction behind that door, not this mysterious book. Furthermore, by its name, it was clearly related to magic. 

'Could there be hidden treasures like the dark ruins here as well, not just the legacy pieces? Then had there been also some hidden treasure in that tower?' 

Jacob felt some regret when he thought about it because if his conjecture was true, then he really lost a valuable treasure. Still, he didn't care too much since keeping his life in that blast was the most significant gift he could hope for. 

But now, he had a treasure in front of him, and there was no point in hesitating, and he entered the chamber. There were no traps in his way toward the column, nor could he feel anything as he stood before the buoyant book. 

Still, just to be sure, he used his sword to touch the book, and the moment the blade tip came in contact with the book's surface, it seemed to have lost its magic power and fell on the column!

The next moment, a voice of stones grinding against each other rand, and the column started to sink into the floor. 

Jacob was startled and quickly grabbed the book before it sank with the column and vanished forever. When he picked it up, he felt he was touching cold metal. 

But he didn't have time to pay it any heed as his focus was on the voices in the chamber, and when he looked back, he just happened to see the door behind him getting closed. 

His expression changed as he knew he had activated some mechanism by touching the book. 

Just as the column was sunk entirely into the floor, right on its spot, the floor started to slide open, and under Jacob's baffled eyes, another stairway was revealed, and all the noises stopped after that!

Looking confused and alert, Jacob looked around and waited for something to happen, but everything was fine even after a few minutes. 

'That's it?' Jacob found it hard to believe, but the proof was right before him. It wasn't a trap but just a mechanism to open the door towards the next layer in the pyramid. He got that book for free!

After calming his tightened nerves, Jacob finally looked at the golden book in his hand. It appeared really made with solid gold, and he tried to open it. 

The first page appeared, which seemed to be made with a sheet of golden threads, and the writing was graceful. 

On the first page, there was written. 

'Magic Ability Scripture (Holy): Noble Spirit Flames

'The strongest flames in this world are those that only burn evil and heal the good. The Noble Spirit Flames are holy and pure and can burn every vile dark being and heal every noble living being in this world. 

'This ability is for those who seek salvation in fire and had the noble purpose of ridding the world of the darkness and illuminating it with holy luster. 

'Requirement: Spirit Fire

'Rectified Star Requirement: 500

'Effect on Living: Healing internal external injuries, curses, poisons. 

'Effect of Dark Beings: Deadly Poisons, extremely hard to recover from. Burn both corporeal and ethereal entities.' 

'An extremely rare holy type magic ability scripture, and it's not just any random scripture either, but by its ridiculous requirement of spirit fire and rectified stars, it appeared to be an advanced unique rank scripture.' Jacob's eyes hone with ecstasy because he knew just how rare the holy magic was. 

It was just like his curse magic but the opposite in nature. 

Where the curse magic inclined toward harm, the holy magic was for healing and support, not to mention it was the bane of dark beings. 

But it was as rare as curse magic, and Jacob knew just what kind of ruckus this one scripture could cause in epic plains. Even in the Unique Plains, he was confident that all the powers would pay a hefty price to get a hold of it, especially when it only required a spirit fire magic core. 

Jacob sighed in pity as he stored the book away, 'Even if I have this book, this is useless if I don't have the spirit glyph. Meeting the rectified star requirement means nothing. If I had met all the requirements, I would've learned it in a heartbeat over other magic abilities.' 

At this moment, Jacob finally focused on the surrounding murals. He didn't dare to ignore anything like this in a trial, even if it was straightforward. 

There were eight different scenes in those murals. The first showed a silvery tree, a blue humanoid figure, a golden scorpion, and a purple snake gathering around a black egg, which was quite strange. 

In the next scene, with the addition of those five, another black humanoid figure riding some beast. In the other six murals, those four were fighting the rider, and that was it. There was no result of their fight. 

But Jacob was looking at those four monsters, the black egg, which remained stoic in every scene, and the rider, who seemed to wield a bronze stall. 

'If I presumed the blue humanoid figure as the fiend yeti of ice plains and the golden scorpion the best of flame desert… Could it be those five are the beasts mentioned in the requirements while the person fighting them is the Hunter? But what is that black egg that was being protected by those four? Or it's just some random shit that I'm taking too seriously.' Jacob mused. 

In the end, Jacob stops thinking about it too much. If his conjecture was correct, he'll know soon once he confronts the other beasts of directions. Still, the black egg gave him a terrible feeling for some reason. 

Jacob then took the stairs and headed further down the pyramid!