The Tomb - 15

(Sorry for not uploading, I was focused on writing my new series that I just started. Chapters will now be released erratically, as I need to be able to formulate the plot better and will now prioritize quality over quantity. You can find my other series at https://www.webnovel.com/book/the-author-of-calamity_22443706506562605 or you can just search up, "The Author of Calamity" on Web Novel)

He had dropped for about a minute now, and worrying that he would die immediately after hitting the ground, he made a disk of compressed air under him and then caught Raia, who had fallen down after him. They then slowly descended on the disk.

After 5 more minutes of descending, they finally reached the bottom of the abyss. Tapping his foot lightly on the ground, he was surprised to find that they had actually arrived on the 5th floor.

"You can put me down now!"

He put down the embarrassed, red-tinged Raia on the grown, and waited for her to pat off the dust off of her skirt.

"We're on the 5th floor now, the hall to the tomb is behind the door just ahead."

Taiga started walking towards the giant doors, but stopped when he saw that Raia wasn't following him.

"Hey dummy, you forgot that I can't see in this absolute darkness."

"Then just make yourself a flame or use your holy magic to make a light. You surely should have learned something from the Holy School right?"

"They haven't taught us that much yet, they've only taught us about the religion so far."

"Are you kidding me, a whole damn week of doing nothing, I'm jealous."

"Hmmmph, it's not like you learned anything either."

"Well if I'm a prodigy, what need is there for learning. Anyways, I distinctly remember teaching you how to use a flame right? "

"Yeah, but it's always super weak, probably because I am most suited for holy and water magic, while on the other head, brother is most suited for flame magic right?"

"Okay.... fine"

After hearing her plead for a few more seconds he relented and conjured up a flame and positioned it over her head. They proceeded to walk over to the giant doors.

When Raia reached the doors, she gasped. The doors were made of pure white marble that was paler than the moonlight with gold inlay running down it like flowing water or wind, coming together around 4 spheres.

"Seeing" the spheres, Taiga immediately realized that they were a more primitive type of the mana stones that he had made. He didn't explain the purpose of the spheres to his sister because he wanted to hide the secret that he was proficient in all types of magic, and then just proceeded to inject his mana into each one of these spheres.

"Kggggrrrrrahhhh"

"Ahhhhhhhh" said Raia, jumping a little bit backwards.

"Hey dummy, it's just the doors opening, get a hold of yourself.

With that, the space was big enough for us to fit through so we went through the door.

The sight that we saw was impressive. The tomb was guarded by at least 500 armored knights, there were gigantic murals on the walls and ceiling, showcasing the most important events in the King's life, and there was also gold everywhere, the entire coffin was made up of 100% pure gold.

Right when they touched the ground after descending the stairs, the knights immediately rushed at them. Using "Sage's Eye" he found out that they were Epic Tier ghost knights.

'Sorry about this Raia' he said, immediately knocking her out, as these knights were way too much for her to handle right now, and he needed to concentrate on fighting them instead of having to worry about her so he floated her into the middle of the sky while turning his gaze on the rushing army in front of him.

Taiga then put out his hand, where an ominous dark energy was gathering into a swirling purple/black ball. After it got to the size of a beach ball, he sent it at the knights. Huge destruction ensued. More than half of the knights were instantly obliterated and after the blinding black light subsided, one could see a huge crater in the floor that was about half a mile deep at its center.

"Gentle Wind, second hidden form, a swiftly descending puff."

Taiga's hand blurred as his side for a second and immediately afterwards, the heads of the rest of the knights in the 1000 yard radius slid off their necks, all of the helmets dropping at the same time, creating a resounding thud. Afterwards, a mysterious force imbedded itself into the walls of the massive throne room, creating an arc of cracks that connected all the way around the throne room.

Of course, this all happened in a span of about 2 seconds.

To explain the second hidden form of his "Gentle Wind" martial art, it was really just a extremely rapidly accelerating blade of wind that was caused by an extremely fast and sharp slash coming from Taiga. The slash would cause a minuscule blade that grew bigger depending on the space and faster by pushing the slightest atoms forward with the slash. Back on Earth, the only way the countries that had allied against him had blocked that move was by wearing extremely hard metal army, as it was just wind after all and was still stopped by solid object, although it could easily cut through basic alloys like steel and iron.

