Odyssey of the Blind God

[The Trials are waiting for you!]

Nial had no idea what this was supposed to mean, but this time, he could tell that the Odyssey seed was not going to harm him, right now.

It was just a feeling, but he was pretty sure to be correct.

And after having racked his brain enough for the last few days, even if the Odyssey seed wanted to do something to him, there was not really something he could do to prevent or fight it.

At least, he was not able to do anything against it right now.

Instead of worrying too much, Nial had to accept that the Odyssey seed was somehow causing changes in his behavior, mindset, and even body since the day it had awoken.

This was something he had to understand and come to a consensus with.

Otherwise, he would simply keep worrying about this, his entire life.

And this was also not something Nial wanted to do.

Thus, he accepted the Odyssey seed for the time being and decided to only focus on the present issues instead of tormenting himself with issues he might have to face in the future.

With that in mind, he slumped to the ground, feeling drained of all his energy.

Nial could barely store away the Viper spear before he lay on the ground, his entire back drenched in cold sweat and blood.

His heart had stopped beating wildly and had now reverted to its usual heartbeat.

'I wonder what this stroke means…' Nial just thought as he kept trying to gauge and understand the reason behind its sudden appearance.

He figured that it had been formed due to the fight, and from what his gut feeling told Nial, it was something that had to do with the high number of beasts he killed in the last hour.

But that and the fact that the current change in the Odyssey seed was not something dangerous were the only things his gut feeling told him right now.

Unable to sense his surroundings properly owing to the chaotic mana currents, he continued to lay on the ground, while his superior grade mana veins continued to absorb the mana from his surroundings to refill his dried-up mana core.

He was overly exhausted, and his body could hardly move, but Nial had to acknowledge that he was quite happy right now.

The dungeon breakout released all the tension within his body, taking away his worries for the time being as well.

This was something he had not expected, and it gave him the necessary energy and willpower not to collapse just now.

After resting for a few minutes, Nial noticed that a young familiar man had appeared next to him.

It was Shiraq, who stared down at Nial, his gaze traveling up and down his body to assess him.

'From further away, he looks quite feeble, but it seems like he has a decently well-trained physique that focuses on flexibility and speed instead of brute force…not bad!'

His thoughts were quite simple, and after everything he had seen, Shiraq arrived at the conclusion that Nial was powerful.

That was not something one could deny.

However, there were far more powerful existences participating in the Teradan military camp, such as the plant guy, the easily frightened Earth elemental wielder and the mysterious woman, with whom he fought together.

As such, Shiraq believed that the Teradan military camp would become far more interesting than he had expected initially.

The boredom he had expected to face disappeared into thin air, and an excited expression lit up his entire face as he said,

"Good job!"

Afterward, he was ready to leave, only to see that Nial lifted his arm, and gave him a thumbs-up before getting up from the ground as well.

'I thought he was about to collapse…well, it's good, either way.'

Shrugging his shoulders, Shiraq just left, not further bothering to keep up the conversation with Nial.

Nial was not interested in small talk either.

He had to fight against the reeking stench that shrouded his entire body.

Holding his nose between his thumb and forefinger, he focused on listening to the sounds of the other Originals as well as the vibrations of their steps and movements.

Owing to his heightened senses, it was not difficult to find Bella and Mathias.

They were standing facing each other and Bella was forcefully opening Mathias' mouth to make him gulp down a bunch of potions.

She was not gentle and used her strength to force the timid young man to obey her.

Bella was behaving like a strict school teacher and her actions made Nial to smile when his mana perception entered their range.

He ignored the corpses of the dungeon beasts which he passed by, and he picked up a bunch of Origin crystals before handing a few of them to Mathias.

"Use them. You shouldn't collapse right now." Nial said with a faint smile on his face. Mathias accepted them willingly and immediately absorbed the essences.

While Mathias did consider Bella as one of his friends, he was still more comfortable with Nial.

Thus, there was no problem for him to accept Nial's help.

But even before he could thank Nial, his friend had already turned towards his right side to speak to another youth.

"You are Yves, right? That was a great idea of yours, to create a net of vines and roots!"

Handing Yves the remaining potions, Nial took a step back before giving both Mathias and Yves a thumbs-up.

"The combination of an Earthen wall that was reinforced by the net of vines and roots changed the tides of the battle, preventing many casualties from happening! Good job!"

Yves deserved the praise as his presence of mind had saved a lot of lives.

Not just him but everyone did a great job, and if he perceived it correctly, only a few Soldiers had been injured, and merely one or two died!

This was way above Nial's expectations, and it made him somewhat happy.

Having assessed the strength and tactic of most types of dungeon beasts during the breakout, Nial could roughly gauge what it would take to conquer some of the permanent Rookie dungeons.

