Chapter 103

Samuel took this time to admire the treasury within the HeadQuarters. Not only has the sets of Ironite Armour built grown to close to 2,000 and looked massively intimidating set up on dozens of human figurines.

But there were countless scraps of Ordinary equipment lying around all over. If the bits and pieces were collected, then there would be enough to arm 50,000!

More importantly there were around 50 combat oriented Pseudo-Artifacts and countless crappy pseudo-Artifacts with useless purposes.

Samuel haphazardly dumped the equipment collected into a large chest, and returned to his room.

However at the same time, Caterpillar Samuel was entering the Eternal Battlefield. As a Planetary Clone, Samuel wasn't able to take his clone to Blue Star, but he was allowed to explore the Eternal battlefield.

Samuel appeared in the centre of a large dark gravelled area. Around him you could see towering volcanoes and spurting lava spitting out.

However what caught his eye was a suspicious looking shadow crossing through the mountains. With Samuels eyesight as a Middle Rank 1 Warrior he immediately noticed that it was a young boy.

''Huh? Low Rank 1? What is he doing here?'' Samuel was quickly curious, a large wing appeared on his back as his horn aimed towards the sky and he followed closely.

The young figure crawled between lava pits and volcanoes, along the way Samuel sensed a multitude of strong monsters hidden in caverns and caves, but surprisingly the young boy could avoid them all.

Even falling traps and strange caverns were avoided, preventing the young boy from experiencing any harm at all.

Samuel who followed naturally avoided harm as well. But what was strange was that the boy seemed to have an exact ideal location in his head.

All the right turns, all the right pathways, all the right entrances. All led to one specific location.

And as Samuel looked at the gigantic gateway built into the volcano he was stunned. Especially when he saw the young boy enter uncaringly.

Samuel quickly flapped his wing and lept in. Before the gate closed. However when he entered, Samuel felt that his body got twisted and reappeared elsewhere in the large cave.

In Front of Samuel was 7 large blocks. Each with a shape carved heavily across the blocks.

A Triangle, a Circle, a square, a rectangle, a kite, a diamond and a swirl.

However Samuel immediately noticed that the swirl seemed out of place. Unlike the rest of the shapes, it wasn't fully connected.

So he stretched out his hand, touching the boulder. Nothing happened. So he pushed it, but he felt an irresistible force blasting out back into his body. Immediately he felt like he fell into a dream.

In this dream he experienced one lifetime after another, as a mortal, a beggar, a vagrant, a warrior, seven different lifetimes.

However when Samuels eyes snapped back open, it felt as if a millenia had passed, but in fact he could tell from his other consciousness that less than an hour passed.

Samuel only remembered 7 distinct things from the end of each lifetime though. In the first, the mortal, he ended with a happy family, and his corpse was surrounded by a circle of flowers.

In the second, a beggar's life, he became the king of beggars, holding a diamond sceptre made of trash.

In the third, a vagrant's life, he died in a square cardboard box from the cold.

A vivid ending in each life, each with a different shape involved. But the last one shook Samuel to the core.

A spiral. An unending spiral. He was just an ordinary student in his final life, but he awakened a Spiritual Root.

However it wasn't an easy life from then on, he was targeted by jealous descendants of warriors.

Every step of the way, he faced ridicule, anger, and prevention. He couldn't break any further than a Rank 1 Body.

Then the nightmare began. Betrayed by his own brother, all his bones broken. But he wasn't let go. He had a small bug implanted in his head.

This bug caused endless pain, endless suffering, endless torture. Life is worse than death. But there was nothing he could do. No avoiding the pain, no avoiding the suffering. He couldn't even move his hand.

All he could do was sit there and feel the small bug wiggle around in his brain, in his veins, in his muscles. Each movement causes endless strings of pain.

And when it finally ended, it was his wife in that life, or its better to say his brother's wife now who killed him. And it wasn't quick. Needle by needle, cut by cut. The blood was drained and his body finally hung lifeless.

This spiral of pain and torture pushed Samuels sanity to the brink. He awoke with tears in his eyes.

Out of all the lifetimes he experienced when he touched the boulder, that was the most memorable. And the only one that remained in his mind.

However Samuel looked at his soul and clearly realised it had been tempered countless times. If before it was as flimsy as a stick, then now it's a metal pole.

However he didn't forget he was in the room, he was just slightly disoriented. He quickly pushed the squares into the correct formation from what he remembered from the memories.

And as soon as the squares reached the correct order, with the spiral at the end, Samuel felt his body twist and reappear deep within a cavern.

In front of Samuel a set of steps appeared on the rough stone ground, leading step by step into a large pit of what looked like Lava.

Instinctively Samuel walked step by step into the flaming hot fire. As soon as his toes touched the flame he felt an incessant burning spreading throughout his body.

He could no longer hold himself up, his legs shook and trembled as his body flopped limply into the fire. His large wing flapping desperately right himself, but the waves of pain caused Samuels body to convulse.

The pain was severe, to the spiritual level. Deep within his consciousness so much so that even his main body could sense the pain that his core was going through, although it didn't experience it.

After all, if his main body could experience the pain and be affected by the clone it would be quite a useless ability right? After all, couldn't someone kill him remotely then?

But he could still understand the intense pain.