After making sure that none of the ghost knights were still alive, Taiga quickly flew over the crater and got to the coffin.

Using "Sage's Eye" he found that the coffin was made out of some type of special gold that was extremely heavy and even warped dimensional space when put inside dimensional storage. He layed Raia down on the ground gently placed her head down on some cloth that he had rolled up.

He then proceeded to push off the top of the coffin. Infusing mana into his body, he strengthened it to its limits and the top of the coffin inched back slowly, but surely.

After 30 minutes of resting and pushing, he finally managed to get the top of the coffin off. Realizing that the gold was still able to be transported in small chunks and had great magical properties, he cut off a chunk of it using his dark magic and put the slice into his bag, and then looked into the coffin.

Usually, the king would have been put into the coffin with his most prized possessions, but all Taiga saw in the coffin was a straight cane made out of some old wood, a ring, and a tooth that wasn't a real one.

He took each item out and carefully appraised each item.

[Oldest Cane - Legendary]

Description: The oldest can in existence made from the oldest tree in existence.

Attributes: All of them

Absorbs magic power and and releases 200% more power.

Status: Undestroyable

[Holy Empire Ring - Legendary]

Description: Ring that was passed down from each emperor to the next in the Holy Empire.

Attributes: Holy Magic

Lets out a pure light that destroys all dark magic in a 100 mile radius (Cooldown - 1 week), boosts Holy magic by 50%

Status: Undestroyable

[Cursed Tooth - Legendary]

Description: A tooth that holds a strange, godly power and a nasty curse.

Attribute: Dark Magic

Revives the user from the dead after a week, only if they carry immense hatred or love for their killer. After being revived the user will be cursed, falling into an indiscriminate killing frenzy for 3 days.

Status: Undestroyable, waiting for new owner to bond with

'Holy Fucking Shit!' cursed the extremely happy Taiga.

The items were immensely op just from looking at their stats and two of the items were a perfect fit for him.

A series of huge crashes woke him up from his thoughts and he saw that the throne room's ceiling was already collapsing.

Calming himself down, he picked up Raia again, holding her in a princess like hold, using pure mana to augment his body, and decreasing the air resistance with his wind magic, he dashed out of the throne room.

He got out of the tombs in less than an hour, greatly shortening a 2 day trip.

He rushed over to the holy school, dropping Raia off at the gates. As she was already particularly well known in the school, for her extreme aptitude for Holy magic, and due to the fact that she was a saint candidate, they immediately rushed her in for treatment.

When they turned back to look at the gates, the figure in the black trench coat, with the abyss black mask had already disappeared, without a trace.

Taiga quickly got changed into his "white" identity, and slipped back into the battlemage school, ending their unforgettable trip quietly.

[Taiga's Stats]

Strength: 814

Agility: 1035

Health: 666 Hp

Intelligence: 101,263

Mana: 537,253

Luck: -7

(Health will always stay at 666 due to "Demon King" status, Luck is always going to be negatives due to "Demon King" status)

Skills:

[Touch Enhancement (Level 99): Increases the user's sense of touch and feeling by 20 fold

(always in effect) - Epic]

[Weapon Proficiency (Level 2 - Sword): Lets the user quickly master the art of the sword more quickly*

(only effective with the sword) - Uncommon]

[True Insight (Level 7): lets you rapidly understand anything

(is turned on at any time by the user, infinite uses) - Epic]

[Large Mana Pool (Level 38): user has an abnormally large mana pool, user can cast more spells

(always in effect) - Mythical]

[Spell Creation (Level 61): the user is able to make new spells

(always in effect) - Epic]

Unique Skills:

[Remember (Level 100 - MAX): lets the user retain all memories from their past life

(always in effect) - Godly]

[Sage's Eye (Level 100 - MAX): the user is able to see all of the stats of any object including living things

(is turned on at any time by the user, infinite uses) - Legendary]

[Growth (Level 1): allows the user's skills to grow, becoming "Superior" skills which can then lead to "Godly" skills

(always in effect) - Legendary]

[Resilience (Level 88): gives the user mild resistance to all harmful attacks and statuses

(always in effect) - Legendary]

[Rascal (Level 0): gives the user the unique ability to steal any power skills that they have been affected by

(always in effect) - Godly]