Some dungeons seemed to have only defensive-type dungeon beasts, such as the long-tusk Elephants and the Heavy-Armored Rhinoceroses, while other dungeon beasts mostly harbored beasts known for lethal surprise attacks such as the Shadow Tigers.

Thus, Nial was already eager to find out how exactly the Teradan military camp would go on, and when they could go out to conquer some of the permanent dungeons.

'Considering that many dungeon breaks had occurred during the last few hours, the military will want to figure out more about it before they will allow us to enter some dungeons, once again'

Nial was only assuming this, but he believed that it was likely to be the case.

As such, he could only sigh, wondering what was going on with the world, and himself as well.

Yet, even before he could continue to question anything, a pained roar filled with anger and frustration reverberated through the three tunnels, shaking every single living being.

Instinctively, Nial grasped the center of his chest, where the Odyssey seed was located.

"The Giganodes are dying…" He mumbled, only to add inwardly 'and are desperately requesting for help…but from whom?'

At this moment, it felt as if his Odyssey seed wanted to tell him something, but contrary to before, no memories flashed through his mind.

Somehow, Nial had expected this to happen, which was why he felt a little bit conflicted for a few seconds.

'Earlier, I had been scared of the memories, and now I expect them to flash through my mind every single time I don't understand something? Am I already crazy, or just on the path to insanity?'

His own thoughts made him smile while shaking his head.

He might be exhausted, but that didn't prevent him from thinking properly.

Nevertheless, there were quite a few difficulties he had to face, which was why Nial couldn't help but feel glad when Captain Clara appeared next to them.

"Hey kids…are all of you fine? Is someone heavily injured?" She asked in an exhausted voice.

Her expression was pale, and it was clear to the eye that Captain Clara had given her all, and even more in order to defeat the dungeon bosses and rare bosses.

It was for the sake of everyone in order to end the dungeon break as quickly as possible.

But even after she was done with the task at hand, Captain Clara didn't even think about resting.

Instead, she had thrown a cursory glance around to see if all the young Originals were fine.

Thus, when she saw the small group of four, followed by the other groups of exhausted young Originals, Clara sighed in relief.

Taking a look at her Originals bracelet to see if she had received some messages from the base, Captain Clara saw that there were a few messages in her inbox waiting to be opened. Hence, she quickly read through them and received some information about the situation of the other two caves.

But after reading through the messages, her expressions gradually worsened.

This attracted the interest of the Originals, and after a short moment, Bella couldn't help but ask,

"Captain, what is going on in the other two caves??"

Earlier, she had not been worried about the other two caves as she was well versed with the capabilities of her master, Kassandra.

For Bella, it had been obvious that everything would be fine…at least, until she saw Captain Clara's expression.

Without realizing that she was surrounded by young Originals, that were, in fact, the participants of the Teradan military camp, Captain Clara began to blurt out the information that Nial and the others were not supposed to find out…

"The Expert dungeon cave has been cleared by now…but more than 100 Soldiers and 15 members of the Special unit died…"

Nial only knew the rough strength of the ordinary Soldiers he fought with side-by-side a short while ago.

As such, he knew that they had manifested Basic Origin rings with only a little amount of liquefied mana.

Some soldiers might have already created a second Basic Origin ring, but their overall strength was much weaker than the special units with only one Origin ring.

That was mostly the case owing to the fact that one could only enter the special units if one was capable of creating Intermediate Origin rings, at the bare minimum!

They were far more powerful than the Basic version and required far more liquefied mana to be created as well.

However, even then, 15 of them had been killed in the gruesome battle to end the dungeon breaks of Expert ranked dungeons.

While Nial thought that this number was quite small, he had no idea that the death of 100 Soldiers and 15 members of the Special units at the Prym rank was a heavy loss to the military.

After all, there had only been a handful of Expert dungeons that broke out, and there had been far more than two thousand Soldiers that had been sent out to clear the dungeon breaks!

As such, despite their efforts, and the knowledge of all dungeon beasts of the familiar Expert dungeons, 115 Originals had lost their lives!

But that was not even the most terrifying piece of information they received as Captain Clara mindlessly continued to speak.

"The two Giganodes seem to be dead by now…but more than 3 higher-ups died and more than 10 were gravely injured…with more than 5 Origin rings each…they were unable to defeat the Giganodese… and they had to be saved."

If one didn't know that the number of humans that were able to create five or more Origin rings was extremely low, one might think that the death of 3 higher-ups was a minor loss, if one was able to save the military base from being devastated.

However, if one were to understand that less than 10 in 1,000,000 Originals were able to achieve such a feat given the scarcity of resources, and talent in various aspects, the death of 3 higher-ups was devastating for mankind in its entirety!

**

If you want to support me use your golden tickets and powerstones.

You can also visit my pa treon: Pa treon.com/HideousGrain

More character images and nice chats about the HideVerse:

https://discord.gg/EdsDgFVWwZ

Link also in my description.

Do you like it? Leave a review and add it to the library!