23. Hall of Legacy

Just a little in and he could already see herbs and a treasure chest on the open. Seeing them stunned him as he didn't think he would spot a treasure chest in the open. Leo carefully looked around to see any traps or monsters that might be lurking as he didn't think a treasure chest would be so easy to find. When he didn't find anything Leo slowly and carefully made his way towards the treasure chest.

After reaching the treasure chest Leo inspected it and found that it was a Mythical Treasure Chest. He was so happy with joy that he tried to open the chest, but soon to his regret it showed him that it was locked and his [Lock Picking Skill is Low]. Leo didn't give up and kept trying for a few times but the chest lock didn't budge as he kept failing.

Normally treasure chests are unlocked and players can get what the find inside. But there are other types of Treasure chests which are [Locked Treasure Chest], [Sealed Treasure Chest], and [Trial Treasure Chest].

Sealed Treasure Chest requirements usually vary as they need a specific key found in the region of the treasure chest which is mostly with the boss of the region. And Trial Treasure Chest requires the player to pass the trial made by the chest to get the items inside.

But locked chests need the corresponding skill level of [Lockpicking]. Leo hasn't even unlocked the lockpicking skill and couldn't even properly start the unlocking process. With his disappointment of not being able to open a mythical treasure chest, Leo looked around at the herbs with hope.

But alas his hope was crushed as even the herbs were too high level as he couldn't even try gathering them.

Leo then again heard the voice telling him to go deeper into the forest. Leo sighed and slowly made his way inside the forest. Along the way, Leo saw about 4 more locked chests of the same grade.

Even more ridiculous was the number of high-level herbs and minerals found in this forest. Dejected that he was not able to even get a single piece of anything Leo sulkily made his way deep into the forest.

To his surprise, there were no monsters inside the forest as he hasn't seen even one yet. When he finally reached a portal in a clearing of the forest. He heard the voice beckoning him towards the portal.

Leo resolved himself for any danger as he entered the portal. As his vision quickly switched several times till he found himself in a huge hall.

As he looked around he found a wide space as big as a football field, but it looked small due the to 16 towering statues inside the circular hall. There was a podium in the middle of the hall and his instinct told him to move forward.

When he reached the podium he could see a pair of footmarks on the floor and as Leo resolved himself for any unforeseen events he stepped onto the foot mark. Just when he firmly stood on the footmark all the 15 Statues around him gave out bright lights through their eyes along with tremendous pressure unlike any he had ever felt in his past lives.

Leo was startled and looked around cautiously as he heard the voice from before, As he looked around he focused his direction to look at the direction of a statue of a beautiful woman nothing unlike he had ever seen before. When he looked closely he could feel new information transmitting to his mind.[Goddess of Life - Heather]

"Don't scare the child, stop testing him we have already waited for a long time."

" Okay Okay, we will stop the pressure, But look at that bewildered look. Priceless hahaha."

As he heard the 2nd voice he turned around to look at a different statue as new information came in again.[God of Shadow - Arknim]

Then Leo started looking at the statues one by one to look at the information of these gods. Starting from the right to podium it was,

[Goddess of Fire - Scarlet],

[God of Ice - Gray],

[Goddess of Life - Heather],

[Goddess of Earth - Gaia],

[God of Lightning - Tempest],

[Goddess of Wind - Lyana],

[God of Death - Grimjaw],

[Goddess of Light - Charmile],

[God of Beasts - Leonel],

[God of War - Draco],

[God of Speed- Savitar],

[Goddess of Nature - Diana],

[God of Time - Chronos],

[God of Shadow - Arknim],

[Goddess of Space - Aether]

[Goddess of Water - Lockheart]

Leo got the information of all the gods and goddesses after looking at all the statues with glowing eyes. As soon as he finished digesting all the information he heard the voices again,

[Goddess of Life - Heather] " I will speak on behalf of us all."

"Child we are the gods of the past, you are now standing in the Hall of Legacy."

"We have stored the different legacies of each of us and now you have a chance to inherit one of our legacies."

"Think well child, and choose one legacy of your liking as it is your privilege as the Alpha."

Leo was confused at first because of all the pressure and information passed down on him. But now he was so happy that he could inherit one of the legacies of the gods this early in the game. Also as the first person the Alpha he could make his own choice.

"Every legacy comes with its own mission and power along with the responsibilities you have to carry so choose wisely."

Leo looked again at each and every one of the statues to see if he could glean in any more information from the statues and also to organize the previously collected information.